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Record: MDI32D04SW00036

General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold

Location

Township or Area: Lebel

Latitude: 48° 9' 39.69"    Longitude: -79° 56' 55.92"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 578165   Northing: 5334732    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Kirkland Lake

NTS Grid: 32D04NW

Point Location Description: AMIS Shaft location

Location Method: AMIS Site Visit

Access Description: Travel along Hwy 66, 800 m beyond the most easterly street in the hamlet of King Kirkland. At this point, a power line crosses the highway. Walk south on the power line right-of-way for about 200 m. From here a trail leads to the west for about 60 m to the shaft area.

Exploration History

According to Savage (1950, Assessment File KL-1603), the company was incorporated in 1920 on 5 patented claims in Lebel Township. By 1924, an inclined shaft was sunk to a vertical depth of 203 feet with levels at 100 and 200 feet. The Main vein was drifted on for 600 feet on the 200 foot level. Between 1927 and 1928, the property was optioned to Nipissing Mining Co, Ltd. who carried out an unknown amount of surface drilling, a 1569-m 7-hole underground drill program and 182 metres of underground development and assessment. In 1929 an addition surface diamond drill program of at least 4 holes totalled over 485 metres. Additional surface drilling of 663 metres in 4 holes was carried out in 1936. A surface resistivity survey, ground magnetometer survey, geological mapping and 1020 metres of diamond drilling in 8 holes was carried out in 1948. Canadian Nicke Company Ltd. carried out a magnetometer survey in 1979 and geological mapping in 1981 on the three northern claims. Between 1980 and 1986, Lampe Resource Company Ltd. carried out stripping, sampling, a ground magnetometer and VLF-EM survey, geological mapping and 337 metres of surface diamond drilling in 4 holes. In 1986 and 1987, R.W. Lawrence carried out stripping, sampling and geological mapping on ground over and to the north of the Lebel Oro shaft. In 1991, Premier Exploration completed 41 kilometres of airborne mag and EM over the property and a number of surrounding claims.

Assessment Work on File

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Abitibi

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Abitibi

Tectonic Assemblage: Timiskaming

Geological Age: Neoarchean   Geochronological Age: 2865 MA   Geochron. Age Ref.: CORFU ET.AL. 1989

Metamorphism Type: Regional

Metamorphism Grade: Zeolite

Geology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (D Guidon) - The property is located in north central Lebel Township. The property is underlain by rocks mapped as porphyrite (McLean 1956). The northern portion of the property is underlain by southeast striking conglomerates and tuffs. The central portion of the property is covered by sands of the King Kirkland Esker. The KLIP mag maps (P.2264) shows the shaft area on the edge of a southeast trending mag low trough. The shaft is located on an outcrop described as syenitized country rock. The outcrop is approximately 30 metres east of the contact with a feldspar porphyry stock (Burr, 1948, assessment file KL1603). Samples were collected on a sulphide rich vein approximately 100 metres west of the shaft (94333), and of the the shaft vein and samples on either side of it (94334-94337). The rock on either side of the vein appears to be an altered trachyte tuff. Magnetic susceptibility readings on either side of the vein are high supporting this idea. The rocks are altered with veinlets and blebs of mainly iron poor calicte to iron rich calcite. Away from the shaft vein on both sides there is minor iron poor dolomite alteration. The Bidgood or a branch of the North Harkey Kirkland Fault crosses about 150 m (500 feet) south of the shaft in an easterly direction. Ferderber Geophysics interprets an northwest striking fault just to the west of the shaft (KL2297). The quartz vein occupies a fault (shear zone up to 1.8 metres wide) according to the reports from 1928. The vein strikes at 210 and dips 70. Cleavage on outcrop near the vein was measured at 060 dipping 50.

Lithology

Lithology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (D Guidon) - The property is located in north central Lebel Township. The property is underlain by rocks mapped as porphyrite (McLean 1956). The northern portion of the property is underlain by southeast striking conglomerates and tuffs. The shaft is located on an outcrop described as syenitized country rock. The outcrop is approximately 30 metres east of the contact with a feldspar porphyry stock (Burr, 1948, assessment file KL1603). Samples were collected on a sulphide rich vein approximately 100 metres west of the shaft (94333), and of the the shaft vein and samples on either side of it (94334-94337). The rock on either side of the vein appears to be an altered trachyte tuff. Magnetic susceptibility readings on either side of the vein are high supporting this idea. The rocks are altered with veinlets and blebs of mainly iron poor calicte to iron rich calcite. Away from the shaft vein on both sides there is minor iron poor dolomite alteration.

Mineralization

Mineralization Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (D Guidon) - Galena and sphalerite not observed in the samples collected. Vein width is about 0.46 m wide with pyrite mineralization in shearing on both sides extending the width to about 1.8 m. The wall rock is altered with iron poor calcite as veinlest and blebs. The vein contains both white and dark quartz. According to the report by Todd (1928, assessment file KL1603) the gold appears to be associated with the dark quartz. The majority of the quatz is white, thus the assays are eratic. The best channel assay was 1.48 opt Au over 4 feet (MRC 18, p.146). A number of interesting drill intersection were encountered over the years on zones possibly parallel to the main zone. Follow up of some of the interesctions was unsuccessful.

Alteration Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (D Guidon) - The rocks are altered with veinlets and blebs of mainly iron-poor calcite to iron-rich calcite. Away from the shaft vein on both sides there is minor iron poor dolomite alteration.

Assay Samples

Mineral Record Details

Mineral Zones - Size and Shape

Rank: 1       Structure Type: Vein

Site Visit Information

Date: Oct 18, 1996

Geologist: D Guidon

Notes: Date Visited 1994/07/28Large stripped area of altered trachyte, originally mapped as porphyrite. Shaft in southeastern portion of stripped area. Shaft is capped. The shaft appears to have been cut into the outcrop to the south leaving a low rock cut. Rocks are magnetic. Cleavage 060 dipping 50 S. Vein is about 2 feet wide, strikes 230 and dips 80 W (94335). Immediately to the west of the vein is a 3 foot wide section with abundant sulphide (94336)Samples collected:94333 - badly weathered altered rock, possibly a sheared wacke. 3-5% fine grain disseminated pyrite. Minor iron poor calcite as veinlets. Collected approximately 100 m west of shaft. In a natural depression with glacial striae on both sides and bottom of depression. Depression trend at 050. Sulphide rick zone approximately .15 m wide deeply weathered. Sample collected at edge.Samples 94334-94337 collected on outcrop at capped shaft. 94334 - highly altered possibly trachyte. Abundant iron poor calcite with some iron poor dolomite.94335 - Vein material - dark altered rock cut by quart-iron rich calcite veins. 2-3% fine grain disseminated pyrite. 94336 - silified carbonated rock possibly either a wacke or trachyte. 2-3% fine grain pyrite. Carbonate mainly calcite. 94337 - similar to 94334 with trace of pyrite. Carbonate mainly iron poor calcite with minor amounts of iron poor dolomite. High magnetic susceptibility count suggests the rock is trachyte.

References

File - Resident Geologist file KL-1603

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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

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

Publication Number: MDC003 Page: 51-52  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: 87-88  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: 146  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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Mono - Preliminary report on the Timmins-Kirkland Lake area, gold deposits file

Publication Number: OFR5467 Page: G0191  Date: 1983

Author: Hodgson C.J.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Journal - U–Pb zircon geochronology in the southwestern Abitibi greenstone belt, Superior Province; Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences (1989) vol. 26, no. 9

Publication Number: CJES 1989 Page: 1747-1763  Date: 1989

Author: Corfu, F., Krogh, T.E., Kwok, Y.Y., Jensen, L.S.

Publisher Name: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

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