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                                                                    EXHIBIT 10.1


                                 LEASE AGREEMENT


Kim Drossulis (Lessor) agrees to lease to TARI, INC. (Tari or Lessee) the lode
mining claims attach as Exhibit "A", located in portions of sections 21 and 22,
T 17 N, R 21 E, MDB&M in Storey County, Nevada (referred to as property),
subject to the following conditions:

RECITALS:

A.       "Effective Date" means May 15, 2001.

B.       "Lease Year" means each one (1) year period following the Effective
         Date and each anniversary of the Effective Date.

C.       WARRANTIES. The Lessor warrants that he is the owner of the lode mining
         claims more particularly described in Exhibit A and said claims are
         free from all liens and encumbrances.

D.       EXPLORATION AND DEVELOPMENT RIGHTS. Lessor will grant the Property to
         Lessee for the Lease period with the exclusive right to explore,
         develop, and mine the Property for gold, silver, and other valuable
         minerals.

E.       PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS / ASSUMPTION OF CLAIM MAINTENANCE. Under
         applicable Federal, State and County laws and regulations, Federal,
         State, and County annual mining claim maintenance or rental fees are
         required to be paid for the unpatented mining claims which constitute
         all or part of the Property, beginning with the annual assessment work
         period of September 1, 2001 to September 1, 2002. Tari shall timely and
         properly pay the Federal, State, and County annual mining claim
         maintenance or rental fees, and shall execute and record or file, as
         applicable, proof of payment of the Federal, State, and County annual
         mining maintenance or rental fees and of Lessor's intention to hold the
         unpatented mining claims which constitute the Property. If Tari does
         not terminate this Lease before June 1 or any subsequent Lease Year,
         Tari will be obligated either to pay the Federal, State, and Local
         annual mining claim maintenance or rental fees for the Property due
         that year or to reimburse Lessor for same.

F.       AREA OF INTEREST. Any additional claims located or acquired by the
         Lessee within one (1) mile from the exterior boundaries of the mining
         claims described in Exhibit "A" shall become a part of the leased
         property and shall be subject to the terms of this lease as of the
         Effective Date.

G.       SCHEDULE OF MINIMUM PAYMENTS. The Lessee shall pay to the Lessor
         minimum payments, which shall be advance payments of the Royalty, of
         US$5000.00 (five thousand dollars) upon execution of this lease. The
         Lessee may extend this lease upon payment of the following:

         1.       Pay Lessor US$10,000.00 on or before the first anniversary of
                  the execution of this lease.

         2.       Pay Lessor US$15,000.00 on or before the second anniversary of
                  the execution of this lease.

         3.       Pay Lessor US$20,000.00 on or before the third anniversary of
                  the execution of this lease.

         4.       Pay Lessor US$25, 000.00 on or before the fourth anniversary
                  of the execution of this lease.

         5.       Each annual payment thereafter shall be US$50,000.00 plus an
                  annual increase or decrease equivalent to the rate of
                  inflation designated by the Consumer's Price Index (CPI) for
                  that year with execution year as base year. Each such payment
                  shall be made on or before the successive anniversary of the
                  execution of this lease.

H.       BUYOUT. Buyout price is US$5,000,000 (five million dollars) from which
         advance royalty payments, made up to the day of the buyout, may be
         subtracted from the Buyout price. Lessee will pay Lessor a perpetual
         one-half per cent (0.5%) royalty on Net Smelter Returns (as defined
         below in Section I. of this document) thereafter.

I.       DEFINITION OF NET SMELTER RETURNS. During the term of this Agreement,
         Lessee shall pay to Lessor, as a land owner's Production Royalty, a
         percentage of the Net Smelter Returns (as defined below) from the sale
         of any Valuable Minerals, Ore, and Product mined and sold from the
         Property. "Net Smelter Returns" are defined as the gross revenues
         actually received by the Lessee from the sales of any Valuable Minerals
         extracted and produced from the Property less the following charges:


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         1.       All costs to Lessee of weighing, sampling, determining
                  moisture content and packaging such material and of loading
                  and transporting it to the point of sale, including insurance
                  and in-transit security costs.

         2.       All smelter costs and all charges and penalties imposed by the
                  smelter, refinery, or purchaser.

         3.       Marketing costs and commissions.

         4.       Not withstanding the foregoing, for purposes of determining
                  the royalty payable to Lessor on any gold and/or silver
                  produced from the Property, the price attributed to such gold
                  and/or silver shall be the price per ounce of gold and/or
                  silver on which the royalty is to be paid (as the case may be)
                  as quoted on the London Metals Exchange at the PM fix on the
                  day prior to the date of final settlement from the smelter,
                  refinery or other buyer of the gold and/or silver on which the
                  royalty is to be paid (the "Quoted Price"). For purposes of
                  determining the gross revenues, in the event the Lessee elects
                  not to sell any portion of the gold and/or silver mined from
                  the Property, but instead elects to have the final product of
                  any such gold and/or silver credited to be held for its
                  account with any smelter, refiner, or broker, such gold and/or
                  silver shall be deemed to have been sold at the Quoted Price
                  on the day such gold and/or silver is actually credited to or
                  placed in Lessee's account. The percentage for this Production
                  Royalty shall be four per cent (4%).

         5.       Lessor shall be paid the Production Royalty quarterly by
                  certified check by the Lessee.

J.       CONDITIONS OF TERMINATION BY LESSOR. This Lease may be terminated at
         any time by the Lessor subject to the following:

         1.       If Lessee fails to meet the above lease payments, Lessor must
                  give written notice to Lessee of such default. After receipt
                  of default, Lessee has 15 days to cure the default.

         2.       If Lessee fails to make Federal, State, and County maintenance
                  payments or filing fees at least 15 days prior to due date,
                  Lessee shall notify Lessor of a possible default. After 10
                  days, if the default is not cured Lessor may initiate payment
                  on the claims. Lessee will be able to cure this default by
                  reimbursing all Federal, State, and County Payments made by
                  the Lessor plus a 20% penalty within 30 days.

K.       CONDITIONS OF TERMINATION BY LESSEE. This Lease may be terminated at
         any time by the Lessee subject to the following:

         1.       Lessee must give written notice 30 days prior to relinquishing
                  the leased property.

         2.       In the event Lessee desires to terminate the agreement after
                  June1 of any year, Lessee shall be responsible for all
                  Federal, State, and County maintenance and filing fees for the
                  next assessment year regarding the leased property.

         3.       Lessee shall deliver to Lessor, in reproducible form, all data
                  generated or obtained for the leased property, whether factual
                  or interpretive as defined in section P.

         4.       Lessee shall quitclaim to Lessors all claims located or
                  acquired by Lessee within one (1) mile area of interest
                  described in section F.

L.       RECLAMATION, COMPLIANCE WITH THE LAW. All exploration and development
         work performed by the Lessee during the term of this Agreement shall
         conform with the applicable laws and regulations of the state in which
         the Property is situated and of the United States of America. Lessee
         shall be fully responsible for compliance with all applicable Federal,
         State, and local reclamation statutes, regulations, and ordinances
         relating to such work, at Lessee's cost, and Lessee shall indemnify and
         hold harmless Lessor from any and all claims, assessments, fines, and
         actions arising from Lessee's failure to perform the foregoing
         obligations. Lessee's reclamation obligation shall survive termination
         of the Agreement. Lessor agrees to cooperate with Lessee in Lessee's
         application for governmental licenses, permits, and approvals, the
         costs of which shall be borne by Lessee. Lessee shall own all
         governmental licenses, permits, and approvals.

M.       LIENS. Lessee shall keep the property free from any and all liens and
         encumbrances.

N.       TRANSFER, ASSIGNMENT, RIGHT OF FIRST REFUSAL. Either party shall be
         free to assign its rights under the detailed agreement to an affiliate
         company. They also shall have the right to transfer all or part of
         their interest in the Agreement to a third party, but transfers to a


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         third party shall be subject to a right of first refusal by the Lessor.
         Assignments permitted under this paragraph shall not be effective
         unless and until the permitted assignee agrees in writing in form and
         substance acceptable to the remaining party assuming all of the
         assigning party's obligations under this Lease Agreement. The party
         assigning interest in this lease shall notify the other party within 15
         days of such assignment and all parts of this agreement will remain in
         effect.

O.       LEASE TERM. The term of this lease is for twenty (20) years, renewable
         for an additional twenty (20) years so long as conditions of the lease
         are met.

P.       DATA AND REPORTS. Upon and after execution of the detailed agreement,
         Lessor will make available to Lessee all technical data, survey notes
         or maps, samples, drilling results including drill logs and reports
         concerning the Property which Lessor possesses, or to which it has
         access, of which it acquires in the future. Within 60 days after
         termination of the detailed agreement, Lessee shall return to Lessor
         all information of a nature similar to that described above and
         developed by Lessee during the term of the Mining Lease. If requested
         by Lessor not more than once in any 12 calendar months, Lessee shall
         submit to Lessor, within 60 days of Lessee's receipt of such request,
         an annual progress report describing Lessee's work upon the Property,
         the results of such work, and the amounts expended by Lessee in
         furtherance thereof to the date of such report.

Q.       NOTIFICATION TO LESSOR. All notices and payments from Lessee to Lessor
         shall be sent to:

                  Mr. Kim Drossulis
                  1632 Sprucemont St.
                  Sparks, NV  89434  U. S. A.

         or any other person Lessor shall designate. If Lessor designates an
         alternative person to receive notices and payment, they shall provide
         written notice of such to Lessee. All lease payments shall be made in
         the form of a check payable to Kim Drossulis.

R.       NOTIFICATION TO LESSEE. All notices from Lessor to Lessee shall be sent
         to:

                  Amy Chuang, President
                  Tari, Inc.
                  1102 Wolfe Avenue
                  Vancouver, BC   V6H 1V8
                  Canada

         or any other person Lessee shall designate. If Lessee designates an
         alternative person to receive notices, they shall provide written
         notice of such to Lessor.

The parties have executed this Lease Agreement effective as of the Effective
Date.

/s/ KIM DRUSSOLIS
KIM DRUSSOLIS

/s/ AMY Y.E. CHUANG
AMY Y.E. CHUANG

                                   EXHIBIT "A"
                             Description of Property

A.       Unpatented Lode Mining Claims.

CLAIM NAME                          BLM SERIAL NUMBER
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SP-1                                NMC 823682
SP-2                                NMC 823683