Each of our properties is accessible by all-terrain vehicle from a nearby road. There is currently no infrastructure at any of our properties and, accordingly, resources such as power and water must be brought to the properties by portable means. Our properties were visited by our former president, though our current management has not personally visited any of the properties.
Our business activities to date have involved only the acquisition of mining claims and conducting assay testing on surface samples. Surface samples were taken from random locations on the Lake View and Shadow Mountain properties in May 2011 and assay testing was conducted on some of these samples. Although surface samples are generally drained by weather and the mineral content in such samples is typically low, the assay reports with respect to these samples indicated traces of various elements such as gold, silver, copper, REE and other minerals on these properties.
Our current proposed program is exploratory in nature. Accordingly, the properties currently are without known reserves. We do not currently have detailed plans of our intended exploration of the properties, as our exploration program for each property will not be known until our exploration team, led by our mining engineer and chief geologist, conducts a comprehensive sampling and analysis (including a review of the topography and history) of each property.
We own mining claims in the East Bay Gold property located in the James Bay Basin in Quebec, but our future mining activities in such property were recently significantly limited by the Quebec government and we do not expect to renew our mining claims in such property upon their expiration in March 2014. The East Bay Gold property and our mining claims therein have been excluded from any discussion of our mining claims and mining properties in this prospectus.
