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General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold

Secondary Commodities: Silver, Zinc

Location

Township or Area: Argyle

Latitude: 48° 4' 12.37"    Longitude: -80° 53' 45.62"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 507746.999   Northing: 5324097.004    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Kirkland Lake

NTS Grid: 42A02SW

Point Location Description: Approximate trench location

Location Method: Based on Assessment

Access Description: Located in the NW corner of Argyle Twp., this property is accessible west from the junction of hwy 66 and 11 to 27 miles to the town of Matachewan. Follow westerly along hwy 566 from Matachewan for 16 miles which turns in a logging road heading in a northwest direction. Travel for a distance of about 3 miles till you cross McCollum Creek. At this point a side road runs through a gravel pit heading west toward Tom Fox Lake. This takes you into a fresh timber cut, and at the northern tip of the cut over area a bulldozer trail takes you into L3 South of the grid on the Tom Fox Lake Group.

Exploration History

1950s: Tom Fox carried out prospecting and hand trenching. 1974: Texasgulf Canada Ltd carried out line cutting, ground magnetic and horizontal loop EM surveys, geology and a little amount of soil sampling. 1975: Texasgulf Canada Ltd drilled two DDH totalling 810 feet. 1983: Fred Kiernicki and Phil Fox carried out blasting and sampling of old trenches. 1985: McAdam Resources carried out line cutting and a VLF-EM survey. 1986: McAdam Resources carried out geological mapping and outcrop sampling. 1988: McAdam Resources drilled five DDH in the area of the main showing. 1991: Joutel Resources conducted airborne magnetic, electromagnetic and VLF-EM surveys, line-cutting and mapping. 1993: F. Kiernicki carried out trenching.

Assessment Work on File

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Abitibi

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Abitibi

Geological Age: Archean  

Lithology

Mineralization

Mineralization Comments

May 21, 2010 (J Suma-Momoh) - Diamond drilling on the claim in 1988 by McAdam Resources intersected 7 feet 3 % zinc, 1.7 feet of 0.2 oz/t gold, and 7 feet of 0.1 oz/t silver in D.D.H # 1. Grab samples collected by Fred Kiernicki during the 1993 trenching program from trench # 3N returned assays as high as 0.5 g/t gold, 0.017 oz/t silver, 0.299 % zinc from sample # 7088. Sample # 7090 returned 0.37 g/t gold, 0.11 oz/t silver and 0.475 % zinc. REF: KL 3703.

Alteration Comments

May 21, 2010 (J Suma-Momoh) - In places, the andesites are highly chloritic. REF: KL0889, page 5. The andesites are somewhat sheared and altered to a carbonate schist. Some pits in the claim group showed rusty carbonate schist abundantly mineralized with pyrite and containing small stringers of calcite and quartz. REF: ODM 1932, AR Vol. 41, Part 2, page 18 - 19. A colour change from deep green to pale chrome green similar to fuchsite is visible in areas of strong carbonate-sericite mineralization and particularly where stronger foliation exists. REF: KL 3703, page 9 - 10.

Mineral Record Details

References

Part - Bannockburn gold area

Publication Number: ARV41-02.001 Page: 18-19  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 Page: 187  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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