The Tale of Dave Bunyon

Derek and I went up to the Marshall a while back to check on the property and see what the winter had wrought. Before even getting onto the property, we discovered that one of the eternal questions had been posed. Specifically, "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" While we didn't get an answer to that question, we did get an answer to "What are you doing on a future weekend to earn some sweat equity?"

Not just across the road once, but twice.

I would hazard a guess that this long snag of a former pine did make quite a crashing sound.


Oh, boy, fun, fun, fun times to come, with a chainsaw that I had purchased this winter, expecting just this scenario.

Never having run a chainsaw before, I warmed up on the branches of the crown section and then sectioned up the crown. Derek and I then cleared out that area, closest to the property's gate.


The easy trimming and bucking having been completed, it was time to move back to the main trunk section.

The chainsaw only had an 18" blade and the girth of the trunk was significantly wider than that, so it meant cutting some wedges out and attacking the trunk from both sides. Derek and I took turns, creating 5 to 6 foot sections that could be rolled off the road.





So some hours later, we have driving access to the property again.


Gold Digger Dave is also Dave Bunyon.

Gold Mine For Sale

Hello RTG Members:

Just a quick update. The Marshall is being Offered for Sale.

Here is the front door to our dedicated website: http://rtg.rogueminerals.com/

I have also created an account at eCrater.com, a online storefront to offer the property. http://roguetrinitygold.ecrater.com/

Regarding K-1 tax matters, I hope to have the K-1's for calendar 2009 in the mail very soon.
Thank you for your patience.

Digging in the Dirt

Hello RTG Members!

No, I have not forgotten about you. We have been awaiting the return of our mining engineer and RM member from his Alaska located professional career activities to perform our anticipated exploration activities. Well he's back, and after settling in and taking care of personal activities, we finally got around to digging in the dirt.

To conserve the available cash resources, RTG management didn't want to hire an outsider, without the requisite mining experience to be the equipment operator, we wanted one of our own. Allow me to introduce Cecil.


Cecil has been a mining professional for over 25 years and has been involved in both large and small scale projects over that time. He has the knowledge and skills to correctly guide the exploration activities we have begun. He selected the equipment and carefully operated it to generate what I think are awesome results, in terms of exposing the near surface quartz vein structures on our property.

Our exploration plan is based upon the original work done back in the 1970's, re-exposing the most promising two prior trenches and cutting a new one. Over the course of a day, we removed the overburden and prepared for the next day's sample taking activities.

First we cut our Trench #1A, in an area we are calling the West Extension, which is west of the quartz blowout structure. This is the new exploration area. You can see the vein area consisting of a "hanging wall" vein, an intermediate zone, and a "foot wall vein". The rock hammer and spray paint can are for size comparison aid.



Here's a close up view of the hanging wall vein.



To help you visualize the new Trench #1A in relation to 1970's Trench #2, the following image gives you that relationship, with original Trench #2 along the right most edge of the photo.



Our new Trench #2A exposed 5 distinct areas of material, both veins and intermediate material. The best of the photos didn't really bring out the differences, sorry about that, but they are there.



The first close up shows the rock hammer stretching across Trench #2A's hanging wall vein which slopes from the mid-upper right to the lower left of the photo, and with intermediate material that does contain quartz along the right side of the image.



This next photo shows you the foot wall vein in Trench #2A.


The Trench #3 area on the east side of the quartz blow out zone required extensive removal of material to expose the vein structure. Here are a before shot and an after shot, to give you an idea of the dirt and over-burden removal that was required.

Before:


After:


Here are a few close up images of the exposed vein structures.
Foot wall vein:


Mid & Hanging Wall Veins:

This work being completed, we terminated the rental of the backhoe, packed up and came home. The next day we returned to take our samples.

From Trench #1A, we collected a total of 4 samples, 3 being "structured" samples to assess the materials present in the 3 discovered zones of the trench, and a 4th to get a better understanding of just the quartz in the hanging wall vein.

From Trench #2A, we collected a total of 7 samples, 5 being "structured" samples to assess the materials present in the 5 discovered zones of the trench, with the 6th focusing on some of the stringer (smaller embedded) veins and the 7th focusing on the foot wall contact area with the serpentine structure below the foot wall vein.

From Trench #3A, we collected a total of 8 samples, 6 being "structured" samples to assess the materials present in the 6 discovered zones of the trench, with the 7th focusing on the hanging wall vein contact area that our early exploration efforts showed to contain gold, and the 8th focusing on a large intermediate zone that Cecil described as being very juicy looking.

Our final collected sample was from miscellaneous lots of material that had been removed during excavation, mostly quartz, some serpentine and other materials from our muck piles.

These 20 samples will shortly be shipped off for fire assay testing. We have our fingers crossed for good results. I'll let you know when the results are in.

Until then, have a Happy Halloween and I hope your November is pleasant and enjoyable.

For the Members of RTG

Hello Fellow Members - Rather than continue to exclusively "push" information to you via email, I am creating this blog to enable you to "pull" information and updates about our project.

To protect our resource and our members, no clearly identifying data or information will be posted, however some aspects of our operations and activities will be published.

Our first significant efforts to confirm new resources have yielded positive results. There's gold in the rocks in them thar hills! These images came from samples of ore taken at our quartz blowout. We look forward to having assays performed on additional samples taken from various points around the structure to better understand the mineralization, and what kind of resource we own.

May we find and capture much, much more!




In a secondary note, we have retained the favorable status of our property, with respect to taxation. Thank you all for your cooperation in promptly returning the paperwork.