Fort-Elden
1- 1,000 ppm Cu in soil in a 350 X 70 m area in the center of the grid (Breccia Zone)
2- Two 200 X 100 m areas (500-2,200 ppm Cu in soil), located 150 m NE and 150 m SW of the Breccia Zone.
3- Anomalous Ag and Au geochemical values correlate with the Cu in soil anomalies, Mo is sharply anomalous in the Breccia Zone.
4- Rock chip sample ELD10AR-7, angular sub-crop from the center of the Breccia Zone consisted of chloritic schist with quartz-carbonate-sericite-ankerite alteration, and limonite, pyrite and magnetite mineralization and contains 0.11% Cu, 1 ppm Ag, 39 ppb Au, and 26 ppm Mo
Geophysical surveys on the Elden grid were performed with a GEM GSM 19T proton magnetometer. In total, 12 out of 164 readings were >58,000 nT (one was >59,000 nT) and most of the high readings are related to underlying ultramafic rocks (magnetite enriched) that occur adjacent to the creek gully in the east portion of the grid (and does not coincide geochemical anomalies). Peridotite, gabbro and ultramafic rocks high in magnetite respond as >1,000 of nT highs, thus the ultramafic rocks can be mapped out using the magnetometer. The Breccia Zone responds as a total field low as outlined by the magnetometer survey. The total field low near the Breccia Zone is presumed to be caused by extensive alteration resulting in magnetic minerals not being present.
Torch River Resources Ltd is planning to perform mechanized trenching of the Elden Breccia and related geochemical and geophysical anomalies within 2 km of the Breccia Zone. Additional work will include detailed geological mapping, geochemical sampling and magnetometer geophysical surveys in 2010. Fieldwork and data compilation on the Fort-Elden Project was carried out by Andris Kikauka, P.Geo., a Qualified Person for the purposes of NI 43-101.
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