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Record: MDI000000000955

General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold

Location

Township or Area: Hambleton

Latitude: 48° 48' 53.37"    Longitude: -85° 1' 31.74"

UTM Zone: 16    Easting: 644952   Northing: 5408751    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Timmins

NTS Grid: 42C14NE

Point Location Description: precise

Location Method: Based on Assessment

Exploration History

2008-2011: Corona Gold Corporation and Harte Gold Corporation - airborne geophysics, prospecting, sampling, ground geophysical survey, stripping, trenching, DD-37-6585m. 2011-2017: Harte Gold Corp. – DD – 2 – 333m, prospecting, sampling, geological mapping, assays, DD – 14 – 7346m, airborne geophysical survey, induced polarization survey, ground magnetic survey.

Assessment Work on File

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Wawa

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Dayohessarah-Kabinakagami

Geological Age: Archean  

Lithology

Lithology Comments

Sep 05, 2012 (A Wilson) - The auriferous Wolf Zone lies in the northern extent of the SDZ, but drilling between the two zones indicates that the zones are complexly separate from each other. Like the Sugar Zone, the Wolf Zone is north-northwesterly striking, and southwesterly dipping. Unlike the Sugar Zone, there is only one gold mineralized zone, and not two or more parallel zones. The auriferous Wolf Zone lies along strike of the Sugar Zone, and may represent the northern extension of the SDZ. It is defined as highly strained packages consisting of variously altered mafic volcanic flows and gabbros. The zone ranges in true thickness from 0.5 to 8 m. The zone is made up of highly sheared mafic volcanics, and a network of intrusive, intermediate quartz-feldspar porphyry dykes/sills. Alteration in the mafic volcanic and gabbro units consists mainly of silicification (both pervasive and quartz veining), diopside alteration and magnesium rich, brown biotite alteration. Alteration within the intermediate porphyry units consist of mostly silicification, with small amounts of magnesium-rich brown biotite, and no diopside. The zone is observed in trenches to pinch and swell over 30 m.

Mineralization

Mineralization Comments

Sep 05, 2012 (A Wilson) - A grab sample taken by G. Peacock from a boulder in 2009 returned 87.8 g/t gold. Follow up sampling by Harte Gold Corp. in 2010 returned 9.85 g/t Au, 52.8 g/t Au, 6.84 g/t Au and 37.3 g/t Au. Grab samples collected in 2010 from a trench located to the north of the original sampling returned 6.53 g/t Au and 5.97 g/t Au. Assays from drill hole NZ10-02 returned 9.5 g/t Au over 7.5 m, including 111 g/t Au over 0.5 m. Mineralization consists of disseminated sulphides with visible gold. Gold mineralization mostly occurs in quartz veins, stringers and quartz flooded zones predominantly associated with porphyry zones, and hydrothermally altered basalts and gabbros. Fine grained specks of visible gold are occasionally observed in the Wolf Zone quartz veins. The visible gold itself is often observed to be concentrated within thin fractures, indicating some degree of remobilization. Quartz veins and floods also contain varying amounts of pyrrhotite, pyrite and occasional galena. The presence of galena is a strong indicator of the presence of visible gold. Pyrite and pyrrhotite form most of the total sulphides, but do not appear to be directly related to the presence of gold mineralization. Assays from WZ-10-16 returned values of 7.33 g/t Au over 7.33 m, including 21.6 g/t Au over 0.45 m. Assays from WZ-10-18 returned values of 4.8 gt Au over 5 m, including 15.4 g/t Au over 1.5 m and 35.1 g/t Au over 0.5 m.

Mineral Record Details

Mineral Zones - Size and Shape

References

Map - Precambrian Geology, Dayohessarah Area (Central)

Publication Number: P3310 Scale: 1:20,000    Date: 1995

Author: Stott G.M., Mahoney K.L., Zwiers W.G.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Mono - Precambrian Geology of the Dayohessarah Lake Area, White River, Ontario

Publication Number: OFR5984 Scale:     Date: 1999

Author: Stott G.M.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Publication - Press realeases

Publication Number: Scale:     Date: 2010

Author: Harte Gold Corp.

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Publication - NI 43-101 Technical Report on the Preliminary Economic Assessment of the Sugar Zone Project, North-western Ontario, Canada, for Harte Gold Corp.

Publication Number: NI 43-101 Scale:     Date: 2012

Author: M. Buck, A.S. Hayden, B. LeBlanc

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Publication - NI 43-101 Technical Report and mineral resource update for the Dayohessarah Lake Property Sugar Zone Project, Ontario, Canada, for Harte Gold Corp., 133 p.

Publication Number: NI 43-101 Scale:     Date: 2012

Author: M.W. Kociumbas, D. Power-Fardy

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