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May 2018
Focused on Discovery
Forward Looking Statement
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results to differ materially from the statements made. When used in this document, the words "may", “would",
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subject to such risks and uncertainties. Many factors could cause actual results to differ materially from the
statements made, including those factors discussed in filings made by us with the Canadian or American securities
regulatory authorities.
Should one or more of these risks and uncertainties, such as results of current exploration programs, the general
risks associated with the mining industry, the price of gold and other metals, currency and interest rate fluctuations,
increased competition and general economic and market factors, occur or should assumptions underlying the
forward looking statements prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those described herein as
intended, planned, anticipated, or expected. We do not intend and do not assume any obligation to update these
forward-looking statements. Potential shareholders are cautioned not to put undue reliance on such forward-looking
statements.
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Company Overview
Formed by the previous founders of Tundra Copper Corp.
* Tundra Copper Corp. was sold to Kaizen Discovery in Nov. 2014, 18 months after its inception
for a significant return on investment to all shareholders.
Recently completed a fully subscribed $1.2 million IPO on the CSE (January 31, 2018)
Experienced management team of industry veterans with a proven track record of past discoveries and value
creation for shareholders.
Targeting gold and copper assets that meet a proven set of criteria to create substantial increases in shareholder
value.
Assets includes three highly prospective properties of merit:
The Adobe Gold Project, Nevada
The Alpha Gold Project, Nevada
The Coppermine River Project, Nunavut
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Corporate Team
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Corwin (Cor) Coe, B.Sc., P.Geo. – Chairman, Director, CEOPresident, Coelton Ventures Ltd., 30+ years experience as a Director and Officer of several public mining companies; B.Sc. in Earth Sciences from SFU; diploma in Mining Engineering Technology from BCIT.
Donald Penner, B.Sc., P.Geo. – Director, PresidentPresident of DF Penner Geological Consulting Ltd., worked on grassroots to feasibility projects in North and South America, Africa and Europe since 1969; B.Sc. In Geological Sciences from University of British Columbia.
Scott Price, B.Sc., M.Sc. – VP Exploration25 years of experience with a focus on gold exploration in Nevada; worked on several discoveries throughout Nevada and on the Pebble deposit in Alaska; B.Sc. in geology from University of Wyoming; M.Sc. in geology from Washington State University.
Peter Maclean – DirectorExperienced Director and Officer of several public companies; played a significant role in raising more than $100MM in previous equity financing; Economist with a BA from Acadia U. and an MA from UNB.
Stephen Pearce, LL.B. – Director, Legal CounselDirector and Officer of several resource-related companies, specializes in corporate finance and securities; Law degree from UBC; Honours degree in economics from York University.
Ryan Coe, B.Sc., M.B.A. – DirectorPresident of Fox Exploration Ltd.; 20+ years experience in mineral exploration; director and founder of several private companies; B.Sc. from UVIC; MBA from UCW; expert in field operations and project management. 4
ADVISORY BOARD
Joseph (Joe) Piekenbrock, M.Sc.35+ years of mining experience; past VP Exploration for NovaGold Resources Inc.; awarded Thayer Lindsley medal for discovery of Donlin Creek deposit; B.Sc. in Geology from the Univeristy of Colorado; M.Sc. in Geology from the University of Arizona.
Syd (Sipke) Visser, B.Sc., P.Geo.President/Senior Geophysicist at SJ Geophysics Ltd.; 30+ years of international geophysical survey experience; Haileybury School of Mines graduate; B.Sc. in Geology & Geophysics from University of British Columbia.
Scott Close, M.Sc., P.Geo.President Ethos Geological, Inc.; Senior Technical Advisor and Exploration Manager roles throughout North America; M.Sc. in Earth Sciences from SFU; specializes in resource evaluation and development.
Lawrence Roulston, M.Sc., P.Geo.35+ years of diverse experience in the mining industry. Managing Director of WestBay Capital Advisors, providing business advisory and capital markets expertise to the junior and mid-tier sectors of the mining industry and investment analysis for institutional and high net worth investors.
Capital Structure
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CAPITAL STRUCTURE AS OF JANUARY 31, 2018
SHARES ISSUED AND OUTSTANDING 16,367,000
SHARES RESERVED FOR ISSUANCE 12,397,000
FULLY DILUTED 28,764,000
WORKING CAPITAL ~C$1.2 million
SHARES OWNED BY MANAGEMENT ~30%
SYMBOL: SIG EXCHANGE: CSE
Adobe Gold Project
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A new, district scale,
Carlin-type gold target in
northeast Nevada.
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Adobe Gold Project Location
The Adobe Range, Nevada A rare opportunity to consolidate an entire District-Scale Carlin-Type gold target
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Sitka’s Adobe Project
Nevada Gold Deposit & DistrictCarlin-type deposits >1-5M oz Au.
Massive Carlin-Type Gold Districts:
N. Carlin, Cortez >190 M oz Au.
Open-pit and underground gold mines that
cluster at structural intersections of oblique
fold sets and collapse faults.
Devonian host rocks “lower plate”.
Consistent age of mineralization ~36-42 Ma.
Adobe Range DistrictNewly Recognized NW Fold &Thrust belt
that intersects and deforms an older NE
Fold & Thrust belt: Dome Structure.
Lower plate window of Devonian host rocks.
Widespread Carlin-type Alteration and
pathfinder geochemistry.
Simple Land Acquisition of BLM and Fee
Land with 3-4 private land owners.
Adobe, North Carlin & Cortez
Structural Comparison
Major Gold Districts: Laramide Age Geological Domes and Collapse Faults
• Primary ore body controlling structures: through-going NNW anticlines and oblique WNW anticlines within
Devonian host rocks (Blue).
• NNW and WNW faults sympathetic to folding are critical ore fluid feeder structures.
Structural and Temporal comparisons at the Adobe Range:
• NNW Anticlines oblique deforming NE and WNW anticlines & NNW tear faults.
• Devonian upper-host strata is exposed west of the immediate dome structure.9
Cortez District (>40Moz) North Carlin Trend (>150Moz) All three scales are equivalent
Dome Structures
At Fold Intersections
Devonian Limestones
“Lower Plate Window”
~5km
Adobe Project
~5km ~5km
Adobe Range Main Target Area: 10km Long Central
NW Fold Trend ( ~10,000 Acres)
Widespread Carlin-type Alteration Assemblages
• Jasperoid Development along fold limbs & crests
• Decalcification & Clay Alteration in Devonian Limestones
• Silicification & Hematitic alt. along Perm/Miss Unconformity and in Elko Formation Conglomerates
• Anomalous Arsenic
Carlin-type disseminated gold and gold-breccia targets:
1. Along the crest of NW-trending Anticline in favourable Devonian LPW host rocks at depth (estimate ~500m depth)
3. Largest deposits where NW fold intersect NE Folds & High-Angle NNW Tear Faults.
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Northeast Nevada
Fold Crest & Hingeline Map
Northwest anticlines are primary ore controls for most major Carlin-type gold deposits.
Regional anticlinoriums are the best geological explanation for Nevada’s gold trends.
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Northeast Nevada
Fold Crest & Hingeline Geology
Northwest trending regional folds (blue) modify an older northeast trending fold array (black). Stratigraphic age contrasts along hinge lines can identify major folds, but commonly control and are obscured by Tertiary normal faults. Gold deposits concentrate near the crests. Lower plate windows are eroded fold crests or domes, but fold mineralization is also removed by erosion. Ideal erosion levels are a critical exploration concern.
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Nevada’s Largest Carlin-Type Gold Deposits Concentrate
Near NW-NE Fold Intersections
The Adobe Project has a highly prospective setting on a newly recognized structural trend. An ideal level of erosion preserves prime Late Devonian carbonate stratigraphy at mineable depths on the crest of a dome.
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Adobe Project
Figure 4. Schematic section showing relationships of Palaeozoic passive margin and Antler foreland basin sequences in the vicinity of the Piñon Range, north central Nevada.
Adobe Project Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy at Adobe is the same as the Rain-Emigrant area, where ore occurs in regionally karsted upper Guilmette Fm and overlaying calcareous shales of the lower Tripon Pass/Pilot Fm. The Melandco and Webb are equivalent to the Mississippian Chainman sandstone and shale at Adobe, all western-sourced from the Roberts Mountains Allochthon (RMA). Both areas are at the leading edge of the Roberts Mountains Allochthon.
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Figure 5. Stratigraphic column for Paleozoic rocks of the Emigrant-Rain region, north-central Nevada. C1 and C2 unconformities are those of Trexler et al. (2003). The principal stratigraphic control for gold mineralization in the district is the Guilmette-Pilot contact. (from Ressel et al., 2015)
Adobe Project Stratigraphy
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Kimbark Federal No. 1-28 Formation Tops (ft)84 Volcanics Oligocene?172 Elko Eocene408 Diamond Peak L Miss570 Chainman Sandstone E Miss, Osagean3156 Chainman Shale E Miss, Osagean3635 Tripon Pass E Miss Kinderhookian5948 Guilmette L Dev6968 Bay State Dolo M Dev7448 Sentinel Mtn Dolo M Dev8128 Oxyoke Canyon M Dev, Emsian8557 Dolomite E Dev - L Silurian10169 Roberts Mountain Silurian11222 Ely Springs Ordovician
The Kimbark oil well cuts a complete sectionthrough the Adobe area stratigraphic column.Diamond Shamrock biostratigraphic workmatches with that of the USGS at Adobe.
Adobe Project Stratigraphy
The Tripon Pass Fm is exposed at surface on the Adobe project. The target horizon is regional karst at the top of the Guilmette Fm.
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Chainman Sandstone
Chainman Shale
Tripon Pass Fm
Pilot Shale horizon
Guilmette Fm
Adobe Project Geology
Older, NE trending Garamendi Anticline looking southwest
Mesoscopic Parasitic Folds on steep limb of Garamendi Anticline
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Adobe Project Geology
* Each section is one square mile
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Adobe Project Geology
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Adobe Lower Plate Window:
Main Targeted Gold Host Stratigraphy
The Adobe LPW consists of Upper Devonian transitional limestone that is exposed over a large area a few miles
southwest of Sitka’s main acquisition target area & dome structure.
Semi-massive detrital petroliferous limestone is variably inter-bedded with thinly laminated, argillaceous
limestone and limey shale.
These units are comparable and equivalent to the tops of the main gold host rocks at Carlin (Rodeo Creek
Formation) and at Cortez (Horse Canyon Formation).
Structural interpretations show these units occur at depth (<500m) beneath our targeted dome structure and
wide spread alteration assemblages observed at surface.
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Panoramic view of the Adobe Lower Plate Window
Middle Eocene Angular Unconformity:
Syn-Mineral Deformation
Eocene Elko Formation is folded about the Major NW Anticline.
Age of folding is bracketed by an angular unconformity ~40.4 Ma
Timing linked with age of all Carlin-type gold deposits 36-42 Ma
Main Target: young, unhealed breccia related to the NW brittle folding within LPW stratigraphy located at depth along the NW fold trend within Dome Structure.
South Dipping, pervasively altered and Arsenic-rich Eocene Elko Formation
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Evidence of Carlin-Age Style, Structurally Controlled
Alteration Assemblages
Oil shale, conglomerate, limestone and tuff of the Elko Formation is folded “domed” indicating active local tectonism in the Middle Eocene.
Hydrothermal activity & alteration assemblages are concentrated along the NW fold axis trend and occupies all pre-existing structures and pervasively alters the Eocene Elko Fm.
Silicification & Hematite/Limonite (+arsenic) are extensively developed in folded Eocene Elko Fm. on the SW flank of the project area. Multiple areas mapped as “cherts” are actually jasperoids localized along stratigraphic horizons, unconformities, near tear faults and fold limbs.
Intense, pervasive decalcification, hematite -limonite alteration and jasperoids (+arsenic) occur along the folded Permian/Mississippianangular unconformity.
Other: base metal occurrences and small mines are present in Mississippian and Upper Plate rocks and represent the only publicly reported mineralization in the area. This is analogous to the Pequop Range prior to the discovery of Long Canyon.
Jasperoid creates a ridge along the Perm/Miss unconformity for over two miles in the exploration target area.
Silicified, Hematitic Elko Fm.
Resistant Jasperoid
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Reconnaissance Geochemistry
Rocks and stream sediment
samples indicate Carlin-type
pathfinders are anomalous in
most altered rock types and
structures where sampled at
Adobe.
Carlin-5 (As, Hg, Sb, Tl, S)
The highest Arsenic values occur
within silicified and hematite
altered conglomerates of the Elko
Formation and along the
Perm/ Miss Unconformity within
the NW fold axis corridor.
Deformed, silicified, brecciated
and argillically altered carbonates
sampled within the Lower Plate
Window exhibit trace
concentrations of Carlin-type
pathfinder elements.
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Adobe Project
Stream Sediment Geochemistry
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Anomalous Hg and Au coincide with a NE trending anticline
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Adobe Project Drill Targets
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Target A
Adobe Project Drill Targets
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Target B
Adobe Project Drill Targets
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Target C
Adobe Project
Area of Interest and Land Status
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Federal Minerals & Surface: White Federal Minerals & Fee Surface: Black Cross-hatch
Alpha Gold Property
A Carlin-type gold target in the
heart of the Carlin-District
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Alpha Gold Project
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A Highly Prospective Carlin-Type Gold Target:
Over 1,000 acre property targeting the intersection of the 50 Moz Cortez Gold Trend and the regional scale Pine Valley–Garden Valley anticline
Anticlinal Crest preserved by an Eocene-aged Collapse Fault with 10,000 ft offset and historic Silver-Lead-Zinc districts unroofed in the footwall
Stratigraphic interpretations suggest prime Late Devonian host horizon occurs at reasonable depth (less that 500m)
Four way dip closure indicated by geologic mapping of the upper–lower Vinini Fm contact
NE Cross-Structures also host nearby gold deposits
Potential to discover a multi-million ounce Carlin Style gold deposit in an area with proven deposits and mines
Drill targets have been identified and drill permits have been secured from the BLM.
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Alpha Gold Target Location
The Alpha Gold Target lies at the Intersection of the 50 Million Ounce Cortez Gold Trend with the Pine Valley – Garden Valley Anticline
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Alpha Gold Target Location
Intersecting North to Northwest and Northeast folds and structures host Carlin-type gold mines in the Roberts Mountains and help define the Alpha Gold target
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Pine Valley-Garden Valley Anticline &
Garden Pass Fault System
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The Pine Valley -- Garden Valley anticline formed in the hanging wall of the Hoosac thrust during Sevier aged contraction in the Central Nevada thrust belt. The Garden Pass normal fault system subsequently became active in the Eocene, along the crest of the anticline, preserving Eocene, Oligocene and Miocene volcanic rocks in a half graben.
The Mineral Hill and Alpha silver-lead-zinc districts are exposed in the footwall of the fault. Amoco discovered the Blackburn Oil Field in the early 1980’s, determining it to be controlled by a north-south anticline.
The Table Mountain F-11X-6G oil well was drilled by Mobil Oil in the 1990’s targeting an area of interpreted 4-way dip closure on the southward projection of the anticline. Mobil had conducted six years of regional mapping, and geologic compilation in the area. Cuttings from the Table Mountain F-11X-6G oil well yielded almost 4,000’ averaging 26 ppb Au, 260 ppm As and highly anomalous Hg and Tl indicating the anticline has focused Carlin-type mineralization.
The Roberts Mountains thrust lies at a depth of 4,935 feet beneath Table Mountain, but rises much nearer to surface at Alpha. Surface samples containing greater than 100 ppb Au are reported from the Vinini or Webb Fm at Alpha.
Gold deposits in the adjacent Roberts Mountains concentrate at the Webb/Devils Gate contact which could lie at 500-1000’ below surface at Alpha.
The Garden Valley Anticline
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The Garden Valley Anticline is better preserved and potentially more prospective than the heavily explored Roberts Mountains Anticline. The Garden Valley anticline was at the crest of this mountain range prior to Eocene and later extensional collapse on the Garden Pass fault system. Movement on the Garden Pass fault is well timed for directing Carlin aged ore fluids. The Pipeline, Cortez Hills and Goldrush mega-deposits of the Cortez district are all hosted in anticlines. Gold deposits in the Roberts Mountains are found on the flanks of the anticlines because host stratigraphy is breached at the crest by erosion.
Alpha Gold Stratigraphy
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Geologic mapping in the Roberts Mountains recognized limestone thrust slices (Dl) at the contact between the Vinini Fm (Ov) and the Webb Fm (Mw). Devonian carbonate rocks surfacing near Alpha are thrust slices, not actual lower plate. Published geologic maps estimate the Webb Formation to be 300-1000 feet thick. Gold deposits occur below the Webb Fm at the top of the Devils Gate Fm (Ddg), a regional karst zone.
Cross-section from Cooper Peak Quadrangle (Murphy et al., 2007)
Alpha Gold Cross Section
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Similar limestone thrust slices occur at the laterally equivalent Vinini/Horse Canyon contact in the Cortez district. This cross-section also illustrates how erosion makes discovery easier, but also may remove much of the ore deposit. The anticlinal crest is preserved at Alpha.
Cross Section - Cortez Hills
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The Cortez Hills deposit (15 Moz Au) is preserved in the hanging wall of the Cortez fault, which has over 5,000 feet of offset. The historic Cortez silver-lead-zinc mineralization is exposed in the footwall of the Cortez fault, analogous to the Alpha silver-lead-zinc district in the footwall of the Garden Pass fault at Alpha. The typical stratiform Carlin-type part of the Cortez Hills deposit was probably eroded creating the Pediment deposit which is essentially an ore-clast gravel (see map to right).
Creel and Bradley, 2013
The Goldrush deposit along the crest of the Red Hills anticline illustrates a potential target footprint for Alpha Gold. Goldrush is about one kilometre wide and six kilometres long.
Potential Target Footprint for
Alpha Gold
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Coppermine River
Project
A massive, under-explored district
with the potential to host world
class stratiform sediment-hosted
and volcanic-hosted copper
deposits.
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Coppermine River Project
Location
Coppermine River Project
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50,500 hectare (125,000 acre) land package 20-50 km from Kugluktuk, NU.
High-grade samples in area run up to 70% Cu.
Potential for Ni-Cu-PGE mineralization.
Northwest Passage recently proven as viable shipping route.
Good access, close to town with commercial air and sea support.
Adjacent to Kaizen Discovery’s active 2015 drilling program.
Native land claims fully settled.
Exploration currently on hold due to uncertainty regarding proposed land use changes in the current Nunavut Planning Committee draft land use plan.
Major Copper Deposits
of the World
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EXAMPLES OF VOLCANIC-HOSTED COPPER DEPOSITS
KEWEENAW PENINSULA – Michigan, USAo 387.5 Million Tons @ 2% Cu( ~ 15.5 Billion Pounds of Copper)
MT. ISA PROVINCE – Queensland, Australiao 280.3 Million Tons @ 3.3% Cu( ~ 18.5 Billion Pounds of Copper)
EXAMPLES OF STRATIFORM SEDIMENT-HOSTED COPPER DEPOSITS
KAMOA MINE – Katanga, Democratic Republic of Congoo Over 739 Million Tons @ 2.67% Cu(~ 43.5 billion pounds of Copper)
FORE-SUDETIC MONOCLINE – Polando 3 Billion Tons @ 2% Cu, 50g/t Ag
(~ 120 billion pounds of Copper, 5.0 billion ounces of Silver)
*All values are approximate, derived from government records, historic estimates and public documents or estimated from historic data
Copper Leaf
Showing
Sediment Hosted.
Surface samples up to 13.45 %
copper and 65 g/t silver.
Mineralization traced for over 2 km.
Malachite and Chalcocite
mineralization.
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Coppermine Project
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Arctic Copper Claims blocks in red = 50,500 hectares (125,000 acres)
NEW
DISCOVERY:
Copper Leaf
Showing.
Sediment
Hosted
Copper
Copper Leaf Showing
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Figure 8. Airborne magnetics of the eastern ACG block of mineral tenures showing the prominent and mineralized gabbro dyke (dashed lines).
Copper Leaf Showing Plan Map: Gravity
Geophysics Survey Line & Assays
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Figure 6. Copper Leaf Showing: mineralization, sampling, and interpreted bedrock geology(note: over 95% of surface is covered by tundra).
Copper Leaf Showing
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Section A-A’ Showing Gravity Anomaly and Coincident Copper Leaf Discovery
Win Copper
Showing
Sample of Massive
Chalcocite and Malachite
(volcanic-hosted Cu)
41.54% Cu at the WIN
Showing (sample R442005)
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Coppermine Project
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Arctic Copper Claims blocks in red = 50,500 hectares (125,000 acres)
WIN Copper
Showing
41.54% Cu
(select grab)
CORPORATE INQUIRIES
Office: 604.979.0509
Email: [email protected]
www.sitkagoldcorp.com
HEAD OFFICE
1500-409 Granville Street
Vancouver, BC, V6C 1T2
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