For Ministry Use Only | Ontario Corporation Number |
A l'usage exclusif du ministere | Numero de la societe en Ontario|
| 1320430 |
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Ministry of Ministere de
Consumer and la Consommation
Commercial Relations et du Commerce
CERTIFICATE CERTIFICAT
This is to certify that these Ceci certifie que les presents
Articles are effective on statuts entrent en vigueur le
OCTOBER 30 OCTOBRE 1998
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/s/
Director / Directeur
Business Corporations Act / Loi sur les societes par actions

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ARTICLES OF CONTINUANCE
STATUTS DE MAINTIEN

Form 6 Business Corporations Act

Formule 6 Loi sur les societes par actions

1. The name of the amalgamated corporation is:

Denomination sociale de la societe:

S T O R M I N R E S O U R C E S L I M I T E D

2. The corporation is to be continued under the name (if different from 1):

Nouvelle denomination sociale de la societe (si elle est differente de
celle inscrite ci-dessus):

3. Name of jurisdiction the corporation is leaving:
Ressort de constitution de la societe:

Canada
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(Name of jurisdiction)
(Ressort de constitution)

4. Date of incorporation/amalgamation
Date de la constitution ou de la fusion:

1984 January 16
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(Year, Month, Day)
(annee, mois, jour)

5. The address of the registered office in Ontario is:
Adresse du siege social en Ontario:

8 King Street East, Suite 1800
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(Street & Number, or R.R. Number & if Multi-Office Building give Room No.)
(Rue et numero, ou numero de la R.R. et, s'il s'agit d'un edifice a bureaux,
numero du bureau.)

Toronto, Ontario M 5 C 1 B 5
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(Name of Municipality or Post Office) (Postal Code)
(Nom de la municipalite ou du bureau de poste) (Code postal)

6. Number (or minimum and maximum number) of directors is:
Nombre (ou nombres minimal et maximal) d'administrateurs:
Minimum - three (3)
Maximum - ten (10)

7. The director(s) is/are: Administrateur(s):

First name, initials and surname Residence address, giving Street & No. or R.R. No., Resident
Pr nom, initiales et nom de famille municipality and postal code Canadian
Adresse personnelle, y compris la rue et le numero, le State
numero de la R.R., le nom de la municipalit et le code Yes or No
postal Resident
canadien
Qui/Non
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Harry J. Hodge 18 LaRose Avenue Yes
Etobicoke, ON M9P lA5

Frederick C. Knight Apt. 1407 - 110 Bloor Street West Yes
Toronto, On M5S 2W7

Michael W. Manley 52 Roxborough Drive Yes
Toronto, On M4W 1X1

Hubert J. Mockler 46 Rose Park Crescent Yes
Toronto, ON M4T 1P9

8. Restrictions, if any, on business the corporation may carry on or on
powers the corporation may exercise.

Limites, s'il y a lieu, imposees aux activites commerciales ou aux
pouvoirs de la societe.

None

9. The classes and any maximum number of shares that the corporation is
authorized to issue:

Catogories et nombre maximal, sil y a lieu, d'actions que la societe
est autorisee a emettre:

The Corporation is authorized to issue an unlimited number of common
shares.

10. Rights, privileges, restrictions and conditions (if any) attaching to
each class of shares and directors authority with respect to any class
of shares which is to be issued in series:

Droits, privileges, restrictions et conditions, s'il y a lieu.
rattaches a chaque categorie d'actions et pouvoirs des administrateurs
relatifs a chaque categorie d'actions qui peut etre emise en serie:

(a) to vote at all meetings of shareholders;

(b) to receive dividends as and when declared by the directors of the
Corporation; and

11. The issue, transfer or ownership of shares is not restricted and the
restrictions (if any) are as follows:

L'emission, le transfert ou la propriete d'actions est/n est pas
restreint. Les restrictions, s'il y a lieu, sont les suivantes:

None

12. Other provisions, if any, are:

Autres dispositions, sil y a lieu:

The directors of the Corporation may, without authorization of the
shareholders of the Corporation,

(i) borrow upon the credit of the Corporation;

(ii) issue, re-issue, sell or pledge debt obligations of the
Corporation

(iii)give a guarantee on behalf of the Corporation to secure
performance of an obligation of any person; and

(iv) mortgage, hypothecate, pledge or otherwise create a security
interest in all or any property of the Corporation, owned or
subsequently acquired, to secure any obligation of the
Corporation.

The directors may be resolution delegate any one or all of the powers
referred to in this clause to a director, a committee of directors or
an officer of the Corporation.

13. The corporation has complied with subsection 180(3) of the Business
Corporations Act.

La societe s'est conformee au paragraphe 180(3) de la Loi sur les
societes par actions.

14. The continuation of the corporation under the laws of the Province of
Ontario has been properly authorized under the laws of the
jurisdiction in which the corporation was incorporated/amalgamated or
previously continued on

Le maintien de la societe en vertu des lois de la province de
l'ontario a ete doment autorise en vertu des lois de l'autorite
legislative sous le regime de laquelle la societe a ete constituee ou
fusionnee ou anterieurement maintenue le

1998 September 24
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(Year, Month, Day)
(annee, mois, jour)

15. The corporation is to be continued under the Business Corporations Act
to the same extent as if it had been incorporated thereunder.

La maintien de la societe en vertu de la Loi sur les socitetes par
actions a le meme effet que si la societe avait ete constituee en
vertu de cette loi.

These articles are signed in duplicate.

Les presents statuts sont signes en double exemplaire

STORIMIN RESOURCES LIMITED
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(Name of Corporation)
(Denomination sociale de la societe)

By/Par: /s/ France Crawford SECRETARY
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(Signature) (Description of Office)
(Signature) (Foction)

Industry Canada Industrie Canada

Corporations Dictorate Direction genrale des Corporations
9th floor 9e etage
Jean Edmonds Towers South Tour Jean Edmonds sud
365 Laurier Avenue West 365, avenue Laurier ouest
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0C8 Ottawa (Ontario) K1A 0C8

Your file Votre reference
November 13, 1998/le 13 novembre 1998
Our file - Notre reference

BOYLE, HOBART
ATTN: G. MICHAEL HOBART
36 LOMBARD STREET
SUITE 600
TORONTO, ONT
M5C 2X3

Re - Objet

Storimin Resources Limited

Enclosed herewith is the document issued in the above matter.

Vous trouverez ci-inclus le document emis dans l'affaire precitee.

A notice of issuance of CBCA documents will be published in the Canada
Corporations Bulletin. A notice of issuance of CCA documents will be published
in the Canada Corporations Bulletin and the Canada Gazette.

Un avis de l'emissionde documents en vertu de la LCSA sera publie dans le
Bulletin des societes canadiennes. Un avis de l'emission de documents en vertu
de la LCC sera publie dans le Bulletin des societes canadiennes et daris la
Gazette du Canada.

IF A NAME OR CHANGE OF NAME IS INVOLVED, THE FOLLOWING CAUTION SHOULD BE
OBSERVED:

S'IL EST QUESTION D'UNE DENOMINATION SOCIALE OU D'UN CHANGEMENT DE DENOMINATION
SOCIALE, L'AVERTISSEMENT SUIVANT DOIT ETRE RESPECTE:

This name is available for use as a corporate name subject to and
conditional upon the applicants assuming full responsibility for any risk
of confusion with existing business names and trade marks (including those
set out in the relevant NUANS search report(s)). Acceptance of such
responsibility will comprise an obligation to change the name to a
dissimilar one in the event that representations are made and established
that confusion is likely to occur. The use of any name granted is subject
to the laws of the jurisdiction where the company carries on business.

Cette denomination sociale est disponible en autant que les requerants
assument toute responsabilit de risque de confusion avec toutes
denominations commerciales et toutes marques de commerce existantes (y
compris celles qui sont citees dans le(s) rapport(s) de recherches de
NUANS pertinent(s)). Cette acceptation de responsabilite comprend
l'obligation de changer la denomination de la societe en une denomination
difference advenant le cas ou des representations sont faites etablissant
qu'il y a une probabilite de confusion. L'utilisation de tout nom octroye
est sujette a toute loi de la juridiction ou la societe exploite son
entreprise.

For the Director General, Corporations Directorate

pour le Directeur general, Direction generale des Corporations

CANADA

Industry Canada Industrie Canada

CERTIFICATE CERTIFICAT DE CHANGEMENT
OF DISCONTINUANCE DE REGIME

CANADA BUSINESS LOI CANADIENNE SUR
CORPORATIONS ACT LES SOCIETES PAR ACTIONS

STORIRNIN RESOURCES LIMITED 163129-2

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Name of corporation-Denomination de La societe

I hereby certify that the above-named corporation

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Corporation number-Numero de la societe

Je certifie que la societe susmentionnee:

a) was discontinued under section 188 of the Canada Business Corporations Act
and continued under the laws of another jurisdiction as specified in the
attached notice;

[X]

a) a change de regime en vertu de l'article 188 de La Loi canadienne sur les
societes par actions et a ete prorogee sous le regime d'une autre autorite
legislative, laquelle est mentionnee dans l'avis ci-joint;

b) was discontinued under section 188 of the Canada Business Corporations Act
and continued under the

b) a change de regime en vertu de l'article 188 de La Loi canadienne sur les
societes par actions et a ete prorogee sous le regime de la:

i) Bank Act,
i) Loi sur les banques,

ii) Canada Cooperative Associations Act,
ii) Loi sur les associations cooperaiives du Canada,

iii) Insurance Companies Act, or
iii) Loi sur les societes d'assurances,

iv) Trust and Loans Companies Act, as specified in the attached notice; or
iv) Loi sur les societes de fiducie et de pret, laquelle est mentionnee
dans l'avis ci-joint;

c) was amalgamated pursuant to the provisions of the
c) a ete fusionnee en vertu des dispositions de La

i) Bank Act,
i) Loi sur les banques,

ii) Canada Cooperative Associations Act,
ii) Loi sur les associations cooperatives du Canada,

iii) Cooperative Credit Associations Act,
iii) Loi sur les associations cooperative de credit,

iv) Insurance Companies Act, or
iv) Loi sur les societes d'assurances,

v) Trust and Loans Companies Act.
v) Loi sur les societes de fiducie et de pret.

as specified in the attached notice.
laquelle est mentionnee dans l'avis ci-joint.

/s/
Director - Directeur

October 30, 1998/le 30 octobre 1998
Date of Discontinuance - Date du changement de regime

Canada