Ontario Geological Survey
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| Record Name(s) | Main Melema - 2018, Moffatt - 2018 |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 2022-Jun-06 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Jun-06 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Secondary Commodities: Copper
Township or Area: Bellmore Lake Area
Latitude: 48° 51' 51.42" Longitude: -91° 11' 32.95"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 632562 Northing: 5413944 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay South
NTS Grid: 52B14SE
Point Location Description: OFR6353 p. 58
Location Method: Data Compilation
2017: Property staked by Traxxin Resources. 2018: Traxxin carried out prospecting, stripping, and sampling. 2020: Traxxin optioned the property to Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd., who conducted an airborne magnetometer survey, prospecting and channel sampling, 2021: Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd. carried out prospecting, stripping, mapping, and sampling.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| 77673 | 20000020126 | 20000020126 |
| 35857 | 20000017091 | 20000017091 |
| 64955 | 20000019390 | 20000019390 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Wabigoon
Terrane: Western Wabigoon
Geological Age: Archean
Jun 06, 2022 (Therese Pettigrew) - The Melema Lake property is located north of the Quetico fault in the Wabigoon Subprovince of the Superior Province. The project covers a 27 km long deformation zone cross-cutting the Marmion batholith in a NE-SW trend (Assessment report 20000020126).
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Tonalite | 1 | Contains |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vein | 2 | quartz | Host | |
| Schist-Unsubdivided | 3 | chlorite |
Jun 06, 2022 (Therese Pettigrew) - Metavolcanics and metasedimentary rocks are found in both extremities of the property as the Lumby and Quetico belts are located respectively north and south of the project. Most of the lithologies encountered in the central part of the property are intrusives and part of the Marmion batholith. Tonalite and sheared tonalite are most commonly observed. Trondjhemite, granodiorite, quartz monzonite, quartz diorite and amphibolite are also present in the Marmion batholith. Deformation zones, being weakness planes, often host mafic intrusives such as gabbroic rocks and diabase dikes. Massive Quartz veins are often found within these deformation zones and can be the host of gold and sulfide mineralization (Assessment report 20000020126).
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 1 | Quartz | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 2 | Fuchsite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| Albite | Alteration | Albitization | 1 | ||||
| Sericite | Alteration | Sericitization | 2 | ||||
| Carbonate | Alteration | Carbonatization | 3 | Strong | |||
| Silica | Alteration | Silicification | 4 | ||||
| Chlorite | Alteration | Chloritic | 5 | ||||
| Hematite | Alteration | Hematization | 6 |
Jun 06, 2022 (Therese Pettigrew) - At the Main Melema gold showing, altered biotite tonalite to granodiorite suite rocks were observed in a northeast-trending (020° to 030°) structure with near vertical to 70°NW dip. The Main Melema zone was intermittently hand stripped for an approximate width of 25 to 30 m. Grab samples from a 3.5 m wide section returned gold values ranging from anomalous up to 17.8 g/t Au, with 16 of 30 samples returning values greater than 3 g/t Au. Gold mineralization is associated with quartz veins and veinlets, quartz stockwork and quartz-carbonate veinlets with associated albitizaton, sericitization, moderate to intense carbonate alteration, silicification, patchy chloritization, patchy red-purple hematitization, disseminated and blebby pyrite, crosscutting stringers of pyrite, trace chalcopyrite and fuchsite. No visible gold was observed in any samples, and overall the best gold assays appear to be from grab samples taken with sulphide mineralization (Puumala et al., 2019). Sample CAONC100663 returned 17.8 g/t. Sample CAONC100898 returned 15.6 g/t Au. Sample CAONC100903 returned 6.26 g/t Au (Assessment report 20000020126).
| Commodity | Analytical Method | Digestion Method | Result | Unit | Limit | Qualifier |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Copper | Atomic Absorption AA | 136 | ppm | |||
| Copper | ICP-MS | 362 | ppm | |||
| Copper | Atomic Absorption AA | 2561 | ppm | |||
| Gold | Gravimetric | .384 | oz/T | |||
| Gold | ICP-MS | 3.551 | ppm | |||
| Gold | Gravimetric | .101 | oz/T | |||
| Gold | Gravimetric | .286 | oz/T | |||
| Molybdenum | ICP-MS | .73 | ppm | |||
| Silver | ICP-MS | 1.68 | ppm |
Mono - Report of Activities 2018, Resident Geologist Program, Thunder Bay South Regional Resident Geologist Report: Thunder Bay South District
Publication Number: OFR6353 Page: 55-65 Date: 2019
Author: Puumala M.A., Campbell D.A., Tuomi R.D., Fudge S.P., Pettigrew T.K., Hinz S.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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