Projects Overview

Claim Block "C" Property

Northwestern Ontario General Location Map
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Rainy River Gold Exploration Claims Map
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The "C" claim property is located near the international boundary with Minnesota. The nearest population centre is Fort Frances, 50 kilometres to the southwest. Bayfield's properties lie within the Rainy River Greenstone Belt. This belt is one component of the western part of the Archean Wabigoon Subprovince of the Canadian Shield, a 900 km long east-west trending metavolcanic-metasedimentary domain bordered and intruded by granitoid intrusions of up to batholithic dimensions. The Wabigoon Subprovince is composed of several tectonically bounded assemblages consisting of komatiitic to calc-alkalic metavolcanics overlain by clastic and minor chemical sediments. Intrusion of the granitoid domes has imparted a synformal structural character to the supracrustal rocks, and the central axial zones of many of these synformal belts may be characterized by long sinuous shear / fault zones.

Rainy River District Geology
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Claim Block "C" EM Conductor
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A tightly spaced line-cut grid consisting of approximately 70 kilometres was established on the Claim Block "C" property. Bayfield Ventures carried out a detailed Magnetometer survey and an Electro-Magnetic (EM) survey with Dan Patrie Explorations. The geophysical program was designed to establish targets that will be diamond drilled. The property has a large area of low lying acreage and swampland, so the work program was designed to utilize winter access to the maximum and to allow a comprehensive drill program to follow.

Claim Block "C" Ground Magnetic Survey
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Claim Block "C" Overburden Drilling
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Rainy River Resources' March 2010 NI 43-101 resource calculation shows an indicated resource of 2.37 million ounces of gold (averaged at 1.3 g/t) and inferred resources of 2.66 million ounces of gold (averaged at 1.2 g/t). Of the total 5.03 million ounces Au inferred and indicated, 4.09 million ounces Au are contained within open pit parameters and the remaining 0.94 million ounces Au are below open pit depths.

Bayfield's properties are ideally located with easy access to roads and power. Ontario has low political risk and the Rainy River District has skilled labour and is one of the lowest-cost areas for mineral exploration and development in Canada.