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Record: MDI32D04NW00020

General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold

Location

Township or Area: Lebel

Latitude: 48° 9' 57.38"    Longitude: -79° 59' 16.5"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 575254   Northing: 5335239    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Kirkland Lake

NTS Grid: 32D04NW

Point Location Description: Shaft symbol in claim 2807, 250 m N of Gull Lake

Location Method: AMIS Site Visit

Access Description: A trail leads northeast from Hwy 66, 2.3 km east of the Lebel-Teck boundary on the east end of Kirkland Lake. The shaft is located approximately 250 m from the highway. The shaft was not found but concrete structures were located and a pipe sticks out of the sand, possibly the vent pipe for the capped shaft.

Exploration History

1927 - Continental-Kirkland Mines Ltd. sank the No.2 shaft to a depth of over 500 feet on claim L.2807) and 4000 feet of surface diamond drilling. Following lateral development, all work was suspended in 1929. 1974 - S.I.S. Resources Corporation completed ground magnetic and electromagnetic surveys on the property.

Assessment Work on File

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Abitibi

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Abitibi

Tectonic Assemblage: Timiskaming

Geological Age: Archean  

Geology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (D Guidon) - According to MacLean (1944), the shaft area is in a band of tuffaceous greywacke striking approximately 120 degrees. The unit is truncated about 500 feet to the northwest by a syenite dike or elonaged plug. The shaft is approximately 3000 km north of the Larder Lake Break. A trench to the west of the shaft area exposes rock with a conglomerate to agglomerate texture. All the samples collected appear to be trachytic in composition. Some of the samples are altered and brecciated. Exposed rock in the trench displays a fabric probably parallel to the Murdock Creek Fault.

Lithology

Lithology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (D Guidon) - Samples collected in trenches west of the shaft area and surface material from underground are greenish-red, brecciated trachyte tuffs to lappili tuff. The samples are fractured and a healed with very narrow quartz-chlorite stringers. The rock contains interstitial sericite. The quartz sample shows later fracturing and healing with quartz. Minor black chlorite is found near and parallel to the vein edge. All the samples are nearly void of pyrite.

Mineralization

Mineralization Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (D Guidon) - Analyses of samples suggests that barite should be present. Pyrite content is very low in the samples collected.

Alteration Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (D Guidon) - Interstitial sericite. Network of quatz chlorite stringers between breccia fragments.

Assay Samples

Mineral Record Details

Mineral Zones - Size and Shape

Rank: 1       Structure Type: Fault

Rank: 2       Structure Type: Vein

Site Visit Information

Date: May 30, 1997

Geologist: D Guidon

Notes: Property visited on August 20, 1996. The shaft was not located, though a pipe sticking into the sand was probably the vent for the capped shaft. Samples were collected in a stripped trench to the west of the shaft, near a concrete pillar in the shaft area and a rock pipe composed mailny of vein material in the shaft area. Three sample (96319, 96320, 96322) are brecciated trachyte tuff to lapilli tuff with chlorite quartz stringers and interstitial sericite alteration. The other sample (96321) is a quartz vein with banded chlorite parallel to the vein walls. All the samples are wither void of or only carry a trace of pyrite. Assay results were background <=10 ppb Au.

References

File - Resident Geologist files KL-0574, KL-2515

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Publisher Name:

Location: Kirkland lake RGP office

Map - Township of Lebel, District of Timiskaming, Ontario

Publication Number: ARM53A Scale: 1:12,000    Date: 1997

Author: MacLean A., Hogg N.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:

Mono - Preliminary report on the Timmins-Kirkland Lake area, gold deposits file

Publication Number: OFR5467 Page: G0198  Date: 1983

Author: Hodgson C.J.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

Map - Kirkland-Larder area, District of Timiskaming, Ontario

Publication Number: ARM32E Scale: 1:31,680    Date: 1997

Author: Hopkins P.E., Carlyle A.W., Greenwood W., Heisey K.B.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:

Part - Lebel and Gauthier townships (area between Kirkland and Larder lakes)

Publication Number: ARV32-04.002 Page: 68-69  Date: 1997

Author: Hopkins P.E.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:

Part - Mines of Ontario in 1947

Publication Number: ARV57-02 Page: 90  Date: 1997

Author: Mines Inspection Branch

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:

Mono - Mineral resources and mining properties in the Kirkland Lake-Larder Lake area

Publication Number: MDC003 Page: 22-23  Date: 1964

Author: Savage W.S.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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Mono - Geology of Lebel Township, District of Timiskaming

Publication Number: OFR5211 Page: 49-51  Date: 1976

Author: Lovell H.L.

Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines

Location:

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: 143  Date: 1979

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

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

Mono - Geology Of Lebel Township

Publication Number: B150 Date: 1998

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