The document summarizes Trend Mining Company, a company focused on exploring for platinum group metals (PGMs) in North America. It discusses two of Trend's key projects - the Lake Owen Project in Wyoming and the Peter Lake Project in Saskatchewan. Both projects are located in areas with geology similar to the Bushveld Complex in South Africa, which contains a significant portion of the world's PGMs. The document provides details on past exploration work at the projects and Trend's planned exploration programs. It also summarizes Trend's management team, which has extensive experience exploring for and developing PGM projects around the world.

1. NASD Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board: “TRDM.OB”
Recent Share Price: US$0.12
52 Week High-Low: US$0.68 - US$0.10
Primary Shares Outstanding: 29,650,837
Market Capitalization: US$3.6 million
Fully Diluted Shares: 40,269,398
Major Shareholders:
Officers and Directors 3.51%
Thomas Kaplan 35.8%
BUSHVELD COMPLEX STYLE PGM PROPERTIES IN NORTH AMERICA
 Approximately 90% of the world’s primary PGM resources are contained within Bushveld-type layered intrusion deposits.
 The Bushveld Complex, located in South Africa, contains over 55% of the world's current identified resources of
platinum metals and in 2001 accounted for more than 70% of global PGM production (4.08 million ounces).
 In North America, the same combinations of geologic features found in the Bushveld Complex are centred in an area
over Montana and Wyoming known as the Wyoming Craton.
 Trend (the “Company”) has focused much of its acquisition and exploration work efforts on the Wyoming Craton, as well
as on similar terranes in Canada and in the western United States. The Company believes that its properties have the
unique potential to host a world-class precious metals deposit.
Lake Owen Project, Wyoming - Pt-Au occurrence in Bushveld-type layered mafic complex
 The 100% owned Lake Owen Project (the “Project”) comprises 619 mining claims covering an area of 4,850 ha located
in Albany County, in southeastern Wyoming, approximately 100 kms west of the city of Cheyenne.
 Situated in the Lake Owen Complex (“LOC”), the easternmost and smallest of three weakly to well-layered, large mafic
intrusive complexes located in the early
Proterozoic supracrustal gneiss and plutonic
terranes of southern Wyoming and northern
Colorado, the Project’s Pt-Au occurrence has a
lateral extent of 6 by 10 kms and an exposed
stratigraphic thickness of approximately 6,000 m.
 In these types of intrusions, Pt is concentrated in
very thin layers of rock ranging in the order of 1.0
to 2.0 metres thick. The layers are laterally
extensive, frequently several kms (or tens of
kms) in length and have the potential to host
millions of ounces of Pt and other precious
metals.
 The discovery of the Stillwater PGM deposit in
the 1970s stimulated more active PGM
exploration in the Wyoming Platinum Province,
especially throughout the LOC area because of
the identified similarities between the LOC and the Stillwater Complex. Development of the Stillwater deposit resulted
in the first significant and successful primary PGM mine outside of Africa.
 Chevron initiated geological reconnaissance exploration of the LOC in 1982. During this time, Chevron was conducting
exploration for PGMs on a worldwide basis and identified the Lake Owen Project as one of the most highly prospective
targets. Chevron spent approximately US$570,000 on past exploration of the Lake Owen Project, which included,
between 1983 and 1992, the drilling of 14 diamond core holes totalling 5,214 feet (1,590 metres). Significant results
included 3.0 metres grading 1.338 g/t Au and 0.605 g/t PGM (1.94 g/t PGM and Au combined) and 1.0 metre grading
3.97 g/t Au and 0.255 g/t PGM (4.22 g/t PGM and Au combined).
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2.  Chevron’s initial work on the Project confirmed the existence of at least 4 and as many as 12 separate zones hosting
anomalous PGM and Au mineralization, a unique characteristic relative to most other mafic intrusion type deposits in
which Pt and Pd are the dominant precious metals.
 To date, Trend has conducted initial prospecting and reconnaissance work on the Project. The Company has also
acquired the entire drill core from Chevron’s holes and plans to begin re-logging and systematic sampling in the near
future.
Peter Lake Project, Saskatchewan - situated in the Peter Lake Complex, one of world’s the
largest layered mafic-ultramfic inrusions
 The 100% owned Peter Lake Project consists of 6 claims covering 78,568 acres in northeastern Saskatchewan.
 The Peter Lake Complex is approximately 180 by 30 kms in size and may have the potential to contain reef-type
mineralization similar to that found at the Stillwater Complex in Montana.
 Previous exploration for PGMs in the Peter Lake Complex began in the early 1980s when Cameco determined that PGM
mineralization in the area was hosted in distinct layers of pyroxenite, measuring up to several metres thick. Cameco
excavated several trenches that encountered three separate horizons of anomalous Pt-Pd-Ni-Cu mineralization.
 PGM values as high as 10 g/t were detected from grab samples, while many assayed greater than 4 g/t grams of
combined Pt-Pd per tonne. One channel sample collected in the 1980s contained 8 g/t of combined Pt-Pd over a vertical
thickness of 2 m.
 Additional work conducted by the Saskatchewan Mining and Development Corp, the Saskatchewan Department of
Mines and Lancana Mining included prospecting, reconnaissance-scale mapping and sampling, geophysical surveys
and trenching.
PROGRAM - seeking to raise up to US$3.0 million primarily for the development of the Lake Owen and Peter Lake
Projects and for working capital purposes.
 Lake Owen Project – proposed 2003/2004 work program will consist of geophysical surveys, detailed mineralogical
mapping, geochemical sampling as well as trenching and systematic sampling. Follow-up drilling will be conducted
where warranted. The programme has two main objectives; (i) to follow up on previously discovered mineralization, test
its lateral continuity and continuity at depth; and, (ii) to examine and test other parts of the LOC, which have not yet
been closely examined.
 Peter Lake Project – proposed 2003/2004 work program will consist of a re-examination of previously discovered
mineralized localities, basic prospecting, geological and mineralogical mapping, trenching, stripping and systematic
sampling, as well as extensive geophysical surveys and drilling where merited. The purpose of the programme will be
twofold: (i) to re-examine the known mineralization in light of the recent advances by the Company in the understanding
of PGM mineralization in large layered intrusions; and, (ii) re-assess the potential of the mineralization.
MANAGEMENT - previous extensive PGM project exploration and development experience
J. Michael Sharratt, Chairman, is one of the most distinguished PGM explorationists in North America. Previous positions held include Vice
Chairman and President of Stillwater Mining Company and Vice President and Senior Director of Mining and Minerals for Manville Corp., the co-
developer of the Stillwater Mine. While at Manville, not only was he a principal figure in guiding the exploration and development of the Stillwater
mining complex, he was also responsible for overseeing Manville’s mineral exploration projects globally. Jeffrey M. Christian, Director, is
Managing Director of CPM Group, a leading independent precious metals research and consulting firm. Prior to founding CPM Group in 1986,
Mr. Christian headed the precious metals and statistical work in the Commodities Research Group at J. Aron and Goldman Sachs from 1980
until 1986. Bobby Cooper, Director, has over 30 years of diversified mining experience and is a former President and CEO of Kennecott
Corporation. Other positions held at Kennecott included COO, V.P., Environmental Affairs, V.P., US Mines and General Manager US Mines
Group. Prior to joining Kennecott, Mr. Cooper served as President of Thunder Basin Coal Company. Dr. Ishiung J Wu, Director, has over 30
years experience in mineral exploration management. As a former manager of exploration for Chevron Resources Company in North and South
America, he was a member of a platinum working group that evaluated PGM exploration models at the Stillwater Complex. Prior to joining
Chevron, Dr. Wu garnered extensive field experience, which was accompanied by several mineral discoveries, through his work with Exxon
Minerals, Kennecott Exploration, Cerro de Pasco and Compania de Minas Buenaventura. Kurt J. Hoffman, President & CEO, Director has
served as the Company’s CEO, President and a Director since June 1998. Previously he was the owner and President of Kurt J. Hoffinan
Mining & Land Services. a private mining consulting firm that provided property sales, acquisitions and land management services for a number
of US-based mining and timber companies. Mr. Hoffman previously worked for Sunshine Mining Co., Mine Fabrication and Machine, Placer
Mining Corp. and in his capacity as a consultant, at a number of other resource-related companies. David G. Mooney, Chief Geologist, is one
the most experienced PGM geologists in North America. Mr. Mooney worked with Micon International Ltd., an international geological and mining
consulting company and provided consulting services to Stillwater Mining Company, North America's largest primary PGM producer. Mr.
Mooney was responsible for initiating and establishing an exploration and acquisitions group within Stillwater Mining and charged with identifying
and prioritizing the most attractive PGM exploration targets in North America. From July 1993 to November 1998, Mr. Mooney worked at Lonmin
plc, one of the largest platinum producers in the world. Before leaving the company, he held the position of Chief Geologist, where he was
responsible for its platinum group exploration activities in the Bushveld, South Africa as well as the mineral resource management for the entire
group. Prior to assuming this post, Mr. Mooney was Chief Geologist for Lonmin's Eastern Platinum Ltd. Mine. John P. Ryan, Vice President &
CFO, Director, is currently CFO, Secretary and Treasurer and a Director of the Company. Mr. Ryan has a broad frame of reference in the
management and financing of development stage natural resource companies, including Metalline Mining Company and Royal Silver Mines.
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