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Introduction The property is situated within the Watson Lake mining district of the Yukon and approximately 150 km from Watson Lake. It is easily accessible by the all-weather Nahanni Range road, which leads to the Canada Tungsten mine located 8 km directly east of the claims. The claims lie along a 20 km linear trend and are separated into 3 blocks. The northern block is comprised of the Rubus, LH, Swag and Scheer claims, the middle block of claims are known as the Zanzibar claims and the southern block, the Red Bluff claims. These claims have been optioned under an agreement made with well-known Yukon Prospectors, Gary Lee, Ron Stack and Bob Scott. In addition, Commander staked an additional 150 claims around these blocks, to increase the area holding to 5,900 hectares along a 20 km trend. Rock chip / vein samples up to 1.5 g/t gold have been located by early prospecting on the claims. Numerous anomalous soil and silt samples were recorded by reconnaissance work. The area is undergoing a resurgence of interest, with Northern Tiger's 3 Ace and Sprogge project located 3 km to the south, Archer Cathro's claim block located to the west, and Yukon Prospector, Shawn Ryan recently staking the Caneast claims adjoining the Zanzibar claims to the south. With Northern Tiger recently announcing the results of a drill program, which returned numbers such as 14.8 g/t Au over 10.9m, the area will receive a lot of attention this year.  2011 First Year Exploration Rock and Soil Samples
 Click to enlarge Exploration History of the area The geology of the area has been categorised into the Selwyn basin, which is part of the Cordilleran miogeocline. Locally, the region has been separated into two distinct units by a large fault called the March Fault, which has been mapped along the little Hyland river valley. To the south west lies the Tintina fault, and to the north, the Dawson fault. The rocks to the north east of this fault are called the Vampire formation, an upper Proterozoic to lower Cambrian aged sequence of dark brown, fine grained thinly bedded argillaceous sandstone and siltsone, with minor interbeddd orthoquartzite, phyllite, slate and argillite. To the south west of the March fault lie thin to thickly bedded brown to green shales, fine to coarse grained sandstones, conglomerates, minor argillaceous limestone, phyllites, psammites and minor marble belonging to the upper Proterozoic to Cambrian Hyland Group. Underlying and exposed at surface in some localities is a mid Cretaceous plutonic suite, called the Selwyn Plutonic Suite. The suite consists of K feldspar, porphyritic, biotitic monzonite and granodiorite. The area has been glaciated, with typical U shaped valleys filled with glacial overburden, which can make exploration work challenging. Following the discovery of the Canada Tungsten mine in 1954, which was formed as a result of one of these intrusions pervasively altering a limestone unit along the edge of the intrusion, exploration activities increased. The following is a brief summary of known historical activities in the area:
Rock chip sampling of the quartz veins has returned values as high as 22.8 g/t Au. The gold is found in pyrite and arsenopyrite. Also worth noting is that the host rocks to the quartz veins have also been found to be mineralized. This program has been carried out on the Culvert claims which Hinterland Minerals have now optioned. The Main showing is 1.5 km from the LH 2 claim block. However, Gary and his partners went out and staked the area around the Culvert claims, based mostly on stream geochemical results produced by the Yukon Geological Survey (YGS), and on two YMIP supported field programs that they carried out in 2009 and 2010. From this study of the area, it has become obvious that anomalous values for rock chips, soils and stream sediments do exist in the area. Gold mineralization is strongly associated with Arsenic with some significant Silver values also being found, and which could be important pathfinder elements. The following tables show the locality of anomalies found on the claims: Table of rock sampling program with values > 100 ppb Au
(Colours identify sample stations in the same claim block)
Table of soil sampling program with values > 7 ppb Au (Colours identify sample stations in the same claim block)
Stream sediment sampling program (Strong correlation with Arsenic)
In addition to sampling, a basic ground borne survey was carried out, using a VLF-EM instrument and a magnetometer. Two lines were surveyed for a total of 760 m. Two significant northerly structures were identified close to a showing, and which could be the source of mineralization. Follow up surveys could be a useful method for detecting sub surface structures. Mineralized rock samples show strong alteration with sericitization and silicification. The 2011 field program will continue with prospecting, mapping, recce soils and silt sediment sampling and rock chip sampling. In the areas where anomalous values for soils have already been found, a more detailed grid sampling program will be carried out. Previous work on one of the showings will be expanded with a trenching and detailed sampling program. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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