The Quicksilver Project covers approximately 70 acres within the highly prospective Tintina Gold Belt in south-west Alaska, which hosts a number of large scale igneous related gold deposits including the Fort Knox, Pogo and Donlin Creek deposits. The project is 100 kilometres east-southeast of the Bethel town site and can be accessed by airplane or helicopter via Bethel or Aniak.

The project was identified by Western Mining Corporation in 1997 following stream sediment sampling and follow up auger drilling. The project has several characteristics of an intrusive-hosted gold system.

Aeromagnetic data interpretation highlights a well developed northeast trending extensional zone traversing through the central portion of the Quicksilver tenements. The project area has been subject to geological mapping and rock chip sampling in recent years. The sampling was focussed on quartz veins, breccias, shears as well as zones of alteration and gossans. The rock chip sampling returned high grade assays up to 36g/t gold. Samples with elevated gold assays were obtained from a broad zone perpendicular to the northeast strike.  The sampling also returned elevated assays for pathfinder elements such as arsenic, bismuth, copper, antimony and zinc which are typically associated with igneous related gold mineralisation.

Location of Quicksilver Project