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| Record Name(s) | Western Shear Zone - 2023, Shabaqua Corners Gold Property - 2023 |
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| Date Created | 2023-Dec-14 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Dec-14 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Dawson Road Lots
Latitude: 48° 35' 17.02" Longitude: -89° 53' 24.76"
UTM Zone: 16 Easting: 286876 Northing: 5385697 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay South
NTS Grid: 52A12SW
Point Location Description: Map in Metals Creek Resources corporate presentation accessed Dec 13, 2023
Location Method: Data Compilation
2023: Metals Creek Resources acquired the property and carried out soil sampling, prospecting, mapping, stripping, and rock sampling.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 1 | sheared | Host |
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| Oxide Ironstone | 2 | Adjacent |
Dec 14, 2023 (Therese Pettigrew) - The Western Shear Zone (WSZ) is 935 m west of the Main Zone and its discovery was the result of a trenching program following up on a soil grid laid out on the western claim block which returned a soil assay of 715 ppb Au. Subsequent trenching in the area uncovered a narrow shear zone (WSZ) where a grab sample returned 18.5 grams per tonne (g/t) gold (Au). Gold mineralization is associated with an east-west trending highly weathered very rusty friable shear zone with strong pervasive iron carbonate alteration and hosted within mafic volcanics (Metals Creek Resources news release Oct 26, 2023). Follow-up sampling resulted in the discovery of additional high grade gold mineralization 120 m east of the recently discovered western shear zone. Assay results ranged from 0.45 to 18.1 grams per tonne (g/t) gold (Au). Due to the weathered nature of the shear zone, channel sampling was not possible so chip and grab sampling was conducted. Two grab samples collected from the mineralized shear zone returned assays of 17.0 and 18.1 g/t Au. A chip sample was collected across the mineralized shear returning an assay of 6.18 g/t Au over 0.6 m. An oxide silicate iron formation (IF) adjacent to this gold bearing shear zone was also anomalous in gold returning an assay of 0.45 g/t Au (Metals Creek Resources news release Dec 13, 2023).
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