Tannahill

Atacama Resources holds an option to acquire a 100 percent interest (the “Option”) in the Tannahill Gold Property which is located 35 kilometers northeast of the prolific Kirkland Lake Gold Camp in northeastern Ontario.  Per the terms of the option agreement, Atacama can exercise the Option upon fulfilling the following requirements:

 

Make cash payments in the aggregate amount of $100,000 to, or to the direction of, the optionors, over the course of a 4-year period and;

Complete $250,000 of eligible work on the Tannahill Gold Property over the course of a 4-year period.

Past work on the Tannahill Gold Property (1998) has identified two parallel, gold bearing structures.  The gold bearing structures (Lower Zone and Upper Zone), consist of pervasive quartz-carbonate-albite alteration with disseminated pyrite and variable quartz veining.  The zones strike in a northeast/southwest direction and dip to the north at 60 degrees.

 

Of the 28 diamond drill holes drilled into the gold bearing zones, 27 intersected significant gold values.  The Lower Zone has returned the higher gold grades to date, including visible gold in four holes, and seems to hold the greatest exploration potential. The Lower Zone shows continuity along strike and consistency in grade. It has been successfully intersected along 300 metres of strike length at the 25 and 50 metre levels and remains open in both directions. Grades and widths above the 50 metre level are generally 0.35 to 3.25 g/t over widths ranging between 0.60 to 3.0 metres. At depth the zone widens significantly and gold grades increase dramatically (see Figure l and Figure 2). Three holes below the 75 metre level along 100 metres of strike length have excellent widths with higher gold grades:

 

5.16 g/t over 5.0 metres in T-96-9,

 

4.80 g/t over 5.00 metres in T-96-11, and

 

7.02 g/t over 3.7 metres in T-96-15.

 

 

Figure 1: Upper and Lower Gold Zones with gold intersections (Adapted from Ontario Assessment File 2.19047 32D05NE2009 Tannahill Project, Assessment Report on Diamond Drilling).