Project Summary

The Viking Project covers a 4-million acre area of interest southeast of the Alliance Project in northern Ontario. The project was generated in-house based on a 2004 reconnaissance sampling program that recovered abundant kimberlite indicator minerals. Many of the recovered grains exhibit primary surface textures indicating very short glacial transport distances from their sources, likely less than 10 kilometres. Indicator minerals recovered from the area include G10 garnets, eclogitic garnets, picroilmenites, chromites and chrome diopsides.

Area Potential

The Superior craton in Ontario accounts for 23% of the earth’s Archaean rocks. The geology and the lithospheric conditions are very favourable for diamonds. DeBeers has demonstrated that kimberlites with exceptionally high quality diamonds can be found in the James Bay Lowlands of northern Ontario. They report that the diamonds from Victor, where mine construction has commenced, have an average value of more than US $450 per carat. The Victor pipe is located approximately 250km NE of the Alliance

Exploration

The 2005 summer program at Viking included the collection of approximately 80 heavy mineral samples to verify the up-ice cut-off of the KIM source areas and was followed by a 5000 line-kilometer high-resolution airborne magnetic survey. Based on the sample picking results from 43 of these samples, cut-offs were established. After the interpretation of the airborne data, 11 high priority targets were staked. In the fall of 2005 Trigon carried out a field program consisting of ground checking of additional anomalies and target specific sampling.

In April 2006 Trigon completed a test ground magnetic survey over one of the Viking airborne anomalies. The results of this work has shown that higher resolution data is required in order to assist in spotting precise locations for drilling. Forty samples from the 2005 summer program were analyzed and confirm the cut-off. The next work plan on the Viking Project is being developed.

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