I keep trying to find out more about the horse claims. This may be the reason they got these. From Manitoba Mines and minerals.

evidence of large-scale hydrothermal-fluid flow, in the form

of laterally extensive alteration zones. From this perspective,

two areas stand out as having a particularly favourable combination

of the above-listed attributes, yet do not appear to have

been the focus of previous exploration activity. The first is situated

west of Rice Lake, along the wide drift-filled valley of Gold

Creek, west of the San Antonio assemblage. Here, moderate to

intense sericite-ankerite±pyrite alteration is observed along the

northern margin of the Gold Creek Shear Zone, in scattered outcrops

of intermediate epiclastic rocks of the Gold Creek (GC)

unit on the south limb of the Horseshoe Lake anticline. Similar

alteration is also observed 3– km to the southeast, along the

upper contact of the San Antonio assemblage near the hinge

of the Gold Creek syncline. In these locations, the GC unit

includes sills and flows of tholeiitic gabbro and basalt that are

chemically similar to those hosting the Rice Lake and SG-1

deposits in the Townsite (TS) and Rainy Lake road (RLR) units,

respectively. In one location, the gabbro exhibits evidence of

structural preparation in the form of complex arrays of chloritic

shear fractures. The second target is located just east of

Rice Lake in the upper portion of the RLR unit, where moderate

to strong sericite-ankerite alteration is developed in a lens of

heterolithic conglomerate within a thick succession of

Fe-tholeiitic basalt and gabbro. The conglomerate is very highly

strained, perhaps suggesting the presence of a subsidiary structure

to the Normandy Creek Shear Zone, and thus a potentially

analogous setting to the SG-1 deposit. In both these settings,

exploration should be focused on chemically and/or rheologically

favourable mafic volcanic and plutonic rocks, and particularly

their contacts with adjacent volcaniclastic rocks.