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Record: MDI000000001981

General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold

Location

Township or Area: Rowan Lake Area

Latitude: 49° 18' 32.58"    Longitude: -93° 34' 26.34"

UTM Zone: 15    Easting: 458277.94   Northing: 5461970.84    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Kenora

NTS Grid: 52F05SE

Point Location Description: From Map

Location Method: Based on Assessment

Access Description: Access to the licences of occupation is via Cameron Lake Road (an all-weather, gravel road) that departs east from Highway 71 about 30 km north of the town of Nestor Falls. The Monte Cristo and Victor prospects are located 900m apart situated at the eastern end of Sullivan Bay under Rowan Lake.

Exploration History

1899: six trenches were excavated and cleaned at Monte Cristo as well as two shafts referred to at the time as Little Bob's mine (later renamed Monte Cristo). Contemporaneous to the work at Monte Cristo, another shaft was sunk on Victor Island. 1936: prospects were acquired by Lakeport Gold Mines Ltd. a company established with the purpose of exploring the showings. Lakeport Gold Mines completed further trenching and 9 holes (675 meters) of diamond drilling between 1937 and 1938. These 9 holes consisted of 8 holes on Monte Cristo and 1 hole at Victor. 1983: optioned by Nuinsco Resources who carried out Induced Polarization and VLF surveys. 12 diamond drill holes were carried out over the Monte Cristo prospect where Nuinsco drilled underneath the historical shafts and verified Lakeport's mineralised intersections. 1984-1999: 99 drill holes (NM-1 to NM-99) were completed out on Rowan Lake along the Monte Cristo Shear Zone. Of these 99 drill holes, 41 holes and 21 holes were carried out on the Victor and Monte Cristo prospects respectively. 2011: Nine drill holes totalling 1,477 m were completed.

Assessment Work on File

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Wabigoon

Belt: Savant Lake

Geological Age: Archean  

Geology Comments

Jul 25, 2016 (Andrew Tims) - The Victor prospect differs from the Monte Cristo prospect in that mineralisation occurs within a 10m thick steeply dipping band of silica-sericite-carbonate-albite-pyrite alteration, which features but is not limited to the aforementioned vein sets. Silicification, sercitization and pyrite are more profound at Victor then at the Monte Cristo prospect strongly resemblance to the main zone at the Cameron deposit.

Lithology

Mineralization

Mineralization Comments

Jul 25, 2016 (Andrew Tims) - The Victor prospect is viewed as a more continuous steeply dipping flattened cigar shaped body running parallel tothe MCSZ. 2011: 18.0m @ 3.06 g/t Au, 10.0m @ 2.71 g/t Au, 7.0m @ 2.54 g/t Au (all RVD-11-002), 10.0m @ 2.27 g/t Au (RVD-11-005) and 8.0m @ 2.33 g/t Au (RVD-11-007).

Mineral Record Details

References

Compend - Summary of Field Work and Other Activities, 2011

Publication Number: OFR6270 Date: 2011

Author: Easton R.M., Burnham O.M., Berger B.R., Beakhouse G.P., Bajc A.F., Parker J.R., Kelly R.I., Debicki E.J.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Map - Precambrian Geology Kakagi-Rowan Lakes Area

Publication Number: P3594 Scale: 1:50,000    Date: 2007

Author: Johns G.W.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

Map - Precambrian Geology of the Rowan Lake Area, Northwestern Ontario

Publication Number: P3766 Scale: 1:20,000    Date: 2012

Author: Lewis D., Woolgar S.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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