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Record: MDI000000000959

General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold

Location

Township or Area: BMA 526 862

Latitude: 52° 43' 43.45"    Longitude: -86° 19' 18.52"

UTM Zone: 16    Easting: 545798   Northing: 5842311    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay North

NTS Grid: 43D09NE

Point Location Description: approximate

Location Method: Data Compilation

Exploration History

2003-2010: Noront Resources Ltd. - airborne geophysics, ground geophysics, DD-58-25,416 m

Assessment Work on File

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Sachigo

Terrane: North Caribou

Domain: Oxford-Stull

Geological Age: Archean  

Lithology

Lithology Comments

Aug 01, 2014 (A Wilson) - Gold mineralization is related to the sheared contact between a talc-altered peridotite and granodiorite. The shear zone consists of biotite-chlorite-actinolite schist which contains or is flanked by brecciated quartz-rich fragments. The thickness of the zone ranges from several centimeters to tens of metres. The strike length is approximately 1km and reaches to a depth of 300m. The gold-bearing zone appears to be delineated by a northeast-trending, shear structure that passes through the northern extent of the Blackbird chromite deposit and through the southern portion of the Eagle's Nest Ni-Cu-PGE deposit. The Triple J zone is a north-east trending shear zone, hosting erratically distributed gold. Noront's geologists identified and sampled the zone when logging drill holes targeting the Eagle Two and Blackbird deposits. Noront determined that the initial sampling was incomplete and therefore initiated a program to re-log and re-sample all the holes that intersected the Triple J shear zone. The shear zone was drill tested over a 1.1 kilometer length to a depth of 600 metres. It dips at 55 degrees to the north-west and the mineralization varies from tens of centimetres to tens of metres in thickness.

Mineralization Comments

Aug 01, 2014 (A Wilson) - Gold mineralization ranges in value from 0.3 to 30.0 g/t Au. Drill hole NOT-08-15058 returned 12.65 g/t Au over 1.1 m. Drill hole NOT-08-1G062 intersected 9.6 m grading 1.54 g/t Au including 4.4 m of 3.04 g/t Au. DDH NOT-08-1G13 intersected 1.5 m averaging 18.3 g/t Au, DDH NOT-08-1G039 intersected 1 m averaging 1.2 g/t Au and DDH NOT-09-1G138 intersected 1.0 m averaging 2.07 g/t Au.

Mineral Record Details

Mineral Zones - Size and Shape

References

Publication - Press releases Noront Resources Ltd.

Publication Number: press release Scale:     Date: 2009

Author: Noront Resources Ltd.

Publisher Name:

Map - Precambrian Geology of the Hudson Bay and James Bay Lowlands Region Interpreted from Aeromagnetic Data-South Sheet

Publication Number: P3599-REV Scale: 1:500,000    Date: 2009

Author: Stott G.M.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Publication - Technical Report on the Mineral Resources Estimate for the Black Bird Chrome Deposits, James Bay Lowlands, 188 p

Publication Number: Scale:     Date: 2010

Author: R. Gowans, J. Spooner, A. J. San Martin, C. Murahwi

Publisher Name: Micon International Limited.

Publication - Technical Report on the McFaulds Lake Project, James Bay Lowlands, 183p

Publication Number: Scale:     Date: 2010

Author: P. Palmer

Publisher Name: Golder Associates Ltd.

Mono - Mineral Deposits of Northern Ontario, North of Latitude 49 30'

Publication Number: OFR6242 Scale:     Date: 2009

Author: Stott G.M., Josey S.D.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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