Crane Creek Project - Washington County, Idaho
Summary
The Crane Creek property is located in Washington County, Idaho. The property is a low sulphidation epithermal gold system similar to the Almaden Property and is situated approximately 130 kilometers north of Boise and 10 kilometers north of the Almaden Property. The Crane Creek property consists of 640 acres of state ground held under lease plus 23 unpatented lode claims consisting of 460 acres administered by the Bureau of Land Management. The property was previously drill tested by Goldfields, Western Epithermal, Cyprus Minerals, and Golconda from 1983 to 1996. Previous operators completed soil geochemical surveys, geological mapping and diamond drilling (6739 metres in 95 holes).
The soil geochemical sampling program identified a gold soil anomaly that is 3.2 kilometres long and trends northwest. Drilling has concentrated in the northern third of this extensive anomaly and the southern two-thirds of the anomaly remain largely untested. The property is underlain by flat lying to shallow dipping Miocene Columbia River basalts that are overlain by Idaho Group sediments consisting predominantly of sandstone and arkose. The property is located within the eastern part of the Western Snake River Rift Valley near the eastern boundary fault. Gold mineralization is hosted in northwest trending zones of silicification, stockwork, and hydrothermal breccias within a 30 to 60 meter-thick sedimentary interval overlying the basalts.
