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General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold

Location

Township or Area: Hincks

Latitude: 48° 3' 22.6"    Longitude: -80° 56' 26.79"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 504413   Northing: 5322557    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Kirkland Lake

NTS Grid: 42A02SW

Point Location Description: South Vein (south of Ezra Lake)

Location Method: Based on Assessment

Access Description: Access to the property is by bush road which passes through the centre of the claim group. This road joins Timmins to Matachewan. From Timmins the property lies 60 miles south and from Matachewan is approximately 25 miles to the west. The bush road which passes through the property is only partially maintained year round.

Exploration History

1932: McCollum Gold Mines Ltd: trenching, sampling. 1974: Prestige Mines Ltd: geological mapping, EM survey, DD-3-538 ft. 1984: Marjel Resources Inc. - mapping. 1987: Wilzel Resources Ltd. - airborne geophysics. 2002-03: Phoenix Matachewan Mines Inc. - mapping, prospecting, ground geophysics

Assessment Work on File

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Abitibi

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Abitibi

Geological Age: Archean  

Metamorphism Grade: Low

Geology Comments

Oct 08, 2014 (J Suma-Momoh) - The McCollum Gold Occurrence appears to be associated with a fault zone which has been healed by a 12-inch quartz vein. Two sets of distinct fractures occur within the vein and are observed to control sulphide mineralization. These are: extension and shear fractures, probably caused by repeated movements of the fault creating tensional forces in the vein.

Lithology

Lithology Comments

Oct 08, 2014 (A Wilson) - The quartz vein was 12 inches in width and strikes north, dipping 35°W. The quartz vein was exposed for a distance of 800 feet.

Mineralization

Mineralization Comments

Oct 08, 2014 (A Wilson) - Two grab samples collected from the vein in 1932 returned assays of $25.00 and $8.20 per ton in gold. Grab samples collected by Prestige Mines Ltd. assayed nil to 0.12 oz/t Au from grab samples. Assays from Prestige Mines Ltd DDH P-1 returned assays of 0.02 oz/t Au and 0.05 oz/t Ag over 2.5 ft and 0.01 oz/t Au and 0.07 oz/t Ag over 2 ft. Gold values from the other 3 holes returned u to 0.02 oz/t Au over 2 ft. Grab sample 5445 collected by Phoenix Matachewan Mines returned 3.91 g/t Au (check assay 3.12 g/t Au). Grab samples collected by the OGS returned 12,650 and 8336 ppb Au.

Oct 08, 2014 (J Suma-Momoh) - Gold mineralization is confined to large quartz veins mineralized with finely disseminated pyrite and molybdenite. Values are erratic and display a direct association with the amounts of molybdenite present. The showing returned assays from nil to 1.23 oz/t gold from grab samples of quartz vein material. In 2002, Phoenix Matachewan Mines Inc. collected two samples (sample # 54431 and # 54432) of quartz vein from the trench. The samples returned 0.58 g/t of gold and nil of gold, respectively.

Alteration Comments

Oct 08, 2014 (J Suma-Momoh) - The host rock of the quartz vein is highly altered quartz-syenite with many of the feldspars being altered to sericite and kaolinite. This type of alteration is evident of porphyry molybdenum-copper deposits.

Mineral Record Details

References

Map - Geological Compilation of the Kirkland Lake Area, Abitibi Greenstone Belt

Publication Number: P3425 Scale: 1:100,000    Date: 2000

Author: Ayer J.A., Trowell N.F.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Part - Bannockburn gold area

Publication Number: ARV41-02.001 Scale:     Date: 1998

Author: Rickaby H.C.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:

Mono - Gold deposits of Ontario, part 2, part of District of Cochrane, districts of Muskoka, Nipissing, Parry Sound, Sudbury, Timiskaming, and counties of southern Ontario

Publication Number: MDC018 Scale:     Date: 1979

Author: Gordon J.B., Lovell H.L., de Grijs J.W., Davie R.F.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Map - Bannockburn gold area, District of Timiskaming, Ontario

Publication Number: ARM41A Scale: 1:47,520    Date: 1997

Author: Rickaby H.C.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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Map - Precambrian Geology, Cleaver and Hincks Townships

Publication Number: OFM0236 Scale: 1:20,000    Date: 1994

Author: Jensen L.S.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Mono - Precambrian Geology of McNeil, Robertson, Hincks and Cleaver Townships

Publication Number: OFR5931 Scale:     Date: 2002

Author: Jensen L.S.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

Map - Geological Compilation of the Matachewan Area, Abitibi Greenstone Belt

Publication Number: P3527 Scale: 1:100,000    Date: 2003

Author: Ayer J.A., Trowell N.F., Josey S.D., Nevills M., Valade L.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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