Mane II – Details of the Project Sites
Site 1 Mane II Project This is an active gold digging site with 50 miners and processors taking ore from about 5 shafts some at depths exceeding 50 meters (Figure 4). Ore and waste are sorted by crushing quartz on surface and checking for colors. Ore was being hand crushed to 10 centimeters then fed through hammer mills then either sacked to be sold for further processing off site or processed onsite with sluicing and mercury amalgamation or by cyanidation in pits 2.The vein being exploited is hosted in a felsic intrusive (granite) and appears to be several meters in width and strikes east-west. These features mirror the veining at Yaramoko. Deep shafts were observed over a strike length of 200 meters and activity appears to be limited by lack of crushing equipment rather than termination of veining. Drilling beneath these workings and for strike extension here is fully warranted. Grab samples from reject material here, included 20.0, 6.04 and 6.27 gpt. An isolated shaft some 150 meters to the north of Site 1 returned a value of 12.5 gpt and may represent a parallel east-west trending vein.
Site 2 Mane II Project A larger, more active gold digging operation is located about 500 meters due east of Site 1 and may be the continuation of the veining there (Figure 5). The veining here appears to be in multiple parallel quartz sets or stockwork type mineralization as closely spaced shafts numbering in the hundreds were staggered and randomly oriented. Considerable gold appears to have been extracted here over the years and represents a valid drill target. A grab sample of reject material taken from here last week assayed 11.2 gpt gold. The veining is intrusive hosted.
Site 4 Mane II Project This is a relatively new gold digging operation with approximately 100 people mining and processing. The strike of the quartz veins differs from Sites 1 and 2, being oriented in a NNW-N direction (compared to an E-W direction at sites 1 & 2). The strike length of the active gold digging activities is approximately 100m. Host rocks appear to be igneous instrusives (granite). Figure 6 illustrates the active workings.
Site 5 Mane II Project There is no active mining at this site only adandoned gold digging operations. It appears the host rocks are metasediments (schists) with stringer quartz veins.
Site 6 Mane II Project Only a few abandoned gold digging operations exist at this site and have collapsed since operations ceased, therefore the total depth is not known. Samples of 19.56 g/pt Au and 6.04 g/pt Au were collected by High River at the time of active mining.
Site 7 & 8 Mane II Project These two sites are very broad and consist of a number of scattered gold digging operations both active and abandoned. The number of pits is estimated to be in the hundreds. It appears mineralisation is in stockwork veins within intrusive host rocks. It is likely to be low grade, however the large surface footprint indicates there may be bulk tonnage potential.
Future Exploration Plans for Mane II The Mane II project has merit and it’s Au bearing potential will be tested over the next months. The exploration activities here will consist of ~800m of RAB drilling (approximately 10 holes) to test the most prospective locations which we believe to be sites 1, 2 and 4.