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Cote-801 Project, Ontario
Highlights
- Gold-bearing shear zone traced for over 400 m on surface
- Sampling in 2007 returned up to 15.5 g/t gold
- Grass-roots project with no previous drilling
Location and Access
- Walters and Leduc townships, 23 km east of Beardmore Ontario, near the junction of Trans Canada Highway 11 and Secondary Provincial Highway 801, 7 km south of Alto's Mud Lake Property
- Access by Trans Canada Highway 11 and Secondary Provincial Highway 801
Geology
- Archean age Beardmore-Geraldton Greenstone Belt
- Shear zone cutting meta-sedimentary rocks and iron formation
- Alteration of sheared rocks includes sericite, carbonate, silica, chlorite, pyrite, arsenopyrite, and hematite
- Gold is associated with quartz veins, pyrite and arsenopyrite in the iron formation and with pyrite in calcareous mudstone
Size
Ownership
History
Evidence on the ground indicates that prospecting and trenching may date back to the 1930's although the first documented larger program was carried out by Freewest Resources from 1990 to 1992. Their work included mechanical trenching, geological mapping and sampling and identified sheared and gold-bearing iron formation. This unit was traced for over 200 m on surface and returned up to 61.5 g/t gold in grab samples and 4.5 g/t gold across 0.3 m in saw-cut channel samples.
Work by Alto in 2007 included prospecting which traced the zone for over 400 m on surface and sampling that returned up to 15.5 g/t gold in grab samples.
2008 Exploration Programs
Planned work for the 2008 summer includes prospecting, mechanical trenching and sampling. This will be followed by diamond drilling.
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