Eastern Townships Project (Quebec, Canada)
This project is situated on lands close to the town of St-Augustin de Woburn in an area known as the Eastern Townships which is approximately 200 kilometres east of Montreal. The property consists of 23 mineral claims having an area of 17.5 square kilometres. Preliminary surveys have found traces of gold on the property, and it is recommended that we undertake additional investigations to localize and determine the extent of the source. The Arnold Morin property is located about 200 km east of Montreal and 35 km south of Lake Township Megantic in Woburn, about 15 km south of the village of St-Augustin de Woburn (maps 1: 50 000 sheets 21 th / 21 th and 2 / 7). The Canada border, the U.S., is located near the eastern boundaries of the property. The property covers a total area of approximately 1750 hectares divided into a block of 41 contiguous lots. Property is situated in the southern Quebec Appalachians in the region of the Megantic. Property sector includes, among other things, the massive Lake Chains and the “Lac aux araignés” (Spider Lake). The formation of the Arnold River, part of the Chain Lakes massif, is regarded as a scale of Grenville. The formation is stuck in a thrust fault against the mixing unit Cambro-Ordovician. It consists of a mixture of meta-crystalline gray sandstone, more or less dark-grained, ranging from fine to medium. We also find granitic gneisses and quartzo-feldspathic granulites (Cheve, 1978). The thickness of this formation may reach several kilometers in the southern part of Quebec.[1
A visit of the Morin placer took place on November 3rd and 4th, 2010. Two pannings were done in favorable places for gold deposition. Two gold nuggets were found in the second panning. The SM analysis suggests that the gold is coming from a regolith. This hypothesis is possible since the river valley is perpendicular to the main glacial flow in a similar way as Gilbert River and Mining brook, where gold-bearing placers are known. The valley is of SW-NE orientation. It is this orientation (perpendicular to the main glacial flow) that preserved the pre-Johnville sediments at Mining brook and at Gilbert River.
