EBEL PROJECT

Property Description
The Ebel project covers an area of Archean greenstone belts. The geology consists of a typical granite-greenstone assemblage of ultramafics (komatiites?), banded Iron Formations (BIF), granodiorite gneisses, and feldspathic quartzites cross cut by a series of N-NE trending shear zones.

Previous Work: During it's "Mission du Mitzic" the Bureau de Recherches de Géologiques et Miniére (BRGM) covered the whole area with an extensive stream sampling program. From this, a large gold stream gold anomaly, with values up to 85ppb in stream sediments and up to 420g/m3 in pan concentrates was found that appeared to have a close spacial relationship with the banded iron formations in the area.

Work Done: We aggressively followed up the BRGM results with a soil sampling and prospecting campaign. Since September 2007 over soil 3000 samples have been taken over four separate areas targeting gold. Three of the soil grids defined 3 separate coherant gold anomalies (>15ppb) with peak values above 50ppb. The Nkan 2 & 3 grids defined a N-NE trending gold anomaly over 20km in length within the BIF unit and is speculated to be associated with the similar trending shear zones in the area. Follow up on these anomalies has proven difficult however due to the very deep soil profile (>50m in places) in the Nkan region. Future work in the area will target these soil anomalies with an augering program (down to 10m), geophysics and results depending, drilling.



Above: The Ebel soil grid with gold (A), copper (B), nickel (C), chrome (D). Also the EM (E) and Magnetic (F) survey with the soil grid location. The strong magnetic response is due to banded iron formations in the area. The orange dashed lines shows an inferred fault based from the magnetics that coincides with the EM anomaly.

Summary
Our licences takes in over 100km of the Archean-Proterozoic contact. This feature, which includes the Mianga project, occupies a position very favourable to large shear hosted mesothermal vein style mineralization. The coincident geochemical and geophysical anomaly coupled with the size of the fault zone and under explored nature of the structure suggests there is significant potential for a large gold deposit.

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