St. James Gold Corp. announced that it has secured the sole and exclusive option to acquire a 100% interest in the Quinn Lake Claims comprising two contiguous map-staked mineral licenses, for a landholding of 1,730 acres in the emerging prolific central Newfoundland island gold district. Entered into at arm's length, the Property is adjacent to Marathon Gold.'s Valentine Lake property where over 4 million ounces of gold have been developed to pre-feasibility, and situated 17 km northeast from the Marathon gold deposit and along strike of the main gold bearing structure in the district, the Valentine Shear Zone. The Property is accessible by a network of well-maintained seasonal gravel resource roads originating at Millertown approximately 35 km to the north. The Property is located with the Exploits Subzone of the Dunnage tectonostratigraphic zone and is underlain by rocks of the Victoria Lake supergroup, a structurally complex, composite collage of bimodal Neoproterozoic to Ordovician arc-related magmatic and sedimentary rocks. This structurally controlled gold district in central Newfoundland is emerging as a major area of gold endowment, and occurs within a northeast-trending corridor defined by crustal-scale faults. Known as the Rogerson Lake Conglomerate, the presence of Silurian syn-orogenic polymict reflects the preservation of syn-orogenic upper crustal clastic sequences commonly associated with orogenic gold vein systems. Gold deposits and other gold occurrences in the district show that mineralization can be hosted with volcanic and epiclastic rocks that are in fault contact with the Rogerson Lake Conglomerate. This setting is very likely the most prospective target at the Quinn Lake property. To the southwest of the Property, the Rogerson Lake corridor hosts Marathon Gold's Valentine Lake project where gold mineralization has been traced over a distance of 18 km and host to several deposits, while along to the northeast at Wilding Lake, gold mineralization is also hosted by quartz-tourmaline veins associated with shearing along a thrust fault within the Rogerson Lake conglomerate. Situated between these two projects, the local geology is inferred from geophysical surveys and adjacent projects, and indicates the presence of the Valentine Lake Shear Zone and Rogerson Lake Conglomerate which are spatially related and define the corridor favourable for gold mineralization. Despite the emergence of recent discoveries along the gold-bearing corridor related to the Valentine Lake Shear Zone and Rogerson Lake Conglomerate, and geological mapping surveys conducted by the Geological Survey of Newfoundland and Labrador, little work on the Property has been conducted to date. In 1989, one of Noranda's till sampling lines crossed the Property area and reported anomalous values up to 528 ppb gold, while a 2013 review by Paragon Minerals of existing airborne electromagnetic-magnetic survey data, prospecting and ground IP geophysical survey recommended more geophysical work focusing on the Rogerson Lake Conglomerate contacts.