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Record: MDI000000001365

General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold

Location

Township or Area: Dixie Lake Area

Latitude: 50° 51' 20.4"    Longitude: -93° 36' 16.87"

UTM Zone: 15    Easting: 457438   Northing: 5633949    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Red Lake

NTS Grid: 52K13SE

Point Location Description: DDH BR-020 location from Great Bear website

Location Method: Data Compilation

Access Description: 30 km SSW of Red Lake

Exploration History

1944: A Boyle completed 8 x-ray holes. 1945: Belgold Mines - 4 x-ray holes, prospecting, and trenching. 1951: Currie, Mahoney and McDougall - 9 drill holes totalling 284 m. 1969-1972: Caraville completed mapping, airborne mag and EM surveys. 1970: Newmont - 9 drill holes totaling 1,067 m and EM and magnetic surveys. 1972: Caravelle - 6 drill holes totaling 451 m. 1985: Golden Terrace completed airborne mag. 1988: Mutual Resources and Consolidated Silver Standard Mints Ltd - 7 BQ totaling 465 m - discovery of 88-04 (main) zone also completed 3 trenches/rock sampling, ground mag and VLF-EM. 1989: Teck Resources 27 BQ totaling 4,090 m as well as mapping and IP survey. 1990: 13 BQ totaling 2,218 m. 1996: Canadian Gold Dragon completed 12 NW totaling 1,888 m, and in 1997 15 NQ totaling 2,566 m. 2003/2004: Alberta Star/Fronteer Development completed 17 NQ 5 BQ totaling 6,594 m, and ground mag survey. 2005: Grandview Gold Inc completed drill program 16 DDH totaling 2,765 m. 2006: 5 boreholes totaling 1,032.7 m. 2007: completed 18 DDH totaling 4,562.77 m. 2009: Grandview Gold carried out drilling. 2011: Grandview Gold inc. carried out drilling. 2010: Laurentian Goldfield Ltd conducted exploration on the property. MMI soil sampling, trenching, lake sediment sampling and grab samples. No anomalous assays returned. 2017-19: Great Bear Resources carried out prospecting, sampling, mapping, a soil gas hydrocarbon survey, and drilled 245 DDH totalling 85,673 m. 2022: Kinross Gold Corp. acquired Great Bear Resources and drilled 33 DDH totalling 27,215 m. 2023: Kinross Gold Corp. released a resource calculation. See the Yuma Zone (MDI000000002450) for the total LP Zone resource information.

Assessment Work on File

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Uchi

Terrane: North Caribou

Domain: Uchi

Belt: Red Lake

Geological Age: Archean  

Lithology

Mineralization

Mineralization Comments

Feb 13, 2012 (A McKee) - 2006: Best assays: 2.1 g/t Au over 4 m, and 3.2 g/t Au over 1.9 m. 2007: Best samples, 2.18 Au g/t over 1.5 m and 0.67 Au g/t over 0.75 m.

Oct 15, 2020 (Therese Pettigrew) - The LP Zone exhibits a style of mineralization which is not observed in other parts of the Red Lake greenstone belt. The zone is associated with a high degree of deformation, widespread alteration, and transposition of primary textures as well as complete flattening of stratigraphy. The LP Zone mineralization occurs within a wide zone of high strain and increased metamorphic grade. The strain zone is very continuous for over 4 km and is slightly oblique to stratigraphy, intersecting multiple lithologies including the porphyritic felsic volcanics, and metasediment. The deformation zone is up to 500 m wide. The higher-grade gold mineralization appears to be controlled by the intersection of this strain zone and the metasediment 2 unit. Ongoing LP Zone drilling has demonstrated that most of the greater than 5.0 g/t Au intercepts and nearly all of the greater than 10 g/t Au intercepts drilled along the LP Zone to date occur within 50 m to 100 m of the metasedimentary/felsic volcanic contact. Gangue mineralization is variable across the zone and locally ranges from 0% to any amount of the following: 1% to 15% disseminated pyrite, 1% to 10% arsenopyrite (blebby and matted), 1% to 5% red and yellow sphalerite, 1% to 5% pyrrhotite, 1% to 5% chalcopyrite, 1% to 5% galena, and 1% to 3% scheelite. The LP Zone has been further sub-divided into six sub-zones named, from northwest to southeast, Discovery, Bruma, Yuma, Yauro, Auro, and Viggo (Pfeiffer et al., 2023).DDH DL-2005-03 returned 3.2 g/t Au over 1.9 m including 6.73 g/t Au over 0.5 m from a sulphidic iron formation with 4-5% disseminated pyrrhotite and 3-4% fine magnetite (Assessment report 20000001208). DDH DL-03-04 returned up to 3.78 g/t Au from an argillite with intense pyrrhotite and trace chalcopyrite (Assessment report 52K13SE2003). DDH BR-020 returned 4.2 g/t Au over 53.7 m including 101.71 g/t Au over 1.5 m (Great Bear Resources Sept 3, 2019 press release).

Mineral Record Details

References

Publication - Great Bear Gold Project

Publication Number: 2023 NI 43-101 Date: 2023

Author: Pfeiffer, N., Sims, J., Breau, Y., Greenwood, R., Prawasono, A.

Publisher Name: Kinross Gold Corp.

Location: SEDAR

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