There is a map on the Wildcat website referring to three areas of gold showing: http://www.wildcat.ca/openwindow.php?PATH=upload/map/large/Jeep2009May-JuneGoldShowingDiscoveries1-3.jpg

We explored these three as well as a fourth not shown on the map (Gold Showing #4) - it is just a little above and to the right of Gold Showing #1.

When we arrived at Jeep, we parked right by the old Jeep mine shaft and Julia talked a bit about it's history. It's main years of production where from 1949 to 1950 and the ore from there was trucked to the Rice Lake Mine for milling. The highest grade ore from the Bissett area came from the Jeep mine - .78 oz/ton. The Jeep mine shaft went down about 600 feet, but most of the mining work was done at Level 1, approx. 200 feet below surface. That is not down very far and has even led to thoughts of whether open pit work might be feasible in the future. Open pit mining is much less expensive than conventional shaft and stope mining.

Someone asked whether the old mine shaft might be available to use again, but it wouldn't be. If a shaft was sunk to do mining in the future, it would be in a different location where maximum accessibility to mineralized zones at all levels could be had. In general, the rocks trend in a NE direction as you go down, so it would be better to start further over to the NE so that you could intersect the mineralized rock at a lower level, and then mine up into the rock at an angle toward surface. As the rock is mined, it would drop down to the main shaft area for extraction to surface.

One comment made was to look at the previous Jeep mining work as a giant bulk sample.

From there we walked up to Gold Showing 4, after which we went on to Showing 1, Showing 2 and Showing 3. In all of these places, heavy equipment was brought in to strip off the vegetation and overburden (dirt and rocks), until the main rock body was exposed. Then high pressure washers were used to further clean and expose the rock so that they could be fully accessed by the geologists. Ryus and Julia have been at Jeep most of the summer exploring, mapping, and taking samples. Samples can be either "grab samples" (which can be easily picked up or chipped off), or can be "channel cut samples" (where a piece is cut out of the rock with a saw). There is a picture of a channel cut in the photo section. On our visit, Julia and Peter spoke about the rocks and findings at each location, noting alterations, veins, showings of mineralization and some of the sampling results. I will not try to write all that they said (and I didn't record it all), but some of the recent news releases put out by Wildcat give us the details.

There is a map summarizing sample results of Gold Showing 2 on the Wildcat website: http://www.wildcat.ca/openwindow.php?PATH=upload/map/large/20090916jeepplan.jpg Note that it refers to channel samples and grab samples. The mineralized vein at Showing 2 is very distinct, as you will notice when looking at the photo. These results were also put out in the September 16th News Release.

Results of sampling from Showings 1 and 4 were in the September 23rd News release put out by the Company. Some excerpts from that News Release:

...results from ongoing channel sampling conducted on the Company’s 100% owned Jeep property, located 13 km east of Bissett, Manitoba in the Rice Lake greenstone belt, returned high grade gold, associated with visible gold and elevated silver concentrations on the recently discovered Showing Number 1 and newly discovered Showing Number 4.

Showing 1: The southeastern quartz vein striking approximately 1100 azimuth is hosted by a shear zone cutting through massive quartzphyric leucogabbro and gabbro. The quartz vein, ranging from approximately 5 to 10 cm thickness, is exposed over a distance of approximately 12 m on strike and is open in both directions. A total of ten channel samples were collected from this vein, returning gold assays ranging from 0.16 to 57.96 g/t and silver assays ranging from 0.6 to 4.3 g/t. Two previously collected grab samples returned 35.39 g/t and 1.47 g/t gold (see Press Release July 8, 2009).
Further outcrop stripping and sampling is be announced as they become available.

Showing 4: Two grab samples from this showing returned 35.05 g/t and 3.53 g/t gold. Wildcat’s investigations of this showing are currently at a preliminary stage and results of a stripping and sampling campaign will be published as soon as they become available.

When we wre at Gold Showing 3, Peter Theyer pointed out an area where there were conglomerates in the gabbro - here molten rock came up and other rock near surface became imbedded in the gabbro rock as it cooled. Some of the conglmerate thus imbedded did not melt or lose its properties - you can see the pieces distinctly showing in the middle of the surrounding gabbro. This is not just an interesting bit of geological trivia. In cases like this, what typically happens is that when the molten rock coming from below hits an area of conglomerates, sulphides drop out, and minerals contained in the liquid attach to the sulphides. The metallics, being heavier, are more likely to be found at lower levels. More exploration will be done in this area to see what can be found.