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Yellowjacket Gold Project

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 Location:
9 km E from Atlin, British Columbia, Canada

  Project Contacts:
Suite 1450, PO Box 11553
650 West Georgia Street
Vancouver
British Columbia, Canada
V6B 4N8
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Overview

StagePermitting
Mine TypeOpen Pit
Commodities
  • Gold
Mining Method
  • Truck & Shovel / Loader
Mine Life7 years (as of Jan 1, 2011)


Owners

 
CompanyInterestOwnership
African Queen Mines Ltd. 100 % Direct

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Deposit Type

  • Breccia pipe / Stockwork
  • Vein / narrow vein


Summary:

Deposits of this type are referred to in many ways, such as; gold quartz veins or lodes, mesothermal gold, shear-hosted or shear zone gold, orogenic gold, syn-orogenic veins, Mother Lode gold, etc.

Locally, these deposits occur primarily as quartz veins, stockworks or stringer zones in fault, fracture and shear zones and are typified by the variability of host rocks which are affected by pervasive carbonatization with localized sericitization and sulfidation marginal to gold-bearing quartz veins.

In the Yellowjacket Zone, ophiolite-hosted gold quartz veins stockworks or breccias are contained within faultbounded lenses of oceanic igneous crust. Listwanite altered ultramafic rocks are consistently associated with the ophiolite-hosted gold veins, but rarely host them. This deposit type contains very high grade, coarse native gold occurring in quartz veins or flooding hosted by ophiolitic mafic igneous crustal rocks (gabbro, diabase, basalt, andesite) adjacent to listwanite altered ultramafic rocks.

Placer deposits in the camp are situated in stream valleys cutting erosional windows through the carbonatized relatively flat lying thrust faults within the Atlin ophiolitic assemblage.

Historically, significant economic concentrations of placer gold are restricted to streams in the Pine Creek and McKee Creek watersheds. It appears that preferential erosion through flat-lying mineralized thrust contacts in both these areas was accelerated ........


Mining Methods

  • Truck & Shovel / Loader


Summary:

On July 10, 2009, the Yellowjacket Gold Mine received its BC Mines Act Permit for the development and operation of an open pit gold mine and onsite concentrator processing up to 75,000 tonnes per year of gold ore.

The permitted mine life is 7 years with an average anticipated production of 50,000 tonnes of mineralized bedrock.

The primary bedrock and surficial material removal equipment is comprised of excavators and 30 tonne articulating rock trucks. Due to the soft fractured nature of the bedrock in the area of excavation, no drilling or blasting is required during the mining cycle.

Process feed and waste will be hauled out of the pits along the northern perimeter of the existing stockpile area. Two mineralized material stockpiles will be developed (one of 25,000 tonnes located near the process plant and another of 15,000 tonnes opposite the waste stockpile) along with a waste rock dump (about 25,000 tonnes).


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Reserves at October 7, 2011:

CategoryTonnage CommodityGradeContained Metal
Inferred 133,000 t Gold 5.8 g/t 24,000 oz



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Technical Report 2011
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