Chester

Chester Township Property

Overview

The Chester Project is located in Ontario between Sudbury and Timmins just off highway 144. The town of Gogama is 20 km to the northeast. Geologically, the project sits at the southeastern tip of the SWAYZE Archean Greenstone Belt. It has also been interpreted to be a southwestern extension of the very productive Abitibi Greenstone Belt to the northwest. There is a Proterozoic cover of sediments which may be masking a possible link to this belt. Trelawney’s Chester Project is close to a major regional fault located just to the north of the project which appears to be a southwestern extension of the Cadillac-Larder Lake Fault Zone which runs through the Kirkland Lake area. The Destor Porcupine Fault Zone is a similar fault zone which runs through the gold deposits of the Timmins area. These large regional faults are in close proximity to some of Canada’s most productive gold camps with more than 68 Million ounces in the Timmins Camp and 42 million ounces in the Kirkland Lake district.

Chester Project Map (click here for PDF)

 The Chester Project area occupies an 8 by 4 km portion of Chester Township. The area is underlain principally by a felsic to intermediate intrusive rock (granodiorite and diorite), with felsic to intermediate metavolcanics to the north and mafic intrusive rocks to the south.

Chester Property Claim Map (click here for PDF)

Chester Property Geology Map (click here for PDF)

 The project area hosts at least 12 known gold mineralized structures. Trelawney’s initial focus was on three of these structures, namely the Chester 1, 2 and 3 Deposits. The Chester 1, 2 and 3 Deposits were historically known as the Murgold Chesbar, Young-Shannon and Jack Rabbit, respectively. Each hosts historical gold resources that have not been placed in production.

The Chester 1 hosts the No.3 vein which has been traced by a decline ramp for over 2,400 feet. It hosts a resource of 159,000 tons at 0.43 oz/t gold on the western part of the No. 3 vein.

 The Chester 2 has limited workings down to 600 feet and hosts a resource of 222,000 tons at 0.354 oz/t gold in 2 parallel zones, C and C Prime.

 The Chester 3 contains 3 mineralized Zones with a resource of 342,000 tons grading 0.36 oz/t for its No. 1 and No. 3 zones.

 The following table provides a summary of the Historical Resource (non NI-43-101 compliant) for the 3 deposits. Including the inferred category, total resources for the three deposits down to a depth of only 600 feet amount to 1.7 million tons at 0.26 oz/t (or a quarter ounce) gold or nearly 470,000 ounces of gold (non NI-43-101 compliant).

Chester 1 Mine
 The Chester 1 Mine includes a production-ready decline with a length of 5500 feet to a vertical depth of 500. There is 2300 feet of lateral development on five levels. The work on the development was completed between 1986 and 1989, but the mine was never in production. JS Redpath has estimated the replacement value at today’s cost for the underground to be in the order of $30-35 million. This has provided Trelawney with a 3-year lead on its development.

Chester Mine Isometric (click here for PDF)

 Drifting took place on ore with several raises up through the ore to test the continuity on the zones. There is also a step-out at the 150 level which confirmed the existence of mineralized parallel vein structures. The grades encountered through the ore raises and drifts were very typical of an Archean narrow quartz-sulphide gold-bearing vein. Grades range from 0.14 oz/t to 2 oz/t gold. The raise below the Bates shaft for example returned a grade of 1.13 oz/t over 4.8 ft for 84 feet.

To confirm the grades and the continuity or the ore, Watts Griffith McOuat carried out a channel sampling program on 3-metre centres from the top of the portal, down the ramp and all the way through all of the ore drives. James Wade Engineering carried out the same program 1 foot away from the original trench samples and the grades came back within points of each other. Trelawney is confident that the duplication of the results in these programs provides confirmation for the overall 0.43 opt for the Chester 1 mine.

Rather than twinning the historic holes in the underground development, Trelawney drilled 4 holes up to 1000 feet below the know extent of mineralization and mine workings. We wanted to check the down-dip extension of the mineralized structure. We hit the zone at 1000 vertical feet and our drill holes actually graded with assays ranging from 3.26 g/t to 36.67 g/t gold. Drill hole CM09-02 hit another parallel zone in the hanging wall which ran 54 g/t gold.

Chester 1 Zone – Long Section (click here for PDF)

Once Trelawney secured the Chester 1 property, it looked at the neighbouring property to the west (The Chester 2) with its historic resources. Trelawney plans to drive a haulage drift 1 km to the west to the Chester 2 C and C’ zones which would provide an additional resource of 220,000 tons of 0.36 oz/t gold (non NI-43-101 compliant).

In early February Trelawney purchased the equipment and plant required to establish the mine infrastructure at the Chester 1 Mine. The material included surface and underground electrical distribution system, ventilation and mine air heat system, compressors furnished warehouse, work shop, offices and various pieces of mobile equipment. Over 40 semi truck loads were transported to the Chester Mine Site from Quebec.

 A Dewatering Permit was granted for the Chester Mine in February.

 We are currently in the final stages of receiving the advanced exploration permit which will allow us to refurbish the underground and take our first bulk sample.