The Fame property was originally explored in the late 1980’s, with four showings located along the + 2 kilometre Kelsch Lineament: Twilight, Discovery, Double D and Kelsch. Along with bleaching and silicification, drusy quartz veins and veinlets exhibiting typical epithermal textures were noted at these showings. Historic sampling of these zones returned gold values ranging from 5 ppb to 14.8 grams per tonne (gpt). Limited diamond drilling on the Discovery, Kelsch and Double D zones returned values from 5 ppb to 0.890 gpt Au from quartz stringer / alteration zones.

Appleton completed a 100 by 50 metre soil grid over the Twilight Zone in 2006. Gold-in-soil values ranged from 5 ppb to 75 ppb Au. Two sub parallel linear anomalies were defined: one in the area of the Twilight Zone and the other to the northwest on the other side of the 2900 road.

Appleton bedrock chip sampling from 2006 and early 2007 returned values from 150 ppb to 2.27 gpt Au from the Discovery zone, 35 ppb to 160 ppb Au on the Double D zone and 845 ppb Au and 1.65 gpt Au from the Kelsch zone.

Appleton concentrated on the Double D and Kelsch zones in late 2007, digging 8 excavator trenches: five in the Double D Zone and three in the Kelsch Zone. None of the three trenches in the Kelsch zone were able to reach bedrock. Bedrock exposure ranged from 45% to 86% in the 5 Double D zone trenches.

Bedrock consisted of weakly to strongly bleached, oxidized and silicified volcaniclastics. Local quartz pods and veinlets were encountered. All samples consist of 1 metre continuous bedrock chips.

Trench FM-07-04 was 14 metres long, with 64% of the trench exposing bedrock. Gold values ranged from 15 ppb Au to 0.675 gpt Au. A continuous 4 metre interval averaged 0.400 gpt Au. Additional 1 metre intervals returned values of 0.250gpt Au and 0.305 gpt Au.

Trench FM-07-06 was 14 metres long, with 86% of the trench exposing bedrock. Gold values ranged from 5 ppb Au to 0.810 gpt Au. A continuous 5 metre interval averaged 0.460 gpt Au.

Trench FM-07-03 was 13 metres long with 62% of the trench exposing bedrock. Gold values ranged from 15 ppb Au to 0.195 gpt Au.

Gold values in the remaining two trenches ranged from 5 to 95 ppb Au.