Gaffney Extension
May 26, 2020
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LOCATION
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Lower Manitou Lake Area 60 kilometres south of Dryden, Ontario.
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26 unpatented claims covering 4,560 hectares (Gaffney Extension) and 12 patented claims totalling 174 hectares (Gaffney Patents).
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All claims are contiguous.
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GEOLOGY
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Located along the southern portion of the Manitou Straits Deformation Zone.
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Two historical operations: Gaffney Shaft and the Bee Hive Shaft.
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Gold bearing zone traced along 440 metres of strike extent to a vertical depth of 250 metres (open along strike to the northeast and to the southwest and down dip).
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Gold within disseminated sulphides and small quartz veins within a quartz diorite intrusion and within feldspar porphyry dykes.
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EXPLORATION PROGRAM AND ASSAY HIGHLIGHTS
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Locating and sampling a series of trenches identified on a 1943 Sylvanite Gold Mines Ltd. sampling assay plan map underway at Gaffney Patents. Trenches are spaced along a 375 metre long trend and are heavily overgrown. (see news release November 7, 2013)
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Ground magnetometer surveys completed (Gaffney Extension)
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Approximately 12,000 metres drilled (48 diamond drill holes) as of September 2012. (Gaffney Extension)
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Drill program demonstrated the presence of significant gold mineralization over substantial widths and indicates the presence of a large gold system (see news release December 6, 2012)
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Re-interpretation of geophysical data, newly identified targets
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Source: https://manitougold.com/projects/gaffney-extension-gaffney-patent/overview/