Francis Creek AN 389 Annual report to 14 December 1998

Abstract

A line of soil samples were taken north of the Golden Honcho prospect and returned 3 zones of anomalous values ie 20-40ppb Au. At the Golden Senorita 10 rock chips were collected, with anomalous results obtained ie generally 0.2 to 0.6 glt Au with the highest being 1.7g-t Au. Two rock samples were collected at the Golden Honcho prospect with the better result being 2.56g-t. 2 RC holes were drilled at the Golden Honcho prospect which had previously obtained an average of 29.6glt Au from 20 rock chip samples over a strike length of 200m. No mineralisation was intersected in hole FCRC9 but within FCRC10, 2 zones were intersected ie 86-88.2m at 0.97g-t Au, 100-102m at 0.88g-t Au; 106-110m at 2.08g-t Au, 142-144m at 0.87g-t Au. The Golden Gulf prospect was drilled by 2 RC holes, results were low. A breccia pipe with high arsenic content was tested by one hole, high arsenic (to 0.9 percent) was intersected from 144 to 170 (EOH) but gold values were low.