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ROGUE DISTRICT
SELWYN BASIN DISTRICT: YUKON
The Rogue district was staked in 2010 and consists of 6 contiguous properties (4,929 claims total) covering approximately 99,000 ha. The 6 properties have been named Rogue A through Rogue F respectively and are located approximately 190 km northeast of Ross River and 70 km northwest of the Mactung deposit, within the eastern margin of the productive Tintina Gold Belt which hosts several major deposits including Donlin Creek, Pogo, Fort Knox, Keno Hill, and the recently discovered Rau and Osiris deposits.
In October, 2010 the Company acquired an additional 1,784 claims at the Rogue Property, increasing the total number of claims to 4,929 covering approximately 991 km2.
The Rogue district was staked to cover several Cretaceous Tombstone Suite monzonite intrusions, which intrude Proterozoic and Paleozoic metasediments of the Selwyn Basin, with associated Au-As soil anomalies and known Intrusion-related gold mineralization. Historical grab samples up to 22.5 gpt have been reported in previous assessment reports (James, D.H., 1982. Assessment Report #091076).
The property is located approximately 20 km north of a winter road extending from the North Canol Road to the Plata Airstrip, and is accessible by helicopter and float plane.
The Company can earn a 100% interest in the property, subject to a 3% NSR royalty.
The Rogue district has seen two episodes of exploration focusing on base metals and tungsten in the early 1980s following the discovery of the Jason, Tom, Plata, and Mactung deposits, and focusing on precious metals in the mid 1990s following the discovery of the multimillion ounce Fort Knox gold deposit in Alaska.
Several claims were staked in the early 1980s in and around the current Rogue Project by AGIP Canada Ltd, Union Carbide, and Inco Ltd., and were explored for base metals, silver, and tungsten. During the early 1980s the companies performed extensive geological mapping, regional geochemical sampling programs, and airborne geophysical surveys outlining several target areas with large Au-As geochemical anomalies focused around the mid-Cretaceous granitic to monzonitic intrusions. The properties were allowed to lapse after base metals, silver and tungsten results were generally disappointing.
The Rogue District area lay dormant for several years until the discovery of the Fort Knox gold deposit in Alaska in the early 1990s, which sparked interest in the Tombstone Gold Belt and gold deposits associated with the Tombstone Suite monzonitic intrusions. Yukon Gold Corp., Eagle Plains Resources, and Cypress Canada Corp. all carried out extensive geological and geochemical surveys in the Rogue area focusing on Intrusion-related style of gold mineralization.
This previous exploration work has outlined several key areas with significant Intrusion-related style, auriferous sheeted quartz vein mineralization, as well as polymetallic veins, skarn, and even porphyry style mineralization (Yukon Geological Survey Minfile 105O 009, 030, 039, 054, and 055).
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The Rogue district covers several mid-Cretaceous, granite to monzonite to granodiorite, Tombstone Plutonic Suite intrusions which intrude into Late Proterozoic to Triassic marine sediments of the Selwyn Basin.
Rogue A Block was staked to cover a 2.5 km wide biotite granite to quartz monzonite intrusion called the Old Cabin Pluton, which intrudes into Upper Proterozoic to Ordovician sedimentary rocks consisting of shale, argillite, quartzite, chert and conglomerate with minor volcanoclastic rocks. The sedimentary rocks have been metamorphosed to a dark, fine-grained, magnetite hornfels with several skarn zones on the western edge of the pluton. Mineralization consists of sheeted quartz+calcite veins containing arsenopyrite, pyrite, and molybdenum. Union Carbide samples these veins with the best result of 22.5 gpt (James, D.H., 1982. Assessment Report #091076).
Rogue B Block was staked to cover several drainages with anomalous gold in stream sediment samples including a sample with 192 ppb Au and 2200 ppm As (Yukon RGS soil program). The property covers a sequence of upper Silurian to Devonian chert, shale and argillite which have been intruded by a small mid-Cretaceous granite to quartz-monzonitic stock. A narrow thermal contact aureole, several metres wide surrounds the pluton and consists of dark fine-grained, magnetite bearing hornfels which produce a noticeable magnetic high. Small quartz veinlets, generally less than a centimetre wide and locally mineralized with pyrite-pyrrhotite-molybdenite are scattered throughout the pluton. Associated with these veins are thin envelopes of K-feldspar alteration (Lueck, B.A., 1996. Assessment Report #093500).
Rogue C Block was staked to cover a mid-Cretaceous, granitic to quartz monzonitic pluton which intrudes Devonian-Mississippian slate, argillite, and chert. A 900 x 400 m zone of disseminated sulphide and arsenopyrite-quartz-tourmaline veins occurs along the southeast flank of the intrusion. Mineralized veins range in thickness from 2 mm to 37.5 cm wide (average 3 cm) and return values ranging from 0.02 to 14 gpt Au (Ebert, S., 1991. Assessment Report #092956).
Rogue D Block was staked to cover a 12 km by 2.5 km mid-Cretaceous granitic pluton called the Emerald Lake Pluton, which intrudes Cambrian to Devonian meta-sedimentary rocks of the Selwyn Basin. Mineralization associated with the Emerald Lake Pluton consists of parallel sheeted quartz veins ranging from 1 to 10 cm in width.
Rogue E Block was staked to cover the margin of a large mid-Cretaceous granitic to quartz monzonitic pluton called the Rogue Pluton. Mineralization is associated with a quartz vein-stockwork system in the contact 1-2 km contact aureole around the pluton. Quartz veins extend about 20 to 30 m into the granite and outward about 110 to 200 m into the sedimentary rocks. They contain auriferous pyrrhotite and pyrite, and minor chalcopyrite, molybdenite, galena and sphalerite. Disseminated sulphides also occur, and are frequently concentrated along fold hinges. Mineralized areas are marked by extensive gossans.
Rogue F Block was staked to cover a large northwest trending sequence of Ordovician to Silurian shales and cherts with anomalous gold in stream sediment samples with samples up to 100 ppb Au (Yukon RGS sample).
The Company is currently compiling all historical geological data for the Rogue district, and will use this data to plan future work programs for this property.
The Company has incurred acquisition costs of $1,565,759 in total to February 28, 2011. Approximately $1,800,000 has been budgeted for exploration work in the current fiscal year.
Gilles Dessureau, MSc, PGeo, employed by the Company as a Senior Geologist, is the Qualified Person as defined under National Instrument 43-101 and has reviewed and verified the information presented on the Rogue District.

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