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Record: MDI31M04SW00090

General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold, Copper, Silver, Zinc

Secondary Commodities: Arsenic

Location

Township or Area: Strathy

Latitude: 47° 5' 34.49"    Longitude: -79° 47' 47.66"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 591332   Northing: 5216191.99    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Kirkland Lake

NTS Grid: 31M04SW

Point Location Description: Shaft in claim WS13.

Location Method: AMIS Site Visit

Access Description: Highwy 11 south of Goward turn west on old road and drive 0.5km to mine rock dump on right side. Follow road to southwest to second rock dump and shafts 2-3 (opencut). Site is 100m west of Trans-Canada pipeline.

Exploration History

Circa 1905-08: R.G. Leckie - 3 shafts developed, pitting, 244 tonnes of ore processed. 1909: Grey’s Siding Development Company Ltd. - pitting, in production. 1933: A 2 compartment shaft was sunk on the No.1 zone to 525 feet. 1934-48: Manitoba and Eastern Mines Limited - DD-12-3000 ft, U/G drilling, U/G development. 1948: Penrose Gold Mines Limited - ground geophysics. 1985-89: Stroud Resources Limited and Lacana Mining Ltd. - mapping, trenching, sampling, ground geophysics, sampling, geochemistry, DD-84-29,684.5 ft, 1995: Wabana Explorations Inc. - airborne geophysics.

Assessment Work on File

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Abitibi

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Temagami

Geological Age: Archean  

Lithology

Lithology Comments

May 09, 2014 (D Guidon) - The property is underlain by east-northeast-trending tholeiitic mafic to intermediate volcanic rocks metamorphosed to greenschist facies. The metavolcanic flows are mainly massive with some pillowed units. The property is part of the Temagami greenstone belt, an Archean inlier surrounded by Huronian Supergroup sedimentary rocks (Bennett 1978, Brons 1989, Ayer et al. 2006). Near the mineralization, the mafic volcanic rocks display a well-developed diabasic texture. Underground development identified quartz porphyry.

Nov 28, 2012 (A Wilson) - An altered and sheared zone, striking N14W and dipping 50-60°w in intermediate to mafic metavolcanics, contains discontinuous arsenide-bearing quartz veins for approximately 2000 ft. Three showings are present on the property.

Mineralization

Mineralization Comments

Feb 27, 2015 (D Guidon) - Mineralization in the No. 1 zone is located in a vein zone striking about 165° and dipping between 50° and 60° to the west. The zone is fractured quartz in silicified volcanic rocks mineralized with pyrite, arsenopyrite and chalcopyrite. The No. 2 zone is located to the west and joins the No. 1 zone at depth (Savage 1935). Quartz-rich veins range from about 0.5 to 4 feet in thickness. The zone has been drilled to a depth of 1000 feet and has a strike length of at least 1000 feet. The north-northwest-trending fracture zone is referred to as the Penrose Fault (Brons 1989). Stroud Resources Ltd. reports that a resource estimate was calculated in 1996 using the criteria at the time. The results were 348 240 tons grading 0.203 ounce per ton (opt) gold of “probable ore” and 57 237 tons grading 0.173 opt gold of “possible ore”. These resource estimates are not NI 43-101 compliant. Grabs samples of arsenide and pyrite rich mineralization in mafic volcanic rocks and sulphides in quartz veins hosted in mafic volcanic rocks assayed in excess of 5 g/t gold. 27/02/2015 (J. Suma-Momoh) - The property was visited by J. Suma-Momoh, D. Guindon and M. Trenkler (summer student) on June 20, 2014. Two grab samples collected by J. Suma-Momoh from the shear zone returned the following results: 0.057 oz/t Au and 0.60 oz/t Ag (Sample L-01, 591300E 5216302N); 0.478 0z/t (16.39 g/t) gold and 2.2 oz/t (75.42 g/t) silver (Sample L-02, contains 5cm wide smoky and sulphide-mineralized quartz vein running near-parallel to shear zone 320/70. Sample L-02 was collected only about 1 foot SW of Sample L-01).

Nov 28, 2012 (A Wilson) - Mineralization occurs as disseminated grains and in large masses. Some lenses of arsenopyrite were up to 18 inches in size. Gold values from the Little Dan reportedly ranged from $0.40 to $84.80 and the veins ranged from 0.45 ft. to over 4 feet. Three ore shoots have been outlined: one on the 90 m level averaging 0.23 oz/t Au over 1.3 m and a length of 62.5 m; on the 60 m level two shoots one averaging 0.274 oz/t Au over 0.9 m, for a length of 24.7 m and another 0.33 oz/t Au over a width of 0.9 m for a length of 15.9 m. Grab samples collected from the ore dumps by Moorhouse returned assays ranging from 0.30 to 0.87 oz/t Au. A grab sample collected by the OGS in 1970 assayed 5.6% Cu, 0.26% Zn, 0.08 oz/t Au, 3.78 oz/t Ag. Grab samples collected by Stroud Resources returned ST-31: 0.158oz/t Au, ST-43: 0.132 oz/t Au, ST 24/24 B: > 0.3 oz/t Au.

Assay Samples

Mineral Record Details

Mineral Zones - Size and Shape

Site Visit Information

Date: Jun 11, 2013

Geologist: D Guidon

Notes: Property was visited June 11, 2014 with Eric Whyte. Shaft near entrance road found. Samples from the waste pile northwest of the shaft. Samples collected: Sample Number 13DLG06A 13DLG06B NAME Leckie Leckie TOWNSHIP Strathy Strathy NAD 83 83 UTM Zone 17 17 UTM East 591332 591332 UTM North 5216188 5216188 PROPERTY Leckie Leckie MDI Number MDI31M04SW00090 MDI31M04SW00090 ANALYSES grab; Au, base metals grab; Au, base metals DESCRIPT mineralized mafic volc qtz vein Key Word in Description Photo Number Year Township Description UTM Zone Easting Northing 731955 2013 Strathy Leckie Deposit - shaft cap 17 591331 5216190 731956 2013 Strathy Leckie Deposit - waste pile near lake 17 591331 5216190

References

File - Resident Geologist files CO-2051

Publication Number: Date:

Author:

Publisher Name:

Location: Kirkland Lake RGP office

Part - Windy Lake and other nickel areas

Publication Number: ARV29-01.006 Page: 217-218  Date: 1998

Author: Knight C.W.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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Part - Part of Strathy Township

Publication Number: ARV44-07.004 Page: 52-51  Date: 1997

Author: Savage W.S.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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File - Resident Geologist files Clippings `Penrose`

Publication Number: Clippings Date: 1996

Author:

Publisher Name:

Location: Kirkland Lake RGP office

MonoMap - Geology of the northeast Temagami area, District of Nipissing

Publication Number: R163 Page: 98-100  Date: 1978

Author: Bennett G.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Mono - Gold deposits of Ontario, part 2, part of District of Cochrane, districts of Muskoka, Nipissing, Parry Sound, Sudbury, Timiskaming, and counties of southern Ontario

Publication Number: MDC018 Page: 25-26  Date: 1979

Author: Gordon J.B., Lovell H.L., de Grijs J.W., Davie R.F.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Article - Cobalt Resident Geologist area, Northeastern Region

Publication Number: MP122.007 Page: 205  Date: 1997

Author: Owsiacki L.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Article - Cobalt Resident Geologist's area, Northeastern Region

Publication Number: MP134.008 Page: 226-229  Date: 1997

Author: Owsiacki L.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

Compend - Report of activities, 1988, Resident Geologists

Publication Number: MP142 Page: 318  Date: 1989

Author: Fenwick K.G., Giblin P.E., Pitts A.E.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

Compend - Report of activities, 1989, Resident Geologists

Publication Number: MP147 Page: 28  Date: 1990

Author: Fenwick K.G., Giblin P.E., Pitts A.E.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

Thesis - Stratigraphy and Metamorphism of Mafic Volcanic Rocks near Arsenic Lake, Temagami, Ontario

Publication Number: MSc Thesis Date: 1989

Author: Brons, D.J.

Publisher Name: Laurentian University

Location: KL RGP

File - Resident Geologist files `Niemetz`

Publication Number: Date: 1996

Author:

Publisher Name:

Location: Kirkland Lake RGP office

Part - Northeastern portion of the Timagami Lake area

Publication Number: ARV51-06 Page: 35  Date: 1998

Author: Moorhouse W.W.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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Map - The northeastern portion of the Timagami Lake area, District of Nipissing, Ontario

Publication Number: ARM51E Scale: 1:63,360    Date: 1997

Author: Moorhouse W.W.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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Map - Chambers and Strathy townships, Nipissing District

Publication Number: M2323 Scale: 1:31,680    Date: 1976

Author: Bennett G., Innes D.G.

Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines

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Map - Geological Compilation of the Cobalt-Temagami Area, Abitibi Greenstone Belt

Publication Number: P3581 Scale: 1:100,000    Date: 2006

Author: Ayer J.A., Chartrand J.E., Grabowski G.P.B., Josey S.D., Rainsford D.R.B., Trowell N.F.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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