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Silver Spruce Resources Inc. to Commence Ground Geophysical Surveys Popes Hill REE Property
Silver Spruce Resources Inc. to Commence Ground Geophysical Surveys Popes Hill REE Property
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nSilver Spruce Resources Inc. to Commence Ground Geophysical Surveys Popes Hill REE Property\n\n\n Nov. 25, 2010 (TheNewswire.ca) -- Highlight:-73 kilometers of ground geophysics ( magnetic, VLF and radiometric survey) to be completedNovember 25, 2010 - Bridgewater, NS - Silver Spruce Resources Inc. (TSXV: SSE) is pleased to announce it has awarded a contract for a 73 line km ground geophysical survey to Abitibi Geophysics of St Johns, Newfoundland. The work will be focused on the Pope's Hill (PH) original 62 claim block, which covers a 4 kilometer long trend of rare earth mineralization located in angular boulders and bedrock along the Trans Labrador Highway (TLH). Crews will be mobilized to the area during the week of November 22 and the surveys include GPS controlled magnetics, with readings taken every 2 seconds, VLF-EM on flagged lines with readings at 12.5 meter spacing, and radiometrics at the same sample spacing. The rare earth mineralization is variably magnetic, is associated with thorium and uranium values and is therefore radioactive and may be shear hosted which may respond to the VLF-EM survey.The original PH property, acquired by SSE in May 2010, consists of a core 62 claims (1,550 ha) located in the Pope's Hill area, approximately 100 km from Goose Bay along the paved portion of the Trans Labrador Highway (TLH). The claims were acquired to cover thorium and REE mineralization located in 2006 during uranium exploration when values up to 7.9% total rare earth elements plus yttrium (TREE+Y) were located, with three samples giving values > 1% including two samples > 5% TREE+Y. The anomalous samples carry thorium with the highest thorium and REE values coincident (News Release May 6, 2010). Rock units on the claims are granitic to mafic gneisses of late Paleoproterozoic age, with some pegmatites. Linear monzonite bodies, possibly related to a major structure, lie just to the north and south of the mineralized area.A total of 1,297 claims (324 km2), extending 40 km northeast and 40 km southwest of the original showings, were acquired by SSE in late October (news release Oct. 28, 2010) to protect the on-strike extensions of the mineralized zone and strongly anomalous lake sediment values in La and Ce with values up to 690 ppm against a background of 30 ppm. The SSE 100% owned property, with the original 62 claim proper...