Selwyn Resources Ltd. is a publicly traded, Canadian base metals exploration and development company. The company's core project is the World class Selwyn Project, located in eastern Yukon. The Selwyn Project has reactivated the Howard's Pass zinc-lead district, and since 2005 the company has invested approximately $90M to define Selwyn deposit as one of the largest undeveloped zinc-lead deposit in the world.

Selwyn has completed in August 2010 a 50:50 Joint Venture Agreement with Yunnan Chihong Zinc and Germanium Co. Ltd. Chihong, a fully integrated zinc-lead mining and smelting company based in Yunnan Province in southern China, to invest $100 Million to advance Selwyn Project to bankable feasibility and complete permitting. Selwyn and Yunnan Chihong have formed Selwyn Chihong Mining Ltd. to advance the project and have launched an approximate $85M exploration and development programs of definition drilling, engineering, permitting and initial underground development to complete bankable feasibility study, permitting and project financing by mid 2012.

In June 01, 2011, Selwyn completed the acquisition of ScoZinc Limited, and acquired all of the assets associated with the Scotia Zinc-Lead Mine located in Nova Scotia. The acquisition and restart of ScoZinc is a major strategic step in the evolution of Selwyn into a mid-tier producing base metal mining company. The restart will provide Selwyn with an attractive opportunity to expand its operations and take advantage of mining opportunities in mining friendly Nova Scotia. ScoZinc will also provide Selwyn with a basis for expansion of its management team; provide cash flow and an opportunity to grow its development and operating experience as it advances the Selwyn Project.

The outlook for base metals remains very positive, with the supply-demand fundamentals for zinc and lead looking particularly strong over the next 2 to 5 years as mine development tries to keep up with rapid demand growth and replace production from several mines nearing depletion.

The Selwyn Project

The Selwyn Project is located in eastern Yukon and straddles the border with the Northwest Territories (NWT). More than 90 percent of the district is in the Yukon, with only the southeast end extending across the border into the NWT.

The Selwyn Project is the consolidation of the Howard's Pass Joint Venture lands acquired from Placer Dome and Cygnus mines Ltd., and Selwyn's wholly owned lands in the Selwyn District. Selwyn has completed more than $70 million of exploration on them. The property consists of 7,450 hectares of mineral claims in the Yukon and 2,162 hectares of Mining Lease lands in the Northwest Territories, referred to as the Howard's Pass Joint Venture. In addition, Selwyn has 19,294 hectares of mineral claims in the Yukon and 3,373 hectares of wholly owned claims in the Northwest Territories. These claims and mining leases provide Selwyn control over 66 kilometres of the favourable strata in this giant zinc-lead district.

Historically, between 1973 and 1981, Placer Development completed a total of 35,635.5 metres of diamond drilling in 210 drill holes. In year 2000, Copper Ridge Explorations completed an additional 2,356.3 metres of diamond drilling in 8 drill holes.

Selwyn commenced drilling on Selwyn Project in 2005 and has completed to March 2011 a total of 142,262 metres of diamond drilling in 504 drill holes that have defined the Selwyn deposits over a strike length of approximately 38 kilometres. Initially, drilling was focused on shallow mineralization amenable to open pit mining methods; however, as drilling progressed drilling focus shifted to defining high grade mineralization in which the high grade mineral zones were followed both along strike and down dip.

As of the end of the 2009, mineral resources have been defined in 15 deposits that are separated by structural breaks or gaps in drilling. The zinc-lead mineralization appears to define, what was originally one large laterally continuous deposit that has been deformed by folding and faulting defining numerous structural panels. Within many of these structural panels high grade mineralization has been found in several of the deposits over a length of more than 15 kilometres; high grade mineral resources have been defined in five of the mineral deposits.

2010 Exploration Program

The proposed 2010 drilling focused on upgrading Inferred mineral resources in the XY Central, XY West and Don zones to the Indicated category, and expansion of these zones.

In 2010, Selwyn Chihong, the joint venture company created to advance the project, completed $22.2 million of expenditures, including an extensive diamond drilling program in the XY Central and Don deposits to upgrade mineral resources to the measured and indicated category. It also undertook exploratory drilling in the XY West deposit to confirm the continuity and extent of the high-grade mineral resources. Approximately $7.6 million were spent on environment and engineering studies to support the bankable feasibility study and permitting activities.

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Howard's Pass District

The Howard's Pass District is a world-class zinc-lead-silver district straddling the Yukon and Northwest Territories border. The mineralization consists of stratiform and stratabound zinc and lead sulphide mineralization within Silurian shales of the Howard's Pass Formation. All known mineralization occurs within a specific stratigraphic unit referred to as the Active Member. The Active Member has been followed for more than 38 kilometres and wherever located it contains significant zinc-lead mineralization.

Exploration by the Howard's Pass Joint Venture during the 1970's and 1980's defined three deposits (XY, Anniv and OP) spread over a 38-kilometer long belt of favourable strata. These three zones on the Howard's Pass Property contain a historical mineral resource ( circa 1983) of 115.4 million tonnes (Indicated resource) grading 5.41% zinc and 2.10% lead (mostly in the XY Zone) plus an additional Inferred resource in excess of 367 million tonnes with a similar grade which are projected for areas where only widely spaced drilling has been performed. These estimates predate current resource estimation standards established by National Instrument 43-101 and should not be relied upon by investors (see the new resource and reserve section for updated resources).

Prior to exploration by Selwyn, all three zones were known to be open at depth and along strike. The ultimate tonnages of zinc and lead mineral resources in the District were estimated at the time to be much larger.

ScoZinc Mine in Nova Scotia

The acquisition of ScoZinc Ltd. provides Selwyn with a low cost entry to becoming a producing mining company. The restart of production at the Scotia Mine in Nova Scotia will provide Selwyn with both mine operations experience and early cash flow which will be strategically important to its securing financing for the Selwyn Project.

The Scotia zinc-lead mine operated from mid 2007 through early 2009 before it was shut down following a dramatic decline in zinc and lead prices during the 2008-2009 financial collapse. During its operations ScoZinc demonstrated the attractiveness of mining the zinc-lead mineralization in an open pit, confirming the potential for mining the other mineral deposits located adjacent to the Main open pit area.

With the closing of the acquisition of ScoZinc, Selwyn will commence the detailed planning of the restart of the Scotia Mine. Expansion of the management team is underway to provide the specific experience and skills for mine operations, with a goal to build a strong management team to manage and operate the mine as a stand-alone operational unit with Selwyn providing senior management oversight. Previously, the local communities provided much of the workforce for the mining and milling and many of those will likely return to the mine easing the challenge of re-staffing of operations.

Key to the success of the restart is the refurbishment of the mill to ensure high availability and increased mill capacity. Secondly, it is important to get ahead of the stripping of waste and stockpiling of low grade ores and provide access to the high grade mineralization in the lower benches.

The restart of the Scotia Mine is seen as the first step in unlocking the potential for continued exploration and development within the Windsor Basin. It also provides Selwyn with an operating base in Nova Scotia to pursue other exploration and development opportunities.

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Dr. Harlan D. Meade, President, CEO & Director

Barry Finlayson, Secretary

David Kwong, Director & CFO

George Stevens, Q.C., Director

Lorne Anderson, Director

Jason Dunning, Vice President Exploration

Justin Himmelright, Vice President of Environment and Community Affairs

Catalin Chiloflischi, Manager of Investor Communications

Joseph Ringwald, Vice President Mining

Stephen Rea, Vice President Corporate Development

Lyndsie Gangnon, Director of Human Resources

Issued*:  329,493,382 
Fully Diluted*:  485,783,069 
Options: 25,484,400 
Warrants Issued: 58,319,559
Warrants in Escrow: 7,875,000
DSU: 2,811,143

* as of July 5th 2012