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Nixon Fork
Opportunity to acquire the Nixon Fork
Gold Mine - Invitation to the Sale Process and Terms...
The
purpose of this Invitation is to solicit Indicative
Offers and Formal Offers to purchase all the shares
of Mystery Creek Resources, Inc. ("MCRI") which owns
the Nixon Fork Gold Mine ("Nixon Fork") located approximately
32 miles northeast of McGrath, State of Alaska, U.S.A.
Mystery Creek Resources, Inc., an Alaska corporation,
is a wholly owned US subsidiary of St Andrew Goldfields
Ltd. of Toronto, Ontario Canada. ('St Andrew").
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Ryan
Lode
Property
Size/Location: The
Ryan Lode Mine is located near Fairbanks on the ridge
between Eva Creek and Saint Patrick Creek, on the southeast
side of ester Dome.
GEOLOGIC
SUMMARY: The Ryan
Lode gold deposit is a road accessible intrusive-related
gold deposit located 9 miles from Fairbanks, Alaska.
The property is owned 100% by Gold Range Ltd., a San
Antonio, Texas-based private corporation. The project
was discovered in 1911 and has produced 19,820 ounces
of gold and 14,330 ounces of silver, virtually all of
which came from heap leaching of surface-mined ore in
the late 1980's. Mineralization is hosted in Paleozoic
schists and Cretaceous intermediate intrusives cut by
a northeast striking, southeast dipping poly-phase shear
zone that averages 50 feet true width and varies up
to 100 feet in width. Low-sulfide goldbearing quartz
veins are associated with sericite alteration and elevated
levels of silver, arsenic, antimony and locally bismuth,
copper, tungsten, lead, molybdenum and zinc. Extensive
diamond drilling and reverse circulation drilling conducted
by several companies in the last 15 years has delineated
surface minable resources of 248,000 ounces of gold
grading 0.066 opt contained in 3,751,000 tons of material
within a larger total geologic resource of about 2.4
million ounces of gold in 55.6 million tons of rock
grading 0.043 opt. Limited exploration effort has been
directed toward deeper, potentially underground minable
resources. The property owners are seeking interest
from financially responsible and technically capable
parties interested in developing the Ryan Lode property.
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download of the Avalon Development Corp. Project:
RL-Subm-07.pdf [2.1 megs]
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Duke
Island
Property
Size/Location: The
Duke Island Cu-Ni-PGE prospect is located in
the Prince Rupert quadrangle of southeast Alaska about
30 miles south of Ketchikan in Township 80 South, Range
93 East. It consists of 129 unpatented Federal lode
mining claims covering 2,580 acres, and 11 state of
Alaska mining claims covering 1,280 acres. The project
area is accessible via boat, small float plane and helicopter.
There is tidewater access to the southeast end of the
property at Judd Harbor and the central portion of the
property via Hall Cove. Elevations on the property range
from sea level to 1,700 feet at the peak of Mt. Lazaro
on the south end of Duke Island. Other than the peak
at Mt. Lazaro, topography at Duke Island is subdued
with irregular small hills (100 – 300 feet elevation)
surrounded by low areas covered by marshes and small
ponds. Temperate wet and often windy weather conditions
prevail in this part of Alaska and allow a snow-free
working season in most years from April through November.
The city of Ketchikan (population 14,000) is located
30 miles to the north and is the regional commercial
hub for this part of southeast Alaska. The city hosts
an all-season deep water port, international airport,
commercial fixed wing and helicopter services, and most
of the support industry required for mineral exploration.
GEOLOGIC
SUMMARY: Prior
to discovery of significant accumulations of massive,
semi-massive and disseminated sulfide mineralization
in 2001, the Duke Island prospect was considered to
be a classic zoned Ural - Alaska type mafic - ultramafic
complex (Irvine, 1959, 1974, Figures 4). It is unique
on a worldwide basis for its remarkable graded igneous
bedding features. Ural - Alaska type zoned complexes
are found in Russia, Ethiopia, Columbia, and Canada
as well as several places in Alaska (Himmelberg and
Loney, 1995; Irvine, 1974, Ruckmick and Noble, 1959;
Taylor, 1979; Moegessie and others, 1999; Tistl, 1994;
Nixon and others, 1990). Copper and nickel mineralization
at Duke Island occurs as chalcopyrite and pentlandite
in massive to disseminated pyrrhotite. Sulfide mineralization
is primarily hosted in clinopyroxenite as interstitial
blebs, pods and net-textured masses. There is little
correlation between PGE content and sulfide content.
PGE enriched intervals occur in sulfide rich intervals,
but there are also numerous sulfide rich intervals with
no appreciable PGE content. PGE assays from 46 rock
samples collected by Clark and Greenwood (1972) returned
values up to 200 ppb Pt and 184 ppb Pd. Eleven additional
samples collected by the US Bureau of Mines in 1995
revealed Pt values up to 31 ppb, Pd values up to 264
ppb, Cu values up to 2,223 ppm and Ni values up to 1,240
ppm (Maas and others, 1995). Irvine (1974) conducted
limited trace element analyses at Duke Island and reported
values up to 3,200 ppm Cr and 2,700 ppm Ni from the
Duke Island complex (no PGE analyses were conducted).
Similar Cr and Ni values have been found in other Ural
– Alaska type complexes in southeastern Alaska and are
usually associated with dunite bodies where these metals
occur as chromite pods and as inclusions in the olivine
lattice, respectively. Copper, nickel and iron contents
at Duke Island are significantly elevated relative to
most Ural – Alaska complexes and suggest the Duke Island
complex is a hybrid Ural – Alaska complex or that sulfide
mineralization at Duke Island was controlled by physical
and chemical controls similar to those which affect
layered intrusive complexes.
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download of the Avalon Development Corp. Project:
DK06EXE1-Form43.pdf [4.2 megs]
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Bokan Mountain
NO
LONGER AVAILABLE
Past
Name(s): Ross-Ada....
Property
Size: The pros...
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Golden Summit
project is located in a road accessible mining
district with excellent land status and infrastructure.
Several historic producing mines are present on the property
and extensive surface exploration has been conducted on
the property and on adjacent lands since 1992. Drilling
conducted prior to 2000 indicated the property had potential
for high-grade vein hosted resources such as those intercepted
beneath the old underground workings of the Cleary Hill
mine. Drilling and trenching completed in 2000 and 2002
through 2005 indicate that both high-grade vein mineralization
and shear-hosted gold mineralization are present on the
property, either of which has potential for future resource
development. A multi-phase exploration program is recommended
for 2006 that included preliminary underground engineering
and costing studies at Cleary Hill mine, additional drilling
at the Tolovana prospect, GIS compilation, ground geophysics
and drilling at the Newsboy prospect, GIS compilation,
ground geophysics and drilling at the Hi Yu prospect and
ground gravity surveys and deep PQ core drilling at one
or more of the known high grade gold prospects on the
property. Total cost of all phases of work recommended
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download of the Avalon Development Corp. Project:
GS06EXE1-Form43.pdf [11 megs]
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