Malbex Resources

The Corporation has designed and implemented a quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC) program for drilling, channel sampling or trenching programs conducted at the Projects.

Grab samples are selected pieces of rock collected to confirm anomalous or potentially economic concentrations of precious metals (Au, Ag), base metals (Cu, Mo, Zn, Pb) and path-finder elements commonly associated with epithermal mineralization (As, Sb, Hg, Ba). Chip-channel samples are one or more continuous samples of mineralized or altered rock collected with hammer and chisel over a measured interval. Sample locations are determined at the time of collection with handheld GPS readings. The Corporation does not intend to use the concentrations of chip or grab samples in future calculation of resource estimates. The samples are collected to confirm previously reported sampling results and to identify areas for more detailed future exploration and drilling.

Diamond drill hole samples consist of HQ-3 (6.11cm diameter) and NQ (4.76cm diameter)-size core that is sawn in half by electric saw on site. The quality assurance-quality control (QA-QC) program of Malbex consists of the insertion in every 20 samples of at least one certified standard of known gold content, blanks (samples known to consist of very low levels of gold to ensure adequate cleaning of the sample preparation equipment between samples) and field or lab duplicates. Samples of significant drill intercepts will be sent to two additional independent laboratories to verify gold and silver analyses. Metallic screen fire analyses for gold will also be run regularly of discovered mineralization as an additional QA-QC check. The half core remaining after sampling is retained on site for verification and reference purposes.

Sample Security
Once collected, core and rock samples are placed in labeled plastic bags along with a unique sample tag, and the plastic sample bags are sealed shut with heavy staples or zip ties. At the camps at Del Carmen or Despoblados, the individual bags are placed in larger rice bags and again sealed with uniquely numbered zip ties. The sealed sample bags are shipped by company truck to the Corporation's field office in the city of San Juan where the sample submission form for the assay laboratory is prepared. All samples are delivered by the Corporation's personnel to the ALS Chemex sample preparation facility in Mendoza where they are crushed, pulverized and shipped by ALS to the ALS Chemex laboratories in Lima Peru, La Serena Chile or Vancouver Canada for gold (30g fire assay with an atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS) or gravimetric finish), multi-element inductively coupled plasma (ICP) analysis including silver.