Upper Peninisula, Michigan (Uranium) Upper Peninisula, Michigan (Nickel-Copper)
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GK Project
  GK GOLD OVERVIEW In 2003, Bitterroot was granted an option to acquire a 100-percent interest in the GK Property, near Beaverdell, British Columbia. The property consists of 20 claim units which cover the apparent source of multi-element (Au, Ag, Cu, Zn and As) regional stream silt geochemical anomalies. Management believes the property has the potential to host large-tonnage, intrusion-related gold deposits as well as possible high-grade gold, silver, and base metal bearing veins similar to those encountered at the nearby Highland Bell mine. Since its acquisition, Bitterroot has conducted extensive geological mapping, geophysical surveys (IP and magnetics), and detailed soil sampling with more than 3,000 samples collected on 50-metre spaced grid intervals. In 2007, Bitterroot completed trenching and core drilling programs at GK, focusing on the Blue Jay and Hornet zones. Both zones exhibit mineralization consisting of sulphide-enriched vein-breccias and stockworks containing pyrite, arsenopyrite, quartz and carbonate, with subordinate tourmaline and chalcopyrite. The Blue Jay Zone was identified by anomalous soil geochemistry, with grab samples returning gold assays of up to 28 grams Au/tonne. In mid-2007, approximately 500 metres of trenching established zone continuity over a minimum strike length of 250 metres, open in both directions along strike and down-dip, with samples returning gold assays of up to 6.75 grams Au/tonne over 9 metres. In late-2007, all 13 drill holes (2,682 metres) at Blue Jay intersected sulphide mineralization with several intercepts returning gold assays averaging 1 to 2 grams Au/tonne over widths ranging from 3 to 10 metres, including narrower intervals of somewhat higher grade, up to grams Au/tonne over 1.8 metres. The geologically-similar Hornet Zone was discovered approximately 5 kilometres northwest of Blue Jay. Approximately 700 metres of trenching at Hornet established zone continuity over a minimum strike length of 250 metres, open in both directions along strike and down-dip, with samples returning gold assays of up to 22.1 grams Au/tonne over 5.2 metres. All 4 drill holes (746 metres) at Hornet intersected sulphide mineralization, returning more consistent and higher gold grades than drilling at Blue Jay, of up to 1.47 grams Au/tonne over 13.9 metres which included 7.13 grams Au/tonne over 2.6 metres. The 2007 drill program at GK was the first since 2004, when Bitterroot drilled 1,879 metres of core in nine holes, intercepting narrow high-grade gold veins of up to 29.6 grams Au/tonne gold (with 19.2 grams Ag/tonne) over 0.3 metres and multi-phase, mineralized hydrothermal breccias intersected over a 106 metre-long continuous interval, which hosts an interval containing 0.43 grams Au/tonne over nearly 8 metres. A follow-up program of infill soil geochemical sampling on the Hornet zone and reconnaissance stream silt sampling was completed in June 2008. The results of this work will help determine the scope of future exploration on the GK property. Bitterroot acquired the GK property for a total of C$84,000 and 300,000 of its common shares, subject to a 2-percent net smelter returns (NSR) royalty, of which Bitterroot may buy back half (1-percent) for C$1-million. Maps  GK Project - Hornet Zone - Trench Geochemistry Aug (g/T> Click to view |