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Prospect Valley Property The 100%-Spire-owned Prospect Valley Gold Property is a potential low grade, bulk mineable type gold target with quartz vein stockwork type mineralization. The property is road-accessible and in close proximity to good infrastructure from Merritt, BC. The Company is encouraged by the previous years of diamond drilling results, trenching results, geological mapping and prospecting carried out on the Prospect Valley Property. October 2008 saw completion of road construction to the North and South Discovery Zones on the Property. The completion of this 5.5 km road will provide quick low cost access for exploration work including planned core drilling on the Discovery Zones, the Company anticipates an exploration program beginning in the early spring of 2009. The exploration program, depending on weather, financings and market conditions, would cover the Discovery Zones, extensions of the North Discovery Zone – Northwest Dome Zone, Northeast Extension, and Northeast Trend Target Zone. Other areas are the Ridgeline Target and the Crown Target. The exploration programs would include mechanical trenching, short hole exploration RC drilling and diamond drilling One of the main objectives of the 2009 field program could be to complete infill diamond drilling in the Discovery Zones in order to define resources as per CIM definitions. Shortly after, the Company expects to prepare a NI 43-101 compliant report that will provide a resource estimate. Recently, in March 2009 the Merritt Exploration crews obtain representative mineralized samples from drill core and reject material to conduct heap leach metallurgical tests to determine the recoverability of gold. Kinross Gold Corp. will be participating in the sample collection and testing process. The samples were submitted to Florin Analytical Services, LLC of Reno, Nevada. This is a certified and accredited lab facility, which is part of the Kappes, Cassiday and Associates group of metallurgical services companies. The positive gold recoveries from this analytical work is significant, as it shows gold recoveries that are within industry requirements for this type of mineralization. The next step will be to take a representative bulk sample to complete column cyanide metallurgical tests. These trial test results make the PV Property more attractive as a potential large-tonnage, low-grade target. The Company is encouraged by these cyanide leach analytical results and from previous years of diamond drilling and trenching results, geological mapping, and prospecting carried out on the Prospect Valley Property. Detailed geological mapping, surface trenching, soil gold anomalies, mag surveys and 33 diamond drill holes were drilled in 2006/2007 confirming an elongated NNE trending gold mineralized belt.The 2007 diamond drill program completed a total of 10 drill holes for a total of 1,775.35m. Most of the drill holes drilled last year in the Discovery North Zone were aimed at testing the extent of the mineralization to the west of the known mineralized area. True widths have yet to be determined for these intersects. Detailed geological mapping, surface trenching, soil gold anomalies, mag surveys and 33 diamond drill holes were drilled in 2006/2007 confirming an elongated NNE trending gold mineralized belt. The 2007 diamond drill program completed a total of 10 drill holes for a total of 1,775.35m. Most of the drill holes drilled last year in the Discovery North Zone were aimed at testing the extent of the mineralization to the west of the known mineralized area. DDH-2007-01 returned across 61.4m, 0.7g/t gold and 4.7g/t silver. DDH-2007-02 returned across 66.82m, 0.90 g/t gold and 9.7g/t silver. Drill Hole DDH-2007-03 was drilled approximately 40m north of drill holes -01 and -02 and intersected a similar quartz stockwork zone across 44.7m with 1.0g/t gold and 5.9g/t silver. Drill Hole DDH-2007-04 drilled approximately 40m north of drill hole -03, intersected a similar quartz stockwork zone cut by a fault zone. It returned across 32.56m 0.36 g/t gold, which includes a 10.1m interval with 0.73g/t gold and 1.0g/t silver. Drill Hole DDH-2007-05 intersected a quartz vein across 1.33m with 12.20g/t gold and 24.30g/t silver. Drill Hole DDH-2007-06 returned, along a length of 81.71m, an average of 0.33g/t gold, and was drilled approximately 30m west of DDH-2006-04 (27.2m @ 1.24g/t gold). Drill hole DDH-2007-07 returned, along 5.56m, an average of 0.84g/t gold, and was drilled 50m west of drill hole DDH-2006-12 (9.1m @ 0.55g/t gold). Drill hole DDH-2007-08 returned, along a length of 18.57m, an average of 0.47g/t gold (includes 17.79m @ 0.57g/t gold) and tested mineralization in the northernmost area of the Discovery North Zone. Drill hole DDH-2007-09 returned, along a length of 24.49m, an average grade of 0.48g/t gold and tested mineralization 80m west of DDH-2006-07 (20.5m @ 0.62g/t gold). Drill hole DDH-2007-10 was drilled beside the previous hole at a -80 degree inclination and returned along a length of 3.29m, an average of 0.25 g/t gold. Most of the drill holes drilled last year in the Discovery North Zone were aimed at testing the extent of the mineralization to the west of the known mineralized area. True widths have yet to be determined for these intersects. A recently revised geological potential in the Discovery Zone considers surface widths that range from approximately 50m to 150m wide, a surface continuity (length) along strike ranging from approximately 1,400m to 2,500m and a depth, as indicated by diamond drilling, ranging from 50 to 90 vertical meters. Using an average specific gravity (s.g.) of 2.4, a tonnage range from approximately 1.2 to 81 million tonnes can be estimated. Considering an average grade range of 0.80g/t to 1.40g/t gold that would give a geological potential ranging from approximately 310,000 to 3.7 million ounces of gold. The above geological potential is for the Discovery South and North areas only. There are other areas, such as the NW Dome Zone and the NE Zone that appear to hold an additional geological potential as seen from coincidental soil geochemistry anomalies, magnetic anomaly data, and from recent geological mapping and trenching in those zones. Mineralization remains open to the south and north of the Discovery Zone along a NNE trend. Cautionary statement: Investors are cautioned that the potential quantity and grade indicated above is conceptual in nature. It has been provided only for illustration purposes. At this time, there has been insufficient exploration to define a mineral resource and it is uncertain if further exploration will result in the discovery of these mineral resources. The Summer 2006 drill program completed holes DDH-06-01 to DDH-06-23 for a total of 3,734m drilled on the Discovery Gold Zone. DDH-06-21 returned 45.7m of 1.57 g/t gold (see News Release dated September 6th 2006). The drill program confirmed an epithermal quartz-vein/alteration system along this zone, which extends at least 1.5kms, with the mineralization open to extension to the northeast and southwest. Numerous significant gold and silver drill hole intercepts were obtained throughout the 2006 diamond drill program (see details of property).In April 2006 Spire announced that a Induced Polarization (IP) geophysical survey had been completed on the Discovery area of the Prospect Valley Gold Property. The program consisted of 27 lines at an average length of 1.66km per line at 100m spacing totalling 44.95km IP and 44.50km Mag. Results of the IP geophysics define a large resistivity anomaly which is believed to reflect a quartz-rich, gold-bearing epithermal vein and breccia system. The resistivity, IP and Mag anomalies correlate very well with the gold-soil geochemical anomalies within the Discovery Zone, outlining an area of approximately 3,000m by 400m. During the 2005 field season, Spire focused solely on the Anomaly Cluster 1 area located in the heart of the 107 sq. km. property. The Company followed up the previous years’ successes related to the multi-element soil anomalies and the Discovery Zone trench showings. The exploration program was carried out in two parts. Both stages included establishing, prospecting and soil sampling an extensive control grid over the Discovery Zones. Multi-element soil anomaly was greatly expanded to a size of about 3,500m by 400m covering an estimated grid of 8.4 sq. km. Much of the gold and related pathfinder element mineralization is typically found in weathered, variably porphyritic, chlorite altered basalts with minor limonitic-quartz veins, stockworks and breccias - all are typical characteristics of a low sulphidation epithermal gold exploration target. Trench and soil results to date have demonstrated the large size and bulk tonnage potential of the Discovery Zone gold system. The IP and drill program is designed to test the gold system at depth. Spire has a 100% interest in the 10,796-hectare Prospect Valley Gold Property. Reconnaissance exploration in recent years has identified significant new low-sulphidation epithermal gold/silver mineralization at several locations on the property. The property is road accessible from Merritt, BC, which is a regional transportation and supply centre. The property is in close proximity to good infrastructure and is located near the large Highland Valley porphyry copper district and the Craigmont iron-copper skarn deposit |
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