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A brief story of success of the lineament analysis

Copper and Gold

In November 1999 we successfully applied the Lineament Analysis and R.C.C.™ method to a blind test area in

Rouyn- Noranda. Using only lineaments, we were able to determine the presence of 12 known mines, and to

differentiate them into gold and copper-gold ones.

“Too good to be true…, but in this case it was. Just by using lineaments, they identified all major known gold

and copper deposits and could even differentiate two separated metallogenic zones… and they didn’t even know

at that time where was the area under study!”

John Harvey, EnergoSources, 1999 (705-527-0357)

International Mining Competition “the Challenge” sponsored and conducted by Goldcorp

- 2000

Dr. Galkine was a participant of the Competition which attracted huge interest of the mining community

at the time. Dr. Galkine became one of the 15 semi-finalists of the Challenge with his application of the

Lineament Analysis and Physical Modeling to the search for the next six million ounces of gold on the

Goldcorp’s Property.

Below are two slides from his Presentation which deserved international recognition of the method by

the judges of the Contest.

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Operation Treasure Hunt ( Ontario, 2000)

During the year 2000, we applied the method to several areas within the Treasure Hunt Project in the Province

of Ontario. Our targets completely coincided with the results of the flight-through aero-magnetic program, at

a fraction of the cost and time. Field checking of some of our targets (Fig. 1) confirmed the presence of

alteration, mineralization, abrupt changes in tectonics, etc.

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Figure 1. Uldis Abolins takes samples from a mineralized quartz vein from a target area predicted by our

method in Southern Ontario.

By the end of the year 2000, we introduced the binary analysis of the distribution of known mineralized zones

which enabled us to do a more targeted search within the studied areas.

The year 2001 marked the beginning of the international application of this method with the study of an

area in Mexico for Intrepid Minerals Corp. and of our first kimberlitic studies within the James Bay Lowlands

Area for Dumont Nickel Inc. and for 1081798 Ontario Inc.

“Excellent work! It was delivered on time and with an outstanding presentation”

Don Farrell, Tyrell Geological Services, 2000 (604-685-3900)

Figure 2. Circular structures at Suaqui Grande, Sonora, México.

“Intriguing! … [your interpretation] pointed out to a complete new area that we did not consider at the

beginning”

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Dr. Laurence Curtis, Intrepid Minerals Corp., 2000 (416-368-4525)

Kimberlites

On test-works conducted in the area (Fig. 3) we were able to locate 100% of all the known Jurassic kimberlitic

intrusions, as well as 85% of all the known pre Cambrian ones, which are covered by hundreds of metres of

Paleozoic sediments.

As of the last field season, we have three new kimberlitic targets confirmed on surface within the James Bay

Lowlands area.

Figure 3. At the Attawapiskat River our method identified all the known kimberlitic intrusions, including the

diamond-producing Victor Pipe.

“I must congratulate you with the quality and timing of your presentation and for introducing a different point

of view on the interpretation of the current data”

Stephen McIntyre, Dumont Nickel Inc., 2001 (416-364-5569)

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Figure 4. This study identified all the known kimberlitic pipes in the Attawapiskat region.

“Incredible results, but they make sense. We are staking these targets now”

Gordon Leliever, 1081798 Ontario Inc., 2001 (519-940-8117)

Oil and Gas

Since 2003 we have successfully applied our technique to the exploration of oil and gas deposits in the United

States. We have been able to identify reefs structures located hundreds of metres deep and in a recent test-

study in Tennessee, we were able to locate all the known oil and gas fields in an area of 120 square miles

near Oak Ridge. This work is illustrated in Fig. 5 – Fig.7.

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Figure 5. During a blind study in Tennessee we identified the Oneida Oil field hundreds of metres below a

sedimentary unit associated to corals.

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Figure 6. The rose diagram interpretation helped us identified the Oneida oil field.

“I am impressed! nothing could put you closer to an oil field than this technique”

Michel Gamblin, Cambridge Resources Inc., 2001 (865-483-1726)

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Figure 7. Combined prospective map for oil and gas.

“If presentation and readability are half the battle... you have won already!”

Derek Barttlet, Blue Emerald Inc., 2001 (905-814-7630)

Different types of de

In 2001 we completed a successful study at NW Ontario (Fig. 8), where we, for the first time, developed

the method to target different types of ore deposits (Fig. 9)

Figure 8. Report on the Birch

eposits - gold and diamond in the s

we completed a successful study at NW Ontario (Fig. 8), where we, for the first time, developed

the method to target different types of ore deposits (Fig. 9)

. Report on the Birch-Uchi lineament study.

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same area

we completed a successful study at NW Ontario (Fig. 8), where we, for the first time, developed

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Figure 9. Selective targets for gold and diamond. Coordinates are blanked for obvious reasons.

Kimberlites again

Also in 2001 we conducted a successful test to locate known kimberlites using only lineaments (Fig. 10). It

should be highlighted that the study took less than two months and at low cost, and we identified all the known

kimberlitic targets in the area, including the Victor Pipe!

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Figure 10. Blind test study for the location of known kimberlites using only lineament analysis.

Uranium

V. Galkine applied the Remote Exploration method to the uranium property of Unor Inc ( located

in Western Nunavut, Canada) while working with the Company as Senior Consulting Geologist ( 2004- 2009 ).

The targets outlined by the combination of the Lineament Analysis and Physical Modeling turned out to

be in a good correlation with the results of the airborne EM Survey, as well as with ground magnetic survey

and mapping and sampling data. The almost exact match of the method’s target in the southern arm of the

property and mapped alteration zone (also supported by PIMA analyses about two years later) became another

objective confirmation of the validity and capacities of the Remote Exploration Technique. Two slides below

show the results of the Lineament Analysis targeting and Physical Modeling targeting respectfully (Fig.11-12).

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Fig.11 Western Nunavut. Unor’s uranium property. Lineament Analysis and Targets.

Fig.12 Western Nunavut. Unor’s uranium property. Physical Modeling and Targets.

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Uranium again.

In October-November, 2009 we did Lineament Analysis and Physical modeling on the Macusani area

(Puno Department) in Peru which included several concessions (prospects) for uranium (Vena Resources,

Canada-Peru, by the request of David Bent, VP Exploration of Vena at the time). The area of the analysis

covered more than 1000 sq.km.

Figure 13. shows our results of the target generation for the area. Target generation took into account the

maximums of lineaments densities and maximums of elastic and plastic experimental modelling results.

Fig.13 Lineament analysis maximums, modeling maximums and main lineaments overlay for the LINCOLN

XXVI-XXXI area (Macusani, Punto Department, Peru).

The following image ( Figure 14 .) shows the drilling program locations conducted in 2009-2010, i.e.

after the analysis, and plans for the campaign of 2011. Vena’s drilling set up is seen as located in the immediate

vicinity or very close to our targets for both Tantamaco and Isivilla Prospects (Fig. 15). Good mineralization

results were obtained in 2009-2010 (see Vena Resources website, press-releases of 2009-2010, 2011 on

Macusani)).

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Fig. 14

Fig. 15

In our view, this is one of the unquestionable examples of the success and the perspectives of our

targeting method.

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Silver

In May 2009 we did Structural Lineament Analysis of the Silver Property in South Lorrain Township,

ON, Canada –for Crown Minerals Inc, Toronto (Fig. 16).

Fig. 16. Locations of the Ag- properties on the satellite image with active claims (compiled with OGS Earth)

Fig. 17

In Fig.17 the secondary and, accordingly, tertiary lineaments were overlaid onto the scheme of the

existent Vein Systems. The agreement between many of the mineralized veins and secondary and tertiary

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lineaments locations was striking! In red outline and/or with red arrows I highlighted the strongest cases of

remarkable spatial coincidence between veins and lineaments. Watson Vein, Woods Vein, veins 25, 26, 20 and

1 (Technical report is available at request) are located along the either secondary or tertiary lineaments.

These results give us the direct exploration directive – we should be following and testing the lineaments

first and foremost. I recommended to concentrate first on the secondary lineaments elsewhere on the property,

in the first turn – in the areas outlined in yellow in Fig. 17.

Gold again.

In 2010, yet before becoming VP Exploration for Hy Lake Gold (now West Red Lake Gold Mines), Dr.

Galkine conducted a very comprehensive study on the Company’s Property in Western Ontario (Red Lake Gold

District). It could be reviewed in details either from Dr. Galkine’s Linkedin page, or by following this link:

http://www.slideshare.net/VadimGalkine/structural-study-of-the-west-red-lake-area-53747535

The Remote Exploration study involved Structural Lineament Analysis, Physical Modeling in

multilayered GIS environment. All the existing data - geological, geophysical, geochemical, satellite and air-

photo – have been analyzed. Anyone interested is advised to see a full text.

Here we want to mention just one of the results: the study of the lineament systems shown that gold-

bearing breccias corridor on the neighboring from the S-W Confederation’s (then Red Star) property has similar

features on the Hy Lake Property. It was recommended (Fig. 18) that the secondary lineament intersections with

the main breccias trend should be drilled with good chances to discovery good gold intersections.

The follow-up drilling in the 2010 and later drilling programs led by Dr.Galkine confirmed the

assumption from the Remote Exploration method and delineated a new gold-bearing zone on Hy Lake Gold

property.

Fig. 18

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Current development

Nowadays we continue developing our method with new techniques to locate target zones more

effectively and efficiently. Our more recent additions include 3D strain and stress modeling of main structures,

binary distribution studies of ore deposits, color-imaging analysis of sat-photos, and rose diagrams analysis of

surficial lineaments as well as subsurface modeling.