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Record: MDI41O09SE00006

General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold

Location

Township or Area: Yeo

Latitude: 47° 34' 13.8"    Longitude: -82° 0' 20.76"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 424354   Northing: 5269055    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Timmins

NTS Grid: 41O09SE

Point Location Description: Old 2x2m timber lined shaft.

Location Method: Field Visit with GPS

Access Description: Travel Highway 144 to the Sultan Road and to the Chester North Road. Travel approximately 12 km north to a trail that leads to Schist Lake. The site lies on the west side of Moore Lake.

Exploration History

1910-12: Moore - pitting, 10 shaft. 1932: Cryderman acquires ground does no work. 1939: Cousins-Scott - Tr, Samp, Assays. 1939: Lake Shore Mines - sampling. 1979: Cominco - ground magnetic survey, mapping. 1980: Hargor Resources - airborne magnetic and EM survey. 1981: Troutfly Resources - stripping. 1981: Bobway Resources - stripping, trenching. 1985: Blue Falcon Mines - airborne magnetic and EM survey. 1987: Consolidated Silver Butte Mines - ground VLF-EM survey, soil geochemistry. 1990: Blue Falcon Mines - airborne magnetic and EM survey. 2007-2010: Augen Gold Corp. - AEM, AMag, ARAD; Assays, Pr; DD - 5 - 628m; EM, IP, RES, Mag. 2011: Sanatana Resources Inc. - AEM, AMag.

Assessment Work on File

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Abitibi

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Swayze

Tectonic Assemblage: Ridout

Geological Age: Neoarchean   Geochronological Age: 2739 +/-2MA   Geochron. Age Ref.: GSC OF 3384G

Metamorphism Type: Regional

Metamorphism Grade: Greenschist

Geology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (S Fumerton) - The mineralization is hosted in a shear zone located on the contact between a diorite and highly strained epiclastic sediments. There are some small scale crenulation folds in the shear zone.

Lithology

Lithology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (S Fumerton) - The diorite on the south side of the shaft is a medium grained massive unit. Pervasive saussuritization occurs in the unit and there is a foliation developed near the sheared contact. The epiclastic unit to the north is highly strained and schistose though probably derived from arenites and conglomerates. The schistosity is due to the high sericite content and fine grained recrystallization. Strong brown carbonate alteration occurs in the sheared contact zone between the two main units.

Mineralization

Mineralization Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (S Fumerton) - There is a trace of pyrite together ilmenite disseminated within the quartz, carbonate, chlorite knots. These knots are locally up to 30cm thick and have a short strike length. Though generally there are two sets of quartz veining the altered zone. The boudinaged and rotated quartz veins which are typically less than 3cm thick but do develop into larger knots. Secondly discordant en-echelon extension veins up to 1cm thick and 20cm long. The carbonate altered shear zone can be traced over 20m in the recent trenching.

Jun 29, 2016 (A Wilson) - Values of 4 g/t Au were reportedly returned from the vein in 1910. Samples collected from the Moore shaft allegedly returned values of 0.5 g/t Au (1939). Average assays for samples collected along strike of the mineralized zone were between 1.98 and 24 g/t Au (1979). Assays from a sheared diorite at the shaft (collected in 1987) returned values of 2.7 g/t Au over 4 m.

Jun 12, 2013 (P Bousquet) - A sample, 522122, taken from a trench consisting of light grey or light green-grey altered mafic rocks returned an assay of 2.81 g/t Au (T-5852).

Assay Samples

Mineral Record Details

Mineral Zones - Size and Shape

Rank: 2       Structure Type: Contact

Rank: 1       Structure Type: Shear

Site Visit Information

Date: May 24, 1994

Geologist: S Fumerton

Notes: There are a number of areas that have been stripped recently along the strike extension of the altered shear zone. This stripping has exposed similar altered shear zones concentrated on the diorite - epiclastic sediment contact. However, there is a paucity of quartz veining associated with the shear zones.

References

File - Resident Geologist files T-2151

Publication Number: Date:

Author:

Publisher Name:

Location: Timmins RGP office

Map - Three Duck Lakes area, District of Sudbury, Ontario

Publication Number: ARM41D Scale: 1:47,520    Date: 1997

Author: Laird H.C.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:

Map - Geological series, Precambrian geology of Chester and Yeo townships, and parts of Neville and Potier townships, Jerome area, Sudbury District

Publication Number: P2449 Scale: 1:15,840    Date: 1981

Author: Siragusa G.M.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

Part - Geology of the Three Duck lakes area

Publication Number: ARV41-03.001 Page: 30-31  Date: 1998

Author: Laird H.C.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:

Map - Precambrian Geology, Parts of Potier and Yeo Townships

Publication Number: OFM0213 Scale: 1:15,840    Date: 1993

Author: Siragusa G.M.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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: 122  Date: 1979

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

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

Map - Geology, Swayze greenstone belt, Opeepeesway Lake, Ontario

Publication Number: OF3384f Scale: 1:50,000    Date: 1999

Author: Heather, K B; Shore, G T

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/210454

MonoMap - Geology of the Chapleau area, districts of Algoma, Sudbury, and Cochrane

Publication Number: R157 Date: 1977

Author: Thurston P.C., Siragusa G.M., Sage R.P.

Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines

Location:

MonoMap - Geology, Geochemistry and Mineralization of the Southern Margin of the Swayze Belt

Publication Number: OFR5844 Page: 80  Date: 1993

Author: Siragusa G.M.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

MonoMap - Mineral Prospects of the Swayze Greenstone Belt (Volume 1, Parts of NTS 41 O and Volume 2, Parts of NTS 41 P, 42 A and 42 B)

Publication Number: OFR5912 Page: 481-482  Date: 1995

Author: Fumerton S.L., Houle K.A.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

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