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WERE DRILLIN RUSTY RIDGE NEXT WEEK!!....The access road is being cleared for the drill rig to be moved to the drill targets. Also three different tenders are being reviewed and a decision will be made very soon for the successful bidder. Drilling will commence shortly therafter......#1. TENDERS ARE IN !.....#2. "being reviewed" JUST GOTTA PICK ONE = 99% THAT IS DONE ......#3. " access road is being cleared "..NOW THIS IS EITHER DONE OR ALMOST DONE ...AT TOPPS TWO DAYS !.......#4...".Drilling will commence shortly therafter"... OK PEEPS ...((( NOW HEAR THIS )))...WERE DRILLIN RUSTY RIDGE NEXT WEEK ...EARLY TO MID WEEK TOPPS.......ALL ABOARD!!! CHHOOOWOOOO! ((FROM THE ONE WHO FLIES)) -------------------------------------

From the Kat Exploration Blog today

1) As of 09/07 There is no change in the Share structure.


2) Rusty Ridge drilling update and progress. The access road is being cleared for the drill rig to be moved to the drill targets. Also three dfferent tenders are being reviewed and a decision will be made vey soon for the successful bidder. Drilling will commence shortly therafter.

3) Handcamp Phase-II drilling grid - http://www.4shared.com/document/hknrhDAm/NewGridLines-Handcamp_Phase-II.


Sketch of the new lines to be cut at Handcamp to accommadate phase 2 geophysics and drilling. The line cutting totals 72.5 km, baseline is to be oriented 22 degrees relative to true north and crosslines at 112 degrees (magnetic declination 20.5 degrees W)


4) Phase – I drill results interpretation

Interpretations

Soil geochemistry has proved useful for locating mineralization on the Handcamp Property at locations where

overburden is comparatively shallow. A good example is the several gold anomalies that occur along the

Handcamp structure. Several of the Cu and Zn anomalies on the east and west sides of the KAT grid occur as

clusters along grid lines perpendicular to regional geological trends indicating the presence of mineralization but

not excluding the possibility of sample contamination. Preliminary plots reveal strong spatial correlations between

elevated Au and Ag and Zn, Pb and Cu concentrations that correlate with the presence of sulphide mineralization

in outcrop.

The two Induced Polarization Surveys were successful in tracing the mineralization associated with the northeast

and southwest extension of the Main Handcamp Prospect. Broad low resistivity, low chargeability anomalies are

the result of high ground conductivity associated with boggy ground. The classic low resistivity, high chargeability

pant?leg anomalies (double dipole) and asymmetrical anomalies (pole-dipole) are obviously detecting

mineralization related to the Handcamp mineralized zone on this property which has been confirmed by trenching.

The sub?parallel northeast trending “shadow” anomaly 500 m west of the Handcamp structure has also been

explained by the presence of disseminated mineralization in altered mafic volcanic rocks, also confirmed during

trenching. The irregular high resistivity chargeability zones that coincide with the presence of clustered gold and

base metal soil anomalies L’s 5 N, 6 N and 7 N from 5 + 00 W to 10 + 00 W warrant further investigation.

The single dipole survey completed by DFR Consultants to the south from L 5 S to L 10 S was able to confirm and

extend the low resistivity, high chargeability Handcamp structure further south to L 10 S. The two low resistivity

high chargeability anomalies that gradually separate from L 7 S through to L 10 S indicate the structure bifurcates

(splits) or possibly that there is another mineralized structure present at an oblique angle to the first.

Trenching was effective for revealing mineralization along the northeast trending series of high chargeability

anomalies along the Main Handcamp structure. It was less effective elsewhere. As an example finding bedrock and

related mineralization on the west side of the grid where overburden depths are greater than 8 m.

Drilling completed in the vicinity of the Handcamp and to the north of the prospect (DDH?001 to DDH?009) to date

confirmed the presence of alteration and mineralization related to the Main Handcamp Prospect extending it

northeast by 300 m, southwest by 200 m and down dip 100 m beyond limits defined by previous drilling.

Thicknesses of up to 50 m of semi?massive to disseminated sulphide have been defined with comparatively high

concentrations of Au, Ag, Pb, and Zn.

The basic stratigraphy of the Handcamp Prospect includes footwall volcanic rocks, a mineralized zone and a

mixture of basalt, volcanic sediment and less frequently gabbro in the hanging wall. The mineralized zone appears

to contain altered lithologies consistent with both seafloor volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) and or later

epigenetic lode mineralization confirming origins proposed by previous workers. A combination of these two endmember

types is a distinct possibility. However the deformation related to this mineralization is clearly secondary

(kinematic) as opposed to primary (depositional) in nature.

The chert horizon near the top of the mineralized zone occurs as a marker that separates hangingwall and

mineralized zone lithologies. It is also a common constituent in the siliceous cap in VMS deposits. The mineralized

zone appears to consist of a highly deformed and altered sedimentary assemblage related to a transition from

subaqueous to subaerial environments, with chert and argillite being deposited in the former and tuffaceous units

associated with the latter. The structural footwall contains basalt?hosted vein breccia intervals with alteration that

includes quartz, chlorite, epidote and calcite as the possible VMS stockwork remnants. Pb and Zn enrichments are

normally associated with VMS exhalative as opposed to lode?style hydrothermal environments.

Orogenic lode gold deposits are situated along regional structures and the one that hosts Handcamp is certainly

large. GSC airborne data patterns indicate that the structure may be associated with terrain boundaries and

flexures on a regional scale. Deformation within the Main Handcamp Prospect is intense, varying from a strong

regional foliation in surrounding host rocks, abruptly to phyllitic and schistose to mylonitic fabrics near the center

of the mineralized zone. Structural imbrication in which high strain structures surround low strain zones is

common in the mineralized zone, as are pinch and swell structures, asymmetrical augen and the boudinage of

competent in less competent units.

Alteration assemblages vary from quartz-chlorite ± calcite to quartz - sericite schist that contains disseminated

pyrite with increasing proximity to the mineralized zone. A pattern consistent with those associated with shearhosted

lode or mesothermal Au mineralization. The mineralized zone also contains white, recrystallized vein

material, as the potential component of a lode vein system. However the correlation between Au and As and Mo

proposed by Hudson and Swinden (1989) is tentative at best. The high As and Mo values are on the order of 100’s

of ppb and 10’s of ppb respectively, values close to background level and perhaps more reminiscent of the

enrichments associated with VMS as opposed to lode mineralization.

At least two events of deformation have been defined by planar fabrics in Trench 3. Although there may be relicts

of a depositional fabric it is not likely the fabrics observed in mineralized zone are primary. They are more

consistent with syn?kinematic recrystallization. Folding and transposition was observed in fold repeated chert

layers in the west end of the trench as was the subsequent brittle displacement of ductile compositional layering

along local micro?faults. Both may be related to a transition from ductile to brittle strain regimes. Observed

mineralization is recrystallized and has been remobilized as repeated shear bands along S>0?1 shear planes.

Geological features revealed in bedrock during trenching and drilling are largely consistent with the interpretations

of Hudson and Swinden (1989). Mineralization is intensely deformed and mimics regional structural fabrics.

Pervasive alteration is dominated by silicification, sericitization and pyritization along with the peripheral

development of epidote and magnetite. The alteration assemblage has been superimposed on regional greenschist

facies and local spillitic alteration assemblages. Within the mineralized zone rocks are transformed to quartz –

sericite - pyrite assemblages with superimposed quartz?pyrite and magnetite veins. Contacts between the

completely altered rocks and their less altered equivalents are sharp and structural as opposed to depositional.

Lens-shaped fragments (enclaves) of altered rock and chert have been observed locally in mylonite and shear

zones, where they are enveloped by foliation traces.

Sulphide mineralization in the Main Handcamp structure is typically banded and tightly folded as structural

features that are more commonly associated with the intense and variably strain that accompanies the

deformation of a mixed rock assemblage characteristic in a VMS deposit. Dextral (clockwise) shear sense

documented by Hudson and Swinden (1989) as pressure shadow and recrystallized tail asymmetries at a

microscopic level has been confirmed at a larger scale by chert layers that rolled clockwise into augen uncovered

during the exposure of hangingwall lithologies in Trenches 2 and 3.



Jack Zwicker

Kat Exploration Inc

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