Region - The Rice Lake Greenstone Belt, Manitoba
The Rice Lake Greenstone Belt forms part of the Uchi Sub-province that includes the Red Lake and Pickle Crow belts in northwestern Ontario. The Uchi Sub province has produced greater than 15 million ounces of gold with lesser copper and zinc. Generally speaking the Rice Lake belt is a typical Archean greenstone belt consisting of mafic to felsic volcanic flows intruded by a variety of ultramafic, mafic and felsic dykes and locally overlain by clastic sedimentary rocks. All rocks have been deformed and metamorphosed to at least greenschist facies and cut by a number of later structures. All gold production from the belt has been from veins associated with these later structures. In southeastern Manitoba, the Belt comprises two subsidiary greenstone belts (The English Lake and Wallace Lake-Siderock Lake belts) that are separated from the main Rice Lake Belt by major east-west trending faults. The Rice Lake greenstone belt consists of Archean mafic volcanic and metasedimentary rocks of the Rice Lake Group that are unconformably overlain by metasedimentary rocks of the San Antonio Formation. The Ross River quartz dioritic pluton intruded the Rice Lake Group prior to the deposition of the San Antonio Formation. The Belt is an established gold camp with over 1.7 million ounces produced and is one of the most important gold-producing areas in Manitoba. Gold production continues with the Rice Lake Mine and mill operating in the town of Bissett (1.4 million ounces of gold since 1932). It is our belief, based on historical records and recent high-grade gold discoveries that the area is under explored and highly prospective for the discovery of significant new gold deposits. More than 200 gold occurrences have been documented in the Belt. Gold mineralization is present in both the older rocks in the northern part of the Belt and the younger rocks in the southern part of the Belt. Most of the past production has been obtained from the Rice Lake Mine which is hosted in the younger southern package of rocks.
The focus in the belt has been on the Conley Estate property which is are located within 25-30 km of the town of Bissett by all weather gravel road and a 3-hour drive from the provincial capital of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
The Conley Estate property covers highly prospective geology in the Rice Lake Gold Belt. Potentially economic gold deposits similar in size and grade to those found in the neighboring Red Lake Gold Camp and in other important gold mining camps on the Canadian Shield are the goals for the Company. Target selection and subsequent drill testing will be accomplished through a compilation program using previously undertaken exploration results and supplemented with prospecting, geological mapping, ground and airborne geophysical surveys and geochemical surveys. This will be achieved through drill programs focused on integrated geological, geophysical and geochemical surveys.
A review of results to date for the Conley Estate property and the Cud Claim are provided below.