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Record: MDI000000001997

General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold

Location

Township or Area: Duckworth

Latitude: 48° 30' 57.29"    Longitude: -90° 2' 6.42"

UTM Zone: 15    Easting: 718941   Northing: 5377890    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay South

NTS Grid: 52B09SE

Point Location Description: GPS

Location Method: Based on Assessment

Access Description: Access from Thunder Bay is west along paved Highway 11-17 for 24 kilometers to Kakabeka Falls, west on paved Highway 590 for 16 kilometers to the junction with the Great Lakes Forest Products gravel road, west and north on the gravel road for 30 kilometers, followed by 6 kilometers of mud and quagmire that requires a four-wheel drive vehicle with a winch whenever the road is wet. In winter, the road is maintained by Great Lakes Forest Products, and the property is accessible by truck.

Exploration History

1895: Ontario Bureau of Mines Report describes the Quartzite Mine located 900 m to the west as four prospecting pits. 1983: Todd Sanders and Jurate Lukosius-Sanders staked the showing. Jalna Resources optioned the property and carried out 81 km of geological mapping, 283 rock chip sampes, 2352 soil samples, prospecting, 243 overburden drill hole, induced polarization, magnetomater and VLF surveys. A broad area of elevated gold was outlined and referred to as the Creek Zone. John Ternowesky, D. Walsten and W. Hayne staked several claims in the Goldcreek area in 1983 and optioned them to Jalna Resources Ltd (“Jalna”).1984: Jalna Resources performed stripping and trenching in the area, including some of the original pits. Four high priority zones were identified: North, South, Ternowesky and Creek Zones. Anaconda Canada Exploration optioned the property and drill tested the mineraliztion. 1985: An airborne electromagnetic and magnetometer surveys were flown over the area. 1986: Due to certain difficulties in financing, Jalna terminated their option on the "Gold Creek" claims and the property (415 mining claims at the time) was subsequently optioned by Inco in November 1986. 1987: Inco Gold Canada completed mapping, systematically sampling of numerous outcrops, detailed mapping trenches areas and diamond drilling over the area of the prospect. 1995-1997: Landore Resources Inc. carried out ground and airborne geophysics, mapping, stripping, mapping, channel sampling and diamond drilling on North and South Zones in an effort to twin Inco drill results. Three holes totalling 737 feet, were drilled on the "South Zone" where a previous drill hole by Inco (hole # 78411-0) returned anomalous gold values of 1.63 gpt Au over 7.5 metres. Surface sampling in the area also returned values of 0.64 gpt Au from 63 samples covering an area of 14 metres by 22 metres. 2000: Satellite imagery study completed by WIlson. J. Stockley completed an evaluation of the property. 2007: Mengold Resources optioned the claims covering the Gold Creek group of showings completing reconnaisance geology, outcrop stripping, and channel sampling. 2008: The South and I- Zones were mapped and sampled during the summer-field program. Mengold entered into a binding Letter of Intent (LOI) with Solomon Resources Limited (Solomon) for an Option and Joint Venture on the Goldcreek Property. Solomon was the operator during the earn-in phase and Mengold acted as project manager. Solomon did not commit to a 2009 field program and the option has been terminated. Mengold made the final option payment. Mengold Res changed its name to MGold Res. 2010: MGold terminated the Goldcreek Property agreement and abandoned the property.

Assessment Work on File

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Wawa

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Shebandowan

Geological Age: Archean  

Geology Comments

Aug 18, 2016 (Andrew Tims) - The prospect underlain solely by the felsic-intermediate metavolcanic rocks affected locally by hydrothermal brecciation. Tourmaline- and sericiteenriched alteration surrounds fragments in locally tuffisitic rock northwest of a broad, bifurcating zone of intense sericitization and disseminated pyrite mineralization in the northern trench. The latter zone contains the anomalously bright green muscovite, and yielded low, but elevated, gold values.

Lithology

Mineralization

Mineral Record Details

References

Map - Precambrian Geology, Duckworth Township

Publication Number: M2621 Scale: 1:20,000    Date: 1995

Author: Rogers M.C.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

Map - Geological series, Duckworth Township, District of Thunder Bay

Publication Number: P0825 Scale: 1:15,840    Date: 1973

Author: Srivastava P., Fenwick K.G.

Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines

Location:

Mono - Property visits and reports of the Atikokan economic geologist, 1979-1983, Atikokan geological survey

Publication Number: OFR5539 Scale:     Date: 1985

Author: Schnieders B.R., Dutka R.J.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

Publication - 1990 OMIP Report, Trenching and Diamond Drill Program, “Gold Creek Property”, Laurie and Duckworth

Publication Number: OMIP-90-127 Scale:     Date: 1990

Author: McEachern,R.K.

Publisher Name: MNDM

Location:

Mono - Geological setting of gold mineralization in the western part of the Shebandowan Greenstone belt, District of Thunder Bay, northwestern Ontario

Publication Number: OFR5636 Scale:     Date: 1987

Author: Chorlton L.B.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

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