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The O'Brien and Kewagama properties are located in one of the
most productive gold mining camps in Canada, the Cadillac mining
camp which has produced and has reserves and resources exceeding
18 million ounces of gold. Gold is associated with a series of
east-west deformation zones related to the regional Larder
Lake-Cadillac Break. The most famous mine is the La Ronde mine
owned by Agnico-Eagle Mines Ltd., the largest gold mine
in the province of Quebec and the deepest mine in North America,
with a combined resource-reserve of 8 million ounces of gold,
directly to the north of the O’Brien property.
Another significant project is the LAPA project owned by
Agnico-Eagle on which the Contact zone was discovered at the
beginning of 2003, at between 500 and 1,000 metres of vertical
depth. At the end of 2004, the LAPA property gold reserves and
resource were over 1.7 million ounces of gold. This project is
located 6 km to the east of the Kewagama property, and the gold
mineralization occurs in the Piché volcanic rocks at the contact
with sedimentary rocks along the Cadillac Break. The Break lies
in the center of the two Radisson properties, and represents a
4-kilometre-long land position on this prolific fault zone.
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