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Record: MDI32D12SE00145

General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold

Secondary Commodities: Copper

Location

Township or Area: Holloway, Harker

Latitude: 48° 31' 15.38"    Longitude: -79° 45' 12.96"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 592035   Northing: 5374953    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Kirkland Lake

NTS Grid: 32D12SE

Point Location Description: Shaft

Location Method: AMIS Site Visit

Access Description: Proceed 4.9km east of the junction of highway 101 and regional highway 675 (Harker-Holloway road) then 300m north of highway 101.

Exploration History

1922: W. S. Seagers: mapping, discovery of gold in area. 1922: Canadian Mining Syndicate: acquires Seagers and additional claims; completed. 1 mile of trenching, blasting, sank 25 ft. deep shaft. Circa 1923-33: Abitibi Mines Ltd.: incorporation, acquires claims; mapping, DD-8-4500 ft., sank No 1 shaft (to 35 ft) and No 2 shaft (to 37 ft.). ; amalgamated with Teddy Bear Syndicate to form Teddy Bear Valley Mines; surface exploration 1934-38: Teddy Bear Valley Mines: sank 300 ft. shaft (at old Abitibi Mines No.2 shaft), x-cutting (400 ft.), drifting (200 ft.) completed on 150 level; DD-4. 1939-47: Consolidated Mining and Smelting Co.: trench sampling yielded assays of 0.02 oz. Au / ton; surface exploration. and diamond drilling, mapping, magnetometer survey. 1950: Dominion Gulf Co.- part of prop. optioned from Teddy Bear Valley Mines. 1978-80: Amax Potash Ltd.: reconnaissance airborne geophysics; survey of area.; staking; geological survey; DD-1-200.15 m1 DDH on former Teddy Bear Valley Mines claim. 1980: Lightval Mines Ltd.: optioned claims from Teddy Bear Valley Mines; stripped/washed outcrop, geological mapping, VLF and EM HL surveys, 12 short (Winkie) drill holes. 1981: Amax Potash Ltd.: 1 DDH (99.5 m). 1981: Canadian Nickel Co. Ltd.: airborne geophysical survey; magnetometer VLF, HLEM surveys. 1982: Amax Potash Ltd.: 2 DDH's (327.0 m) 1984: Teddy Bear Valley Mines: 14 -DDH's (9,609.1 ft)., ground geophysics, IP survey. 1987-1989: Newmont Exploration: IP survey, surface DD (20,000 ft) on Teddy Bear Valley Mines and Lightval Mines Ltd. claims; suspended Canadian operations; formed joint venture with Noranda Exploration Ltd.; 1989: Noranda Exploration Co.- ( joint venture with Freewest Resources Inc.) diamond drilling along strike of Teddy Bear Valley Mines claims; outlined at least three distinct auriferous zones along 1,900 ft. of strike. 1990-94: Hemlo Gold - Freewest Joint Venture - DD, shaft sinking, underground development.

Assessment Work on File

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Abitibi

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Abitibi

Geological Age: Mesoarchean  

Metamorphism Grade: Greenschist

Geology Comments

Jun 24, 2015 (R Degagne) - Satterly provided the most detailed description of the geology of the occurrence area. Whittaker and Malczak (1984) produced a detailed map of an outcrop located several meters south of the Teddy Bear Valley Mines shaft area and described the exposure as follows: The Seager's (sic) Hill Deposit is located in the western part of Holloway Township. Host rocks consist of intensely altered mafic flows which form part of a fault-bounded block approximately 650 m wide. The block dips steeply south, strikes easterly, and is part of the (Archean) Kinojevis Group. Porcupine Group metasedimentary rocks are in contact with the metavolcanic rocks to the north of the property and are cut by the north boundary fault. Detailed mapping of quartz veining at Seager's Hill serves to illustrate the complexity of quartz vein systems close to the Destor-Porcupine Fault Zone (DPFZ). Intensely carbonatized mafic volcanics at Seager's (sic) Hill are cut by several sets of sharply defined quartz veins. Free gold occurred in the earliest, shallowly dipping set of veins in the vicinity of the prospect shaft. Although gold mineralization was of limited extent in the quartz veins, the complex array of veining illustrates at least 2 episodes of brittle deformation. The shallowly dipping vein set, D1, consists of composite quartz-carbonate veins. The presence of ankeritic carbonate (ferroan dolomite?) in these veins may suggest that emplacement of D1 veins was contemporaneous with carbonatization of the host rock. The D1 veins range in thickness from 2 to 7 cm and because of their shallow dip form part of the outcrop surface. Shallowly dipping D1 veins are cross-cut by a second set of white quartz veins, D2. The D2 veins are steeply dipping and consist of only quartz. They are 5 mm to 2 cm wide and cross-cut both the host rock and the D1 veins with sharply defined, unaltered contacts.

Lithology

Lithology Comments

Jun 24, 2015 (R Degagne) - Geological mapping indicates that bedrock in the occurrence area is extremely poorly exposed and consists mainly of weakly metamorphosed (greenschist or lower metamorphic grade), variably altered, and variably sheared (Archean age) volcanic, clastic and chemical sedimentary, and felsic to mafic intrusive rocks within the east striking Porcupine-Destor Fault Zone. Jensen and Langford termed the complex lithologic and structural melange which characterizes the Porcupine-Destor Fault Zone in this area the Porcupine-Destor Complex. Recent geophysical surveys of Harker and Holloway Townships detected numerous anomalous bedrock conductors to be associated with the Teddy Bear Valley Mines surface and underground workings; some of these anomalies may be due to cultural effects (i.e. old mining and plant equipment); others are almost certainly due to the presence of graphite within the clastic sediments here. Anomalous gold tenors on the property are reported to consist of quartz vein hosted coarse grained native gold. The quartz veins are hosted by schistose and fractured carbonatized, sericitized, and variably pyritic basalt which strikes south of east and dips about south 60 degrees. The discovery quartz vein (reported to have contained spectacular visible gold and scant pyrite) is reported by Knight to have ranged from a few inches to as much as about 20 inches in width, to strike 020-025, and to dip east 40-45 degrees. Other quartz veins and stringers in the area are reported to range from a fraction of an inch to several feet in width.

Mineralization

Mineralization Comments

Jun 24, 2015 (A Wilson) - Assays returned from samples collected on Claim 10080 in 1923 returned values ranging from $1.23 Au to $6427.85 Au.

Jun 24, 2015 (R Degagne) - Anomalous gold tenors on the property are reported to consist of quartz vein hosted coarse grained native gold. The quartz veins are hosted by schistose and fractured carbonatized, sericitized, and variably pyritic basalt which strikes south of east and dips about south 60 degrees. The discovery quartz vein (reported to have contained spectacular visible gold and scant pyrite) is reported by Knight (1925) to have ranged from a few inches to as much as about 20 inches in width, to strike 020-025, and to dip east 40-45 degrees. Other quartz veins and stringers in the area are reported to range from a fraction of an inch to several feet in width. Gold is also reported to be pannable from rusty oxidized rock in the area. Multiple vein sets are developed in the discovery outcrop; some of these are quartz-feldspar-tourmaline veins. An emerald green micaceous mineral (fuchsite?) is reported to occur marginal to some of the veins. The best gold mineralization encountered by the 1984 Teddy Bear Valley Mines diamond drilling (as documented in the assessment files) is reported to be hosted by intensely fractured 'volcanogenic muds' which are silicified, sericitized, carbonatized, variably hematized and pyritic, and which host quartz-tourmaline veins.

Alteration Comments

Jun 24, 2015 (R Degagne) - Anomalous gold tenors on the property are reported to consist of quartz vein hosted coarse grained native gold. The quartz veins are hosted by schistose and fractured carbonatized, sericitized, and variably pyritic basalt which strikes south of east and dips about south 60 degrees. Gold is also reported to be pannable from rusty oxidized rock in the area. Multiple vein sets are developed in the discovery outcrop; some of these are quartz-feldspar-tourmaline veins. An emerald green micaceous mineral (fuchsite?) is reported to occur marginal to some of the veins. The best gold mineralization encountered by the 1984 Teddy Bear Valley Mines diamond drilling (as documented in the assessment files) is reported to be hosted by intensely fractured 'volcanogenic muds' which are silicified, sericitized, carbonatized, variably hematized and pyritic, and which host quartz-tourmaline veins. The shallowly dipping vein set, D1, consists of composite quartz-carbonate veins. The presence of ankeritic carbonate (ferroan dolomite?) in these veins may suggest that emplacement of D1 veins was contemporaneous with carbonatization of the host rock.

Mineral Record Details

Mineral Zones - Size and Shape

Rank: 1       Structure Type: Fault

References

File - Resident Geologist file KL-2642

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Author:

Publisher Name:

Location: Kirkland Lake RGP office

Map - Geological series, Precambrian geology of the Magusi River area, Cochrane and Timiskaming districts

Publication Number: P2434 Scale: 1:63,360    Date: 1982

Author: Jensen L.S.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Part - Geology of Harker Township

Publication Number: ARV60-07 Date: 1997

Author: Satterly J.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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Map - Geological series, Precambrian geology of the Lightning River area, Cochrane District

Publication Number: P2433 Scale: 1:63,360    Date: 1982

Author: Jensen L.S.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

Part - Geology of the north half of Holloway Township

Publication Number: ARV62-07 Page: 33-36  Date: 1997

Author: Satterly J.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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Map - Geological series, Precambrian geology of the Lightning Mountain area, Lightning River area, Cochrane District

Publication Number: P2432 Scale: 1:15,840    Date: 1982

Author: Jensen L.S.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

Part - Lightning River gold area

Publication Number: ARV33-03.004 Page: 41-49  Date: 1998

Author: Knight C.W.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:

Map - Geological series, Precambrian geology of the Ghost Range area, Lightning River area, Cochrane District

Publication Number: P2431 Scale: 1:15,840    Date: 1982

Author: Jensen L.S.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Part - Lightning River gold area (District of Cochrane)

Publication Number: ARV34-06.004 Page: 86-98  Date: 1998

Author: Gledhill T.L.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:

Article - Mineral deposits investigations in the Black River-Matheson (BRIM) area, District of Cochrane

Publication Number: MP119.053 Date: 1997

Author: Whittaker P.J., Malczak J.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Map - North part of the Township of Holloway, District of Cochrane, Ontario

Publication Number: M1953-04 Date: 1997

Author: Satterly J., Hogg N.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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Map - Township of Harker, District of Cochrane, Ontario

Publication Number: M1951-04 Date: 1997

Author: Satterly J., Hogg N.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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MonoMap - Geology and petrogenesis of the Archean Abitibi belt in the Kirkland Lake area, Ontario

Publication Number: MP123 Date: 1985

Author: Jensen L.S., Langford F.F.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Article - Gold metallogenesis along the Pipestone and Destor-Porcupine deformation zones and associated structures

Publication Number: MP132.081 Page: 404-407  Date: 1997

Author: Whittaker P.J.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Map - Industrial minerals of the Algonquin region, Bracebridge area, Parry Sound, Muskoka, Nipissing districts and southern Ontario

Publication Number: P2563 Scale: 1:125,000    Date: 1982

Author: Martin W.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Article - Kirkland Lake Resident Geologist's area, Northern Region

Publication Number: MP134.007 Date: 1997

Author: Lovell H.L., Grabowski G.P.B., Guindon D.L., Bath A.C.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Map - Precambrian Geology of the Highway 101 Area, East of Matheson, Ontario

Publication Number: M2676 Scale: 1:50,000    Date: 2003

Author: Berger B.R., Luinstra B., Ropchan J.C.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Mono - Gold deposits of Ontario, part 1, districts of Algoma, Cochrane, Kenora, Rainy River, and Thunder Bay

Publication Number: MDC013 Page: 77-78  Date: 1971

Author: Ferguson S.A., Groen H.A., Haynes R.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs

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Mono - Mineral occurrences, deposits, and mines of the Black River-Matheson area

Publication Number: OFR5735 Page: 535-544  Date: 1990

Author: Bath A.C.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

File - Res/Reg Property Visit Report KL #209

Publication Number: RPT KL 209 Date: 1996

Author:

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location: Kirkland Lake RGP office

MonoMap - Geological Synthesis of the Highway 101 Area, East of Matheson, Ontario

Publication Number: OFR6091 Date: 2003

Author: Berger B.R.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

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