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Record: MDI000000000529

General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold

Location

Township or Area: Tisdale

Latitude: 48° 30' 16.54"    Longitude: -81° 15' 50.14"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 480505   Northing: 5372420    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Timmins

NTS Grid: 42A11SW

Point Location Description: Hole coordinates per Ontario Drillhole Database record 62483 locn on GIS data plot

Location Method: Data Compilation

Access Description: Travel north 2.5 km on highway 655 to a bush road that leads 4 km to the north east side of the McIntyre tailings compound. The site lies on the east side of a power line right of way approximately 150m east of the road.

Exploration History

1944-1945: Balboa Explorations Ltd./Cortez Explorations Ltd.: DD-8-8965 ft. 1944-1951: Porcupine Prime Mines Limited: DD-25, assays. 1981: Ingex Holding and Development Ltd.: ground geophysics. 1983-1984: Newmont Exploration of Canada Ltd.: ground geophysics, mapping, drilling (DD-3-1398 ft), to NE of occ. 1987: Moneta Porcupine Mines: DD-6-1211 m1997: Moneta Porcupine Mines Inc. / Pentland Firth Ventures Ltd.: soil geochemistry, ground geophysics, geology/work compilation, DD-2. 2010: Moneta Porcupine Mines Inc. - DD-1-317 m.

Assessment Work on File

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Abitibi

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Abitibi

Tectonic Assemblage: Tisdale

Geological Age: Archean  

Lithology

Lithology Comments

Mar 20, 2008 (D Draper) - From R.A. Archer report, Oct. 1983 (T-2740): The most abundant rock type on the property is Mg-tholeiitic basalt. This unit is often described in the old drill logs as being an andesite due to its pale grey-green colour (as opposed to the darker green of an Fe-tholeiitic basalt - called basalt in the older literature). There are some units of Fe-tholeiitic basalt on the property since there appears to be a transition from Mg-rich to Fe-rich basalts near this level in the Tisdale Group stratigraphy and the latter become more prevalent to the south of the Ingex claims. The basalts occur most often as thick, massive flows, coarse to fine grained in texture, and locally rich in leucoxene. Pillowed basalts are also common, though not as abundant or as thick, and are often characterized by arnygdaloidal pillow margins. In the northwestern part of the property two dacitic units have been described in the drill logs. One of these, a massive, pale green rock may actually be a carbonatized basalt or a transitional rock type between basalts and greywackes. The other dacite is a porphyry, having quartz and/or feldspar phenocrysts.

Mineralization

Mineralization Comments

Mar 20, 2008 (D Draper) - Porcupine Prime hole #12 (az. 326) assayed 0.02 opt Au over 5ft from pillowed lava at 900ft downhole and 0.05 opt Au over 5ft at 960ft in an andesite or dacite. (See Lithology comments). Assays of 0.41 opt and 2.13 opt Au, each over 2.5ft, and 0.03opt over 5ft are also noted, but sample locations are undefined. Hole 10 was collared 275m SE of 12 and returned 0.04 opt Au over 1.5ft at 373.5ft; 0.71 opt over 5ft at 1825ft; and 0.16opt over 5ft at 1830ft from units described as andesite. Hole 11, collared 360m S of 12 and 115m S of 10, assayed 0.07 opt and 0.04 opt over 1.5ft samples. Both holes 10 and 11 had the same bearing as 12. Hole 16 (az. 146), collared approx. 300m NW of 12, returned an assay of 3.31 opt Au over 1.5ft at 907ft downhole. (T-342 Note: logs in this file appear to be later relogs by N. Hogg. Original logs and assays not in assessment records.) The results from these holes were reported on a Summary Compilation map submitted by the Moneta Porcupine / Pentland Firth J.V. as follows (T-4133): Hole PRG-12: 22.29 g/t Au over 3.05m, incl. 73.03 g/t over 6.76m (typo? 0.76m?) Hole PRG-10: 14.92 g/t over 3.05m, incl. 24.34 g/t over 1.52m Hole PRG-16: 29.06 g/t over 1.8m, incl. 113.5 g/t over 0.46m

Mineral Record Details

References

File - Resident Geologist files T-0342, T-2727

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Publisher Name:

Location: Timmins RGP office

MonoMap - Geology and ore deposits of Tisdale Township, District of Cochrane

Publication Number: R058 Page: 142-143  Date: 1968

Author: Ferguson S.A., Buffam B.S.W., Carter O.F., Griffis A.T., Holmes T.C., Hurst M.E., Jones W.A., Lane H.C., Longley C.S.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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Map - Tisdale Township, Cochrane District

Publication Number: M2075 Scale: 1:12,000    Date: 1998

Author: Ferguson S.A.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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Map - Precambrian Geology of Tisdale Township and Parts of Deloro, Mountjoy and Ogden Townships

Publication Number: P3555 Scale: 1:10,000    Date: 2005

Author: Bateman R.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Map - Timmins, Precambrian geology

Publication Number: M2455 Scale: 1:50,000    Date: 1982

Author: Pyke D.R.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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

Publication Number: P3379 Scale: 1:100,000    Date: 1998

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

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Mono - Structural geology of Tisdale and Whitney townships, Abitibi greenstone belt, District of Cochrane, northeastern Ontario

Publication Number: OFR5768 Date: 1991

Author: Piroshco D.W., Kettles K.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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