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Record: MDI000000002273

General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold

Location

Township or Area: White Lake Area

Latitude: 48° 44' 36.68"    Longitude: -85° 37' 18.6"

UTM Zone: 16    Easting: 601318   Northing: 5399861    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay South

NTS Grid: 42C12NE

Point Location Description: Sample 716015 from Assessment file 20000006020

Location Method: Data Compilation

Exploration History

1983-4: Transpacific Asbestos Inc. and Consolidated Reactor Uranium Mines Ltd. carried out soil sampling and IP, mag, and VLF-EM surveys. 1995: T. Carroll and D. MacDougall conducted prospecting, stripping, sampling and discovered the showing. Royal Oak Mines optioned the property and conducted ground mag and VLF-EM surveys and a soil sampling program. 2003: Antoro Resources conducted mag and EM surveys. 2008-10: D.N. Kakeeway carried out trenching, prospecting, sampling, and percussion drilled 7 holes. 2011: D.N. Kakeeway carried out prospecting and sampling. 2012: D.N. Kakeeway carried out prospecting and sampling.

Assessment Work on File

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Wawa

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Schreiber-Hemlo

Geological Age: Archean  

Lithology

Mineralization

Mineralization Comments

Mar 13, 2019 (Therese Pettigrew) - The showing is a biotite-quartz-feldspar schist/gneiss with quartz stringers and pegmatite dykes. The quartz stringers contain visible gold and assayed 0.685-1.168 ppm Au (Muir, 2000). Soil sampling in 1983 returned assays up to 14 ppb Au (Assessment report 42C12NE0014). Gold grains were found by T. Carroll and D. MacDougall in a quartz stringer at showing A. The Au occurs as grains in a glassy, fractured, 1 cm wide quartz stringer in a biotite schist. A number of gold grains are present but no other sulphides were observed. Low concentrations of pyrite are prevalent throughout the property. A few scattered medium grains of pyrite can be found in all rock types. Locally, 5% pyrite and traces of pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite can be found in the mafic volcanics. The pyrite is found as medium scattered grains or disseminated along stringers. The granitized sediments also contain trace amounts of molybdenite as does the felsic matrix of the amphibolites (Assessment file 42C13SE0075). Samples 716015 and 716019 collected by prospector D.N. Kakeeway returned assays of 8420 and 4402 ppb Au respectively (Assessment file 20000006020). Sample 759647 from a percussion hole drilled in 2010 returned an assay of 12.678 ppm Au (Assessment file 20000006640).

Mineral Record Details

References

Map - Geological Compilation of the Eastern Half of the Schreiber-Hemlo Greenstone Belt

Publication Number: M2614 Scale: 1:50,000    Date: 2000

Author: Muir T.L.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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