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Telkwa Gold Corp. (TKW:TSX-V) is a Calgary-based
junior exploration company exploring for gold, copper
and base metals in Nevada and British Columbia. The
company's objective is to enhance shareholder value
by identifying and securing early-stage exploration
and development opportunities. Telkwa Gold continues
to conduct research, acquisition and exploration on
projects in Nevada and the North American Cordillera
in general.
Telkwa has been engaged in the exploration for base
and precious metals in the Omineca Mining District,
British Columbia since 1996. In particular, Telkwa
wholly-owns property, the Bear claim group, called
the the Limonite Creek prospect, a high sulphidation
epithermal gold-silver-copper target with porphyry
characteristics located in the Telkwa Pass, eighty
kilometres west-southwest of Smithers.
The recent focus of the company is to pursue opportunities
in Nevada, the third largest gold producing area
in the world, producing some 11% of the annual
world gold
production worth in excess of 2 Billion Dollars
annually. The Company has optioned 4 properties
in Nevada.
The Warm Springs Property in Nye County Nevada
contains a large hydrothermal system focused along
a major
fault
zone that is silicified with jasperoids and contains
zones with anomalous pathfinder elements and scattered
gold values.The geochemical signature of the Fault
Zone is typical of the upper parts of deeper vein
gold deposits. Nearby, the company has also optioned
the
early stage “Stealth” property, a newly
discovered extinct hot spring center with explosive
hydrothermal breccias and silicified zones in rhyolite.
Jasperiod bodies are located along several intersecting
faults where geochemically anomalous gold and pathfinder
elements have been identified. Hot spring centers are
a typical environment for precious metal epithermal
deposits. The Company has on option to earn 100% interest in
20 unpatented lode-mining claims in the central Buckskin
Range of Douglas County, Nevada from Nevada Eagle Resources
of Reno, Nevada . The “Buckskin North” project
is located approximately 10 miles Northwest of Yerington,
Nevada and 45 miles Southeast of Reno, Nevada.
The gold here was discovered by Anaconda Minerals
Company in 1974 when gold was visually identified
during logging
of the hole and the interval assayed 540 ppm gold
(15.75 oz/t). Subsequent relogging and assaying
for gold in
earlier holes confirmed the presence of a gold bearing
zone over a wide area to the west of the discovery
hole. No substantive work has been carried out since
then and Telkwa carried out first phase drilling
in late 2006.
Telkwa acquired
an option to own 100% of the“Iron
Cap” property is located approximately 8
miles west of Yerington and 45 miles southeast
of Reno, Nevada.
It lies within the historic Yerington porphyry
copper district and the site of the Yerington copper
mine
which produced approximately 2 billion pounds copper
at a grade of 0.55% between 1953 and 1978. The
Iron Cap property lies 2 miles northwest of the
the Ann
Mason deposit, 5 miles west of the old Yerington
pit, four miles southwest of the MacArthur copper
oxide
deposit and thirteen miles northwest of the Pumpkin
Hollow deposits. Recent prospecting and soil geochemical
surveys have identified a number of copper and
gold anomalies.
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