Dubuisson Discovery

Kiena's New Discovery

The new Dubuisson gold discovery is situated 3 kilometres east of the Kiena shaft and 3 kilometres north of Agnico Eagle's new Goldex Mine, in the east-central portion of Wesdome's extensive 7,200 hectare Dubuisson Township land position.

Despite intensive exploration dating to Fred Lapalme's original gold discovery in 1911, including ten former underground operations, this area had never been drilled.

This area was targeted as part of a 25,000 metre surface drilling program designed to investigate the potential of the Jacola Formation (2704 ± 2Ma) based on an exhaustive compilation of historic data undertaken in 2006 - 2007.

Regionally, the Jacola Formation is a member of the Malartic Group a southwest younging, steeply north dipping, fault (thrust?) bound collage of submarine volcanic and sedimentary rocks which dominates the southeast portion of the Abitibi Greenstone Belt. It is composed primarily of ultramafic flows and basaltic flows and is fault bound to the south by the Norbenite-Marban tectonic zone commonly interpreted as a secondary structure related to the Cadillac Break.

Regionally, the Malartic Group strikes WNW-ESE subparallel to the S1 schistosity. It is reworked by an E-W trending S2 cleavage to produce Z-folds at various scales. Examples of this are the Z-fold at the Camflo gold mine and the Z-fold comprising the Kiena S-50 zone which together have historically produced 3.5 million ounces of gold.

Wesdome currently interprets the changes in trend of geology across the central portion of its property to be related to an E-W corridor of rotated stratigraphy related to this S2 cleavage. It was previously interpreted to be caused by structural dislocation along a family of late NNE trending faults. The S-50 zone, New Martin zone, 22 zone and new Dubuisson discovery are all spaced one kilometre apart along this EW corridor. Is there another zone one kilometre east of the new discovery?

To date, first pass drilling consists of six 100 metre spaced, two hole crossections which were completed from a barge-mounted drill on Lac de Montigny before the ice set in. Highlights include:

4.45	gAu/tonne	over	5.1	m
6.82	gAu/tonne	over	7.7	m
6.92	gAu/tonne	over	8.0	m
8.75	gAu/tonne	over	5.8	m
4.25	gAu/tonne	over	17.0	m
7.35	gAu/tonne	over	2.7	m

Gold mineralization has been traced for 500 metres along strike and remains open in all directions. Drilling is still very widely spaced at this stage and a clear understanding of the geometry, internal continuity and true width of the mineralization requires more information.

At least two mineralized zones exist which most likely have a steep dip and NW-SE to E-W strikes. The discovery sits at a distinct regional flexure between WNW and E-W stratigraphic trends.

The mineralized zones are hosted by talc-chlorite schist bound enclaves of mixed diorite, feldspar porphyry and basalt within a broad sequence of strongly magnetic peridotitic komatiites. The style of mineralization consists of quartz-albite-tourmaline-pyrite veinlet stockworks in strongly albitized and pyritized diorite and/or feldspar porphyry.

The drilling pattern approaches a prominent headland along the southeast shore of the lake. A land based winter drilling program is being planned to trace the zone eastwards and see if it repeats itself. A barge-mounted summer drilling campaign is being planned with the purpose of improving our understanding of the shape and size of the Dubuisson zone with the goal of providing an inferred resource estimate.

Current underground workings on the 330 metre level extend to within one kilometre of the new discovery. Potential to extend these workings to provide a deep and detailed drilling platform and potentially direct access to the zone are being evaluated.

This recent exploration success serves to highlight the potential of our significant land holdings and the Val d'Or camp itself. Despite a mining history dating to 1929, the region continues to reveal new secrets. Historically, the camp was composed of many small claim groups with many owners. Wesdome's patience in cobbling together a large land package, integrated mining infrastructure and experienced people give us a competitive advantage in Val d'Or. We are confident continued diligence and persistence will lead to further successes.