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HOLDINGS Bruner
Property Introduction The Bruner property is located in Nye County Nevada
in a region known as the Walker Lane gold belt, 125 miles east-southeast
of Reno and 25 miles northeast of Gabbs, Nevada.
Several high-grade gold mines and prospects have been developed
in the Bruner district in auriferous quartz veins hosted by Tertiary
volcanic rocks. Past
production has been estimated at approximately 55,587 ounces of gold
contained in 99,625 tons of ore at a recovered grade of 0.562 oz Au/ton.
Several large-scale volcanic-hosted precious metal deposits are
located in the general vicinity, including Rawhide (1.4 million ounces
gold total production, currently in reclamation), Round Mountain
(720,000 ounces gold current annual production with over 9 million
ounces produced through 2003), and Paradise Peak (1.5 million ounces
gold). The property area is underlain by Tertiary felsic
and intermediate composition volcanic and volcaniclastic rocks.
Gold mineralization is hosted by a sequence of crystal tuffs that
range from latite to quartz latite in composition. The latite is
pervasively altered in the central portion of the district, and gold
detected in surface sampling and drilling is associated with
quartz-adularia alteration. Quartz-adularia
veins also occur in the northern and eastern part of the property in a
rhyolite porphyry flow-dome that intrudes the volcanic rocks. Property
Package AIVN owns 28 patented claims totaling 560 acres and
48 unpatented claims totaling 940 acres for a total land position of
1,500 acres in the heart of the Bruner district.
All claims are in good standing.
AIVN acquired the majority of the property in July 2002 from
Miramar Gold Corporation and an affiliated company Orcana Resources,
Inc. Orcana retains a 2%
NSR royalty on the claims AIVN acquired from Miramar and Orcana.
AIVN can purchase the royalty for $250,000. Prior to AIVN's acquisition of the claims, Miramar completed
an extensive environmental clean up of the property, and AIVN is not
aware of any liabilities associated with the property. Recent
Exploration Activity During the past 25 years several companies have
conducted exploration in the Bruner district for volcanic-hosted,
bulk-tonnage precious metal mineralization.
The work completed includes geological mapping and sampling,
about 1,000 soil geochemistry samples, several hundred rock chip samples
from outcrops and underground workings, helicopter-airborne and ground
geophysics, and 147 drill holes totaling 65,185 feet.
Most of the drill holes are reverse circulation holes.
AIVN estimates that approximately $1.5 to $2 million has been
spent on exploration on the project since 1979. The soil geochemistry program consisted of samples
collected at 100 foot intervals along east-west grid lines spaced 400
feet apart. The soil geochemistry data show a 2,000 ft. by 800 ft.
northwest-trending gold anomaly over the central portion of AIVN's claim
block. Values typically
exceed 100 ppb gold and 300 ppb silver, whereas background values are
less than 5 ppb gold and less than 50 ppb silver.
In addition, dumps, float and outcrops were sampled on the
surface, and all of the available mine workings were chip channel
sampled. The magnetic data shows the major north and
northwest structural trends on a contoured plot of the total field data.
The mineralized structural trend that hosts the Penelas and
Bruner deposits is readily identifiable as a linear magnetic low.
Gold mineralization was detected in many of the
drill holes, and AIVN recently completed a program of six diamond core
holes to follow-up and confirm the results of the previous drilling. Drilling
Program During
June 2004 AIVN completed a drilling program consisting of six diamond
core holes to follow-up and confirm the results of previous drilling on
the property. The results
of the drilling were very encouraging.
Gold values greater than 0.02 oz Au/ton were detected in all of
the holes, and the results are similar to previous drilling on the
property. Higher grade intercepts were present in three of the holes as
shown below, and these results may provide clues to discover potential
higher grade zones at depth.
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HERE. Exploration Potential for the Bruner District All of the previous exploration efforts on the
Bruner property have focused on finding bulk minable deposits such as
Round Mountain, Paradise Peak and Rawhide.
Previous exploration at Bruner identified several areas where
potentially significant volumes of bulk minable gold mineralization
occur. Additional
exploration is needed to fully evaluate the potential for a bulk minable
deposit at Bruner. Moreover, the potential for high-grade vein targets
at Bruner remains largely untested.
Previous exploration drilling encountered several vein intercepts
assaying greater than 0.5 oz Au/ton, and surface sampling also yielded
assay results of greater than 0.5 oz Au/ton. High-grade gold vein
targets will be a top priority for continuing exploration at Bruner. AIVN's
geologists are evaluating the drilling results together with surface
geological mapping and sampling that is currently in progress. Preliminary evaluation suggests that the property has good
potential to host mineralization similar to Newmont's Ken Snyder mine at
depth, however additional drilling will be required to test this
potential.
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ANDY WARHOL