Highlights:
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Located in the prolific Timmins Mining camp and very close geographically (20kms) to Goldcorp’s (TSX-G) high grade Hoyle Pond mine which has produced more than 2.4 Mozs since 1985 and is still in operation.
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$72 miilion invested by St. Andrew Goldfields (SAS) on the development of the Clavos mine including $46 million on underground development.
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Existing infrastructure in place including underground ramp access to the 300 metre level, underground levels developed every 25 metres, power to site, surface ventialtion system, water management system.
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Prior gold resource for Clavos reported by SAS in October 2006. The resource was calculated by Roscoe Postle & Associates and comrpises 37,000 gold ozs, 143,000 tons @ 8.0 g/t Au in M&I and 110,000 gold ozs, 529,000 tons @6.5 g/t Au in Inferred
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Existing mining permit in effect until 2019.
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Clavos is also located 10 kilometres from the Brigus Gold mill in Stock Township.
The Clavos mine is located within the Timmins Mining camp in German, Stock and Clergue townships and comprises 69 patented and leased claims and 14 unpatented claims. The patents leases and claims are wholly owned by SAS save three claims where SAS has a 40% interest in a joint venture arrangement with Goldcorp. The Clavos property comprises 2,540 hectares in total area. The deposit was mined briefly between mid 2005 until August 2006 and again until May 2007.
The geology and mineralization of the Clavos property is summarized below. Refer to the Roscoe Postle Associates Inc. report of 2003 prepared for United Tex – Sol Mines Inc.
The Clavos Property is transected in an east-west direction by a contact between mafic and ultramafic volcanic rocks of the Tisdale Group to the north, and Hoyle Assemblage clastic sedimentary rocks to the south. The contact dips, overall, very steeply to the south but locally has been interpreted from drilling to dip northerly. North of, and parallel to the contact,is the Pipestone Fault (PFZ), a major regional structural feature that also traverses the entire property. The PFZ is a major offshoot of the Destor Porcupine Break. Between the PFZ and the contact are a number of irregular and discontinuous felsic porphyry intrusive bodies. These intrusions strike and dip parallel to the stratigraphy and are the loci for much of the gold mineralization on the property.
Gold mineralization occurs in a series of quartz and quartz-carbonate veins which are interpreted from the drilling to be steeply dipping and east-west striking, roughly parallel to the PFZ. The veins, while appearing to be consistent in orientation from section to section, are observed in the drill core to occur in a wide variety of orientations. The quartz veins occur most often in the mafic and ultramafic volcanic rocks, usually in proximity to porphyry intrusives.
Project Images

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Underground Drill Core |
Clavos Cross Section-Gold Zones |
Clavos-HW Zone- Plan and Longitudinal Section |

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Timmins Mines |
Sage (Clavos Only)– SAS Properties in Timmins |
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