The Company’s exploration programme commenced with regional exploration in 2004 and included mapping and trenching of the known mineralised zones in the central part of the license area. In addition, some of the regional gold occurrences and areas of gold geochemical soil anomalies were mapped.
Following this work the Company applied to the Government to enlarge the license area so as to include the three identified prospects; Chaarat, Kashkasu and Minteke.
Exploration to date however has focused mainly within an area of the southern most six kilometers of the 12 km Strike of the Chaarat Target. In this area the mineralisation is hosted in zones of up to 25 meters wide. Work in Minteke and Kashkasu was rather limited.
Underground development in the form of an adit, drifts and drill chambers in the Contact Zone has allowed the resource to be drill tested to a depth of 520 metres down dip with positive results.
Works include surface and underground drilling in a small section of about 1 km of the Contact Zone, surface drilling in a few areas of the Main zone and drilling and trenching in the Tulkubash zone.
As of the beginning of 2011 the exploration works is focused on bringing the resources to be mined by the company to such level as to allow the issuing of a mining permit and commence production.
The Chaarat Gold Project is currently confined to approximately ten kilometres along strike at the centre of the Sandalash License Area. Access to the Northern part of the Project is restricted by the mountainous terrain, but as road development advances additional targets are being identified which will be drilled.
As mentioned in the geological chapter Chaarat benefits from three parallel mineralized zones; the Cotnact Zone, the Tulkubash Zone and the Main Zone.