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The Trudeau Gold Project is located in the center of the Noranda Camp, otherwise known as the Noranda Volcanic Complex, a world-class district of volcanogenic sulfide deposits rich in copper, zinc and gold. The Noranda Volcanic Complex is located within the Abitibi Greenstone Belt, the largest and best endowed Archean greenstone belt in the Canadian Shield.

The greenstone belt is divided into the Southern Volcanic Zone and the Northern Volcanic Zone, representing a collage of two arcs separated by the Destor-Porcupine-Manneville Fault Zone. The Eastchester claim group is located in the Northern Volcanic Zone, while the Fabie and Trudeau claim groups are in the Southern Volcanic Zone.

Each claim group is dominated by volcanic rocks. These rocks are bounded by metasedimentary rock and gneisses to the north and south, respectively. They consist of regionally metamorphosed sedimentary and volcanic rock, with local intrusions of various composition and size. Rhyolite dominates Fabie, pyroclastic rocks and flows dominate Trudeau, and basalt dominates Eastchester. Secondary intrusions of diorite form large and small sill-like bodies, stocks and dikes, locally conforming to the regional strike trend but often displaying a characteristic cross-cutting relationship. Major units tend to strike NW-SE with many faults and folds oriented perpendicular to these units. Silica, carbonate, and epidote alteration is widespread. Economically interesting sulfide mineralization enriched in copper, zinc and gold frequently occurs at lithological contacts.

Two potential deposit types occur in the Fabie-Trudeau-Eastchester polymetallic project. The first, volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits typically occur as lenses of polymetallic massive sulfides that form at or near the seafloor in submarine volcanic environments, and are classified according to base metal content, gold content, or host-rock lithology. The second, orogenic greenstone-hosted gold deposits are typically found worldwide along shear zones in volcanic terranes and are characterized by quartz and quartz carbonate veins and sheeted veins primarily in dilatational zones where fluid permeability was higher compared to the surrounding rocks at the time of formation.

Two types of mineralization were encountered in the Fabie claim group: gold mineralization at the Fabie Nord showing and disseminated sulfides in rhyolite and andesitic rock in the southern part of the claim group. The sulfide mineralization found to date on the Trudeau claim group occur entirely as disseminated sulfides, similar to much of the copper-zinc sulfide mineralization in the nearby Magusi River deposit approximately 3.5 kilometers west of the claim group. The structures in the Eastchester claim group are inferred to be splays from the main break Destor-Porcupine Fault Zone and may resemble other fault/shear systems.

Mining of gold to the north of Lac Duparquet started in the early 20th Century with the Beattie, Donchester and Duquesne mines exploited through to the 1950s. Exploration work continues to the present day with the Pitt deposit, held by First Mining Gold Corp. South of Lac Duparquet, systematic exploration efforts started in the 1960s. The Fabie Bay and Magusi copper deposits were discovered, with the Fabie Bay mine operating briefly from late 2007 to early 2009 to the north of the Fabie claim group. Historical exploration work as reported in assessment reports available in the Ministère de l’Energie et Ressources Naturelles du Québec (MERN) SIGÉOM database has consisted of mapping, prospecting, geophysical surveying, and core drilling.

On the Fabie claim group, notable historical exploration efforts include reported gold assays of 1.2 grams of gold per tonne (g/t gold) over 0.9 meters and 1.4 g/t gold over 1.0 meter; the true widths were unknown by Explorations Rambo Inc. in the 1980s. Follow-up core drilling returned an interval at 3.0 g/t gold over 0.3 meter with and unknown true width.

On the Trudeau claim group, notable historical exploration efforts include a grab sample grading 8.9 g/t gold through prospecting by Noranda Exploration Limited. This prompted drilling a single 351-meter core borehole in 1984, though no significant mineralization was found.

The Eastchester claim group has been explored since the 1940s. Three core boreholes, collared south of the current claim boundaries, encountered gold values ranging from 0.17 to 1.7 g/t over widths of 1.2 to 4.3 meters along a strike length of at least 45 meters and to a vertical depth of more than 150 meters. The most significant anomalous gold core intersections were encountered within a 3.7 to 4.3 meters wide pyritic tuff unit located approximately 10 to 100 meters south of the current property boundary.

Exploration activities by Century Metals in 2017 have consisted of geological reconnaissance prospecting on all three claim groups, followed by a line-cutting and a ground induced polarization survey over the Fabie claim group. Highlights of the 2017 exploration program include 57 rock chip samples collected at the Lac Fabie Nord showing were collected, of which 9 samples returned assay values from 0.13 to 2.82 g/t gold, confirming historical sampling results. Several rock samples from the Fabie Nord Showing West sampling program returned anomalous gold values exceeding 0.13 g/t, with a peak value of 2.40 g/t gold. The induced polarization ground geophysical survey over the Fabie claim group identified 12 anomalies considered of interest for follow-up trenching or drilling.