43-101 2007 Technical Report On The San Antonio Project, Baja ...

Derry, Michener, Booth & Wahl Consultants Ltd. Page 7For this initial resource estimate all mineralization at Planes and Colinas has been classified asInferred. Current drill spacing on individual x-sections often approaches 25 metre centres (downdip), while the spacing between currently drilled x-sections is generally 50 metres (along strike).Recommended Program and BudgetDMBW recommends a further program of 10,000 metres of infill vertical Reverse Circulation(‘RC’) and Core drilling at Planes in 2008 on a 50 x 50 metre grid to expand the inferredresource base, if possible, as a precursor to closer-spaced drilling. Further IP surveys are alsorecommended. In addition, as Pediment has noted and DMBW concurs, a Preliminary EconomicAssessment (“PEA”) should be undertaken.The above recommended program is estimated to cost US $1,962,000.2.0 INTRODUCTION AND TERMS OF REFERENCEThis report has been prepared to satisfy the obligation of PEDIMENT EXPLORATIONLIMITED, (“Pediment”) of Vancouver, to file a Technical Report on their San Antonio Districtgold property in the Baja Peninsula, Mexico, in compliance with disclosure and reportingrequirements set forth in Canadian National Instrument 43-101.The Qualified Persons responsible for this report are Ian S. Thompson, P.Eng., President ofDMBW, and Dave Laudrum, P.Geo. of Ashloo Consultants Ltd., an independent consultinggeologist retained by DMBW. Dave Laudrum prepared the Mineral Resource Estimatespresented in Section 17 of this report. The resource is reported based on cut-off grades andeconomic considerations provided by Ian S. Thompson in Section 18.0 of this report. Thompsonvisited the property, near La Paz, Baja California Sur, and the offices of Pediment’s whollyownedMexican subsidiary, Compania Minera Pitalla, S.A. de C.V., located in Hermosillo,Sonora, during the period December 12 to 17, 2007.The property comprises the currently-explored Los Planes gold deposit, as well as the LasColinas gold deposit, which is located 600 m to the south and on trend.The objective of this report is to estimate initial NI 43-101-Compliant Resources for both thenew Los Planes deposit and the historic Las Colinas gold deposit. This is the first QualifyingReport on the San Antonio District properties since 2004 and thus covers exploration from 2005through 2007.For Los Planes (“Planes”) the data comprises Reverse Circulation (“RC”) drilling data from thePediment’s drilling program, which began in March, 2007. The resource estimate includes theassay data from those 75 RC holes completed by December 31, 2007. Core drilling was alsoinitiated in late 2007 and geology/assay logs of five holes on Planes completed in January, 2008,were available to aid in correlations.Pediment has continued the program of exploration RC drilling at Los Planes in 2008, however,any additional geological logs and acceptable assays (having passed the company’s QualityAssurance and Quality Control measures) were not available at the time of writing this report.