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| Record Name(s) | Viggo - 2019, LP Zone - 2019 |
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| Record Status | Developed Prospect With Reported Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 2023-Feb-16 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Feb-16 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Dixie Lake Area
Latitude: 50° 51' 11.94" Longitude: -93° 35' 15.75"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 458631 Northing: 5633678 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Red Lake
NTS Grid: 52K13SE
Point Location Description: DDH BR-370 from Great Bear Resources press release Aug 25, 2021
Location Method: Data Compilation
2019-21: Great Bear Resources carried out drilling. 2022: Kinross Gold Corp. acquired Great Bear Resources and drilled 62 DDH totalling 28,941 m. 2023: Kinross Gold Corp. released a resource calculation. See the Yuma Zone (MDI000000002450) for the total LP Zone resource information.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Felsic lava flow-unsubdivided | 1 | Host |
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| Vein | 2 | Host |
| 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 | Arsenopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Sphalerite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 4 | Pyrrhotite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 5 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 6 | Galena | Economic | Ore |
Feb 16, 2023 (Therese Pettigrew) - The LP Zone exhibits a style of mineralization which is not observed in other parts of the Red Lake greenstone belt. The zone is associated with a high degree of deformation, widespread alteration, and transposition of primary textures as well as complete flattening of stratigraphy. The LP Zone mineralization occurs within a wide zone of high strain and increased metamorphic grade. The strain zone is very continuous for over 4 km and is slightly oblique to stratigraphy, intersecting multiple lithologies including the porphyritic felsic volcanics, and metasediment. The deformation zone is up to 500 m wide. The higher-grade gold mineralization appears to be controlled by the intersection of this strain zone and the metasediment 2 unit. Ongoing LP Zone drilling has demonstrated that most of the greater than 5.0 g/t Au intercepts and nearly all of the greater than 10 g/t Au intercepts drilled along the LP Zone to date occur within 50 m to 100 m of the metasedimentary/felsic volcanic contact. Gangue mineralization is variable across the zone and locally ranges from 0% to any amount of the following: 1% to 15% disseminated pyrite, 1% to 10% arsenopyrite (blebby and matted), 1% to 5% red and yellow sphalerite, 1% to 5% pyrrhotite, 1% to 5% chalcopyrite, 1% to 5% galena, and 1% to 3% scheelite. The LP Zone has been further sub-divided into six sub-zones named, from northwest to southeast, Discovery, Bruma, Yuma, Yauro, Auro, and Viggo (Pfeiffer et al., 2023). Drilling one kilometre southeast of the Auro Zone in the Viggo Zone has extended the LP Fault gold mineralized system to 4 km of strike length, which remains open to extension. DDH BR-028 returned 1.98 g/t Au over 7.20 m including 11.03 g/t Au over 1.2 m (Great Bear Resources press release Oct 30, 2019). Gold mineralization in the Viggo area is transitional between the disseminated, bulk tonnage style gold of the central LP Fault in the west, and mesothermal vein-hosted gold with significant mineralized plunges or "shoots" in the east, such as is observed at the adjacent Hinge zone on the Dixie property, and elsewhere in the Red Lake district. Many of the drill holes in the Viggo area contain multiple gold-bearing vein-like intervals. DDH BR-343 returned 6.73 g/t au over 5.5 m including 21.70 g/t Au over 1.25 m. DDH BR-370 returned 11.85 g/t Au over 1.25 m. DDH BR-371 returned 5.90 g/t Au over 8.25 m including 64.3 g/t Au over 0.55 m. (Great Bear Resources press release Aug 25, 2021).
Publication - Great Bear Gold Project
Publication Number: 2023 NI 43-101 Date: 2023
Author: Pfeiffer, N., Sims, J., Breau, Y., Greenwood, R., Prawasono, A.
Publisher Name: Kinross Gold Corp.
Location: SEDAR
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