Figure 10: Location of hand samples, collected by T. Kennedy, and analyses of selected samples; see Appendix 4 for complete analyses

Table 2: Analyses of selected hand samples, collected by T. Kennedy; see Table 3 for sample descriptions and Appendix 4 for complete analyses; samples are plotted on Figure 10.

Samples collected by T. Kennedy are from quartz veins, sulphide quartz veins, shear zones or siliceous zones in the Eagle Creek plutonic complex. Of the 16 samples collected, 9 had gold values greater than 100 ppb, three had values greater than 1000 ppb and one, sample R08-15 contained 19,412 ppb gold (Table 2). R08-15 is from a 15 cm wide shear zone with quartz, minor pyrite and malachite staining (Table 3) that strikes northwest, roughly parallel to shears within the Silver King shear zone. R08-16 (1188 ppb Au) is from a mylonitic zone, and R08-14 (1530 ppb Au) is from a small vein within a larger zone of brecciated quartz veining that contains pods of chalcopyrite.

Several samples contain visible chalcopyrite and returned assays that range to greater than 1% Cu. R08-01 is from a quartz-calcite-chalcopyrite vein within a large northwest trending shear zone and R08-04, located approximately 125 meters to the northwest, is from a similar, parallel shear zone.

Only one sample contained appreciable lead and zinc. R08-10 is described as a quartz breccia with visible galena and sphalerite (Table 3). As with all samples collected during the 2008 prospecting sample, it contains anomalous gold (195 ppb).

In summary, the limited 2008 prospecting program was successful in locating several new occurrences of gold and copper mineralization on the Ron claims. Many of these occurrences appear to be related to northwest trending shearing, or associated veining that cuts the marginal zones of the Eagle Creek plutonic complex. No samples were collected in the area covered by the 2008 soil geochemical survey.