Gold Chest Property Gold Pit Mine Property Golden Eagle Mine Property Bodie Mine Property Gold Beetle Mine Property Gold Beetle #2 MIne Property Gold Spring Mine Property Gold Hill Property Boston Arizona Mine Property Quartz Mountain Property Gold Stella Property Trails End Mine Property
Gold Chest Property Gold Pit Mine Property Golden Eagle Mine Property Bodie Mine Property
Gold Beetle Mine Property Gold Beetle #2 MIne Property Gold Spring Mine Property Gold Hill Property
Boston Arizona Mine Property Quartz Mountain Property Gold Stella Property Trails End Mine Property
Geologically the property lies in an area of block faulting within the highly mineralized Transition Zone of Arizona. The property is underlain by Proterozoic age granitic rocks, and to the east there is a broad northeast-trending belt of Early Proterozoic age metavolcanic rocks and derived schists. Reported lithologies include quartz breccia with sericite matrix cut by fine fractures containing disseminated to small aggregates of pyrite, chalcopyrite and galena. There is also strongly oxidized, cemented fault breccia with some remnant disseminated pyrite.
Gold mineralization is associated with precious-metal bearing veins of several ages. Many of the veins are hosted by granitic rocks and schist, and historically have been mined by small scale underground operations. Economic grades probably still remain in ore shoots within both oxidized and unoxidized portions of these veins. These areas represent good targets for small-scale selective mining.
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Geologically the property lies in an area of block faulting within the highly mineralized Transition Zone of Arizona. The property is underlain by Proterozoic age granitic rocks, and to the east there is a broad northeast-trending belt of Early Proterozoic age metavolcanic rocks and derived schists. The Gold Pit claim contains a caved shaft and adit within weathered and iron-altered granite with abundant oxides (goethite, limonite, manganese) and local quartz veinlets.
Locally there is strongly weathered granite with moderate limonite and weak hematite alteration, and the strike of the altered granite is towards the northeast. There is also broken granite with abundant sulfides, strong limonite staining, and bleaching. The strike of the altered zone appears to be toward the southwest and may intersect the zone of northeast-striking altered granite, and this relation suggests a significant favorable area for gold mineralization. The property is a polymetallic gold-bearing mineralized region with gold, silver, zinc, and lead, and further geological work and sampling are clearly warranted at the mineralized zone apparent in the shaft and adit.
The claim is situated within granite and granite porphyry with variable pervasive and vein-controlled silicification and iron alteration. A prospect pit on the property is within broken porphyritic granite with moderate pervasive silicification and quartz veins, and strong limonite and hematite alteration. The veins are vertical and strike 275 degrees. Another prospect pit is within fractured granite which exposes as gouge zone two feet wide containing quartz veins six inches thick. The granite shows strong limonite alteration and is near a shaft with a 12-feet-wide quartz vein on the surface. A mining dump pile on the property consists of quartz vein pieces up to six inches long that contain oxidized sulfide minerals, strong limonite alteration, chalcopyrite, and visible gold.
The granite-hosted quartz veins on the Golden Eagle claim are well-developed, steeply dipping, and contain evidence of gold, silver, and copper mineralization. They do not appear to have been subject to any modern gold exploration and represent a good exploration target. Prospective veins can be defined by geological mapping and geochemical sampling, followed by trenching and drilling. There is also potential for other veins and possible porphyry-style intrusive-hosted gold-silver-copper mineralization on the property.
The Gold Beetle #1 claim includes three adits and several shallow prospects within granite. Favorable exposures exhibit quartz veins with limonite and hematite alteration staining, sometimes with manganese or tourmaline. Several prospects expose altered granite with stockwork quartz veins up to two inches wide, limonite alteration, and manganese staining. One prospect contains a white bull-quartz vein two feet wide near a pervasively silicified zone about 100 feet wide.
Adit #1 follows a zone of vertical quartz veins exposed on the surface that is 12 to 15 feet wide and strikes about 283 degrees. Within the adit there is a three-foot wide gouge zone with quartz veins one to four inches wide. Strong limonite alteration is common on fault zones and common alteration products include limonite, hematite, tourmaline, and bleaching.
Adit #2 follows a zone of quartz veins exposed at the entrance that are six to 12 inches wide, strike 315 degrees, and dip 85 degrees south. Within the adit there is a five-foot wide gouge zone with quartz veins one to two inches wide, and the gouge zone is strongly altered with limonite and hematite. Internally, past exploration and development expanded the size of the adit. The main vein has a strike similar to the strike of the quartz vein gouge zone exposed in Adit #3 and may intersect the quartz zone, which suggest the adits may be interconnected and offer potential for substantial mineralization.
Adit #3 follows a three-foot wide zone of quartz veins exposed at the south side of the adit entrance that strike 290 degrees and dip 82 degrees south. At the end of the adit, the entire exposure consists of a quartz vein gouge zone that is strongly altered with limonite and hematite. The roof of the adit exposes a quartz vein zone four feet wide. This adit offers significant potential for exploration targets.
The Gold Beetle #2 claim is within broken schist with weak to strong pervasive silicification. The silicification of the schist produced hard resistant laminations up to two inches thick and local quartz veins about one-half inch thick. One outcrop exposes broken, silicified, laminated schist that strikes 045 degrees and dips about 85 degrees southeast. The outcrop is 60 feet wide contains quartz veinlets and is near a short adit oriented along the strike of the schist. Another outcrop of fractured silicified schist contains quartz veinlets for a length of 120 feet. A prospect trench on the property consists of fractured, silicified, laminated vertical schist with quartz veinlets over a length of 15 feet.
The Gold Spring property was first explored in the early 1930’s and included development of underground workings. Gold mineralization at Gold Spring is hosted by a steeply dipping, southeast-trending schist zone with oxide seams and quartz streaks. The oxide material is typically enriched with higher gold values. Exploration reported from the 1930’s indicated gold mineralization was hosted within a schist zone up to 15 meters wide with a southeast trend.
The Boston Arizona Property suppose to contain gold, silver, copper, zinc, and lead mineralization within an adit over 1000 feet long that was developed with several stations and drifts according to historic reports. The host rocks are porphyritic diorite and Yavapai schist, and the veins are intersected at right angles with porphyry dikes. Portions of the gossan vein zone were reported to be up to 125 feet wide from hanging wall to footwall. There are also local intrusive schist dikes about six feet wide.
The gossan zones exhibit abundant hematite, goethite, and limonite, and are typically silicified. Numerous additional prospect, pits, and shallow shafts are developed on the property that expose fault zones, silicified schist, visible copper mineralization, and pervasive iron-oxide alteration.
The Quartz Mountain Property is underlain by granitic rocks and slate that is locally intensely fractured. A prospect on the property is about 15 feet deep and exposes fractured granite and slate with silicified zones about two feet wide. Local alteration includes limonite, goethite, and silicification, and there is evidence of copper mineralization. The White Spar Mine about one-half mile to the northwest was a producer of silver, copper, lead, iron, antimony, and barite hosted by quartz veins about six feet wide. The Climax Mine a mile to the east was a producer of gold, silver, lead, and copper hosted by amphibolite, slate, and rhyolite, with secondary quartz, pyrite, fluorite, and calcite.
The Gold Stella Property contains numerous large quartz veins and silicified stockworks over six feet wide within weathered and altered granitic host rocks. There are numerous quartz veins up to six feet thick, along with abundant black tourmaline, dark chlorite, and fine pyrite. There are many prospective quartz veins in this area that warrant further exploration.
The Trails End Mine lies on the western side of the Bradshaw Mountains what we call the “Eastern Placerita Region” and consists of seven lode mineral claims. The Trails End Mine Property hosts a quartz vein running approximately 4-8 feet wide on surface over approximately 3,500 feet in length. There is one shaft and several drifts and one Adit located on the property that are still accessible. Alliance mining has identified several possible high grade ore shoots near surface on the northern end of the property with the remaining length of the vein being untested. The property was previously worked on a very small scale over the last and was believed to have been last worked in the 1970.’s.
The Bodie Mine lies on the western side of the Bradshaw mountains what we call the “ Eastern Placerita Region” and consist of three lode mineral claims. Historic reports obtained up to 1946 have indicated that the mine was producing very high grades of lead and carrying values of silver and gold. Mining was taking place on several levels in a 335 foot shaft and in other Adits located on the property. One drift in the shaft is stated to have been 1675 feet long. The claims were patented decades ago but have since reverted back to standard lode mining claims. The mine is believed to have closed due to falling metal prices after the end of the Second World War. No other “known” exploration are mining have taken place on this property since 1946.
The Gold Hill Mine property is believed to have closed during or before the Second World War. The only information found to date is a 1935 mineral property report. The report states that the mineralized setting is within a quartz porphyry setting which appears to be correct from a recent prospecting visit to the property. The visit observed three large quartz veins up to fifteen feet wide along with mine workings and tailings piles. The company plans to verify the information as outlined in the historic report through upcoming exploration programs to find and delineate any potential resources.
