Project Overview
The Gilman Project consists of 19 unpatented mining claims, covering a total of 380 acres with land open along strike for staking. The project is located near the town of Kingston. Nearby mines include the Kingston Canyon (~600,000 ounces gold + silver past production and present resource), Big Springs (~820,000 ounces gold past production and present resource), and Northumberland (~3,200,000 ounces gold + silver past production and present resource) mines, which are all hosted in a similar age and type of rock.
Area Geology
The property covers a northwest trending structural zone within Cambrian thin bedded limestone and shale. High grade gold was prospected and mined from two adits within the footwall of a thick jasperoid along the range front. Gold values exceeding 1 oz/ton have been obtained from dumps and in the back of the upper adit. Silver values up to 25 opt were collected from workings approximately 2000 feet south of the gold workings. No production is known to have occurred from this area.
The property covers a jasperoid zone 3 to 60 feet thick, having a strike length of 10,000 feet or more. The best values from 0.1 to 1.2 opt gold occur within the footwall of the jasperoid associated with gossan. Other areas along the trend of the jasperoid contain copper oxide minerals and significant values of +25 opt silver and 0.02 opt gold.
Exploration
The area’s exploration history starts in the late 1800’s, when the nearby town of Austin was booming. Exploitation of the veins probably occurred around the turn of the century and on into the 1930’s. Surface sampling and mapping has been conducted by Newmont, Brancote, Miranda, and MinQuest. The property had not been drilled until 2008, when American Goldfields attempted two drill holes in the winter of that year. The drill program was snowed out and a single hole was drilled to 510 feet. As such, it is doubtful that the target was reached. The hole was near vertical and drilled 450 feet from the jasperoid. No significant jasperoid was intersected. However, the alluvial cover was not as deep as expected and several quartz veins were encountered with only anomalous gold. It is believed the targeted veins and jasperoid were not reached.
Exploration potential exists for high grade gold within the area of the main workings. Gold and silver anomalies also extend southwards along trend where jasperoid breccias, limestones, and shales provide as excellent hosts for disseminated gold. Considering the lack of drilling and the obvious alteration, the project is ripe for a quick test to determine the quality and quantity of mineralization that may be present.
