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| Record Name(s) | 959 Showing - Thron Lake Property - 2009 |
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| Record Status | Prospect |
| Date Created | 2011-Dec-16 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Sep-01 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Thorne Lake Area
Latitude: 54° 32' 38.47" Longitude: -91° 40' 17.22"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 585944.002 Northing: 6044863.999 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Red Lake
Point Location Description: Approximate
Location Method: Based on Assessment
Access Description: The Thorne Lake Property is located approximately 720 km northwest of Thunder Bay, Ontario, and 360 km northwest of Pickle Lake. Property is access by Air. The Thorne Lake Property is accessible by helicopter and by float plane to larger lakes, from the First Nations community of Sachigo Lake. Sachigo Lake is located on the northwest side of Sachigo Lake, about 80 km southwest of the property
Recorded prospecting activity in the Ellard Lake greenstone belt began in the early 1930s largely concentrated on exploration for gold and silver. Exploration work in the belt declined during the Second World War and did not increase again until the 1960s. In the late 1960s and early 1970s exploration activity for base metals, particularly copper and nickel, covered the area around Thorne Lake as a result of the development of airborne geophysical methods particularly suited to base metal exploration. 2002-2004: Aurora Platinum Corp. staked the Lacey Lake property which covered the southern portion of the Thorne Lake property. Exploration activity during 2002 consisted of geological mapping and rock and till sampling. Superior Diamonds Inc. collected 14 samples on the Lacey Lake claims. Superior Diamonds Inc. collected 15 samples on or about the claims on the west end of the Thorne Lake property for heavy mineral analyses for kimberlite indicator minerals as well as gold. 2005: With the purchase of Aurora Platinum Corp. by FNX Mining Company Inc. in early 2005, ownership of the remaining claims from the original Lacey Lake property was purchased by Lake Shore Gold Corp. Only minor work was completed. Superior Diamonds Inc. staked a number of claim blocks and a group of 3 drill holes were completed approximately 1 km north to northwest of the west end of the Thorne Lake Property. 2008-2009: Northern Superior Resources Ltd. conducted an overburden-sampling program on the Thorne Lake Property, which was staked in the fall of 2007. The sampling program consisted of 132 hand dug pit samples which were analyzed for particulate gold and soil geochemical signatures. During July 2009, Northern Superior Resources Inc. conducted overburden-sampling, bedrock mapping, and prospecting program on the Thorne Lake Property. A total of 216 hand dug pit samples were collected. Bedrock mapping of portions of the property was completed during the same period, along with the collection of 45 grab samples.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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| 2.44355 | 20000005986 | 20000005986 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Sachigo
Terrane: North Caribou
Belt: Blackbear River-Ellard Lake
Geological Age: Archean
Dec 16, 2011 (A McKee) - The vein is laminated quartz stringers and veinlets in a biotite-chlorite-carbonate shear hosted by pillowed to massive mafic metavolcanic rocks. In most cases, the better gold assays are associated with strongly biotite altered and variably sheared mafic metavolcanic with 1-3% disseminated sulphide and little to no quartz.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Gold | Economic | Ore |
Dec 16, 2011 (A McKee) - Grab Sample taken from area returned 3.54 Au/t, subsequent drill hole: six intervals returned greater than 1.0Au/t in the first 57 m. Interval between 82.05 and 82.83 m returned 1.59 ppm Au/ 0.78m
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