Aurora Property

The Aurora property is in the Cuyuni greenstone belt of the Guiana Shield.in the Amazon Craton. It consists of a number of gold deposits on the eastern side of the Aurora zoned intrusion.

Gold was produced from underground operations at Aleck Hill and the Mad Kiss Mines between 1940 and 1948 and the gold deposits were interpreted as fracture controlled, mesothermal veins. The gold veins are accompanied by ankeritization, pyritization and sericitization of the wall rocks. Where the gold veins are closely spaced, gold values approach commercial values.

At the Rory’s Knoll deposit, gold is associated with disseminated pyrite and silicification in a zone of narrow dykes cutting an assemblage of finely bedded/ foliated volcanic flows, tuffs, and associated sediments. The field name for this zone is “Tonalite": Rory’s Knoll is completely different from the other known occurrences and provides a large volume of lower grade material.

Historic exploration on this property was directed toward high-grade gold mineralization in mesothermal quartz veins. The discovery of the Rory’s Knoll occurrence has changed the exploration focus to large volume concentrations of lower gold values. The gold occurrences on the Aurora Property can be divided into three groups on the basis of the amount of exploration information. The best known, are in the Central Aurora Area near the Aurora Mine and include Aleck Hill, Mad Kiss, South Mad Kiss, West Mad Kiss, Walcott Hill, East Walcott Hill, North Aleck Hill and Rory’s Knoll. In each of these areas gold has been found in surface trenches, underground adits and crosscuts and diamond drill holes.