Selwyn Recce Project, Northwest Territories (NWT)

Aben Resources has been granted the exclusive exploration rights to 426,821 acres (1,727 square kilometres) of land directly east of the Yukon/NWT Territorial border.

Yukon & Northwest Territories Property Location Map
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The Selwyn Recce permits are considered to be prospective for the presence of Carlin-type gold deposits as well as carbonate-hosted and sedimentary-exhalative ("sedex") style silver-lead-zinc deposits and sediment-hosted copper deposits. These rights occur in the form of NWT Government-granted "prospecting permits" which will enable the Company to complete exploration activities over entire individual map-sheets for a period of three years, with the exclusive right to acquire formal title within these selected areas. The area has garnered considerable attention recently with the discovery of Carlin-style mineralization in the Yukon Territory at ATAC Resources (TSX.V: ATC) Osiris gold zone discovery. The current Aben permits cover prospective targets with both Carlin-style stratigraphy and promising geochemical signatures.

2011 Exploration

Field crews completed a very large scale regional reconnaissance program on the Company's Selwyn Recce Gold Project that included geological mapping, regional prospecting, geochemical surveys and geophysical surveys. Eighteen high priority targets had previously been identified to form the focus of the project's 2011 exploration efforts. The bulk of the field work was carried out on the high priority targets with many thousands of samples having been collected including:

- 7368 soil samples
- 681 rock samples
- 668 silt samples
- 14 heavy mineral bulk samples
- 51 petrographic analysis samples

Once received by Aben, all of this data will be imported into a database to allow for geological interpretation and analysis. Once all of the results and data have been imputed into the database and analyzed, the Company's geologists will make final conclusions and recommendations in preparation for next season's work programs on the project. Aben expects this technical geological report to be completed in Q1 of 2012 with subsequent news releases to follow.

Northwest Territories Prospecting Permits
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As a result of a proprietary database acquired earlier this year and the extensive exploration work carried out this season, the Company has been very aggressive in staking land in the Selwyn Recce area. In total an additional 147,404 acres of highly prospective ground in the NWT and the Yukon was staked by Aben in the region.

The Selwyn Recce permits were originally acquired on the basis of the proprietary geological and geochemical database obtained by Aben Resources from Eagle Plains Resources (TSX.V: EPL). The database has been assembled through decades of systematic mineral exploration in the Mackenzie Mountains consisting of extensive regional silt sampling, follow-up soil sampling and prospecting, detailed mapping and stratigraphic correlation, and examination of most of the documented historic occurrences in the Mackenzie Mountain area. A significant component of the work was the acquisition by Eagle Plains of 5700 silt sample pulps covering approximately 19,000 sq. km, collected in the 1970's by Cordilleran Engineering. Subsequently, an additional 3500 silt samples were added to the database. Originally analyzed for only lead and zinc, the samples were reanalyzed using a 30 element ICP, thereby forming an extensive proprietary dataset which is being used by Aben to target fieldwork and exploration activities in mineral-rich districts.

Aben's Willowhandle Lake Camp (Main Base for Selwyn Recce Project NWT)
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Bonk Formation (Gold - Copper Anomaly Selwyn Recce Project)
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Tim J. Termuende, P.Geo., is a director and the Qualified Person for Aben Resources as defined by National Instrument 43-101 and has reviewed and approved the technical information in this project section.