The Ohra-Takamine project is located within the highly gold endowed Hokusatsu-Kushikino mining district, in the northern part of the Southern Kyushu Epithermal Gold Province. In excess of 10 million ounces of gold has been produced from high grade epithermal deposits of the district. Notable gold producers within the district include: the Hishikari mine with 7.6 million ounces produced to date at average grades of 30-40 g/t⁷; Kushikino mine, 1.8 million ounces at 6.7 g/t; Yamagano mine, 910,000 ounces at 17.4 g/t; and the Ohkuchi mine with 714,000 ounces at 13.6 g/t^4,8.

Due to the high prospectivity of the district, known auriferous low sulfidation epithermal vein mineralization both within and peripheral to the property and basically intact fossil geothermal systems, the company believes this area is worthy of more detailed exploration. Based on recent prospect evaluation success with the definition of inferred new target zones and extensions to known veins along the Ohra-Takamine-Urushi mine corridor the Company feels scout drill testing of such targets is warranted.