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General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold

Secondary Commodities: Molybdenum

Location

Township or Area: Lebel

Latitude: 48° 8' 47.31"    Longitude: -79° 56' 46.46"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 578382.489   Northing: 5333117.396    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Kirkland Lake

NTS Grid: 32D04NW

Point Location Description: Shaft collar in claim L.466.

Location Method: Field Visit with GPS

Access Description: The property is accessed by traveling south on the most westerly street in the hamlet of King Kirkland for approximately 1060 m to the crossing on the Ontario Northland Railway. The crossing may be out. The shaft is a further 1040 m south of the railway along the road.

Exploration History

From Savage (1950, Assessment File KL2196), Pawnee Kirkland Mines Ltd. was incoreporated in 1922 on four claims in Lebel Township. In 1927 a vertical 2-compartment shaft was sunk to a depth of 238 m (780 feet) with levels every 38 m (125 feet) to the 229 m (750 foot) level. Under ground work amounted to 990 m (3247 feet) of cross-cutting and drifting. The Number 2 vein was explored on the 125, 250 and 500 foot levels with most of the work concentrated on the 750 foot level. Prior to the end of 1928, Lucky Tiger drilled four holes north of the shaft. The mine closed at the end of 1928. Regal Kirkland Gold Mines was incorporated in 1933 to take over the property. The mines was dewatered in 1936 and a program of sampling, 312 m (1025 feet) of diamond drilling and 168 m (550 feet) of drifting was carried out. Work was suspended in 1936 and the property reverted to Pawnee Kirkland Gold Mines Ltd. in 1937. In 1963, Pawnee Kirkland Gold Mines Ltd.'s charter was cancelled and Upper Canada Mines Limited acquired the property. In 1964, the property was optioned to Labrador Mining Exploration (Ontario) Limited. In 1965 they carried out 30 km of surface IP over the property and completed 487 m of diamond drilling in 3 holes. In 1966, 2 diamond drill holes totalling 124 m were completed. The mine was dewatered, a headframe erected and more than 915 m (3000 feet) of drifting as well as underground diamond drilling was done on the 152 m (500 foot) and 229 m (750 foot) levels. In 1981, Labrador Mining and Exploration Limited carried out geological mapping, sampling and VLF-EM surveys over the property. As follow-up, they completed 1615 m (5297 feet) of diamond drilling in 9 holes in 1982. In 1990, Central Crude Limited completed geophysics on the property and diamond drill 15 holes totalling 3633 m (11 920 feet). Queenston Mining Inc. completed a detailed magnetometer survey and a 10-hole 2948 m (9672 feet) diamond drill hole program.

Assessment Work on File

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Abitibi

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Abitibi

Tectonic Assemblage: Timiskaming

Geological Age: Neoarchean   Geochronological Age: 2685 MA   Geochron. Age Ref.: CORFU ET.AL. 1989

Metamorphism Type: Regional

Metamorphism Grade: Zeolite

Geology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (D Guidon) - According to McLean (1944) there are a few outcrops of porphyrite north of the railway line. The eastern portion of the property is covered by heavy drift. The remainder of the property is underlain by eastwest striking and southern dipping Timiskaming trachytes, conglomerates and wackes. A small band of wackes separate trachytes and porphyrite to the north. In the middle of the property, a narrow band of tuff separates prophyritic trachyte from a trachyte sill. A small band of conglomerate is contained withinthe sill on the western edge of the property. Coarse wackes and conglomerates can be found on the southern boundary. The Long Lake Fault Zone crosses the eastern end of the property, striking at 030. The fault is split and the rock between the branches appears to have been displaced to the south. Development work took place on a vein filling a fault striking approximately 075 and dipping 75 south. The zone appears to change to a strike of 060 about 150 m west of the shaft. The fault intersects a north-south striking fault approximately 335 m west of the shaft. Cunningham (1994 personal communications) calls this fault the Tully Fault and describes it as a wide zone.

Lithology

Lithology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (D Guidon) - According to McLean (1944) there are a few outcrops of porphyrite north of the railway line. The eastern portion of the property is covered by heavy drift. The remainder of the property is underlain by eastwest striking and southern dipping Timiskaming trachytes, conglomerates and wackes. A small band of wackes separate trachytes and porphyrite to the north. In the middle of the property, a narrow band of tuff separates prophyritic trachyte from a trachyte sill. A small band of conglomerate is contained withinthe sill on the western edge of the property. Coarse wackes and conglomerates can be found on the southern boundary.

Mineralization

Mineralization Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (D Guidon) - According to Langford (1928 Assessment File KL2196) the Number 2 vein is within carbonated volcanic rocks. The vein is not well defined and continuous because the country rock is soft. The vein contains pyrite, traces of chalcopyrite, molybdenite, tellurides and free gold. A composite underground plan in file KL-2196 shows mineralized zones on the 125, 250, 500 and 750 foot levels. The zones are narrow, 2.5 to 3 feet in width with lengths to 115 feet. Zones grades vary between 0.06 opt and 0.38 opt. Resampling by Labrador found the earlier reported grades too high (Lovell 1982 PV026-2).

Assay Samples

Mineral Record Details

Mineral Zones - Size and Shape

Rank: 1       Structure Type: Vein

Site Visit Information

Date: Oct 24, 1996

Geologist: D Guidon

Notes: Date Visited 1994/06/28 Visited the property with Len Cunningham. Viewed and sampled Number 2 vein (94312, 94313) as exposed in trenching just northwest of the shaft. Work underground followed a structure to the west that was faulted off by the north trending Tully Fault. The surface exposure of this vein and the Tully Fault is exposed in a gully north of the power line, west of the shaft (94314). The exposure was found by Cunningham in 1991. Old trenching from the early 1920's near the southern boundary of the porperty was on 2 east-trending fractures with heavy sulphide mineralization within conglomerates (Hopkins 1923) (94315). Little gold is contained in the wide alteration zone. The zone is 10-15 feet wide and cut by 3 trenches perpendicular to stratigraphy. To the south are wacke outcrops. Viewed the rebickite outcrop east of Turtle Lake (see Lovell PV026-4). To the north of this outcrop, old trenching exposing sulphides mark the location of the Larder Lake Faults along the T5-T13 contact on McLean's map. The fault separates the Larder Lake Group from the Timiskaming. 94312 - buff qcv 2mm wide with trace subhedral pyrite to 1 mm. strongly foliated trachyte tuff host with chlorite-sericite alteration. Trace of py in host. High magnetic susceptibility count. Vein contains 10% carbonate as iron-poor calcite and iron-poor dolomite. 17 578267 5333010 94313 - quartz-carbonate breccia with wisps of chlorite-sericite. 5-10% sub- to anhedral pyrite to .5mm. Intense iron-poor to iron-rich dolomite alteration. 94314 - buff quartz-carbonate vein with 30% chlorite-sericite wisp parallel to foliation. 1-2% .1mm subhedral pyrite. Intense iron-poor dolomite alteration. 17 577990 5332860 94315 - Timiskaming conglomerate with subrounded clasts to 10 cm, majority 3-4 mm. Variety of clast types - intrusive, volcanic, sedimentary. 5% 1mm subhedral pyrite overprinting all clasts and matrix. No carbonate alteration. 17 578100 5332700

References

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:

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

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

Publication Number: MDC003 Page: 59-60  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: 97-100  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: 148  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: G0192  Date: 1983

Author: Hodgson C.J.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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File - Res/Reg Property Visit Report KL #26

Publication Number: PV-26 Date: 1901

Author:

Publisher Name:

Location: Kirkland Lake RGP office

Mono - Geology Of Lebel Township

Publication Number: B150 Date: 1998

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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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