Kings
Canyon & New Butte

Location
The Kings Canyon and New Butte properties are located in west-central
Utah and currently encompass approximately 3,885 acres of unpatented
claims and a state minerals lease. The property covers 1,940 acres
at Kings Canyon held under option with Palladon Ventures Ltd., which
adjoins 1,525 acres held under option with Crown Resources Corp. of
Colorado The New Butte property is located 10 miles (16 km) southwest
of Kings Canyon and consists of 21 claims over 420 acres. The Palladon
claims enclose the block of claims held by Crown Resources.
Historic Resource
Maestro estimates that the Crown property contains an inferred historical
resource of 6,800,000 tons at a grade of 0.03 oz/ton gold (204,000
ounces), using a cutoff of 0.010 oz/ton. Maestro has not reviewed
or verified this historic resource estimate and is not treating it
as a NI 43-101 defined resource verified by a Qualified Person (“QP”).
The historical estimate should not be relied upon.
Mineralization
Gold mineralization is a Carlin-style system hosted at shallow depths
in Paleozoic carbonate rocks and controlled by steep feeder faults.
Features at Kings Canyon that are consistent with a disseminated,
sediment-hosted Carlin-type mineralization include: widespread gold-bearing
jasperoids, gold hosted in Paleozoic carbonate-rich sediments, “invisible”
or presumably micron-size gold, lack of quartz veins, apparent fluid
control by steep faults, anomalous As, Sb, Hg, and Ba values, weak
to nil base metal values, low silver values, and dominant argillic/decalcification
alteration in Crown’s mineralized zone.
The defined mineralization appears to be controlled by west-northwest
trending faults that show modest jasperoid development at the surface.
Many similar mineralized faults have been delineated elsewhere on
the property, defining numerous untested in areas where the favorable
horizon is at very shallow depths. The property has the potential
to host several hundred thousand to over a million ounces of near-surface
oxide gold mineralization with likely low production costs. |