The Orvilliers
Property consists of the 100% ownership of 50 contiguous unpatented
mining claims covering 800 hectares in the Orvilliers Township,
in the Province of Québec. The claims are registered
in the name of the Company. The claims are valid until February
2007 and have sufficient work credits to hold them for a further
two years.
Location
The property is situated 11 kilometres
east of the Estrades base metal (copper, zinc, silver, gold)
mine and some 25 kilometres east of the Casa Berardi gold
mine. In the northern portion of the claims is transected
by the Casa Berardi Break.
The property is located in the northwest
part of the Abitibi Sub province. The area is known for its
polymetallic and gold potential. Several deposits are located
in the Harricana-Turgeon Belt: Casa Berardi (gold), Selbaie
(copper, zinc, silver, gold), Isle-Dieu (zinc, copper, silver,
gold), Agnico Eagle (gold) and, in the immediate vicinity
of the Orvilliers Property, the Estrades deposit (zinc, copper,
gold, silver).
History and Previous Work
Both to the east and west of the property
gold values have been recorded in diamond drill holes.
In addition to the airborne geophysical surveys several significant
structural features crossing the property in an east-west
direction. The most prominent of these is a wide and well
developed graphitic shear zone known as the “Casa Berardi
Break” which is intersected by a north-south trending
structure.
Work conducted immediately to the east
of the property includes several diamond drill holes completed
in 1990 by Noramco Explorations Inc. One hole, drilled 800
metres to the east of the boundary of the Company’s
property targeting a geophysical anomaly which continues onto
the Company’s property, intercepted a moderately brecciated
chloritic siltstone which returned assays of 1.2 g/t of gold
over 9.75 metres.
In 1998 the Company completed a ground
based geophysical survey and 7 diamond drill holes at targets
established by the survey. In 1999 the Company commissioned
a Compilation Report of all the known geophysical work conducted
in the area along a 40 kilometer strike length of the area.
The report highlighted the location of several important geophysical
anomalies that have not been tested. In addition it defined
the stratigraphic horizon within which the Estrades deposit
is located and extensions of this horizon to the east on to
the property.
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