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The
Golden Summit property is located 20 miles
northeast of Fairbanks, Alaska. The property consists of
a mix of patented and unpatented Federal lode claims and
State of Alaska mining claims Freegold controls the
claims through lease agreements with several claim
owners, and through direct ownership of several patented
Federal lode claims in the north central portion of the
property. Access to the property is excellent, as is
infrastructure support for exploration activities as
such year round drilling is possible. Several historic
gold mines are located on the property, and open pit
gold mining is ongoing at Kinross Gold's nearby Ft Knox
gold deposit.
Freegold acquired interest in the Golden Summit property in the early 1990's, and since that time has conducted extensive surface exploration at numerous prospects over much of the property, including reconnaissance rock sampling, mapping, property-wide grid-based soil sampling, and several trenching projects at key prospects. Most of Freegold's drilling efforts have been focused on the west portion of the property. Freegold conducted drilling on the Dolphin gold deposit in 1995-1996, 1998, 2004, 2008, 2011 and 2012. Drilling began again in mid February of 2013.
Gold mineralization is the only type of economic mineralization known on the Golden Summit property at this time. Gold mineralization on the property occurs in three main forms, including 1) intrusive-hosted sulfide-quartz stockwork veinlets (such as the Dolphin gold deposit), 2) auriferous sulfide-quartz veins (exploited by historic underground mines), and 3) shear-hosted gold-bearing veinlets. All three types are considered to be part of a large-scale intrusive-related gold system (or "IRGS") on the property. The Dolphin gold deposit is hosted in the Dolphin stock, which consists largely of granodiorite and tonalite, similar to the Pedro Dome pluton. It is the only known large intrusive body known on the property at this time. The Dolphin stock is approximately the same age as the nearby Ft Knox pluton, which hosts the Ft Knox gold deposit. Freegold made the initial discovery of widespread low-grade gold mineralization in the Dolphin stock during the initial drilling campaign on the prospect in 1995.
The most recent NI 43-101 compliant resource was calculated in October 2012. The resource estimate was completed by Giroux Consultants Ltd. of Vancouver, BC, Canada. The indicated and inferred resource using a 0.3 and 0.35 gram/tonne (g/t) cut-off is:
The
mineralized Dolphin Solid increased in volume by 254 %
over the one used in the 2011 Estimate (Adams, Giroux,
2012). It was been deepened and extended to the north
east to include the Cleary Hill area. This update of the
43-101 resource reported in January 2012 (Adams and
Giroux, 2012) was based on an additional 74 drill holes
completed in 2012 and an extension of the mineralized
zone to the north and east. As a result the number of
holes within the mineralized solid increased from the
77(11,802m) used in the 2011 estimate, to 177 (35,829m)
for this update.
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