Abacus Mining & Exploration Corporation

Abacus Mining & Exploration Corporation is a Canada-based mineral exploration and mine development company focused on copper and gold in British Columbia (B.C.) and Nevada. The Company’s main asset is a 20% ownership interest, together with KGHM Polska Miedz S.A. (80%), in the proposed copper-gold Ajax Mine located southwest of Kamloops, B.C., which has undergone a joint provincial and federal environmental assessment process. The Ajax Project comprises eight Crown grants, including the Ajax East and West pits. The Company is also engaged in the process of acquiring a 100% interest in the Willow copper-gold property located near Yerington, Nevada, and it also controls the contiguous Nev-Lorraine claims subject to a ten-year lease agreement. The Willow property is located approximately 65 kilometers southeast of Reno and approximately 13-kilometer due west of Yerington, Nevada, in the Buckskin Mountain Range. Its porphyry copper deposits are Yerington, Ann Mason, Bear and MacArthur.