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General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Zinc, Copper

Secondary Commodities: Silver

Location

Township or Area: Venton Lake Area, Oxtoby Lake Area

Latitude: 51° 44' 28.8"    Longitude: -86° 37' 58.47"

UTM Zone: 16    Easting: 525346   Northing: 5732333    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay North

NTS Grid: 42M10NE, 42M15SE

Point Location Description: DDH 12WA-32 collar from 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% of the property to Discovery Harbour Resources. The drill hole 10WA-07 intersected minerlization at anomaly “A2” on the west flank of the Wabassi Gabbro. 2011: Crone Geophysics and Exploration Ltd. performed a ground and downhole geophysics followed by a diamond drill program by Northern Shield Resources Inc. 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: Great Lakes Resources LLC. (Great Lakes) acquired Discovery Harbour’s 51% interest in the Wabassi Project. 2016: Great Lakes reorganized its interest in the project through Wabassi Resources ULC, a wholly owned subsidiary in 2016. A regional mapping program was also completed in the summer of 2016, which targeted outcrop areas exposed in river and stream channels.

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) - 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). Puritch et al., 2016; AFRI 20000015067; 20000013560, and 20000013564: The “A” group of EM anomalies covers the west side of the Wabassi intrusion and part of an inferred feeder dyke. The Wabassi Intrusive Complex is hosted mostly in an unnamed assemblage of mafic to intermediate volcanic rocks from the Miminiska-Fort Hope greenstone belt but is also in contact with foliated tonalitic suite granitoids to the north and massive granodiorite to granite suite rocks to the southeast. The observed rocks in the intrusive complex are generally very fresh, unaltered, and are mostly undeformed, although very weak foliation is locally observed. The funnel shape of the intrusion, widening towards the south with concave layers, suggests that the intrusion faces south. The complex and heterogeneous zone along the west side of the Wabassi intrusion may be a feeder dyke. It contains what are probably partly digested blocks of A2 Zone Cu-Zn mineralization which may have fallen into the magma at or near the E Zone and sunk after influx of magma ceased.

Lithology

Lithology Comments

Aug 20, 2018 (Therese Pettigrew) - From AFRI 20000015067 and 20000008133: Drilling at the A2 Zone has intersected volcanic rocks and volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) copper-zinc-silver-gold mineralization adjacent to the Wabassi gabbro intrusion. The A2 Zone located 4.2 km north of the Wabassi E Deposit, is hosted in a feldspar-phyric dacite, which is in contact with a unit of mafic strata to the east. The facing direction is enigmatic from the field observations, although in holes 10WA-07 and -13, the mafic unit is on the east side and interpreted as forming the hanging wall. The felsic strata are distinctly altered, forming the interpreted footwall to the west.

Mineralization

Mineralization Comments

Aug 20, 2018 (Therese Pettigrew) - From AFRI 20000015067, 20000008133, and 20000013564: Significant intersections include hole 10WA-07 on the A2 anomaly that intersected 49.5 m at a grade of 2.25% Zn, 0.18% Cu and 31.7 g/t Ag. Hole 17WA-64 targeted a southern extension of the A Zone VMS mineralization. The hole intersected a quartz vein with po, py, cpy from 84.21 to 85.18 m with visible gold and assayed 0.97 m at 16.88 g/t Au. Base metal assays in the hole included 0.22% Cu, 0.03% Zn and 6.6 g/t Ag from 81.80 to 82.40 m and 0.05% Cu, 0.71% Zn, 1.8 g/t Ag from 73.80 to 74.15 m. Hole 10WA-12 assayed 1.14% Cu and 97.4 gpt Ag over 6.93 m from 137.07 to 144.0 m. Hole 10WA-13 assayed 0.55% Zn, 0.43% Cu, 32.0 gpt Ag, and 0.18 gpt Au over 33.0 m from 53.4 to 86.4 m. The intersection of copper-zinc-silver mineralization in hole 10WA-07 was the first discovery of significant VMS-type mineralization within the Wabassi property and surrounding area. In 2008, drillhole 08WA-04 targeted this anomaly but was drilled too deep and undercut the anomaly. The mineralization is hosted within a felsic volcanic assemblage and is near the contact with the Wabassi Intrusive Complex. The A2 Zone is characterized by very high silver values (up to 750 g/t Ag in sample 393238, 0.6 m). The sulphide mineralogy intersected to date at A2 is representative of a low temperature of formation, suggesting that these sulphides may be located on the flanks of a zoned VMS vent. It is possible that the A2 mineralization is the distal expression of a VMS vent in the A1 Zone where copper appears to be more dominant.

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  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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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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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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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 Bliss, 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

Publication Number: 2016 Tech Rep Date: 2016

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

Publisher Name: P&E Mining Consultants for Wabassi Resources

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