Amador Canyon Project

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  • Project covers gold / silver target
  • In 2007, samples taken within the Amador Canyon Gold Zone assayed 10.30 g/t and 6.04 g/t gold, respectively
  • Amador Canyon has seen limited drilling; with a historical drill hole returning 286 g/t silver over 12.2 metres
  • RC drilling completed in 2009 intersected significant alteration associated with anomalous silver values (remains open in all directions)
  • Further exploration to follow up on Gold Zone is warranted
Location

The Amador Canyon Project is situated in the Austin mining district of central Nevada. The project is well located approximately five kilometers north of the town of Austin with good road access.
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Overview

The Amador Canyon Project was previously a portion of the Company's much larger Reese River Project, which had been targeted towards silver exploration. New Dimension has terminated the majority of the Reese River claims, but continues to retain the right to obtain full ownership in the majority of the Amador Canyon claims.
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Work Performed

At Amador Canyon, limited drilling was previously completed to test manto style mineralization hosted in segments. Drill results from that program reportedly included a 12.2 metre intercept averaging 286 g/t silver. Multiple targets of this type remain to be tested. In addition to the manto style targets, mapping and sampling at Amador Canyon has also focused on a large easterly trending structural zone that saw significant historic mining activity. Also of potential importance is that sampling by the Company in the Amador Canyon area also identified gold values up to 10 g/t. This prospective gold zone is located several hundred metres east of the main silver zone at Amador Canyon and represents a potentially significant stand-alone gold target on the property.

2009 Drill Program
In September of 2009, the Company completed six reverse circulation drill holes totaling 717 metres in Amador Canyon to test three separate target areas. Only one drill hole, RR#14, positioned in the East Zone intersected noteworthy silver mineralization. This included a wide zone of anomalous silver with a high value over 1.5 metres of 125 g/t. This hole is situated approximately 300 metres along Amador Canyon to the east from the main area of historic silver production. The area contains virtually no outcrop and drilling here identified a previously unknown zone of potentially important silver hosted within a wide favorable alteration zone. The zone remains open in all directions. A second hole in the area (RR#15) was lost at 32 metres and did not reach the mineralized horizon. The remaining four drill holes, RR#12, 13, 16 and 17 were positioned to test a steeply dipping manto style shear zone as well as the major easterly trending Amador Fault that has reported significant historical mining activity. All of these drill-holes encountered anomalous silver values with a high value of 52.5 g/t silver over 1.5 metres in RR#12.


Amador Canyon Drill Results

Target
Name		 Drill Hole
Number		 Hole Depth
(Metres		 Noteworthy Results
From - To (Metres)		 Intercept
(Metres)		 Average
Grade Ag g/t
East Zone RR-14 111.3 15.2 to 24.3 9 10.8
      33.5 to 91.5 59.5 4.29
      91.5 to 93 1.5 125
      93 to 111.3 18.3 5.02
  RR-15 32 hole lost at 32 m   no noteworthy
values
Amador
Fault		 RR-12 71.6 16.8 to 22.9 6.1 12.16
      inc. 1.5 52.5
  RR-13 82.3 7.6 to 59.5 52 3.05
  RR-16 97.6 33.5 to 36.5 3 14.6
Manto
Target		 RR-17 111.3 7.6 to 12.2 4.6 8.8
      22.9 to 50.3 27.4 3.69
      88.4 to 89.9 1.5 26.0



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Geology

The Company's main targets of interest at Amador Canyon are veins and shear zones that are formed at or near the contact between intrusive rocks and overlying sediments. Many of these shears have shallow to moderate dips and appear to follow bedding planes in the sediments and form "stacked" tabular zones of mineralization. Other veins and shears on and within the area of the property cross cut bedding with generally steeper dips and can be projected into the underlying intrusive rocks. These are the likely feeder structures to the mineral system. This contact area is a structurally disrupted zone that facilitated the introduction and dispursment of mineralizing solutions and this favourable environment has seen very limited exploration in modern times.
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