The Middle Ridge property is located in central Newfoundland and consists of 1,536 mineral claims covering approximately 384 km² (38,400 Ha). The property is accessible by traveling south from the town of Bishop’s Falls on the Bay d’Espoir Highway for 75 km where the property can be accessed by a network of forest service roads. 

The property encompasses 40 kilometers of the Gander River Ultra Mafic Belt (GRUB) offset regional structure, which is thought to be very important in the mobilization and concentration of gold mineralization in the area. The property is 82 km south of the late 2019 New Found Gold Corp. gold discovery, which returned a diamond drill hole with 92.86 g/t Au over 19.0 meters near surface (See New Found Gold Corp. news dated January 28, 2020), and lies within similar geological and structural domains. 

•  The Middle Ridge project encompasses 40 km of the GRUB line offset, which is the easternmost bounding structure of the Exploits Subzone (a geological subzone formed as a result of the closing of the Iapetus Ocean). 
• The GRUB regional thrust fault offset structure, is a conduit and a focus of deep mantle fluids which is believed to be spatially associated with significant gold mineralization in the region. 
• Gold deposition in the Exploits Subzone is found in secondary and tertiary structures crosscutting siliciclastic sediments bounded by the GRUB line. 
• A combined airborne magnetic and electromagnetic survey in 1969 completed by McPhar Geophysics Ltd, on behalf of Noranda Exploration Ltd. defined discrete conductive zones, (Noranda Exploration, 1971) within these secondary and tertiary structures that warrant further exploration. 
• The project is located in a mining and exploration friendly jurisdiction, with government mineral incentives allowing rebates on new exploration projects of up to $150,000 per year. 

Exploration at the Middle Ridge Property was conducted in February and early March 2021. Exploration consisted of the completion of the VTEM airborne geophysical survey, conducted by Geotech Ltd., which began in Q1. 3,344 total line kilometres were flown to complete the survey with results being processed by Geotech and expected to be received in Q3. Exploits’ in house team along with the company’s partner GoldSpot Discoveries Corp., have began interpreting preliminary data to develop follow up field work on the project. 

The Property straddles a significant regional structure of the Dunnage Zone called the Gander River Ultra Mafic Belt, (GRUB), a regional scale trans-compressional thrust fault marked by a discontinuous belt of ophiolitic rocks (O’Neil and Blackwood, 1989) that forms the south easternmost boundary of the Exploits Subzone. The GRUB Line is believed to be a potential conduit for deep seated fluid flow and a pathway for the transportation of gold bearing fluids. This structure is spatially associated with significant gold deposition across the belt focused in secondary and tertiary structural splays from the GRUB Line, which is hosted in the Silurian siliciclastic sediments of the Exploits Subzone. The southern end of the GRUB line offset, trends NE-SW and is mapped by the Newfoundland Geological Survey as being Cambrian to Ordovician submarine mafic to felsic volcanics. Local gabbroic sills are known to intrude all units in the area and may prove as an additional target model as some sills are locally associated with gold occurrences in the region (Evans, 1996). Northwest of the Middle Ridge Property is the Mount Peyton Intrusive Suite which is a large Siluro-Devonian batholith, a potential heat source that has intruded the Botwood, Indian Islands and Davidsville groups. There are numerous fine to medium grained intrusive gabbroic bodies related to the Mount Peyton Intrusive Suite, that intrude adjacent to the Dog Bay Line (the north westernmost extent of the Exploits Subzone).