Providence Gold Mines announced geologists have identified a potentially significant low bulk tonnage gold target. The Providence Gold Mines properties with numerous high grade historical deposits are located near the historical gold town of Sonora, California. Preliminary evidence suggests that all lode structures crossing the favorable corridor of fracture dilatancy (the Tuolumne Mines Trend) at all elevations constitute significant exploration gold targets. Its field geological reconnaissance, alteration mapping, soil geochemistry, and subsequent trenching on the extremely steep terrain has been successful in locating lode targets. The zone was sampled for assay and mapped to further define new surface exploration drill targets. The Providence Gold Mines property is located along the East Belt of gold mines of the Mother Lode system near the city of Sonora, California. The Mother Lode East Belt mines are spatially arranged along the 160 km length of the regional-scale Calaveras-Shoo Fly Thrust Fault and they have accounted for approximately four million ounces of historic gold production. The recent geological fieldwork confirms similar geology to other known low grade Mother Lode gold deposits. Wall rocks have invariably been hydrothermally altered, having been partially to completely converted to ankerite, sericite, quartz, pyrite, chlorite, and albite with traces of rutile and leucoxene (Knopf, 1929). The mineralization is usually adjacent to the veins in ground that has been fractured and contains small stringers and lenses of quartz. The Calaveras-Shoo Fly Thrust Fault is a complexly folded, strongly metamorphosed, and strain-hardened zone of fault zone rocks (mylonite), which developed multiple millions of years prior to the Mother Lode Belt gold mineralization event, during the mid-Jurassic Nevadan Orogeny. The Calaveras-Shoo Fly Thrust was subsequently intruded by the mid-Jurassic Standard dioritic Pluton in the general area of the Providence Mine property. Intrusion of the Standard Pluton is the most important structural feature in the Mother Lode district, as it pertains to gold ore localization. Several millions of years later, the Mother Lode Belt gold mineralizing event was synchronous with a major regional-scale compressional flattening event during the early Cretaceous period. This compressional flattening event reactivated deep regional-scale fractures associated with the Calaveras-Shoo Fly Thrust and later brittle fractures related to intrusion of the Standard Pluton. Reactivation of the pre-mineralization structures likely provided the deep conduit by which gold-bearing hydrothermal fluids of metamorphic origin (orogenic) could be transported. The rhombohedral fracture set which hosts the known gold mineralization on the Providence property were probably developed as a mechanical response to the competency contrast between the massive intrusive and bedded meta-sedimentary rocks under right-lateral strike-slip strain. On the property a rhombohedral fracture grid appears to have been developed within an embayment in the southern contact of the Standard Pluton. Although an open antiformal fold in the Calaveras-Shoo Fly Thrust encloses the Providence project on three sides, the fracture sets associated with that deformation episode are likely highly modified curvilinear features which may have reduced relevance as an ore control.