Manalo	More on Manalo	Dialafara	Sirabada	43-101 Technical Report
Mansaya	Manalo Nord Est	Manalo Sud Est	Dialafara Nord	Current Exploration Program

Birimian Greenstone Belt
Appleton’s Manalo Gold Project is situated in the Birimian Greenstone Belt of Western Africa. These paleo-Proterozoic age rocks consist of volcanic and sedimentary units intruded and surrounded by related plutonic rocks.

The Birimian Greenstone Belt has a long history of gold mining with industrial history beginning in Ghana at the end of the 19th century. The modern Birimian Era began in the 1980’s with the discovery of very fine gold, which had been previously unknown, in the Loulo and Syama gold deposits in Mali. These discoveries underlined the gold potential of the Birimian Greenstone Belt of West Africa, which had remained underestimated outside Ghana.

On going exploration and development since the 1980’s has lead to the discovery of several world class deposits as shown in the proceeding table. Grades in these deposits vary greatly from 7.59 grams per tonne (gpt) Au at Obuasi to 1.21 gpt Au at Siguiri.

Gold Reserves and/or Production from Key Mines in the Birimian Greenstone Belt

Most Birimian hosted gold deposits occur in narrow corridors 10 to 15 kilometres wide, in the transition zone between volcanic belts and sedimentary basins which are characterized by regionally extensive shear zones. Two major styles of gold mineralization occur in the Birimian: structurally controlled quartz vein style deposits and chemical sediment hosted deposits where gold is associated in selvages to quartz veins.

Manalo Geology
The Manalo property is underlain by Birimian metasediments intruded by an upper Proterozoic to Paleozoic stock. The tightly folded and faulted metasediments consists of a sequence of siltstones, schists, quartzites, graphitic schists and peripheral flyschoids. The dominant structural trend is northwest. A small granodiorite plug has been mapped and inferred in the southeastern section of the property in the area of the Mansaya and Manalo Sud Est zones.

Gold mineralization at Manalo is primarily hosted in structurally controlled quartz veins with associated local to intense sericite alteration. The known quartz vein zones are: Dialafara, Dialafara Nord, Manalo Nord Est and Manalo Sud Est. The Mansaya Zone and possibly the Manalo Sud Est zone appear to be spatially related to a small granodiorite plug, suggesting a possible intrusion related gold host. The Sirabada Zone consists of a wide zone of intense kaolin alteration with associated micas that has destroyed the original texture and bleached the rock white.

Manalo Exploration History
Delta Exploration Inc. (now a wholly owned subsidiary of Rockgate Capital Corp.) acquired the Manalo concessions directly from the Malian government in 2004 and explored the property through to 2008.

• In 2004 a 100 metre line by 50 metre sample station soil grid totaling 1,071 samples was completed over the southeastern part section of the property. Several anomalies were identified in the Manalo Nord Est area.
• In 2006 a 37 hole, 1226.7 metre reverse circulation drilling program was completed in the Manalo Nord Est zone.
• In 2007 a property wide soil sampling program was completed on a 200 metre by 200 metre grid resulting in the collection of 3,838 samples. Preliminary mapping was also completed. This phase resulted in the discovery of the six known zones of mineralization: Dialafara, Dialafara Nord, Manalo Nord Est, Manalo Sud Est, Mansaya and Sirabada. A property wide magnetic, electromagnetic and radiometric airborne geophysical survey was completed over the entire property at an average line spacing of 150 metres. This survey helped delineate the various lithologies and structures on the property. Later in the year 5,033 metres of reverse circulation drilling was completed covering the Manalo Nord Est, Mansaya, Sirabada and Dialafara zones.
• Early in 2008 radiant array and high resolution ground induced polarization surveys were completed over portions of the Dialafara, Dialafara Nord and Mansaya zones. Detailed soil sampling was completed over the known zones of mineralization at 100 metre line spacings and 50 metre sample spacings resulting in the collection of a further 4,462 samples. This soil program further defined the anomalies in advance of a 69 hole 7,339 reverse circulation and 3 hole 221 metre diamond drilling program over the 6 known zones of mineralization.

Appleton Exploration Inc. acquired an option earn up to a 100% interest in the Manalo Gold Project from Rockgate Capital Corp. in February 2009. Since that time Appleton has completed the following exploration:

• In May 2009, an 18 hole reverse circulation with select diamond core tail drilling program totaling 2,185 metres and a 95 hole air core drilling program totaling 4,615 metres was completed at the Dialafara zone.
• In November 2009, a 15 hole reverse circulation drilling program totaling 1,800 metres was completed at the Dialafara zone.
• In March 2010, a 37 hole reverse circulation drilling program totaling 4,300 metres and a 67 hole air core drilling program totaling 3,777 metres was completed at the Dialafara zone.
• In June 2010, a 39 hole air core drilling program totaling 2,586 metres was completed at the Sirabada zone. A 52 hole air core drilling program was completed at Mansaya zone. Hand trenching programs were initiated at Dialafara zone South Segment and at Mansaya zone.

Property Wide Gold-In-Soil Geochemistry