The Bellechasse Gold Project:

• Strategic land position comprising 80% of known mineralization
• Excellent infrastructure nearby
• 1114 mining claims spanning 118,205 acres
• 100% owned by Golden Hope Mines
• Strong pipeline of drill targets in the surrounding area
• 2007 drill program on Timmins gold deposit substantially increased mineralized zones
• Sampling, new target evaluation and exploration program planned for 2008

The Bellechasse property lies at the end of the Appalachian range of mountains, located in Bellechasse, Panet and Ware Townships approximately 110 km southeast of Quebec City and about 70 km northeast of the town of Saint-Georges . The 100% owned property is comprised of 1114 contiguous claims covering 118,205 acres. 

The property covers up to 80% of a known mineralized belt.  Mineralization with potential economic interest is hosted in zones of fracturing and brecciation in the older intrusives or other pre-existing competent rocks in structural features related to regional trans-current/transform faults.  Regional prospecting has located a series of post-Taconic ultrabasic bodies with associated alteration zones that contain base and precious metals.
The Bellechasse project consists of multiple known gold-bearing areas: 

Timmins Gold Deposit (including Timmins 1, Timmins 2 & Ascot zones)

• The Timmins Zone is a quartz vein breccia system hosted in an older diorite intrusive
• The intrusion includes the Timmins 1, Timmins 2 and Ascot zones.  These three zones appear to be part of one mineralized system separated by the intrusive core, sediment roof pendants and/or fault offsets. The mineralized zones have been traced through an area measuring approximately 150 metres by 450 metres
• 2007 drill program significantly enlarged the dimensions of the Timmins gold deposit.  Results suggest Timmins 2 is essentially a structural twin of Timmins 1 and is probably larger
• 2007 assay results for two diamond drill holes at Timmins 2 zone include:

• The Ascot zone has been exposed by trenching along a strike length of 210 metres where the overburden cover is less than two metres thick

  
  
  Results From Fall 2007 Bulk Sample on Timmins 1 Trench
  
  
  

   

• Copper/lead/zinc target
• Diamond drill program began in third quarter of 2007 to test the depth continuity of the zone, degree of alteration and extent of sulfide mineralization
• A pre-Taconic extrusive complex was staked during regional evaluation
• The partially exposed zone is composed of brecciated silicified volcanic rocks that have been traced over an approximate 700 metre ( 2,300 ft ) strike length and 200 metre (656ft) width and has shown to contain visible sulfides
• The most altered and mineralized part of the exposed zone extends for a length of 200 metres ( 656 ft ) and width of 90 meters ( 295 ft ).  It has been mapped in detail and subsequently sampled

Historical Exploration at the Bellechasse Gold Project

• 1834: gold nuggets discovered in the Gilbert River (the Beauce region was the site of North America ’s first gold rush)
• Over the next century, intermittent placer gold operations in the Gilbert, Famine, Du Moulin and Des Plantes rivers extracted about 60,000 ounces of gold
• 1866: the largest single gold nugget ever found in Canada , the McDonald Nugget, (weighed at 1.28 kg ) was recovered from the Gilbert river
• 1938: trenching and diamond drilling conducted by N.A. Timmins Ltd.
• 1951: gold-bearing quartz veins and stock works first discovered on the Bellechasse property
• 1952-1953: trenching and diamond drilling conducted by Ascot Metals Corp.
• 1960-1961: trenching and diamond drilling conducted by Black Hawk Mining Ltd.
• 1960 – 1991: the average gold content of 520 surface grab samples collected from the Timmins 1 zone was 8.0 g/t Au (0.26 oz/t Au), using fire assay or metallic sieve analyses
• 1960’s: bulk samples taken from three pits excavated in selected veins produced a weighted average of 16.9 g/t Au (0.54 oz/t Au) from a total of 39.3 metric tons (43 short tons) of material
• 1976: bulk sampling and metallurgical testing conducted by Privex Mines Ltd.
• 1985: Golden Hope acquired its initial Bellechasse property position
• Previous prospecting efforts have focused on coarse gold deposits rather than the less obvious, fine gold mineralization that is often characteristic of mega-deposits