Rice Lake Gold Belt, Manitoba - Lesavage South

Location
The Lesavage South claims are located adjacent to Moore and Mabel Lakes approximately 50 km east of the town of Bissett in southeastern Manitoba. Access is by an all weather gravel road (PR 340) that transects the western part of the property. The property consists of six claims with a total area of 916 Ha. Bissett hosts an operating gold mine and mill and is a three hour drive from Winnipeg.
 

History
The Lesavage South property has been under claim to Mr. Stephen Lesavage since 2005. The area has been prospected for gold since the early 1930’s since the discovery and mining of a number of high-grade gold deposits in the Beresford Lake area immediately to the south of the Lesavage South claims. The claims cover rocks that are interpreted to be highly prospective for gold. The area has been well prospected and a number of trenches were put down in the vicinity of a quartz vein with visible gold. The area was optioned to Almaden Resources (1988) who cut additional trenches on a sulphide-bearing zone of breccia and drilled a shallow hole in the vicinity of the gold-bearing quartz vein. The new trenches exposed a large shear zone with abundant pyrite at the margin of a late gabbro.


Current Exploration Activity
The Company has undertaken airborne magnetic surveys and detailed geological mapping to further refine the stratigraphic, structural and tectonic framework of the property with particular emphasis on gold metallogeny. Follow-up soil geochemical surveys have been undertaken in areas of alteration and structure with results indicating the presence of anomalies in Au, Ag, Pb, Zn and Cu. Additional surveys to more accurately delineate this anomaly and to assist in drill targeting.
 

Geology of the Lesavage South Property
The Lesavage South claims are situated within the Archean Rice Lake greenstone belt that is characterized by several hundred gold occurrences including the presently producing San Antonio mine. Approximately 2 million ounces of gold have been produced from deposits hosted by sedimentary, volcanic and intrusive rocks within the Belt. There has been no significant production of other metals.
Detailed geological mapping by company geologists has defined two distinctive geological domains. Domain 1 comprises metasedimentary rocks that include arkosic wacke and calc-alkaline volcanic rocks of andesite-basalt composition. There are minor interlayered iron formation, chert and mafic to intermediate metasedimentary rocks. These lithologies are intruded by synvolcanic gabbroic sills and minor discordant intrusions of gabbro and granodiorite. Domain 2 comprises tholeiitic and magnesium-rich basalt.

Alteration and shear zones with potential economic significance have been documented in the area during geological mapping and these features will be the focus of follow-up exploration. Gold mineralization has been documented on the property in a shear zone situated at the interface between gabbro and altered metasedimentary rocks and underscores the significant potential that exists in these structural settings.