Glossary

A

• AB - Amazon Bay, Papua New Guinea
• ABCA - Alberta Business Corporations Act
• AFTA - Application for Financial and Technical Assistance
• Ag - Silver
• AIF - Annual Information Form
• AMSL - Above mean sea level
• AMVI - Agata Mining Ventures Inc
• API - Agata Processing Inc.
• APSA - Application for Production Sharing Agreement
• As - Arsenic
• ASX - Australian Stock Exchange
• Au - Gold
• AUD$ - Australian dollars

B

• Balabag - TVIRD’s Balabag Gold and Silver Project
• Besshi - A type of massive sulphide deposit

C

• C$, $, or CAD - Canadian Dollars
• Canatuan Mine - The mine located near Siocan, Zamboanga del Norte
• Committee - The Company's Audit Committee
• Common Shares - Common shares in the capital of the Company
• Company, Corporation, or TVI - TVI Pacific Inc., or its subsidiaries and affiliates
• Cu - Copper

D

• DENR - Department of Environment and Natural Resources
• DFS - Definitive Feasibility Study
• DMPF - Declaration of Mining Project Feasibility
• dmt - dry metric tonnes
• dmtpd - dry metric tonnes per day
• DSO - Direct Shipping Ore

E

• ECC - Environmental Compliance Certificate
• EDCO - Exploration Drilling Company
• EIA - Environmental Impact Assessment
• EL - Exploration License
• EMB - Environmental Management Bureau
• EPA - Exploration Permit Application
• Epithermal - A hydrothermal mineral deposit
• EXPA - Exploration Permit Application

F

• Fe - iron
• FOY Group - FOY Group Limited, an Australian company
• Foyson - Foyson Resources Limited
• FTAA - Financial or Technical Assistance Agreement

G

• g - one gram or .0321507 oz troy
• Gossan - soft, oxidized rock on surface
• GRC - Greenstone Resources Corporation
• gpt - grams per tonne

H

• ha - one hectare, or 2.471 acres
• HOA - Heads of Agreement

I

• IPO - Initial Public Offering

J

K

• km - one kilometre

L

M

• m - one metre
• Massive - A mineral deposit characterized by a great concentration of ore in one place
• MGB - The Philippines’ Mines and Geosciences Bureau
• MOA - Memorandum of Agreement
• MPSA - Mineral Production Sharing Agreement
• MRI - MRI Trading AG
• Mt - million tonnes

N

• Ni - nickel
• NI 43-101 - National Instrument 43-101 – Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects
• NSR - net smelter royalty

O

• oz - one ounce troy measure, or 31.1035 grams
• oz/t - one troy ounce per ton, or 34.286 grams per tonne

P

• PAVI - Prime Assets Ventures, Inc.
• PDA - Pan de Azucar
• Php - Philippine pesos
• PNG - Papua New Guinea
• Porphyry - An igneous rock that contains conspicuous phenocrysts
• PQ - Diamond drilling coring size of 85.0 mm (3.345”)
• PRHI - Prime Resources Holdings Inc.
• PSE - Philippine Stock Exchange

Q

• QA/QC - quality assurance/quality control
• QP - Qualified Person

R

• RC - reverse circulation

S

• SDMP - Social Development Management Program
• SEC - Securities and Exchange Commission in the Philippines
• Siana - Siana Gold Project
• Semi-massive - A rock unit containing a significant amount of sulphide minerals
• Sulphide - A mineral characterized by the linkage of sulphur with a metal or semi-metal
• Sulphide Project - The Company's Sulphide Project

T

• ton - one short ton (2,000 pounds) or 907.2 kilograms
• tonne - one thousand kilograms or 1.1023 short tons
• tpd - tonnes per day
• TSX - Toronto Stock Exchange
• TSX-V - TSX Venture Exchange
• TVI - TVI Minerals Processing Inc
• TVIML - TVI International Marketing Limited
• TVIRD - TVI Resource Development Phils, Inc.

U

• US$ - United States dollars

V

• VMS - Volcanogenic Massive Sulphide

W

• wmt - wet metric tonne

X

Y

Z

• Zn - Zinc