TERRA COTTA PROPERTY

The Terra Cotta volcanic field is characterized by massive and lapilli dacite [Tvld, Tvd] andesite flows and lappilli tuff [Tva], air fall tuff [Tvt], and vent facies dacite [Tvvd] and green tuff and lahar deposits [Tvgt, Tvl] that were probably deposited immediately over a volcanic vent center.

LOCATION
The Terra Cotta Property is located 100 miles west of Anchorage in the Southeast corner of the McGrath Quadrangle, Alaska.

ACCESS
Access to the area is by float plane, fixed wing aircraft to a landing strip about 3 miles from the property, or by helicopter. There are no roads in the area.

LAND STATUS
The property is on State Patented Land Tentatively Approved for mining.

SIZE
The Terra Cotta Property is made up of seventy-six prospecting sites for a total of twelve thousand one hundred and sixty [12,160] acres.

PREVIOUS EXPLORATION
Government geologist's have discovered at:

Location A
Creede epithermal vein? Au, As, W,Sb
Pyrite rich quartz veins, which locally carry galena, cut dacite intrusions and dacite lapilli tuff near contact with Kahiltna flysch. Talus grab samples carry up to 0.04 percent As, 2,100 ppb Au, 550 ppm W, and 110 ppm Sb.

Location B
Creede epithermal vein ? As, Au, Sb, Zn
Intense zone of adularia-kaolinite-ferricrete hydrothermal alteration in dacite-andesite flows of Eocene Terra Cotta volcanic field. Grab samples of fault breccia and gossan zone over 350 feet of strike and 150 feet in width contains 0.42 percent As, 360 ppb Au, 0.21 percent Zn, and 150 ppm Sb.

Location C
Alluvial Placer
Sn, W
Pan concentrates from several first and secound order streams cutting Kahiltna terrane and 59 Ma South Fork Granite contain 0.022 to 1.00 percent Sn, 0.023 to 0.14 percent W, and up to 11 ppm Ta.

Location D
Creede epiyhermal vein ?
As, Au, Co, W, Sb
Sulfide gossan zone in quartz-eyed rhyodacite tuff yields 240 ppb Au, 0.22 percent As, 880 ppm W, 110 ppm Co, and 200 ppm Sb.

Location E
Gold Placer Deposit
Au
Pan concentrates from secound order stream cutting Eocene Terra Cotta volcanic field contains several grains of gold.

Field Program Objectives
Planned exploration work will include soil sampling, trenching, geochemical surveys, drilling shallow holes [50-100 feet] and further exposure of the gossan zone.
The objective is to develop the property only to the point where a major mining company will want to joint venture the property.

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