Regional Geology Setting - Vault Properties
Kirkland
Kirkland North
Lebel
Gauthier
Goldbanks
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Highlights
- On November 15, 2009, Vault regained 100% control and ownership of the Lebel property which, in turn, Gordon-Lebel and the Lebel gold properties were re-combined to create a contiguous 3,100-acre property.
- The property is situated in the prolific Kirkland Lake Gold Camp, where in excess of 24 million ounces of gold have been produced at a recovered grade of 16.1 gAu/t (0.47 ounces of gold per ton).
- The property hosts the former Bidgood gold mine that historically produced 165,000 ounces of gold at a recovered grade of 9.2 gAu/t (0.27 ounces of gold per ton).
- Eighteen, high quality target areas have been identified on the property that include the following targets that are drill ready;
Boundary Zone:
- is a 150 m wide zone of multiple, near-surface mineralized gold zones,
- 2008 drilling by Vault intersected 10.2 grams of gold per tonne (gAu/t) over 1.1 m, 6.7 gAu/t over 1.4 m (within a zone grading 2.0 gAu/t over 13.7 m), 7.3 gAu/t over 2.1 m (including 18.5 gAu/t over 0.6 m), and 3.1 gAu/t over 4.0 m,
- historic drilling intersected a wider zone of 1.4 gAu/t over 21.3 m.
- grab samples collected by Vault from this area returned up to 27.9 gAu/t from a blue quartz vein,
- the zones are related to a porphyry rock unit, cover a strike length of 200 m and are open in all directions.
Blue Vein Zone:
- consists of three parallel structures where channel sampling in trenches in 2000 assayed up to 95.1 gAu/t over 2.7 m,
- drilling in 2003 (& one historical hole) returned intersections of 11.8 gAu/t over 2.8 m, 30.6 gAu/t over 1.3 m, 12.3 gAu/t over 1.1 m, and 18.8 gAu/t over 0.9 m to a vertical depth of 100 m,
- surface identified structures extend at least 800 m on surface with minimal trenching or drilling having been carried out.
Contact Zone:
- is a near-surface zone which has returned 3.3 gAu/t over 10.2 m, 3.3 gAu/t over 6.4 m, 11.3 gAu/t over 1.5 m, 3.0 gAu/t over 5.3 m, and 3.1 gAu/t over 6.1 m from historical drilling over a strike length of 250 m, and 20 to 80 m below surface,
- a 2007 drill intercept from this zone returned 14.1 gAu/t over 1.0 m and 6.8 gAu/t over 1.2 m at a depth of 150 m. This mineralization is open to depth and to the east.
Bidgood Main Fault Zone:
- located in the immediate vicinity of the Bidgood Main Fault Zone, a 2007 drill hole returned 8.3 gAu/t over 2.6 m.
- future drilling will track multiple ore horizons down and along trend of this zone -- an approach used successfully by Queenston Mining Inc. at the nearby Upper Beaver deposit, which historically produced 141,000 ounces of gold at 8.2 gAu/t (0.24 ozAu/ton), and that now hosts an indicated resource of 427,900 ounces gold at 9.7 gAu/t plus an inferred resource of 291,300 ounces gold at 8.5 gAu/t.
Quartz Stockwork Zone:
- consists of a broad, steep north-west dipping quartz-stockwork corridor as defined by three drillholes (LB08-35, -36, and -43) completed in 2008, with dimensions of 510 m strike length, 144m average core length and a >80% intense quartz-silica section averaging 17 m (core length) at a grade of 0.46 gAu/t, 2.2 gAg/t and 0.10% copper.
Access & Property Size
- The property is situated 3 to 10 kms east of Kirkland Lake, Ontario in Lebel Township and is traversed by provincial Highway 66, and all-weather roads.
- Land holdings consist of 31 patents, 19 mining leases, 21 staked claims and 3 Licences of Occupation.
Exploration & Development Plans
- Mechanical stripping-mapping and sampling of known, near surface higher grade structures at Boundary and Blue Vein zones.
- After mechanical stripping-sampling, a first phase diamond drill program is recommended to test Boundary, Blue Vein, and Contact zones focusing to delineate near-term gold resources.
- A second phase diamond drill program is recommended to follow up testing the immediate area of the former Bidgood Mine on the Main Fault zones.
- A winter based, deep ground geophysical survey is recommended for the Quartz Stockwork zone to look for better gold-copper grades at depth -- modeled after Imperial Metals Corporation success at the Red Chris gold-copper property in NW British Columbia whereby drilling intercepted high grade gold-copper (drill-hole RC09-350 returned 152.5 metres grading 4.12% copper and 8.83 g/t gold starting at a depth of 540.0 metres, see Imperial Metals Corporation November 9, 2009 press release) beneath a wide, low grade copper-gold zone that is intensely quartz flooded with stock-work and sheeted veining in an intrusive.
The technical content of this web page has been reviewed and approved by Dan McCormack, P.Geo., Vault's Vice President and 'Qualified Person' in accordance with National Instrument 43-101 Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects.
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