Unique Aspects of Taranis

All Exploration and Mining Companies have a beginning. In a 'sea' of junior mining companies, the savvy investor needs to find the company that is little-known, but can emerge to prominence. Our Directors are heavily involved in Taranis in both equity and sweat, and have considerable experience in the business of exploration and mining.

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Why Taranis?

Some of the Cornerstones of 'Value'

Value is a difficult thing to assess in the junior exploration and mining sector. Market capitalization rarely means anything - it is merely the shares issued in a company multiplied times the share price. Savvy investors need to look at the quality of the Board of Directors, the assets, Ownership by Management, and very importantly - the share structure of the company.

Four Quality Projects

Both Kettukuusikko and Riikonkoski have established Mineral Resources, but most importantly they have significant exploration upside that can be explored in order to increase the value of these properties. The Thor project in British Columbia has a Mineral Resource that has been drilled-off to NI 43-101 standards and is available to complete a Resource Estimate, but the Board of Taranis has decided to leave this until it tests the Western Deep exploration target that has the potential to double or triple the existing resource. Finally, but not least - the Naakenavaara project has shown promise to host a major copper-gold-nickel-cobalt resource, and will require much more def inti on drilling in order to establish a Resource, and this is where the company plans on focusing much of its attention in 2012. This deposit has the potential to be one of Finland's largest copper deposits.

Board of Directors

Taranis has great depth in its Board of Directors. This experience and know-how translates into doing what is right for the shareholder. Taranis is not afraid to drill and abandon projects if it feels that it does not meet the requirement to make a mine - conversely, it has the knowledge to recognize projects that warrant additional drill testing and development with the ultimate goal of making them into mines.

Credibility

The junior mining sector is always in a state of flux, particularly since 2008. Taranis upholds itself as being fair and honest, and reports information on a timely basis once all of the information has been reviewed by its Qualified Persons.

Gold

Gold is found in ores made up of rock with very small or microscopic particles of gold. This gold ore is often found together with quartz or sulfide minerals such as Fool's Gold, which is a pyrite. Gold's atomic number of 79 makes it one of the higher atomic number elements which occur naturally. Like all elements with atomic numbers larger than iron, gold is thought to have been formed from a supernova nucleosynthesis process.

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Silver

Silver has been used for thousands of years for ornaments and utensils, for trade, and as the basis for many monetary systems. Its value as a precious metal was long considered second only to gold. The word "silver" appears in Anglo-Saxon in various spellings such as seolfor and siolfor. During World War II, the short supply of copper led to the substitution of silver in many industrial applications.

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Copper

Copper has been in use at least 10,000 years, but more than 95% of all copper ever mined and smelted has been extracted since 1900. As with many natural resources, the total amount of copper on Earth is vast (around 1014 tons just in the top kilometer of Earth's crust, or about 5 million years worth at the current rate of extraction). However, only a tiny fraction of these reserves is economically viable, given present-day prices and technologies

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Cobalt

Cobalt occurs in copper and nickel minerals and in combination with sulfur and arsenic in the sulfidic cobaltite (CoAsS), safflorite (CoAs2) and skutterudite (CoAs3) minerals. The mineral cattierite is similar to pyrite and occurs together with vaesite in the copper deposits of the Katanga Province. Cobalt is not found as a native metal but is mainly obtained as a by-product of nickel and copper mining activities.

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Lead

Roman lead pipes often bore the insignia of Roman emperors. Lead plumbing in the Latin West may have been continued beyond the age of Theoderic the Great into the medieval period. Many Roman "pigs" (ingots) of lead figure in Derbyshire lead mining history and in the history of the industry in other English centers. The Romans also used lead in molten form to secure iron pins that held together large limestone blocks in buildings.

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Zinc

Various isolated examples of the use of impure zinc in ancient times have been discovered. A possibly prehistoric statuette containing 87.5% zinc was found in a Dacian archaeological site in Transylvania (modern Romania). Ornaments made of alloys that contain 80–90% zinc with lead, iron, antimony, and other metals making up the remainder, have been found that are 2500 years old.

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