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Nuevo Milenio Property, Nayarit, Mexico

Evaluation Report Dos Hornos And Veta Tomas Gold Silver Structures Nuevo Milenio Project, dated January 30, 2008
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Click here to view the Technical Report titled, Cerro Chacuaco - Arroyo Chacuaco Silicified - Quartz Stock Work Zone, dated January 30, 2007 (click here to view)

Click here to view the Technical Report titled, Dos Hornos and Once Bocas gold-silver zones, dated February 16, 2006 (click here to view)

Click here to view the Technical Report titled, Nuevo Milenio Project, dated September 28, 2003 (click here to view)


A geological report on the Nuevo Milenio Project, dated September 28, 2003, compliant with National Instrument 43-101 ("NI 43-101") was prepared for Cream Minerals Ltd. by Henry M. Meixner, P.Geo., and filed on SEDAR on October 23, 2003. (Please click here to view report) Subsequently, a geological report on the Dos Hornos and Once Bocas gold-silver zones, dated February 16, 2006, compliant with NI 43-101, was prepared for Cream Minerals Ltd. by Ferdinand Holcapek, P.Eng., Geology, who is also Director General of the Company's wholly owned subsidiary, Cream Minerals de Mexico, S.A. de C.V. ("Cream Minerals de Mexico" or "CMM"). This report was filed on SEDAR on March 1, 2006. (Please click here to view report)
A geological report on Cerro Chacuaco - Arroyo Chacuaco Silicified - Quartz Stock Work Zone, dated January 30, 2007, compliant with NI 43-101, was prepared for Cream Minerals Ltd. by Ferdinand Holcapek, P.Eng., Geology, who is also Director General of the Company's wholly owned subsidiary, Cream Minerals de Mexico, S.A. de C.V. ("Cream Minerals de Mexico" or "CMM"). This report was filed on SEDAR on February 15, 2007. (Please click here to view report)

INTRODUCTION:

The 100% owned Nuevo Milenio Property is located in the Municipality of Xalisco, Nayarit, 20 km southeast of Tepic in the area of the Ejido El Refugio. Access from Tepic, Nayarit is by Federal Highway 200 to km 17, then 7 km East to La Curva, and then 3 km of gravel roads to the central part of the property.

In 1524 the Spanish Conquistadores arrived in Tepic and very quickly the search for gold - silver was initiated in the district. The first mine found was at Jalla, followed by Espiritu Santa in 1560, Mina Miravalle in 1650 and the District of Compostela and Santa Maria del Oro. These Mines were Silver Bonanzas with grades up to 50% silver. The Huicillia Mines were explored by Arsarco during the mid 1930's.

The old mines, trails, tahonas, dams etc. date back to the period before the War of Independence (1810). After the revolution, 30 years of Indian wars were followed by the Mexican revolution when bands of marauding soldiers, bandits and revolutionary fighters prowled the country site raping and killing the miners and farmers. By 1920, when peace returned to Nayarit, all mining sites were overgrown, caved and lost in time.

The Nuevo Milenio area was first worked by the Spaniards - pre 1810. Ore was produced from several mineralized zones but mining was restricted to high-grade ore only and hauled by mules to several treatment sites. A Hacienda Metallurgico (Tahonas and Planilla) and small smelters existed in the area. Two Dams, the first at Arroyo Guadalupana and the second at Arroyo Chacuaco were constructed to secure water the year round for milling and living purposes. The main mining activities in the area stopped during the War of Independence against Spain in 1810.

The increase of gold prices in the 1930's brought gambusinos back to the area. Numerous small lots were denounced for Precious Opal, but only a few for gold and silver. There is very little evidence of new mine workings for gold and silver originating during this period.

NUEVO MILENIO:

The Nuevo Milenio property, consisting of 4 lots encompassing 6927.8482 hectares, was denounced in February 2000 by Arnoldo Carrera Gamboa on behalf of Cream Minerals de Mexico. Titles were received in February 2001 and the agreements to transfer the Lots to Cream Minerals de Mexico were signed in 2003 and registered with the Department of Mines with Cream Minerals de Mexico as beneficiary. In June 2005 an application to reduce Nuevo Milenio Fraccion 1 and to abandon CMM II was filed with the Department of Mines. The remaining lot will have an area of approximately 2,500 ha.

During the mapping of the area it became very evident that it is traversed by a multitude of old mule trails providing access to different mining areas. The Dos Hornos, Once Bocas, Chacuaco, Cafetal and Chacuaco West zones were identified during 2000 to 2003. Rock and soil geochemistry and channel sampling, followed by diamond drilling in August 2002 and November 2003, were completed as follows:

Dos Hornos: DDH 01-03, 02, 11, 17, 18, 19.
Once Bocas: DDH 06-03, 07, 08, 09, 10, 12 and in DDH 03-02, 04 in 2000
Cerro Chacuaco: DDH 03-03, 04, 05, and DDH 01-02, 02
Chacuaco West: DDH 13 - 03 and in 2002 DDH 05-02
Cafetal: DDH 14 -03, 15, 16,


In November 2003, the Board decided to initiate a major diamond drill program consisting of 19 holes, which was completed in April 2004. Although high-grade intersections were obtained, the results of the programs were considered inconclusive and further exploration was stopped in May 2004.

Re-evaluation of all the data was initiated during August 2005. This program concentrated on the Dos Hornos North and Once Bocas zones as the best targets. Old Spanish mine sites, consisting of shafts, declines, adits and x-cuts were identified, opened and sampled. The results obtained allowed interpretation of Diamond Drill data and surface data.

DOS HORNOS STRUCTURE:

The Dos Hornos Zone has a strike length of about 3 km. It consists of at least 4 parallel veins within a 150 m wide zone. Quartz stockwork and intense epithermal alteration consisting of silica flooding, argillic alteration and brecciation defines the zone. A geochemical soil survey, followed by mapping, caterpillar trenching, channel sampling and diamond drilling of 6 holes (DDH 01-03, 02, 11, 17, 18, 19) in 2003 was completed.

In July 2005, after closure of a separate project, the writer started a review of all data on hand at the Nuevo Milenio project starting with the 2002 and 2003 diamond drill programs This work led to the location of several old Spanish workings which were subsequently cleaned, opened and channel sampled. On Dos Hornos North, Vein 1, along a 550 m section Adit 1, Adit 2, Adit 3, x-cut Adit 4, Shaft 2, Shaft 4, Shaft 5 and 3 sublevels were cleaned, mapped and sampled. The information gained established that:

  1. Vein 1 has continuity along strike and grade.
  2. The structural setting - faulting and displacement - complicated the interpretation but offsets were small and veins could be followed across faults.
  3. Prospecting established continuity of the structure to the north for an additional 400 m with areas of quartzstock work and veins up to 4 m wide disappearing under the basalt.
  4. The structure was traced south past Mina Santa Gertrudis for an additional 500 m giving a total strike length of about 3 km.
  5. At Dos Hornos North, an additional 3 vein structures, showing gold - silver values, were identified but have not been explored in detail.
  6. The north and south segment of the structure requires additional exploration to establish a mineral resource.
The Channel sample results listed below apply to Vein 1 only. Three additional vein structures are known but had only limited sampling.

Strike Length Sampled Average Width Au g/t Ag g/t
700 m 4.20 m 2.827 178.05


ONCE BOCAS:

The Once Bocas is a zone of quartz veining, quartz stock work and quartz breccia up to 100 m wide as indicated by surface mapping and DDH data. This is supported by mapping of old Spanish mine workings.
  1. Diamond drill holes DDH 03 - 02, DDH 09 - 03, DDH 06 - 03 and DDH 12 -03 and assays from surface trenches, adits, shafts and old Spanish stopes located the presence of a high-grade ore shoot within a breccia zone which was mined along 2 veins. The stopes are 40 m long, 4 to 6 m wide and over a vertical distance of about 50 m. the lower workings are filled with water. A quartz stock-work zone up to 100 m wide is indicated on surface and within DDH 12 - 03.
  2. Old Spanish workings follow two of the veins outcropping. These were intersected by DDH 03 - 02 and DDH 09 - 03 at depth.
  3. The stopes are 30 m long and shafts up to 50 m deep following the vein structures. where they stop against a fault zone which explains the discontinuity countered in DDH 09 - 03. Apparent displacement is in the order of 15 to 25 m.
  4. The section south of the creek was drilled by DDH 06 - 03, DDH 12 - 03, DDH 04 -02 and DDH 08 - 03 which is re-drilling hole DDH 07 - 03 which was lost.
  5. These drill holes define a zone of quartz veining and stock work about 200 m long.
  6. About 75 m south of DDH 12 the South extension of the high-grade vein structure was found to have been displaced about 25 m to the SW. The quartz zone is at least 10 m wide.
  7. The estimated strike length of the detailed work is 300 m. The Once Bocas Zone has a known strike length of 1.3 km.
QUARTZ VEIN CHANNEL AND CORE SAMPLES:

These samples were collected from all veins and are as follows:

Description Strike Length Average Width Au g/t Ag g/t
4 veins 300 m 3.40 m 2.79 173.77

QUARTZ VEINS AND QUARTZ STOCKWORK ZONE:

The parallel vein stock-work zone has not been sampled across the whole width, but several sections 27 to 70 m wide were channel sampled and/or intersected by diamond drilling. The stock-work zone may have bulk tonnage potential. The average assays given below are preliminary since more detailed work is required on the Once Bocas.

Description Strike Length Average Width (Estimate) Au g/t Ag g/t
Stockwork 300 m 100.00 m 0.339 56.86

INFERRED MINERAL RESOURCE DOS HORNOS AND ONCE BOCAS:

DOS HORNOS:
A 700 m section of Vein 1 shows sufficient continuity in grade, along strike and down dip, to be classified as an Inferred Mineral Resource:

Strike Length Down dip length Average width m Au g/t Ag g/t S.G
700m 150m 5.50m 2.827 178.05 2.65

Inferred Mineral Resource: 1,530,000 Tonnes, Au: 139,000 oz, Ag: 8,760,000 oz

ONCE BOCAS ZONE:
The Once Bocas Zone consists of a zone of five quartz veins surrounded by a quartz stockwork envelope that shows sufficient continuity in grade, along strike for 350 metres, and down dip, to be classified as an Inferred Mineral Resource.

Strike Length Down dip length Average width m Au g/t Ag g/t S.G
350 m 125 m 100 m 0.345 57.90 2.65

Inferred Mineral Resource: 11,590,000 Tonnes, Au: 129,000 oz, Ag: 21,580,000 oz

TOTAL INFERRED MINERAL RESOURCES:
13,120,000 Tonnes, Au: 268,000 oz, Ag: 30,340,000 oz

This Inferred Mineral Resource was reported in a News Release dated February 28, 2006, and is also included in the NI 43-101 Report by F. Holcapek P.Eng filed with Sedar on March 1, 2006.

Using definition Standards for Inferred Mineral Resources as published and adopted by the CIM Council on December 11, 2005: "An Inferred Mineral Resource is that part of a Mineral Resource for which quantity and or quality can be estimated on the basis of geological evidence and limited sampling and reasonably assumed, but not verified, geological and grade continuity. The estimate is based on limited information and sampling gathered through appropriate techniques from locations such as outcrops, trenches, pits workings and drill holes."

OTHER MINERALIZED ZONES:

The Cerro Chacuaco, Cafetal and Chacuaco West zones had preliminary work completed consisting of rock geochemistry, soil geochemistry, regional mapping and sampling of underground and diamond drilling. The results on hand show areas of good grade mineralization with potential bulk tonnage but the drill results of DDH 03, 04, 05 -- 2003 and DDH 01, 02 -- 2002 are considered as inconclusive without further work.

The recent detailed investigation into Cerro Chacuaco helped to clarify the structural setting with the aid of underground data and drill data. Surface mapping shows that the zone explored at Mina Chacuaco dips at -67 SW. The azimuth of the drill was 1850 at -450 which was at a small angle to the strike of the zone, hence the apparent dip of -320 in the plane of the drill hole was too flat for the drill hole to intersect the structure.

Detailed mapping and profiling suggest that future drilling will have to be located in Arroyo Chacuaco with Azimuth of N to N35E to intersect the mineralized zone. Further detailed mapping shows that the silicified quartz vein -- quartz stock work zone is exposed in the vicinity of the mine over a width of at least 20 m. The slope of Cerro Chacuaco is a dip slope of the structure. Channel sampling and rock geochemistry along Cerro Chacuaco and along Arroyo Chacuaco confirm continuation of gold and silver values in sufficient concentration for possible open pit mining.

Additional work consisting of trenching and drilling are required to define the indicated mineralized zone.

Fred Holcapek, P.Eng.
Consulting Geologist

CAUTIONARY NOTE TO U.S. INVESTORS

Cautionary Note to U.S. Investors concerning estimates of Measured and Indicated Resources.
This website may use the terms "measured resources" and "indicated resources." We advise U.S. investors that while such terms are recognized and permitted under Canadian regulations, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission does not recognize them. U.S. investors are cautioned not to assume that any part or all of the mineral deposits in these categories will ever be converted into reserves.

Cautionary Note to U.S. Investors concerning estimates of Inferred Resources.
This website may use the terms "inferred resources." We advise U.S. investors that while such term is recognized and permitted under Canadian regulations, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission does not recognize it. "Inferred resources" have a great amount of uncertainty as to their existence, and great uncertainty as to their economic and legal feasibility. It cannot be assumed that all or any part of an inferred mineral resource will ever be upgraded to a higher category. Under Canadian rules estimates of inferred mineral resources may not form the basis of feasibility or other economic studies. U.S. investors are cautioned not to assume that any part or all of an inferred resource exists, or is economically or legally mineable.


S.E.C. Industry Guide

National Instrument 43-101


Reserve: That part of a mineral deposit which could be economically and legally extracted or produced at the time of the reserve determination. The United states Securities and Exchange Commission requires a final or full Feasibility Study to be completed in order to support either Proven or Probable Reserves and does not recognize other classifications of mineralized deposits. Note that for industrial mineral properties, in addition to the Feasibility Study, "sales" contracts or actual sales may be required in order to prove the project's commerciality and reserve status.

Mineral Reserve: The economically mineable part of a Measured or Indicated Mineral Resource demonstrated by at least a Preliminary Feasibility study. This study must include adequate information on mining, processing, metallurgical, economic and other relevant factors that demonstrate, at the time of reporting, that economic extraction can be justified.


Proven Reserves: Reserves for which a quantity is computed from dimensions revealed in outcrops, trenches, workings or drill holes; grade and/or quality are computed from the results of detailed sampling and measurement are spaced so closely and the geologic character is so well defined that size, shape, depth and mineral content of reserves are well established.

Proven Mineral Reserve: The economically mineable part of a Measured Mineral Resource demonstrated by at least a Preliminary Feasibility study. This study must include adequate information on mining, processing, metallurgical, economic, and other relevant factors that demonstrate, at the time of reporting, that economic extraction is justified.


Probable Reserves: For which quantity and grade and/or quality are computed from information similar to that used for proven reserves, but the sites for inspection, sampling and measurement are farther apart or are otherwise less adequately spaced. The degree of assurance, although lower than that for proven reserves, is high enough to assume continuity between points of observation.

Probable Mineral Reserve: The economically mineable part of an indicated, and in some circumstances, a Measured Mineral Resource, demonstrated by at least a Preliminary Feasibility Study. This study must include adequate information on mining, processing, metallurgical, economic and other relevant factors that demonstrate, at the time of reporting, that economic extraction can be justified.


Using definition Standards for Inferred Mineral Resources as published and adopted by the CIM Council on December 11, 2005: "An Inferred Mineral Resource is that part of a Mineral Resource for which quantity and or quality can be estimated on the basis of geological evidence and limited sampling and reasonably assumed, but not verified, geological and grade continuity. The estimate is based on limited information and sampling gathered through appropriate techniques from locations such as outcrops, trenches, pits workings and drill holes."

Noted uncertainties inherent in the definition are clarified by the CIM definition standard "Due to the uncertainty that may be attached to Inferred Mineral Resources, it cannot be assumed that all or any part of an Inferred Mineral Resource will be upgraded to an Indicated or Measured Mineral Resource as a result of continued exploration. Confidence in the estimate is insufficient to allow the meaningful application of technical and economic parameters or to enable an evaluation of economic viability worthy of public disclosure. Inferred Mineral Resources must be excluded from estimates forming the basis of feasibility or other economic studies."

We advise U.S. investors that while these terms are recognized and permitted under Canadian regulations, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission does not recognize it. "Inferred mineral resources" have a great amount of uncertainty as to their existence, and great uncertainty as to their economic and legal feasibility. It cannot be assumed that all or any part of an inferred mineral resource will ever be upgraded to a higher category. Under Canadian rules estimates of inferred mineral resources may not form the basis of feasibility or other economic studies. U.S. investors are cautioned not to assume that any part or all of an inferred resource exists, or is economically or legally mineable.  


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