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Record: MDI41O09SW00013

General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Nickel, Copper, Cobalt, Gold

Secondary Commodities: Silver, Platinum, Palladium, Zinc

Location

Township or Area: Hong Kong

Latitude: 47° 32' 27.75"    Longitude: -82° 28' 49.66"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 388589.5   Northing: 5266352.99    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Timmins

NTS Grid: 41O09SW

Point Location Description: Small trench within an old stripped area.

Location Method: Field Visit with GPS

Access Description: Access is via an old logging road which branches south off the Sultan Main Haul road in Edith Township near kilometre 50. This road is passable with a truck to an old ruined bridge / ford across the Woman River. From the ford, which can be waded, a 2.5 km walk is required down an overgrown road to the prospect.

Exploration History

1960's: Mr. G. Beith who made the original discovery, stripped an outcrop of sheared gabbro then apparently optioned the ground to Noranda Exploration who carried out a geophysical survey. No information on this work is on file. 1972: Hudson Bay Exploration carried a small geophysical and soil geochemical survey over the showing. These surveys identified a number of base metal anomalies coincident with magnetic and VL electromagnetic anomalies. Two short holes tested the anomalies at depth and intersected some mineralization, though no description or assays are on file. Later in the year a larger claim block was surveyed in a HL electromagnetic survey and four additional holes were drilled under the original showing. No assays or detailed drill logs are on file. 1986: Mr. Beith proposed to carry out a small scale mining operation to extract the copper / nickel mineralization. It was stated 30,000 tons of 0.6% Ni, 0.4% Cu, 0.015% Co, 0.51 g/t Pt (0.015 oz./ton), and 0.3 g/t Au (0.01 oz./ton) existed to a 90' depth. [Afile T-5360] // 2003, Wallbridge Mining optioned both Beith's single unit lease and surrounding 15-unit claim. 2004 - 2006, Wallbridge Mining: Amag, AEM; prospecting, sampling, assays; Pulse EM survey; 4 drillholes, assays (Afiles T-5032, T-5086, T-5294)

Assessment Work on File

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Abitibi

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Swayze

Tectonic Assemblage: Hong Kong

Geological Age: Neoarchean   Geochronological Age: 2729 MA   Geochron. Age Ref.: GOO Vol 1

Metamorphism Type: Regional

Metamorphism Grade: Amphibolite

Geology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (S Fumerton) - There is moderate shearing within the massive, medium - coarse grained amphibolite adjacent and parallel to the contact with the fine grained laminated amphibolite.

Lithology

Lithology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (S Fumerton) - The mineralization is hosted in massive and locally slightly sheared amphibolite. The matrix of the amphibolite (hornblende) is fine grained (<1/2 to 1mm), though does contain a number of anhedral poikiloblastic hornblende porphyroblasts. The colour of the amphibolite on the fresh surface is a dark green with a slight bluish tint plus patches of a different green due to possible chlorite alteration. The massive amphibolite is in contact with a weakly laminated, fine grained to very fine grained, medium grey to dark green amphibolite. Laminations are poorly defined with thin (<2mm) leucocratic seams parallel to a moderately well defined foliation. Overall the general appearance is strongly suggestive of a sedimentary rock. The general appearance of the few rocks exposed indicates that the mineralization is hosted in mafic metavolcanics that have been metamorphosed to amphibolite facies.

Mineralization

Mineralization Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (S Fumerton) - In the trench disseminated pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite are common in the coarse grained amphibolite. In contrast within the fine grained laminated amphibolite contains fine very sparsely disseminated pyrite. Within the coarse grained amphibolite, dark brown pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite occur in different modes. Locally the sulphides are disseminated in the matrix forming up to 5% of the rock or form thin (<2mm) short lenses parallel to an incipient foliation. Alternatively the sulphides form a 'net texture' and form up to about 10% of the rock. Finally, pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite form irregular semi - massive bands up to a centimetre thick and a total of about 20% in the rock. In these sulphide bands the pyrrhotite grain size is up to 4mm there is also a crude relationship between the grain size and the concentration of sulphides present. Pyrrhotite is roughly three to four times more abundant than the chalcopyrite and tends to be separated from the chalcopyrite. Pentlandite has been reported from the prospect.

Jun 22, 2006 (D Draper) - Grab samples from the area of the Beith trenches were taken by Wallbridge in 2003-2004. The best assay results obtained were: 0.3887% Cu, 1.228% Ni, 0.0209% Co, 0.051 ppm Pt, 0.051 ppm Pd, 4.0 ppm Ag, 0.127 ppm Au. An accompanying summary report on the property states that the results of Hudson Bay Exploration drilling (6 holes, 1972) had been 0.39% Cu and 0.87% Ni from DDH#1 and 0.80% Cu, 0.54% Ni from DDH#3. [AF T-5086] Of the 7 holes drilled by Wallbridge on the Beith patent in 2005, four were tested for mineralization. Of these, hole WHK-003 (Az. 018 deg, dip -55 deg, 143m, drilled approx 125m SE of occurrence site) returned the highest assays, from a 4m zone (@ 82m to 86m) of amphibolite-gabbro mineralized with blebby-disseminated to semi-massive pyrrhotite and pentlandite: 2.02% Ni, 0.91% Cu over 2.25m, as well as 0.7m of 0.518 ppm Au and 0.35m of 0.438 ppm Pt and 0.239 ppm Pd. Holes WHK-001, -004 and -005 also returned values up to 1.72% Ni, 1.05% Cu, 0.247 ppm Au, 0.184 ppm Pt, 0.151 ppm Pd. Chalcopyrite mineralization was noted in hole 004. [AF T-5294]

Jun 22, 2006 (A Wilson) - Grab samples collected by the OGS in 1991 returned assays of 0.514% Ni, 0.502% Cu, 0.043% Zn; 0.74% Ni, 0.294% Cu, 0.008% Zn; 0.464% Ni, 0.112% Zn, 0.44% Cu. Grab samples collected by the OGS in 1994 returned 0.01 g/t Au, 0.6 g/t Ag, 0.0039% Ni, 0.0077% Cu, 0.0061% Zn; 0.03 g/t Au, 1.9 g/t Ag, 0.649% Ni, 0.218% Cu, 0.05 g/t Pt, 0.045 g/t Pd; 0.12 g/t Au, 5.5 g/t Ag, 0.07 g/t Pt, 0.065 g/t Pd, 0.48% Ni, 0.12% Zn, 0.314% Cu.

Assay Samples

Mineral Record Details

Mineral Zones - Size and Shape

Rank: 1       Structure Type: Contact

Rank: 2       Structure Type: Shear

Site Visit Information

Date: May 26, 1991

Geologist: D Farrow

Notes: The showing is in a 4m x 3m blasted pit on the northwest flank of a hill which is terminated on the east by the Woman River. Lithology exposed comprises highly altered mafic/ultramafic intrusive (?) volcanics which have been amphibolitized, sulphidized, and silicified. A shear zone at the south end of the pit exhibits talcose schistosity, with the degree of foliation and softness of the rocks decreasing to the north. Sulphide content runs from trace amounts to roughly 5% in patches and blebs, and consists of anhedral pyrite, pyrrhotite and some traces of chalcopyrite. Sphalerite was not observed in the samples collected, although zinc values are on record from a geochemical survey conducted in 1972. Pyrrhotite appeared to be more concentrated along the shear zone, with pyrite becoming the predominant sulphide in the less foliated rocks.

Date: Jul 19, 1994

Geologist: S Fumerton

Notes: The original trench was located in an area where the shallow overburden has been stripped off the outcrop. Since the initial work, moss has grown back on the exposed rock in the stripped area and in the trench. However, the mineralization observed is most encouraging. Despite the encouragement from what can be observed, the limited exploration work on file does not support the claimed dimensions of the mineralization. It is also felt that insufficient work has been done to fully test mineralization. i.e. there may be greater potential in the area. The trench is located in the only outcrop observed on the traverse to the prospect.

References

Book - Sudbury Timmins Algoma Mineral Program, Project 1: mineral inventory of the Sudbury-Timmins-Sault Ste. Marie region, Ontario

Publication Number: GSC OF 1087 Page: 41O-32  Date: 1985

Author: Rose, D. G.

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/129999

File - Wallbridge Updates Exploration Progress

Publication Number: Date: 2004

Author:

Publisher Name: Canada NewsWire

Location: Timmins RGO Newsclippings

Map - Geological series, Operation Chapleau, Opeepeesway-Rocky Island lakes sheet, districts of Algoma and Sudbury

Publication Number: P0675 Scale: 1:126,720    Date: 1997

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

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs

Location:

File - Wallbridge Mining Company Limited and Mountain Lake Resources Intersect High Grade Nickel Mineralization in Drill Program at Hong Kong Project

Publication Number: Date: 2005

Author:

Publisher Name: Canada NewsWire

Location: Timmins RGO Newsclippings - Wallbridge

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

Publication Number: OF 3384F 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 - 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: 76-78  Date: 1995

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

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

File - Resident Geologist files T-2109, T-5360

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Location: Timmins RGP office

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