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Adit
A horizontal tunnel driven into a mountainside that provides access to a mineral deposit from underneath.

Alteration
A change, either physical or chemical, in a rock or mineral after it is formed. Areas of alteration are typically associated with base and precious metal or mineral deposits. These areas are often larger than the ore body itself.

Anomaly
A statistical deviation from the norm that could indicate mineralization in underlying rock. An anomaly is usually linked to an increase in value.

Archaean or Archean
A geological time period of greater than 2,500 million years (or 2.5 Ga) in the past. The first period in earth's history commencing at the currently accepted formation of the earth of approximately 4,800 million years ago. A period in which the earths crust initially formed and many tectonic processes commenced, including modern plate tectonics (according to some) in the latter stages of this period.

Assay
Chemical testing of a sample of rock, soil or vegetation to assess the amount of metals contained.

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Backfilling
Waste material used to fill the empty spaces created by mining a body of ore.

Base metal
A non-precious metal, such as copper, nickel, zinc, etc.

By-product
A secondary metal or mineral of economic value recovered in the extraction process. Silver, copper and zinc are typical by-products of gold mining.

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Chalcopyrite
A mineral composed of copper, iron and sulphur.

Contained ounces
Describes ounces in the ground without the reduction of ounces not recovered by a metallurgical process.

Concentrate
A powdery product containing valuable ore material from which most waste has been eliminated.

Cover
Soil or clay material that covers the bedrock. Created either by deposition in a lake, stream of debris environment or through deep weathering (see Regolith). Cover may make it difficult to define mineralization using conventional geochemical techniques.

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Decision point
A point during the exploration process at which key criteria, generally geological or economic, must be met before further funding is allocated to continue exploration on the project or target. All Triton Gold' exploration targets are budgeted only to each decision point, which streamlines priority funding only to those targets most likely to produce an economic resource.

Diamond drilling
Driving hollow steel rods with a diamond bit attached into rock using high-speed rotary motion. This process yields a cylindrical core of rock or chippings used for geological study and assays.

Deformation zone
A change in the shape, volume or position of a rock layer after its formation, typically associated with folding, fracturing and faulting due to stress.

Dilution
Waste or low-grade ore being included unavoidably in the mined ore.

Dore
Unrefined gold and silver bullion bars, with various percentages precious metals, that will be further refined to almost pure metal.

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Epithermal deposit
A deposit formed at low temperatures (50 to 200 degrees Celsius) near the earth's surface (up to 1,500 meters deep)

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Fault
A break in the earth's surface caused by tectonic forces that have moved the rock to one with respect to the other.

Footwall
Rock on the underside of a vein or expanse of ore.

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Geochemical sampling
Using chemicals for detecting bodies of metallic ores in which an analytical lab measures metal or mineral content of samples of rock, soil or plant matter gathered from a specific area.

Geochemical anomaly
An abnormally high concentration of a particular element in a specific area typically indicating a potential metallic source. Anomalies are usually detected in parts per million (ppm) for base metals and parts per billion (ppb) for precious metals.

Geophysical survey
Determining the physical parameters of rock formations to detect any potential metallic source. A survey measures properties such as magnetism, specific gravity and electrical conductivity

Good standing
Describes a mineral claim, with respect to government assessment rules, that is free and clear of all work and/or monetary holding requirements.

Grade
The amount of valuable mineral in each ton of ore, expressed as troy ounces per ton or grams per tonne for precious metals and as a percentage for other metals.

Greenstone belt
An area with metamorphosed volcanic and sedimentary rock beneath it.

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Hanging wall
The wall or rock on the upper side of a vein or ore deposit.

Heap leaching
A process for extracting gold by heaping broken ore on sloping, impermeable plastic pads and spraying the heaps with a weak cyanide solution that dissolves the gold content. The gold laden solution passes through activated carbon that collects the gold before it is passed back through the leach pad.

Hydrothermal
Said of very hot fluids circulating in the earth's crust.

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Induced Polarization (IP)
Ground geophysical surveying that uses an electrical current to determine indications of mineralization.

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Leach pad
A large impermeable foundation or pad used as base for ore during heap leaching.

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Mineral resource
Mineralization for which tonnage and grades of elements of interest have been assessed through drilling and sampling, but without economic and engineering analysis required to determine economic viability.

Mining claim
The portion of public mineral lands that a party has staked or marked out in accordance with federal, state or provincial mining laws to acquire the right explore for and exploit the minerals under the surface.

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NSR
Stands for Net Smelter Return, which is a royalty or share of net revenues from the sale of metals produced by a mine.

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Ore / ore reserves
Rock containing a mineral or a concentration of minerals and/or metals that can be profitably mined. Ore reserves have been engineered and permitted and remain only to be scheduled to be mined.

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Porphyry
Igneous rock in which phenocrysts, large, conspicuous mineral crystals, are set in a fine grained matrix. Porphyry can be a host rock for large copper and gold deposits.

Proven and probable reserves
The part of a mineral deposit that could be economically and legally extracted or produced at the time of the reserve determination.

Plunge
Vertical angle that a linear geological feature makes with the horizontal plane.

Precious metal
A high value metal such as gold, silver, platinum, titanium, etc.

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Regolith (including Saprolite)
Cover (see cover) formed by the influx of water in the rock strata over a long period of time, causing the original rock mineralogy to be changed from primary minerals such as feldspars to clay minerals such as koalinite. Cover may vary in depth from centimetres up to 100 metres.

Rhyolite
A fine-grained volcanic rock similar in composition to granite.

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Sphalerite
A zinc ore mineral, commonly found in volcanic massive sulphide deposits and composed of zinc, iron and sulphur.

Stratigraphy
A sequence of layered rocks; the term is often used to describe a particular rock formation associated with a specific area.

Stockwork
A network of veins that often appears as a lattice and generally connects with an overlying ore body.

Strike
A mineral strike is a discovery of mineralization. It is also a surface definition, in a particular compass orientation of trend, of a geological structure or mineralization.

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Tectono-stratigraphy
Study of the relations of major lihtostratographic units, e.g. sequences, beds or strata, with emphasis on tectonic effects on the stratigraphic record. A tectono-stratigraphic unit is a mixture of lithostratigraphic units resulting from tectonic deformation.

Trend
Describes a number of ore bodies aligned along a particular rock formation or structure.

Tuff
Rock composed of fine volcanic ash.

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VMS deposits
Stands for Volcanogenic Massive Sulphide deposit, or volcanic-hosted massive sulphide deposit, volcanic rock that hosts a significant accumulation of sulphide minerals that contain quantities of base and/or precious metals.

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