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Record: MDI000000001824

General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold

Location

Township or Area: Powell

Latitude: 47° 57' 55.29"    Longitude: -80° 39' 45.18"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 525189   Northing: 5312505    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Kirkland Lake

NTS Grid: 41P15NE

Point Location Description: cluster of trenches and drill holes northeast of Otisse Lake

Location Method: Based on Assessment

Access Description: : The Oka Project is located 2 km northwest of the town of Matachewan and approximately 55 km southwest of the town of Kirkland Lake. Access to the property is via highway 566, a gravel road through Royal Oak Mines Matachewan Project is used to access the southern portion of the property. Old drill trails are used to access the north portions of the property.

Exploration History

1997-98: Sedex Mining Corp. – stripping, trenching, DD-7-541 m. 2003: Young-Davidson Mines Limited – soil sampling, ground magnetometer survey; trenching, DD-4.

Assessment Work on File

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Abitibi

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Abitibi

Geological Age: Archean  

Lithology

Lithology Comments

Apr 28, 2015 (A Wilson) - The mafic metavolcanic rocks range from chloritic-carbonate schist to mafic lapilli tuffs.

Mineralization

Mineralization Comments

Apr 28, 2015 (A Wilson) - Gold assays in DDH-SO-98-11 ranged from 1.35 g/t Au to 5.79 gt Au over sections ranging from 0.92 m to 1.08 m. Assays from DDH-SO-98-13 ranged from1.28 g/t Au over 1 m to11.38 g/t Au over 1 m in weakly altered mafic flows. Assays from DDH-SO-98-15 returned up to 24.79 g/t Au over 1 m in a quartz vein in mafic metavolcanics. Assays from DDH-SO-98-17 returned assays ranging from1.00 g/t Au over 1.20 m to. 7.20 oz/t Au over 1 m in mafic metavolcanic rocks. Assays from Young-Davidson’s drilling in 2003 returned assays of 4.58 g/t Au over 4.5 m and 1.17 g/t Au over 1.5 m from DDH OK03-26. DDH OK03-34 returned gold assays of 4.32 g/t Au over 0.67 m; 5.90 g/t Au over 1.50 m may represent the Todd Zone; and intersections of 5.45 g/t au over 1.5 m and 3.97 g/t Au over 6.0 m may represent the N2 subzone. Drill holes OK03-24 and OK03-25 retuned 7.99 gt Au over 1.50 m in DDH OK03-24.

Mineral Record Details

References

Map - Geological Compilation of the Central Abitibi Greenstone Belt: Kapuskasing Structural Zone to the Quebec Border

Publication Number: P3565 Scale: 1:250,000    Date: 2005

Author: Ayer J.A., Berger B.R., Hall L.A.F., Houlé M.G., Johns G.W., Josey S.D., Madon Z.B., Rainsford D.R.B., Trowell N.F., Vaillancourt C.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Map - Precambrian Geology, Powell Township

Publication Number: P3577 Scale: 1:20,000    Date: 2006

Author: Berger B.R., Préfontaine S.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Map - Powell and Cairo townships, Timiskaming District

Publication Number: M2110 Scale: 1:31,680    Date: 1997

Author: Lovell H.L.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Article - General Geology of Powell Township, District of Timiskaming

Publication Number: OFR6172.005 Scale:     Date: 2005

Author: Berger B.R., Préfontaine S.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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