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General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold

Location

Township or Area: Venton Lake Area, Oxtoby Lake Area

Latitude: 51° 44' 56.55"    Longitude: -86° 37' 52.61"

UTM Zone: 16    Easting: 525454   Northing: 5733191    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay North

NTS Grid: 42M10NE, 42M15SE

Point Location Description: Location of collar of DDH 12WA-30 in AFRI 20000009211

Location Method: Based on Assessment

Access Description: Site access is by floatplane and helicopter in the summer from Hearst or Nakina and by snow mobile in the winter. The north portion of the Wabassi Property can be accessed by boat from Martin Falls First Nation located 54 km to the west by navigating the Albany River and the Wabassi River to Wabassi Falls then becomes unnavigable as the historical portage is no longer passable.

Exploration History

1942: Bedrock mapping by V.K. Prest of the Ontario Geological Survey (OGS). 1970: Reconnaissance mapping by Thurston and Carter for the OGS’ Operation Fort Hope. 1979: Diamond drilling by Hanna Mining Co., on an area to the west of, and overlapping, the Wabassi Property. 1980: Kerr Addison Mines Ltd., completed an airborne electromagnetic survey on an area north of the Wabassi Property. 1983: Kerr Addison Mines Ltd., undertook limited diamond drilling as follow-up to their 1980 airborne survey. 2003: Ontario Geological Survey flew an airborne magnetic survey as part of the Fort Hope geophysical program. 2007: Northern Shield Resources Inc., staked the Wabassi and Wabassi North properties based on the 2003 geophysical magnetic survey by the Ontario Geological Survey in the Fort Hope area. 2008: Geotech Ltd. conducted three VTEM EM and magnetic surveys over the Wabassi property. Initial drilling to test EM responses. 2010: Northern Shield Resources Inc. had Geotech Ltd. perform an airborne VTEM survey, ground and downhole magnetic and EM geophysical survey and diamond-drilling with assays and lithogeochemistry was completed on core samples from this drill program. Northern Shield Resources Inc., optioned 51% to Discovery Harbour Resources. 2011: Crone Geophysics and Exploration Ltd. performed a ground and downhole geophysics followed by a diamond drill program by Northern Shield Resources Inc. 2011: Northern Shield Resources Ltd. initiated a winter exploration program on their Wabassi property consisting of diamond drilling, both ground and down-hole electromagnetic and magnetic surveys and airborne versatile time-domain electromagnetic (VTEM) survey. 2012-2013: Multiple diamond drill programs were conducted as well as a ground magnetic survey and both ground and bore-hole electromagnetic (EM) surveys, on the Wabassi Property by Northern Shield Resources Ltd., and joint venture partner Discovery Harbour Resources Corp. 2014: Discovery Harbour Resources Corp. and former joint-venture partners Northern Shield Resources Inc., and Great Lake Resources LLC, announced the results of a fall diamond-drilling program including down-hole EM surveys also identified a number of off-hole anomalies. Northern Shield Resources Inc. subsequently announced that it sold its remaining interest in the Wabassi property to Great Lakes Resources LLC. The sale agreement transferred Northern Shield’s 49% interest in the Wabassi property. 2015: Wabassi completed the acquisition of the Wabassi project from Northern Shield Resources Inc. and Discovery Harbour Resources Inc. (Great Lakes Resources LLC purchased the remaining 51% interest in the Wabassi project, east of Eabametoong First Nation (Fort Hope), from Discovery Harbour Resources Corp. 2016: Great Lakes reorganized its interest in the project through Wabassi Resources ULC, a wholly owned subsidiary. Wabassi Resources completed 1 diamond drill hole on the Wabassi A Gold Zone. A regional mapping program was also completed in the summer of 2016, which targeted outcrop areas exposed in river and stream channels. In March 2017, Wabassi Resources completed a 10 hole, 1,823.4 m drill program on the Wabassi A Zone Gold target. Drilling at the Wabassi A Gold Zone has successfully delineated a narrow, strongly mineralized, vein system with local visible gold over an approximately 250 m strike length.

Assessment Work on File

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Uchi

Terrane: North Caribou

Domain: Uchi

Belt: Miminiska-Fort Hope

Geological Age: Archean  

Geology Comments

Aug 20, 2018 (Greg Paju) - From AFRI 20000009211: The Wabassi Property is located in the Archean Miminiska-Fort Hope greenstone belt in the Uchi Domain (2.8-2.9 Ga) of the Superior Province’s Sachigo Superterrane. (Stott and Rayner, 2004, Stott et al., 2007 and Stott, 2007a-b).

Lithology

Lithology Comments

Aug 20, 2018 (Greg Paju) - From AFRI 20000013564: The Wabassi Intrusive Complex underlying the Wabassi Property is a layered mafic-ultramafic intrusion and the lithologies identified to date are olivine-gabbronorite, gabbronorite, norite and troctolite. The mafic metavolcanic assemblages are of basaltic to andesitic composition. It is generally very altered and pale green, which makes it difficult to distinguish from the felsic metavolcanic that is not quartz-phyric. Felsic metavolcanic rocks vary in composition between rhyolite and dacite and a large proportion of these lithologies display blue quartz eyes up to about 5 mm in size. They are generally massive flows, fragmentals and breccias. The volcanogenic massive sulphides encountered to date are mostly contained within or just above this assemblage of felsic metavolcanic rocks. The area of the gold mineralization has 20 to 25 m of glacial overburden coverage with no outcrop exposure. The Wabassi A Zone Gold Occurrence is hosted to date in three separate quartz veins, with the main quartz vein varying in width from approximately 0.20 m to 1.0 m and is associated with a shear zone hosted in the granitic rocks in the west or the gabbro in the east The 2nd vein is sub-parallel and located approximately 20 m south of the east end of the main vein. The 3rd vein is located 850 m south and was intersected by drill hole 17WA-64. The majority of the holes have intersected the northern vein (main quartz vein) and the orientation is well defined with a strike of 093°and sub-vertical dip. In hole 17WA-57, the shear is associated with the development of mylonite in granite and local development of a crenulation cleavage. Locally the veinlets form a stockwork in granite with silicification, carbonate alteration and disseminated sulphides.

Mineralization

Mineralization Comments

Aug 20, 2018 (Therese Pettigrew) - From AFRI 20000009211 and 20000013564: The drilling done to date on the Wabassi A Gold Zone has delineated a narrow, mineralized vein system with local visible gold over an approximately 250 m strike length. The quartz veining is associated with trace to approximately 5% sulphide mineralization consisting of pyrite, pyrrhotite, and minor chalcopyrite. Visible gold was observed in 4 of the 12 diamond drill holes and occurs as fine 1 to 2 mm individual grains and grain clusters hosted in the quartz vein. Significant results from Hole 16WA-54 successfully intersected a heavily silicified shear zone with quartz veins containing tourmaline, pyrite, arsenopyrite, and visible gold. The 4.2 m interval from 137.98 to 142.18 m assayed 9.90 g/t Au, and included 2.67 m from 138.48 to 141.15 at 14.97 g/t Au. Visible gold was also identified with assays over 20 g/t Au. This was an intended follow up on the 2012 diamond drill hole 12WA-30; that had 3.1 m at 6.01 g/t Au.

Mineral Record Details

References

Data - Ontario Airborne Geophysical Surveys, Magnetic Data, Attawapiskat Area - Purchased Data

Publication Number: GDS1211 Date: 2003

Author: Ontario Geological Survey

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Map - Precambrian Geology of the Hudson Bay and James Bay Lowlands Region Interpreted from Aeromagnetic Data-West Sheet

Publication Number: P3597-REV Scale: 1:500,000    Date: 2008

Author: Stott G.M.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Mono - Report of Activities 2016, Resident Geologist Program, Thunder Bay North Regional Resident Geologist Report: Thunder Bay North District

Publication Number: OFR6325 Page: 32-33, 54  Date: 2017

Author: Cundari R.M., Brunelle M.R., White G.D., Tuomi R.D., Tims A.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Map - Precambrian Geology of the Hudson Bay and James Bay Lowlands Region Interpreted from Aeromagnetic Data-East Sheet

Publication Number: P3598-REV Scale: 1:500,000    Date: 2008

Author: Stott G.M.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Mono - Report of Activities 2015, Resident Geologist Program, Thunder Bay North Regional Resident Geologist Report: Thunder Bay North District

Publication Number: OFR6315 Page: 15  Date: 2016

Author: White G.D., Cundari R.M., Brunelle M.R., Pettigrew T.K., Tuomi R.D., Tims A., Debicki R.L.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Mono - Report of Activities 2014, Resident Geologist Program, Thunder Bay North Regional Resident Geologist Report: Thunder Bay North District

Publication Number: OFR6302 Page: 16-17  Date: 2015

Author: White G.D., Cundari R.M., Brunelle M.R., Pettigrew T.K., Tims A., Debicki R.L.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Mono - Report of Activities 2013, Resident Geologist Program, Thunder Bay North Regional Resident Geologist Report: Thunder Bay North District

Publication Number: OFR6292 Date: 2014

Author: White G.D., Cundari R.M., Tuomi R.D., Brunelle M.R., Debicki R.L., Moses P., Zurevinski S.E.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Mono - Report of Activities 2012, Resident Geologist Program, Thunder Bay North Regional Resident Geologist Report: Thunder Bay North District

Publication Number: OFR6284 Page: 29-30  Date: 2013

Author: White G.D., Cundari R.M., Lockwood H.C., Tuomi R.D., Debicki R.L., Moses P., Zurevinski S.E.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Mono - Report of Activities 2011, Resident Geologist Program, Thunder Bay North Regional Resident Geologist Report: Thunder Bay North District

Publication Number: OFR6272 Page: 25-26  Date: 2012

Author: White G.D., Smyk M.C., Cooke A., Lockwood H.C., Wilson A.C.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Mono - Mineral Deposits of Northern Ontario, North of Latitude 49° 30'

Publication Number: OFR6242 Date: 2009

Author: Stott G.M., Josey S.D.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Compend - Summary of Field Work and Other Activities, 2004

Publication Number: OFR6145 Page: 10-1 to 10-8  Date: 2004

Author: Baker C.L., Debicki E.J., Parker J.R., Kelly R.I., Ayer J.A., Easton R.M.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Publication - A Revised Terrane Map for the Superior Province as Interpreted from Aeromagnetic Data; In: Institute on Lake Superior Geology Proceedings, 53rd Annual Meeting, Lutsen, Minnesota, p. 74-75

Publication Number: ILSG v.53 Date: 2007

Author: Stott, G.M., Corkery, T., Leclair, A., Boily, M. and Percival, J.

Publisher Name: Institute on Lake Superior Geology

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Compend - Summary of Field Work and Other Activities, 2010

Publication Number: OFR6260 Page: 20-1 to 20-10  Date: 2010

Author: Ayer J.A., Easton R.M., Beakhouse G.P., Stott G.M., Kelly R.I., Debicki E.J., Parker J.R., Brown T.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Article - Overview of the Mafic and Ultramafic Intrusions in the Eastern Uchi Domain of the Superior Province, Northern Ontario

Publication Number: OFR6290.51 Date: 2013

Author: Sappin A.-A., Houlé M.G., Lesher C.M., McNicoll V.J.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Mono - Operation Fort Hope

Publication Number: MP042 Date: 1970

Author: Thurston P.C., Carter M.W.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs

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Publication - Technical Report on the Wabassi Property for Discovery Harbour Resources Corp. and CVC Cayman Ventures Corp., 170 p.

Publication Number: 2012 Tech Rep Date: 2012

Author: Clark, J.G.

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Publication - Technical Report on the Exploration of the Wabassi, Wabassi North and Max Mafic-Ultramafic Intrusions., 54 p.

Publication Number: 2010 Tech Rep Date: 2010

Author: Vaillancourt, C., and Biss, I.

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Publication - Technical Report and Initial Resource Estimate on the Wabassi “E” Deposit, Wabassi Property Thunder Bay and Porcupine Mining Divisions Northern Ontario For Wabassi Resources, ULC., 103p.

Publication Number: 2016 Tech Rep Date: 2016

Author: Puritch, E., Burga, D., Yassa, A. and Barry, J.

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