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![]() | ![]() The Greenwood Property is located in south central British Columbia. The southern part of the property is located between Grand Forks and Midway, B.C. The Property covers an area of approximately 235,000 acres (88,140 hectares) and is centered at latitude 49° 7' 34" N and longitude 118° 44' 2" W. The entire project area is easily road accessible from both Greenwood and Grand Forks. The project area is host to or surrounds a number of historic mines and mineral occurrences including most notably the historic Motherlode, Sunset and Greyhound underground and open pit gold-silver-copper mines and the Copper Mountain copper-silver-gold showings. The historic Motherlode mines produced in excess of 178,000 ounces (oz) of gold (Au), 723,000 oz of silver (Ag) and 80 million pounds of copper (Cu) between 1900 and 1962. In addition, the project area surrounds and is immediately adjacent to Merit Mining Corp.'s recently commissioned Lexington-Grenoble copper-gold mine and its Greenwood Mill, and is less than 7 km northwest of Kinross Gold Corporation's recently commissioned Buckhorn Mountain Gold Mine. Ket 28 Prospect:
An aggressive Stage 1 field exploration program is underway, including extensive ground geophysical surveys comprised of an induced polarization ("IP") survey conducted by Peter E. Walcott & Associates Ltd. of Vancouver, B.C.. Horizontal loop electromagnetic ("HLEM") survey, Promis electromagnetic ("EM") survey, and magnetometer survey. In addition, prospecting, rock and soil sampling, along with geological mapping, are underway at a number of existing targets including Copper Mountain, Ket 28, and the Dayton area. New targets identified by detailed analysis of the 2008 and 2009 airborne geophysical surveys are also being developed. The focus of the 2011 exploration program is to identify drill targets that are similar in nature to Kinross's Buckhorn Gold Skarn Deposit and Midway's Golden Eagle Epithermal Gold Deposit located in the State of Washington, each of which are reported to contain indicated resources of more than one million ounces of gold. To date, approximately 1,600 soil and rock samples have been collected and have been shipped to ALS Chemex in Vancouver, B.C. for analysis. More than 70 line-km of IP surveys (over a minimum of 9 previously identified targets) and more than 20 line-km of HLEM and Promis EM surveys have also been completed. The planned ground work is budgeted at $1.0 million and will continue into late July or early August. Upon completing interpretation of data from the Stage 1 program, drill targets will be selected, prioritized and land use applications for drilling will be submitted. The Company plans to commence drilling in late summer or early fall 2011 and has allocated a minimum budget of $1.2 million on 5,000 metres of drilling at Greenwood in 2011.
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