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September 20, 2011 Project Map
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El Dovio presents CMJ with the opportunity to apply modern exploration techniques to expand a known gold-rich massive sulfide deposit yielding high unit value gold-copper-zinc ores.

Project Summary:
The El Dovio property hosts polymetallic gold-silver-copper-zinc mineralization in a volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS) deposit setting. This belt also hosts other known massive sulfide prospects and mines and provides an opportunity for combined metals production with high unit value.

Location and Mining History:
The property is 100% controlled by CMJ, and is covered by 9,271 hectares of mining contracts and exploration applications. The El Dovio project, also known as Mina Sabanablanca, is located on a ridge between the municipalities of El Dovio (Department of Valle del Cauca) and Sipi (Department of Choco) in western Colombia.

Economic Geology:
El Dovio occurs within a northeastern trending belt of Cretaceous aged, volcano-sedimentary rocks that host a number of gold-bearing VMS deposits. The mineralization at El Dovio occurs as polymetallic, structurally controlled veins within broad zones of stockwork mineralization that can be more than 100 meters thick. This style of mineralization is characteristic of the stringer zones that are known to occur beneath VMS systems.

At the Mina El Roble VMS deposit, which occurs in the same belt of rocks as El Dovio, polymetallic veins similar to those found at El Dovio were mined for nearly 30 years before the higher grade, larger tonnage bedded massive sulfide ore body was discovered. To date, the El Roble Deposit has yielded approximately one million tonnes of ore averaging 4.41% copper, 3.11 g/t gold and 9.81 g/t silver.

Historically, El Dovio has been exploited by small scale, artisanal mining methods. Sparsely outcropping mineralization has been traced along strike for approximately one kilometer. Exploration of the area in the late 1990's by a Colombian mining company returned significant values averaging 5.05 g/t gold, 24.1 g/t silver, 2.14% copper and 2.00% zinc, over widths ranging from three to fifteen meters in surface, underground and drill exposures. CMJ is following up on these results with geologic mapping and geochemical sampling programs scheduled for the summer of 2010.


Chalcopyrite and Sphalerite Mineralization at EL Dovio.
El Dovio portal in massive chalcopyrite (Cu) and sphalerite (Zn) mineralization
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Chalcopyrite and Darker Sphalerite Mineralization at Mina Sabanablanca.
Historic drill core from El Dovio's Mina Sabanablanca prospect with chalcopyrite (Cu) and darker sphalerite (Zn) mineralization
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Sabana Blanca Zone - General Feature Location Map
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