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Mines at Carlin-type deposits and location

of Garcia Flats target area on geologic

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Garcia Flats project location at intersection of N-S Independence-Eureka trend and regional NW structural trend. Mines and prospects in the Pinon Range (Rain/Emigrant, Trout Creek, Pony Creek, and others) and Bald Mountain shown on geologic base map.
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Geologic map of the Garcia Flats area showing new claims staked in November 2006.

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Summary map showing gold zones and interpreted major structures on Bouger gravity data.

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Gold in soils, as determined by enzyme leach, on overlay of total field magnetics color contour map.

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Garcia Flats, Nevada USA

Harvest Gold Corp., HVG.V, acquired the Garcia Flats following the results of a regional geochemical survey undertaken by the property vendor. The survey, which he designed and completed in 2005, had the specific objective of identifying a new district size gold target on the south Carlin Trend in Elko County, Nevada.

Garcia Flats Geology Summary
The Garcia Flats property comprises 250 unpatented lode claims in two blocks covering approximately 20 square km of highly prospective covered pediment. This property covers an area large enough to host a buried district similar in size to many world class Carlin type districts such as at the Cortez area.

The project was acquired following results of a regional targeting program designed to identify large, highly-prospective gold targets in north-central Nevada. In 2004, a geochemical survey was initiated by the property vendor at Garcia Flats. The results of this early survey confirmed the presence of gold in soils and helped to define this new district size gold target on the south Carlin Trend in Elko County, Nevada. Subsequently, much more detailed soil surveys have been completed and two large areas of gold in soils have been defined. These significant gold responses occur with the Eastern and Central anomalies as described below.

The initial targeting of the Garcia Flats area focused on finding covered areas in north-central Nevada capable of hosting world class Carlin type deposits. Because the focus of this program was on concealed deposits, much of the geology was projected from nearby ranges. These projections were aided by the compilation of public-domain gravity and magnetic data. A wide variety of rocks ranging from Ordovician through Eocene are present in the surrounding mountain ranges including favorable Devonian and Mississippian carbonate host rocks. These rocks are projected beneath alluvium and Tertiary volcanic rocks on the property.

A buried northwest-trending horst is interpreted within a complex structural framework beneath soil geochemical anomalies in gold and pathfinder elements such as arsenic, antimony, barium, and thallium, and other elements. This buried ridge is truncated by an interpreted north-trending structural zone beneath the Eastern anomaly where numerous northwest and north-trending structural intersections are interpreted. Similar structural intersections are interpreted beneath the Central anomaly.

 

Regional Geology and Deposits
The Pinon Range is host to several gold deposits with underground and open pit mines at the Rain, Tess, Saddle, and Emigrant deposits at the north end of the range totaling more than 1.9 million ounces of gold at or near the Webb/Devils Gate contact. Gold resources occur to the south of Rain at several deposits including Trout Creek, Pony Creek, and others. To the southeast at the Bald Mountain mine, more than 5.7 million ounces of gold have been identified.

Garcia Flats occurs where the north-trending zone of gold deposits in the Pinon range intersects a major northwest-trending structural zone that controls many of the deposits at Bald Mountain. A northwest-trending horst similar in size and morphology to the Rain horst is interpreted in the subsurface at Garcia Flats and the northwest-trending faults associated with this feature are parallel to the Rain fault, one of the main ore controls at Rain.

Favorable host rocks occur to the north, west, and east of Garcia Flats and the Webb/Devils gate contact may be relatively shallow beneath the claim block. Continuing south from Garcia Flats, the Archimedes mine and South Eureka deposit also sit on the north-trending zone of gold deposits that extends from South Eureka to the Rain district.

 

Current Exploration Program
Compilation and interpretation of gravity, magnetic, and soil geochemical data have led to the identification of two prominent north-northwest trending anomalies on the property.  These northwest-trending anomalies, referred to as the Eastern anomaly and Central anomaly, respectively, contain six gold target areas.

Soil samples have been collected at approximately 1225 sites on the property.  Enzyme leach soil survey results from the latest program completed in October are now being received.    Results are pending for additional samples collected to the south of the central anomaly and within a 1400 m by 1600 m block of samples in the southwestern part of the property.

The Eastern anomaly measures approximately 1000 m wide and at least 3500 m long.  A second zone, the Central anomaly, is 600 m wide and at least 1800 m long.  The Eastern anomaly is adjacent to an interpreted buried intrusion, whereas the Central anomaly is closely spatially associated with the interpreted buried intrusion.

The combined geological, geophysical, and geochemical data received since the beginning of exploration activities in April of this year, suggest the presence of buried Carlin-type gold mineralization.