San Gold also owns or controls nearly 15,000 hectares of exploration lands along the Rice Lake Greenstone Belt of SE Manitoba. On March 1, 2010, San Gold announced the receipt of a preliminary resource report that significantly increased its gold ounce resource from 1,600,000 gold ounces (audited, all categories) at the end of 2006 to 3,094,982 ounces in 8,685,900 tons averaging 12.2 gm/tonne or 0.36 oz/ton. This increase in the gold ounce resource was due to the inclusion of the new high-grade Hinge and 007 zones that are presented as 1,494,432 ounces in ore averaging 21.7 gm/tonne or 0.63 oz/ton.