The Shining Tree Gold Project

Click here to enlarge map

The Shining Tree Gold Project consists of 5 claim units (80 hectares) located in the Churchill Township, Ontario, Canada. It is located within the prolific Abitibi greenstone belt which is renowned for its concentration of world-class gold and Au-Cu-Zn-Ag deposits. The Shining Tree Camp is roughly equidistant (110km) from the prolific mining centers around Timmins, Kirkland Lake, Cobalt-New Liskeard and Sudbury. Numerous occurrences of visible gold in quartz veins have been found in the last century near Shining Tree and several vein systems were developed as the Tyranite and Ronda mines.

The Shining Tree Camp has been the subject of much exploration activity. Pro Minerals' claim block was at the centre of a staking rush in the late 1990's led by famed prospector Carl Forbes and gained notoriety when a major Canadian news network filmed and aired a short documentary showing competing exploration companies who hired high-school and college track athletes to stake claims on their behalf in an effort get the most prospective ground in the shortest amount of time possible. This claim block has been held privately since that time thus has never been drill tested and access to results from previous exploration activities has been limited. Pro believes its underexplored Shining Tree Project is a highly prospective property for gold occurrences.

In March 2010 Pro completed an initial exploration program consisting of line cutting and geophysics. The geophysical campaign was carried out by Insight Geophysics and consisted of 7687m of Tuned Gradient IP survey, 1500m of Section IP survey and 8900m of total field magnetic surveying. The surveys successfully identified a number of high priority targets and the Company has now completed a bedrock sampling program consisting of blasting, trenching and channel sampling over 5 high priority targets. Outcrop inspections were also completed for numerous secondary geophysical target responses identified by the surveys.