The Rosie Epithermal Gold Project comprises 216 mineral claims covering an area of 4515 hectares in the highly prospective Ruby Ranges of Southwest Yukon.

The Rosie Claim Group is located approximately  58 kilometers north of Destruction Bay and 107 kilometers northwest of the village of Haines Junction from which the Haines Highway extends 250 kilometers south to the deepwater port of Haines, Alaska. The Rosie Claim Group includes the easterly tributaries of Tyrell Creek as well as the two kilometer length of Tyrell Lake which will provide an ideal staging ground for exploration activity supported by float plane

The Rosie Claim Group was staked to protect an epithermal gold target indicated by regional stream geochemical surveys and the discovery in 2010 by the Yukon Geological Survey of an outcrop of highly silicified altered quartz feldspar porphyry near the top of the Ruby Range batholith, likely the result of a high sulphidation epithermal system.  Silicic and potassic alteration in the outcrop has the appearance of the high-sulphidization, epithermal style mineralization found above and adjacent to deeper porphyry systems.  The silicic alteration is likely the result of highly acidic, low pH fluids infiltrating the host rock.

The Rosie Claim Group is highly prospective for epithermal gold in quartz stockworks.  The regional geology is conducive to epithermal and porphyry style mineralization in the upper reaches of the Ruby Range batholith and Rhyolite Creek Volcanic-Plutonic Complex.  Regional stream sediment geochemistry data shows anomalous gold values coupled with one or more of copper, molybdenum, arsenic, mercury and antimony.  Recent work by the Yukon Geological Survey suggests a compelling similarity between this portion of the Coast Belt of Southwest Yukon and the prolific Juneau Gold Belt of Alaska.

The Ruby Range Batholith is a large plutonic complex which underlies the south and central portion of  the claim group, locally composed of quartz diorite, tonalite and granodiorite with lesser amounts of diorite, gabbro and granite.  The composition becomes more felsic up-section to the north culminating in voluminous amounts of quartzfeldspar porphyry.  The Rosie Claim Group includes outcrop of the Rhyolite Creek volcano-plutonic complex,  the youngest porphyritic phase of the  Ruby Range batholith and its volcanic equivalents and locally consists of intermediate volcanic flows, breccia and tuff, flow-banded rhyolite and felsic tuff, and rare mafic flows, breccia and tuff.

ROSIE CLAIM GROUP:  Highly silicified altered quartz feldspar porphyry at the top of the Ruby Range batholith, likely the result of a high sulphidation epithermal system.  View south, helicopter for scale.

In addition to the newly discovered silicified zone, other discrete targets exist on the Rosie Claim Group.  The contact of the Rhyolite Creek complex with the Ruby Range Batholith and Devonian Snowcap Assemblage on the eastern bank of Tyrell Creek encompasses an historic copper-molybdenum gold mineral occurrence and other targets in the northwest and southwest portions of the property include regional stream sediment geochemical anomalies in both the Rhyolite Creek complex and Ruby Range intrusives.

Historical mineral occurrences in the surrounding area suggest that prospects formerly thought to represent Casino-style copper-molybdenum-gold porphyry style mineralization are now believed to be associated with the upper-most and younger fractionated portion of the Ruby Range batholith.

Historical regional aeromagnetic data, although fairly coarse, tends to support the exploration potential of the Rosie Claim Group and regional airborne magnetometer data flown by the Geological Survey of Canada and released July 14^th, 2011 corroborates the targeting of this property.

ROSIE CLAIM GROUP:  Massive Silicification of Rhyolite Creek Quartz – Feldspar Porphyry (Photo Courtesy Yukon Geological Survey)

Ongoing work by the Yukon Geological Survey has drawn new attention to the Ruby Range, and recent staking activity suggests that junior exploration companies looking to acquire new and prospective ground outside of the heavily staked Dawson Range and Selwyn Basin Gold Districts of the Yukon are turning their attention to this region.  Shortly after the Rosie Claim Group was staked, the mineral tenures to the east and north were staked by competing interests also intent on securing the ground now covered by the Rosie Claim Group.

Solomon mobilized an exploration crew to the property on July 20^th, 2011.  Exploration was based out of Silver City, employing fly camps where practicable.  Helicopter support is available at both Haines Junction and Silver City for crew deployment.  Stream sediment sampling was used early in the season to corroborate historical company and RGS anomalies; prospecting and mapping traverses narrowed down areas for detailed followup. The 2011 program contemplated the acquisition of 400 soil geochemical samples.

ROSIE CLAIM GROUP:  Solomon Field Exploration Crews conduct geological mapping and soil geochemical surveys on the Rosie Claim Group.