• 1960- Black Hawk Mining Ltd. sent six bulk samples from Timmins 1 totaling 43.26 short tons to the Saint-Malo pilot plant of the Quebec Department of Mines for treatment. The average grade was 0.5297 troy ounces of gold per short ton (11.08 g/t).

• 1976 - Privex Mines Ltd. blasted a trench across the mineralized zone in 1976.

A total of 21.7 tonnes in two samples taken from the south end of the pit returned 3.53 g/t of gold. The north three samples totaled 32.7 tonnes and returned an average grade of 0.96 g/t of gold.

• 2008 - Golden Hope Mines Ltd.: T-1 bulk sample yields 38m of 3.56 g/t Au at surface (Released: January 30, 2008).

• 2010 – Golden Hope Mines Ltd. completed a 840 metric tonne bulk sample, 720 tonnes of which came from T-1, which graded an average of 3 g/t Au at surface (Released: March 1, 2010).