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| | Overview: Candorado Operating Company Ltd (CDO-TSX.V) has entered into an option agreement with Bearclaw Capital Corporation (BRL-TSX.V), whereby Candorado has earned a 51% interest in the Man/Prime property by making a one time cash payment of $ 50,000, issuing a total of 700,000 shares of the company to Bearclaw, and spending $ 800,000 in exploration expenses on the property. Location, Infrastructure and Resources: • Property covers 155 km2 east of Missezula Lake on the Thompson Plateau of south-central British Columbia • Property has good access by a network of logging and exploration roads • Princeton, 36 km to the south has a history of being a mining town History: • Mineralization in the area has been known at least since the 1940s when the Property was covered by the King George claims • Property was active between 1967 and 1981 when it was known as the Prime, HG or Primer Group • Newmont performed extensive work during the period between 1979 and 1981, and this work including soil sampling, geological mapping, induced polarization and ground magnetometer surveys, trenching and 2,551 metres of diamond drilling • Further exploration, including 1,508 m of drilling, between 1981 and 1997 delineated several copper-gold anomalies that have been worked on by a variety of companies -these areas include the Prime showing (also known as the King George, Primer, Prime North), and the Man showing (also known as the HG) in the south Geology: • Situated within the southern portion of the Quesnel Terrane in the Intermontane Belt that is dominated by alkalic and calc-alkalic island-arc volcanics and co-magmatic intrusives of the Triassic Nicola Group Mineral Occurrences: • Cu sulphide minerals (chalcopyrite, bornite), with potassium feldspar alteration are present • The geology, alteration and mineralization encountered confirm that an alkalic copper-gold porphyry system exists on the property 2007 Exploration Program Highlights: An induced polarization (IP) geophysical survey, soil sampling and 4,120 metres of drilling The following table summarizes the results of the 2007 drilling*: Historic Exploration Results: • Drilling in 1988 by Brican Resources Ltd returned 63.0 m of 0.70% Cu in hole 321-01 and 28.0 m of 0.33% Cu and 0.57 g/t Au in hole 321-04 Recent Developments in the Area: • Copper Mountain Mining, 50 km south of the property, has recently announced a mineral measured plus indicated resource of 206 million tonnes grading 0.37% copper, at a 0.20% cut-off • Copper Mountain is proceeding with a feasibility study 2008 Exploration Program: • A thorough review of all past and recent exploration is now underway • Candorado plans to continue the drill program in the spring Prime-Man Fact Sheet
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