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The Our Creek Project is located about midway between the True North Mine and Ester Dome (Ryan Lode and Grant Mine) in the historic Fairbanks Mining District. Our Creek Mining Co., a wholly owned S corporation, has developed a number of gold exploration targets on their 6,000- acre Alaska state claim block in a relatively unexplored region about 6 miles west of the Elliot Hwy. A maintained, all-weather road and electrical transmission lines cross the property. GEOLOGY The claim block is underlain by Fairbanks quartz-mica schist and quartzite, which form a prominent east-west ridge. The Fairbanks schist, in turn, overlies a complex unit of chloritic and carbonaceous schist, marble, amphibolite, muscovite schist and meta-greenstone. Sub-parallel, 92 m.a., fine-grained to quartz porphyry felsic sills intrude the schist and dip gently to the southeast. Gold values are generally associated with the intrusive sills with higher gold values in quartz veining and alteration zones within the schist in proximity of, and locally within, the felsic sills. EXPLORATION Near the head of Any Creek, a 3000-ft long As-Au soil anomaly is closely defined by magnetic low susceptibility, seen in both the airborne survey and reconfirmed by ground profiles. A felsic sill that outcrops 2000 ft to the north can be projected to underlie the superimposed anomalies. Trench exploration of the "Line 18 area" (short trenches spaced 50 ft apart) excavated frozen quartz-rich clay, chloritic and carbonaceous schist. Follow-up drilling is recommended. Drilling targets also are located in the "Northridge" area in the northeast of the claim block, where soil As-Au anomalies suggest mineralization in schist units overlying several felsic sills. Along the north margin of the project, the "Pingo" prospect includes evidence of old drift mining. Gold values are found in soil and altered felsic rock and silicified schist in alluvium.
GEOLOGIC MODEL Exploration has focused on a model whereby a stacked sequence of sub-parallel felsic sills intrude silicious and carbonaceous schists with sufficient gold mineralization associated with alteration zones to constitute a bulk mineable deposit. The property owners are seeking an interested party to move the property to a more intense level of exploration. Annual reports and technical data are available upon request. --- CONTACT ---
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