The company has entered into an option to purchase the Victor tungsten project located in the historic tungsten mining district of Inyo County, California.

The project consists of 13 granted patented lode mining claims covering a small high-grade historic tungsten mine.

The option can be exercised by payment of US$150,000 at any time within 2 years.

Rock chip samples taken in October 2008 from the project returned values up to 0.38% WO3 and 5.48% copper.

Mining History

Victor is in the historic tungsten mining region of Big Pine Mining District, Inyo County, California which includes the Bishop Mine developed by Union Carbide, which was the largest tungsten mine in the USA until closed in the 1970s. There is also a number of smaller historic tungsten mines in the area which operated prior to or just following World War 2.

Victor was mined for tungsten and copper by underground mining from prior to the First World War, and briefly after the Second World War, from six adits on either side of a prominent ridge of dolomitic marble in a region of granodiorite intrusion. Mining development was driven into the limestone, not into the skarns on the granodiorite-dolomite contact, which are considered to be the likely locus of mineralisation.

Ore from Victor was processed in Bishop, and the planned construction of a tungsten mill on the property failed when the government price support program for tungsten ended in the early 1950s. There has been no work done on the property since that time. Patented claims confer a perpetual right to minerals and the surface, and do not have a minimum expenditure commitment or minimum work program.