Prospecting Report on Elliot Lake Area
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I I I I I I J I Reliant Gold Corp. I Report I on the I Exploration of the Esten Property Elliot Lake Area I District of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario I NTS 041J/07 I Trevor Boyd, P.Geo. February, 2012 I I I I I I I I I I I I SUMMARY The Esten Property, located in the Elliot Lake area of north-central Ontario, was initially explored by trenching I and drilling in 1956, and drilling in 197 4, encountering two linear zones of siliceous rocks within Archean granitoid intrusive rocks. The southern zone hosts chalcopyrite and pyrite mineralization. Gitennes Exploration Inc. I acquired the Esten for its potential to host copper-gold mineralization, and completed Inverse Polarization (IP), Airborne Magnetic, and Mobile Metal lon (MMI) soil geochemistry surveys identifying a number of targets for drill testing. I The property consists of 11 contiguous unpatented mining claims totalling 42 units, located 20 road-kilometres south of Elliot Lake, Ontario. The claims were subject to an option agreement between Reliant Gold Inc. and Mr. I Robert John de Carle and Harry Hodge. Access is by a dirt road originating at Highway 108, between Highway 17 and the town of Elliot Lake. I In 2010, Reliant Gold carried out exploration comprising of surface sampling of historic trenches plus a property-wide geological traverses focusing on the ground follow-up of the Gitenne Exploration anomalies plus general prospecting. The results confirmed the presence of good Cu mineralization in the trenches. I Based upon the field investigation and review of previous work, additional drilling is recommended for the property to test the extent of the known mineralization zone at depth towards the east where the Gitennes high IP I chargeability is strongest and another equally strong IP chargeability anomaly located 200 metres to the south I I I I I I TABLE of CONTENTS Page SUMMARY..................................................................... ............................ .............................. .... ......... .... .... i PROPERTY DESCRIPTION AND LOCATIOI\1 .............................................................................................. ..... - 1 - ACCESSIBILITY, CLIMATE, LOCAL RESOURCES, INFRASTRUCTURE AND PHYSIOGRAPHY .... ............... - 2- HISTORY ................................................................................................................................................. ............ - 2- EXPLORATION ........................... ..... ............... ...... ......................... .. ..... ......................... ........................... .. - 4- REGIONAL GEOLOGY......................... .. .. .............. ................................... ..................... - 4 - LOCAL GEOLOGY ............ ... ............................................................................ ....... .......................................... - 5 - PROPERTY GEOLOGY ..................................................... ........ .. ....... ...... ... ................ ...... ... ....... ...... .... ........ .. .. - 5 - ROCK SAMPLING METHODS AND APPROACH ............................................................................ ..... ............ - 7 - INTERPRETATION AND CONCLUSIONS .............................................. ................................................ ... - 8- RECOMMENDATIONS ...................................................................... .................. ......... ................. ..................... - 8- REFERENCES .................................................................... ......... ........ ......... ................. ......... .............................. - 9 - CERTIFICATE of QUALIFIED PERSON ................................................................................................ - 10- LIST of TABLES Table 1. Esten Property- Land Status September 2011 ............................................................................. .... - 1 - Table 2. Drill Intercepts for Federal Kirkland (1956), and Esten Explorations (1974) Drill Holes. - 3- Table 3: Esten Property Geological Units ............................................................................................... ......... - 6 - LIST of FIGURES Figure 1: Esten Property Location Sketch Following Page 10 Figure 2: Esten Property Claim Map Following Page 10 Figure 3: Esten Property Samples Location Map Following Page 10 LIST of APPENDICES APPENDIX 1. ................................................... ......... ...... ........ ........ .................... List of Rock Samples APPENDIX II. ........... ..... ........................ ..... ..... .......... .......................................... Analytical Certificates APPENDIX Ill ...... .............................. ...................... ....................... .... ...... Prospecting and Sampling Log ii I I INTRODUCTION AND TERMS OF REFERENCE Reliant Gold Corp. acquired the Esten Property in 2010. The property consists of 11 contiguous unpatented mining claims totalling 42 units, located 20 road-kilometres south of Elliot Lake, Ontario (Figure 1). It is in the I Sault Ste. Marie Mining Division, Ontario. Previous exploration in the 1950's and mid-1970's tested a zone of chalcopyrite and pyrite mineralization in a zone of highly siliceous rocks, variously interpreted to be Archean I metavolcanics or metasedimentary rocks. Sources of information include Ontario Base Maps of 1:20,000 topography, geological maps and reports from the Ontario Department of Mines/Ontario Geological Survey, assessment work reports at the Provincial Mining Recorder's Office in Sudbury, and the list of references I provided in the References section of this report. I PROPERTY DESCRIPTION AND LOCATION The Esten Property is located in the Sault Ste. Marie Mining Division, Ontario (NTS 041 J07), about 20 road- kilometres south of Elliot Lake. It lies in a rectangle bounded by UTM coordinates 377000E 5131 OOON, 377000E I 5127000N, 372000E 5127000N, and 372000E 5131000N (all UTM coordinates and map projections in this report are for Zone 17, NAD83 datum). It comprises of 11 unpatented and unsurveyed mining claims totalling 42 units I (see Table 1 and Figure 2). The claims are located in Esten Township (Mining Plan G-3270). Reliant Gold entered into an option agreement with Mr. Robert John de Carle and Harry Hodge during May, 2010, whereby I Reliant Gold can earn a 100% interest in the claims comprising the Esten Property. The original property comprised of 10 claims totalling 26 units; a claim totalling 16 units were added during December, 2010. All I staking documents are registered with the Provincial Mining Recorder, Sudbury, Ontario. I I I I I I Information regarding claims can be viewed at the Provincial Mining Recorder's Office in Sudbury, or on the Ministry of Northern Development and Mines website at http://www.mndm.qov.on.ca/mndm/mines. I I I - 1 - I ACCESSIBILITY, CLIMATE, LOCAL RESOURCES, INFRASTRUCTURE AND PHYSIOGRAPHY I Access to the Esten Property is by vehicle. Elliot Lake, population 12,000, is approximately 35 kilometres north of Highway 17, between Sudbury and Sault Ste. Marie. It is the nearest population and service centre, I although mining equipment and labour force would be more readily available in Sudbury. From the Highway 108 exit at Serpent River on Highway 17, it is 11 kilometres to an unnamed dirt road on the west side of Highway 108, then 5.0 kilometres to an area of old trenches on the north side of the road, which lie in the main area of previous I drilling. An Ontario Hydro transmission line to Elliot Lake lies less than a kilometre west of the western boundary of the I Esten Property. Topography is dominated by low rolling hills comprising exposed or shallowly buried bedrock mantled by till and glaciofluvial deposits. Drainage is to the south, ultimately to Lake Huron. Elevations on the property vary I from 260 to 300 metres a.s.l. Vegetation consists of immature stands of maple, white spruce, white pine, birch I and poplar. HISTORY The history and geology sections of this report are largely drawn from the 2005 assessment report filed by I James Foster on behalf of Gitennes Exploration Inc. (Foster 2005). The property was trenched and drilled in 1956 by Federal Kirkland Mining Co. (28 holes- 9,594 feet) and by Esten Explorations Inc. in 1974 (6 holes- I 1,922 feet). In total, 28 holes were directed at the known zone of mineralization or its potential strike extensions. Reports in the Sudbury assessment files include microfiche copies of all drill logs by the two companies, a VLF I EM map, magnetometer survey map, and report by Esten Exploration Ltd. Copper assays only are given in the logs for most of the holes- two important Federal Kirkland holes (15 and 17) along strike have no assays, but do indicate chalcopyrite mineralization is present. No trace of the 1956 drill sites have been found, and it is likely the I area was logged sometime following the Federal Kirkland work. However, there is still BQ-sized casing in bedrock and some metallic debris for Esten Explorations' holes 74-1, -7, -8, and -9. Their location in the field I corresponds reasonably well with those shown on Esten Exploration maps, however the azimuths for casing still remaining in the ground are quite different than azimuths stated in the logs. Table 2 gives average copper intercepts for those drill holes for which assay values are given in the logs (all I footages converted to metres). No assays were reported for hole 74-9. Based upon diamond drilling completed on the Property