| Manalo - West Africa |
Manalo | Dialafara | Sirabada |  43-101 Technical Report |
| Mansaya | Manalo Nord Est | Manalo Sud Est | Dialafara Nord | Current Exploration Program |
Delta Exploration Inc. has been exploring the Manalo project since 2004. Property wide airborne geophysics, property wide soil geochemistry and follow up ground geophysics have been conducted, which resulted in the discovery of six gold mineralized areas: Dialafara, Dialafara Nord, Manalo Nord E, Manalo Sud E, Mansaya and Sirabada. Delta completed 122 holes totaling12,941 metres of reverse circulation drilling with selected core tails and 37 holes totaling 2,738 metres of air core drilling.
Property Wide Gold-In-Soil Geochemistry
Appleton has completed four drill program to date: May 2009, November 2009, March 2010 and June 2010. Most of the drilling has been directed at the Dialafara Zone as Appleton waited for the Malian Government to complete the renewal process on the Mansaya permit. Sixty-nine holes, totaling 8,285 metres of reverse circulation drilling with selected core tails and a further 162 holes totaling 8,392 metres of air core drilling were completed at Dialafara. Initial air core programs were completed at Sirabada and Mansaya in June 2010: 39 holes totaling 2,586 metres at Sirabada and 52 holes totaling 1,784 metres at Mansaya.
Key Drill Highlights From Manalo Drilling Programs To August 2010
| Zone | Hole | Host | gpt Au | m width |
| Dialafara (North Segment) | MDL-08-032 | vein | 1.61 | 16 |
| Dialafara (North Segment) | MDL-08-036 | altered zone | 15.64 | 16 |
| Dialafara (North Segment) | MDL-09-056 | vein | 640 | 3 |
| Dialafara (North Segment) | MDL-09-065 | vein | 34.97 | 7 |
| Dialafara (North Segment) | MDL-09-079 | vein | 10.75 | 5 |
| Dialafara (South Segment) | MDL-07-002 | vein | 29.07 | 6 |
| Dialafara (South Segment) | MDL-09-054 | vein | 3.32 | 18 |
| Dialafara (South Segment) | MDL-09-073 | vein | 6.27 | 25 |
| Dialafara (South Segment) | MDL-09-086 | vein zone | 1.62 | 61 |
| Dialafara (South Segment) | MDL-09-099 | vein zone | 1.62 | 53 |
| Dialafara (South Segment) | MDL-09-110 | vein zone | 3.68 | 10 |
| Mansaya | MMS-08-004 | altered zone | 0.52 | 43 |
| Mansaya | MMS-08-008 | altered zone | 0.75 | 29 |
| Mansaya | MMS-08-009 | altered zone | 0.56 | 23 |
| Manalo Nord Est | MNE-06-029 | vein | 18.48 | 11 |
| Manalo Nord Est | MNE-07-012 | vein | 12.06 | 8 |
Delta Exploration Inc. determined the Dialafara Zone to be a 3 kilometre, northwest trending zone consisting of two, steeply dipping quartz vein zones based on their initial 4,469 metre 40 drill hole programs in 2007 and 2008. s totalling 4,469 metres. The southernmost section had been drill tested along a length of 1,300 metres and to depth of approximately 85 metres. The northernmost zone is offset approximately 500 metres to the east and had been drill tested along a length of 520 metres to depth of 110 metres. Drill intersections to 29.1 gpt Au over 6 metres have been recorded from the vein zones and 15.64 gpt Au over 16 metres in a silicified meta-psammite. The Appleton drill programs have refined this interpretation, defining two mineralization segments within th Dialafara Zone: the Northern Segment and the Southern Segment.
The Sirabada zone consists of an area of extensive artisanal mine workings associated with intense clay alteration. Quartz veins and a pervasively seriticitized psammitic unit were intersected. A total of 2,335 metres were drilled in 21 holes to test gold-in-soil and chargeability anomalies. The results to date indicate gold is erratically distributed throughout the Sirabada zone.
The best intersection was 2.61 gpt Au over 2 metres in MSB-08-013.Manalo Nord Est consists of a northwesterly striking steep westerly dipping quartz vein zone that has been traced for a length of 500 metres before it trends off the Manalo property to the north. A total of 4,614 metres in 57 holes have tested the zone. Drill intersection highlights include: 18.48 gpt Au over 11 metres in MMN-06-029 and 12.06 gpt Au over 6 metres in MMN-07-012.
The Mansaya area consists of two gold-in-soil anomalous areas. A total of 905 metres in 9 holes were completed in the north zone. A meta-psammite horizon shows consistent quartz sericite alteration and 1-2% pyrite. Holes MMS-08-007 through MMS-08-012 intersected this horizon with the best intersection of 0.80 gpt Au over 20 metres in MMS-08-008, suggesting a possible bulk tonnage target. Eight holes totaling 774 metres were completed in the southern area, which is more a vein zone. MMS-08-018 returned 10.71 gpt Au over 3 metres, the best value from the 8 holes.
The northwesterly striking Manalo Sud Est quartz vein system has been traced 600 metres. Eleven holes totaling 1,057 metres were completed. The best intersection was 0.73 gpt Au over 5 metres from MSE-08-005.
A strong and persistent, northwesterly striking quartz vein system has been traced by quartz vein rubble crop for approximately 2 kilometres at Dialafara Nord. A total of 974.3 metres were drilled in a series of 8 holes. Drill intersections to 18.65 gpt Au over 1 metre have been recorded from this zone.
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.
