Strongbow maintains a 100% interest in approximately 18,190 ha of prospective mineral claims in the Spences Bridge gold belt (SBGB) in southwestern British Columbia. The claims are clustered into four distinct properties along a 100 km strike length of prospective stratigraphy identical to that hosting the epithermal gold/silver mineralization on Strongbow's Skoonka Creek (10,190 ha) and Shovelnose (8,330 ha) gold properties. The LP (9,642 ha), Pima (4,614 ha), Manning (2,523 ha), and Inn (1,410 ha) properties cover part of the Thompson River and Nicoamen river and drainage basins. These claims encompass some of the highest gold in stream silt anomalies found to date within the SBGB.
Reconnaissance work involving soil and silt sampling and prospecting has been conducted on the Spences Bridge properties over the last several years. The best results to date are found on the LP property, where most of the detailed work has been carried out. Exploration in 2007 on the property included a 229 line-kilometer helicopter borne magnetic-electromagnetic-radiometric survey and the collection of 98 rock samples and 162 soil geochemical samples. The best gold prospect on the property is the Ridge showing, represented by an east-west zone of chlorite and clay alteration and minor carbonate-zeolite veining hosted within an amygdaloidal andesite flow. Grab samples and hand trenching defined a 55m strike length and returned gold values of up to 2.01 g/t (grab) and 1.44 g/t over 1m (trench). Soil sampling and prospecting identified six prospective geochemical anomalies, with values up to 149.3 ppb Au and coincident anomalous gold pathfinder elements throughout the LP property. Airborne geophysics has identified predominant north-south to northwest and secondary east-west lineaments that may represent potential structures that host mineralization or alteration zones.
The company is currently reviewing its data for future work on these properties.
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