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Record: MDI32D04SW00030

General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold, Tungsten

Location

Township or Area: Lebel

Latitude: 48° 7' 59.41"    Longitude: -79° 58' 9.27"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 576691.473   Northing: 5331615.388    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Kirkland Lake

NTS Grid: 32D04NW

Point Location Description: Diamond drill hole

Location Method: Field Visit with GPS

Access Description: The property is accessed by way of the hamlet of King Kirkland. Travel south on the most westerly street in the hamlet and keep to the left when the road forks. Travel a total of about 1 km to the ONR railway crossing. The property is about 4.9 km south and west of the tracks along roads and snowmobile trails. Travel south to Turtle Lake. The snowmobile runs along the west side of the lake. The trail is away from the western edge of Long lake before heading west. This point is near the top of a hill. There is a pit approximately 75 m north of this point. UTM coordinates of the pit are 5331515N 576267N.

Exploration History

The property is an amalgamation of the Boyd and Brant proerties plus additional claims. The Brant property was prospected in the 1918 with diamond drilling and trenching prior to 1922. The Boyd property was prospected with surface trenching and the digging of 2 pits. 1944-45 - Belrosa property was formed out of the Boyd and Brant properties plus an additional 12 claims. Exploration was funded jointly by Macassa Mines Limited and Sylvanite Gold Mines Limited. The program included mapping trenching and the drilling of 23 diamond drill holes. A surface pit assayed 0.19 ounce Au per ton over 15 feet. The best assay from a diamond drill hole (No. 12) drilled under the trench was 0.04 ounce Au per ton over 3 feet. 1981-82 - Labrador Exploration geologically mapped the area and conducted a rock geochemical survey as well as ground VLF-EM. Follow up diamond drilling was disappointing with the best assay of 1.4 ppm Au over 0.76 m. 1990 - Noranda Exploration/Central Crude Mines completed a ground magnetometer survey. 1993 - L. Cunningham completed a study of the known geology, structure and mineralization on the porperty and properties to the north east, for Queenston Mining Inc.

Assessment Work on File

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Abitibi

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Abitibi

Geological Age: Archean  

Metamorphism Type: Regional

Metamorphism Grade: Greenschist

Geology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (D Guidon) - The showing is near the northeastern contact of the Lebel Stock and within the Larder Lake Break. In this area, the break changes diresction from northeast to southeast, approximately paralleling the contact with the stock. Wackes with a strong schistocity are exposed to the north. The general trend of the geology is easterly.

Lithology

Lithology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (D Guidon) - The property is at the northeastern contact of the Lebel Stock with the sedimentary and volcanic rocks the Boston and Timiskaming assemblages. The showing is within highly carbonated ultramafic rocks, of the Boston assemblage, within the Larder Lake Break. In this area, the zone of carbonated ultramafic (green carbonate) rocks is wider than elsewhere in Lebel Township. Mapping by MacLean suggests that there 2 additional fingers of carbonated rocks extening northeast into the sedimentary rocks of the Timiskaming? This may possibly represent slays off the break.A description of the mineralization has not been found in the files. It appears, from the 1945 work, that pits are in the carbonated ultramafic rocks and thus probably also the host of the mineralization. The drill intersection by Labrador Mining was along the claim line between L.40174 and L.980. The intersection was in chert within a syenite dike.

Mineralization

Alteration Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (D Guidon) - Intersection by Labrador described as chert in a syenite dike. The dike is hosted by altered ultramafic rock often termed as green carbonate, a fuchsite bearing bright green coloured rock. The chert contains disseminated pyrite, specularite and scheelite.

Assay Samples

Mineral Record Details

Mineral Zones - Size and Shape

Rank: 1       Structure Type: Fault

Site Visit Information

Date: Apr 17, 1997

Geologist: D Guidon

Notes: Property visited on August 15, 1995. Plotted the drill hole described in the Belrossa report in 1:20,000 map to determine UTM coordinates. Used the GPS to find the location. Poor satellite configuration made getting a good location. Ran a compass line south to road. All samples tied to pit discovered on traverse back to road. Samples collected are described below. MS - magnetic susceptibility * 1/100000 SI units. Samples were stained to determine carbonate minerals. 95306 - Wacke (100 m N of pit): mg, dark green, schistose, chloritized - sericitized - carbonated - silicified, trace vfg disseminated py, minor calcite veinlets, low amounts of low-moderate Fe-dolomite with qtz, MS-20. 95307 - Wacke (60 m N of pit): fg light green, schistose, 10% carbonate, 5-10% chlorite, 20% sericite, 60 fg qtz/feld, trace to 0.5% disseminated py to .5 mm, 10% interstitial high Fe-dolomite with very minor high Fe-dolomite to ankerite veinlets, MS-15. 95308 - Wacke with veining (60 m N of pit): similar to 95307 except brecciated and healed by silica, cut by numerous white and smokey qtz stringers, slightly bleached, aprrox 1% py - disseminated but concentrated near qtz stringer edges, possibly minor high Fe-dolomite to ankerite veinlets, MS-20. 95309 - green carbonate - pit location: 50% white qtz as veins, 45% fg green carbonate, 5% gf brown carbonate mixed with the green carbonate - much as vfg inclusions, no carbonate showing when stained, MS-15. 95310 - (30 S of pit) wacke: mg buff to tan, 10% sericite, 30% qtz as rounded to subrounded grains to 2mm, remainder fg qtz/feld, small band at edge of sample chlorite rich, 3-5% fg disseminated py, no carbonate, MS-20. 95311 - (30 m S of pit) wacke: dark green and white, mg-cg, 50% qtz from veining, no sulphide, some narrow stringers of vfg buff alteration?, similar to 95306, trace low Fe-calcite veinlets with qtz, MS-35.

References

File - Resident Geologist file KL-0210

Publication Number: Date:

Author:

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

Publication Number: MDC003 Page: 75  Date: 1964

Author: Savage W.S.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:

Mono - Geology of Lebel Township, District of Timiskaming

Publication Number: OFR5211 Page: 40-41  Date: 1976

Author: Lovell H.L.

Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines

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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: 207  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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Part - Mines of Ontario in 1936

Publication Number: ARV46-01.003 Date: 1997

Author: Sinclair D.G., Tower W.O., Bayne A.S., Cooper D.F., Weir E.B., Webster A.R.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:

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

Publication Number: ARV32-04.002 Page: 75  Date: 1997

Author: Hopkins P.E.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:

Mono - Geology Of Lebel Township

Publication Number: B150 Date: 1998

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