Smash Minerals fka SSH

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Smash Minerals’ project area consists of 4,177 claims in the White Gold District south of Dawson City, Yukon, Canada. The area was optioned from Shawn Ryan and is located immediately east of property formerly held by Underworld Resources, now owned and being explored by Kinross Gold. The Smash claims extend over a distance of 60 kilometres and encompass six active placer gold mining operations in Black Hills Creek and Barker Creek. Smash’s property is one of the largest claim blocks in the White Gold District. Despite there being active placer gold mining operations in this area since the early 1900’s no systematic hard rock exploration has been carried out on the Smash area.

As a result of the White Gold discovery in 2008, Smash has an enviable knowledge of the geology and controls to gold mineralisation in the White Gold District. It is this intellectual capital that Smash will bring to the large claim block it has begun to explore. A number of the key identified fingerprints to gold accumulation in the White Gold District are observed to be present in the Smash property. This has allowed Smash to prioritise areas on which to focus its initial exploration work in Summer 2011.

The methodology Smash is using to explore the property is similar to that which has already led to two significant gold discoveries in the White Gold District, at Golden Saddle by Underworld Resources in 2008 and at Coffee by Kaminak Gold in 2010. In each case systematic soil geochemistry led to new hard rock gold discoveries.

There is no guarantee that Smash will be successful in finding a third gold deposit but the several features which characterise the Golden Saddle and Coffee discoveries have already been identified on the Smash property.




The Company completed the first phase of exploration over the entire property in 2010. This consisted of 7,146 ridge and spur soil samples. Once assays results for gold and thirty-two other elements were received from these samples field follow up was undertaken in September 2010 of the several locations where anomalous gold or pathfinder elements were returned. Three areas were found to exhibit geochemical plus alteration and mineralization features similar to that which characterise the Golden Saddle and Kaminak deposits.

Smash commenced its summer 2011 exploration program early in May. A new camp for up to 30 people was built on Black Hills Creek adjacent to an all weather airstrip. By mid May the program was well underway with geologists on site and a full complement of support staff. A helicopter is based full time at the Whisky Camp to transport mapping, sampling and trenching teams into the field each day.

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