The Brosnor deposit has been studied by Gaudreau, R. Rocheleau, M. and Perrier B. who compiled the existing documents and descriptions relative to the property. They also examined and sampled the various mineralized zones and enclosing rocks from the core drilled and stored in Val d’Or. The following summary is mostly based on their study which is published by the Quebec Department of Natural Resources as MB 88-33: Géologie du gisement aurifère de Brosnor – Région de Val d’Or.

Gold bearing structures

Gold bearing structures of the property are located within relatively more competent mafic volcanites, feldspar porphyry dykes and sills close to an ultramafic lithological contact.

Two main types of gold structures/veins have been recognized:

a) Tension veins: E-W striking and steeply dipping south or NW-SE striking with variable dip to the south-west. These structures (metric) are filled with quartz, carbonate, tourmaline, gold bearing pyrite and occasional free gold. This vein type deposit constitutes the most important gold bearing network and is represented by the Adelmont and Norcourt zones. Pyrite is coarse grained (centimetric) and carries the best gold values.

b) Shear veins: E-W striking and steeply dipping north veins (mostly centimetric), conformable to the regional main tectonic fabric. These structures are filled with discontinuous lenses of quartz, carbonate, fuchsite with finely disseminated pyrite carrying generally smaller gold amounts than the tension veins. They constitutes several isolated values intersected around both main gold zones.

Most of the gold is locked inside pyrite grains as small inclusions or filling fracture and in a lesser amount as free gold in quartz. There is also a close association between gold mineralization and magnesium/iron rich tholeïtic basalts since the lithochemistry of this type of rock is much favourable to reduction and precipitation of minerals from hydrothermal solutions.

To date, most of the exploration work has been concentrated on two of these vein deposits, the Adelemont and Norcourt zones, with some work on the Bermont zone. Figure 5 is a compilaton map produced by Les Mines Brosnan Ltée in 1987 which shows the location and drill holes on the two main gold occurrences.

• Adelemont Gold Zone

The Adelemont zone comprises six different and sub-parallel structures, all striking E-W and dipping 550 to the south, thus cross cutting the general stratigraphy. The mineralogy of these veins is an assemblage of quartz, carbontate, tourmaline and coarse pyrite.

Vein no 1 hosts 60% of the Adelemont ore resources. It was explored from the surface to a depth of 275 meters. It was recognized for at least 90 meters along strike, and its horizontal width is estimated at 3,6 meters. Figure 6 is a typical cross-section of one of the best part of this zone. It was prepared by Brosnor Exploration Inc. in 1988. We can see that the mineralized zones have been consistently intersected by exploration drillholes. The location of the decline and a cross-cut in the zone is also shown on this figure.

Veins no 2, 3, 4 and 5 are sub-parallel secondary structures intersected to the south-west of Vein no 1. Their lateral extension range from 30 to 60 meters with an horizontal width around two meters. They were intersected from surface to a maximum depth of 100 meters.

Vein no 6 is located some 40 meters to the north-west of Vein no 1. This so called vein is in fact a quartz veins network that was intersected up to 240 meters deep and it is open at depth. Horizontal width of the zone is 4,5 meters and it was intersected along strike for approximately 45 meters.

A longitudinal view of the main zone (vein no 1) is presented on figure 7. This long section has been recovered from Brosnor Exploration Inc. archives in Abcourt Mines office in Rouyn. Intersections with a grade in excess of 0,10 oz/t Au have been emphasised (in black). As indicated, the best grades define a mineral shoot with a plunge or rake of about 65 degree to the west. It’s western limit is opened and remains to be defined by additional drilling between the 300 and 900 feet levels. The deepest drill holes around the 900 feet level reveals the mineralized zone and more drilling will be required to close its down plunge extension.

• Norcourt Zone

The Norcourt Zone consists in fact of three distinct sub-parallel veins, approximately 12 meters apart from each other. The veins are located within the volcanic horizons particularly silicified and strongly carbonated. The vein material consist of quartz and carbonate mostly, with local tourmaline, fuchsite, hematite and some albite. The veins tend to carry minor pyrite. Pyrite and gold seem to concentrate within the altered walls adjacent to the veins where fine pyrite is generated. Visible gold is noted, but rarely. Groleau, P. and Le Mouel, H. 1985, and Jarvi, U. W., 1982 describe these three horizons as follows:

• Contact Zone

The Contact zone is a located along the southern contact with the northernmost ultramafic horizon and the mafic volcanics and quartz-feldspar porphyry dykes. It is an irregular zone of fracturation and brecciation. It only carries significant gold values where the ultramafic rocks are in contact with a QFP or when the zone is strongly displaced. Gold values are particularly erratic but sometimes can be grouped into a grade of economic interest, around 0,07 oz/t Au over a few feet. Correlation between significant intersections is highly hazardous.

• Diorite Zone

The Diorite zone is also interpreted as irregular fracturing and brecciation following carbonated diorite dykes initially at the contact with the northern ultramafics, then within the volcanites to the south east. The continuity of the mineralization is not apparent and the gold grades are generally low, under 0,04 oz/t Au. The structure however is of interest since a significant gold increase is reported at the intersection of the Diorite and the A zones (described below).

• The A Zone

The A Zone is a schistose fractured zone filled with quartz-carbonate veinlets that crosses the general stratigraphy. The zone is strongly carbonated. It originates near the contact with the north-west ultramafic horizon, then strike at approximately N1100 to extend at the contact with the southern ultramafic horizon. The dip of the structure is sub-vertical to 800 south.

Drilling showed that the zone is poorly developed above 300-350 feet. Between 300 and 650 feet, it is adjacent to the Diorite Zone. True thickness of the zone averages 10 feet but was found to reach 55 feet in hole 126A. In 1982 and 1984, the continuity of the mineralization appeared to be sufficiently good to support the historical tonnage estimate made by Mining Corp in 1982 (34 352 tons grading 0,124 oz/t Au). The zone is cut by a north-east striking diabase dyke and is thought to terminate at depth along the volcanite-ultramafic contact.

Figure 8 and 9 illustrate a typical cross-section and a longitudinal view of the Norcourt A zone. As for the Adelemont longitudinal, gold intersections exceeding 0,1 oz/t Au were emphasised. It shows mineralized pods and there is no indication of any plunge. The group of intersections at the – 400 ft level is surrounded by gold barren intersection, but at surface and at depth some good isolated gold intersections remain relatively unexplored.

• Bermont Zone

The Bermont zone is located some 500 meters south-west of the Adelemont zone. It was discovered in 1964 by holes H-3 and H-7 drilled by Bermont Mines Ltd (GM 15393) which respectively returned 0,15 oz/t Au over 4,0 feet and 0,18 oz/t Au over 2,0 feet.

Follow-up drilling by Brosnor in 1986 confirmed the presence of gold bearing quartz tension veins within a silicified and dioritic horizon. Munger, J. 1987 reports several gold bearing intersections from five of the seven holes drilled that year. Values typically ranges between 0,10 to 0,20 oz/t Au over 5 to 15 feet.

More information can be obtained by reviewing the 43-101 Technical report prepared in August 2007 by Consultations Géo-logic by clicking here.