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Record: MDI42A16SW00038

General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold

Secondary Commodities: Silver, Copper, Molybdenum

Location

Township or Area: Rickard, Rickard, Rickard

Latitude: 48° 45' 28.79"    Longitude: -80° 29' 41.93"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 537117   Northing: 5400677    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Kirkland Lake

NTS Grid: 42A16SW

Point Location Description: inclined shaft

Location Method: AMIS Site Visit

Access Description: Proceed on Carr Township lot 3/4 road north to Wilkie Township logging road. The road leads north into Rickard Township within 400m of the site. The distance north of Matheson is 25km.

Exploration History

1916-17: J. Raty and Mr. Hango– discovery, shaft sinking. 1918: Mining Corporation of Canada – optioned property, inclined shaft to 100 ft with drifting, diamond drilling (2000 ft). 1934-37: Rickard Ramore Gold Mines Limited – shaft deepened to 320 ft, cross-cutting on 100 ft level, 10,000 ft diamond drilling, a 90 lb shipment of pyrite was made to DEMR in order to assess the suitability of the pyrite for sulphur production. 1938-51: Twindyke Mines Limited. – acquired 5 patent; winze sunk to 275 ft level, underground development; DD-11 on pyrite body between 1943 and 1955. 1947: Riczone Mines ltd. – DD-44 (shallow holes) 1958: Rio Tinto Canadian Exploration Limited – mapping, compilation. 1962: Noranda Exploration Co. Ltd. – ground geophysics. 1973: Questor – airborne geophysics. Last recorded holders were North Hall Mines Ltd. Owners relinquished the mining rights in 1995. 1996: RJK Explorations Inc. – mapping, ground geophysics, DD – 3 – 343 m. 2008-2009: Golden Chalice Resources – airborne geophysics, DD-4-1287 m.

Assessment Work on File

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Abitibi

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Abitibi

Tectonic Assemblage: Stoughton-Roquemaure

Geological Age: Archean  

Lithology

Lithology Comments

Jun 26, 2014 (A Wilson) - Gold was found in quartz and quartz-carbonate veins that cut altered pillowed metavolcanics and diabase and dip steeply south. Two quartz veins are exposed at surface for a length of about 300 ft and contain a great deal of white quartz over widths up to 8 ft. For the most part, the quartz is white massive material, almost devoid of mineral but there are short lengths of vein which contain considerable coarse pyrite and one section near the shaft that contains some chalcopyrite. Drill logs note that the grey porphyry is frequently carbonated and contains green carbonate in the veins. Green carbonate was also discovered between 800 and 1026 ft in DDH 1 and 2 completed by Twindyke Mines in 1944.

Mineralization

Mineralization Comments

Jun 26, 2014 (A Wilson) - The pocket of high gold values is reported to have been composed of coarse gold, bismuth telluride, lead telluride, and silver in a crushed-quartz matrix. The wall rocks are strongly carbonatized for distances of 5-10 feet from the veins. The alteration zone in the vicinity of the veins is about 60 ft. wide. Assays from the No. 1 vein, obtained by Rickard Ramore Gold Mines in 1936 returned values of $6.00 Au over 66 inches and $6.00 Au over 18 inches ( gold at $20.50). Assays from the No. 3 vein, obtained by Rickard Ramore Gold Mines in 1936 returned values of $10.85 Au over 30 inches and $98.00 Au over 18 inches ( gold at $20.50). Assays from the 5 drill holes completed by Rickard Gold Mines Limited returned: $15.60 Au over 2 feet (DDH 1), $5.80 over 5 ft. (DDH 2), $5.00 Au over 5 ft. (DDH 3) and $56.60 Au over 2 ft. and $8.40 Au over 1 ft. (DDH 5). Silver values from samples collected near the shaft area in 1917 returned values ranging from $1.20 Ag to $4.70 Ag. Grab samples collected from the surface outcropping of the veins by J.W. Dixon (ODM) returned $0.80 Au over 4 ft. width and $0.40 Au over 5 ft. from a quartz vein in greenstone approximately 250 ft. east of the shaft. A chip sample collected by the ODM returned trace Au, trace Ag, 0.35% Cu, trace Ni, trace Pb, trace Mo. A chip sample taken along a length of a pit 1000 ft. south of the shaft and an assay showed traces of Au, Ag, Cu and Ni. The north vein at the shaft contained considerable molybdenite on slips and fractures in the quartz. High grade ore was encountered between the depths of 5 and 14 feet and little gold was found below 40 ft. Assays from the 1996 drilling by RJK returned assays of 127 ppb Au over 0.64 m, and 223 ppb Au over 1 m. There are numerous mentions of spectacular gold values, but no definitive information is available.

Mineral Record Details

Mineral Zones - Size and Shape

References

File - Resident Geologist files KL-2365, KL-2740

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Author:

Publisher Name:

Location: Kirkland Lake RGP office

Map - Rickard, Knox and Kerrs townships, Cochrane District

Publication Number: M2073 Scale: 1:31,680    Date: 1997

Author: Simony P.S.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:

Book - Canadian Mines Handbook 1936, Rickard-Ramore Mines

Publication Number: CMH 1936 Page: 216  Date: 1936

Author:

Publisher Name: Canadian Mines Handbook

Location: Kirkland Lake RGO

MonoMap - Geology of Rickard, Knox, and Kerrs townships, District of Cochrane

Publication Number: R037 Page: 20-22  Date: 1997

Author: Simony P.S.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:

Part - Abitibi-Night Hawk gold area, District of Timiskaming

Publication Number: ARV28-02.001 Page: 61-62  Date: 1998

Author: Knight C.W., Burrows A.G., Hopkins P.E., Parsons A.L.

Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines

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Part - Notes on Lake Abitibi area

Publication Number: ARV27-01.007 Page: 69, 211-214  Date: 1998

Author: Hopkins P.E.

Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines

Location:

Part - Mines of Ontario

Publication Number: ARV28-01.003 Page: 141  Date: 1998

Author: Sutherland T.F., Collins E.A., Stovel J.H., Webster A.R.

Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines

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Map - Gold area between lakes Abitibi and Night Hawk, District of Timiskaming

Publication Number: ARM28B Scale: 1:126,720    Date: 1998

Author: Knight C.W., Burrows A.G., Hopkins P.E., Parsons A.L.

Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines

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Part - Ontario gold deposits, their character, distribution and productiveness

Publication Number: ARV30-02 Page: 4, 29  Date: 1998

Author: Hopkins P.E.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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Part - Mines of Ontario in 1935

Publication Number: ARV45-01.003 Page: 154  Date: 1997

Author: Sinclair D.G., Keeley E.C., Cooper D.F., Weir E.B., Webster A.R.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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Part - Mines of Ontario in 1936

Publication Number: ARV46-01.003 Page: 197  Date: 1997

Author: Sinclair D.G., Tower W.O., Bayne A.S., Cooper D.F., Weir E.B., Webster A.R.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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