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Record: MDI41O15SW00006

General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold

Secondary Commodities: Molybdenum

Location

Township or Area: Raney

Latitude: 47° 52' 17.47"    Longitude: -82° 47' 52.03"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 365562.83   Northing: 5303584.78    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Timmins

NTS Grid: 41O15SW

Point Location Description: Trenched and stripped area northeast of Raney Lake.

Location Method: Data Compilation

Access Description: Traditionally access was possible by flying into Duck Lake northeast of the occurrence then traverse 300m through the bush. Recent extensions of a new logging road come to within 2km of the showing and a rough line passable with all terrain vehicles accesses Duck Lake.

Exploration History

1932: Mr G.A. Thorne and associates staked a number of claims over two quartz veins which contain visible gold. Development work consisted of trenching but no results from this work are on file. 1978: Mr D. Baker drilled a hole in the area and reported the occurrence of visible gold in two small quartz-carbonate veinlets. No gold was reported in assay samples over the intervals in which these veinlets occur. 1980: Donald Baker excavated eleven trenches in the area of the original discovery. No descriptions or assay results are available from this work. Two years later a magnetic and VLF electromagnetic survey was performed over the showing and an area to the southeast. 1984: J-DEX Mining and exploration started an expanded gold exploration program in the area. This consisted of geological mapping and resampling some of the old trenches. Assays of up to 34 g/t (1 oz/ton) have were reported from both vein sets but more common values were much lower. Eleven Winkie holes were drilled in a follow up program (630m) and the highest assay returned was 28g/t (0.84oz/ton) over 30c where visible gold was observed but more common results were less than a gramme. It was during this drill program that sparse disseminated molybdenite was observed. 1986: A joint venture exploration program was carried out by J-DEX, Goldrock, and Glen Auden in the area and consisted of a ground magnetic and VLF electromagnetic survey combined with some induced polarization surveying. 1991: Joe-Anne Salo acquired the property and cleaned out and resampled the old trenches. 1993: Cree Lake optioned the property and carried out a soil geochemical survey. 1999: Salo - 1 ddh (251 m). 2007-2008: Hinterland Metals Inc - DD - 4 - 758m, Assays (T-5705/2.38421). 2010: MPH Ventures Corp.- IP, Lc, Mag (T-6001/2.48544). 2009-2010: MPH Ventures Corp. - DD - 14 - 2151m, Assays, Rept (T-6254/2.48564)

Assessment Work on File

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Abitibi

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Swayze

Geological Age: Neoarchean   Geochronological Age: 2700 MA   Geochron. Age Ref.: GOO VOL 1

Metamorphism Type: Regional

Metamorphism Grade: Greenschist

Geology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (S Fumerton) - The veins are parallel to the dominant foliation in the area which is parallel to a sericitic shear zone.

Lithology

Lithology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (S Fumerton) - Quartz veins are hosted in a sequence of metavolcanic flows and tuffs which have been intruded by a number of small discontinuous feldspar porphyries. The metavolcanics consist of dark grey aphanitic tuffs with 35% crystals. Alteration in the rock is variable and there are short intervals of carbonatization or silicification or sericitization. The sericite tends to be associated with sheared sections. Pyrite is sparsely disseminated throughout the metavolcanics or occurs in discontinuous trails. Some sections of the volcanics are cut by seams of chlorite and tourmaline. Carbonatization and associated sericitization occurs within the locally sheared metavolcanics and in narrow zones along the auriferous quartz veins.

Mineralization

Mineralization Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (S Fumerton) - A little native gold occurs together with pyrite and some chalcopyrite, galena, sphalerite and tourmaline in quartz carbonate veins. These veins are attenuated between 3 and 90cm and are difficult to follow along strike. In drill core the veins tend to form a stockwork of numerous small veins (<10cm) in zones within the metavolcanics. Pyrite occurs in thin seams or veinlets within the veins and forms up to 4% of the veins. Fine molybdenite occurs in stringers. Sphalerite occurs in aggregates up to 3mm or in some rare cases as small veinlets together with pyrite. Pyrrhotite is sparsely disseminated. Tourmaline in fine seams within the veins or as fine needles.

Jul 24, 2018 (A Wilson) - Gold values obtained by R. Middleton returned values of 0.930 oz/t Au and 0.415 oz/t Au. A sample taken from the 'west showing' returned a value of 0.135 oz/t Au. Samples of vein material taken from the 'north showing' returned lower values of 0.02 oz/t Au, 0.015 oz/t Au and 0.03 oz/t Au. Assays returned from diamond drilling completed in 1978 returned assays ranging from 0.005 oz/t Au to 0.065 oz/t Au over 2 ft. Grab samples collected by Cree Lake returned values up to 0.96 oz/t Au and 0.11 oz/t Au. Assays from Salo's 1999 drilling returned the following values - 4.81 g/t Au over 2.25 m; 5.04 g/t Au over 2.4 m. The entire 6.8 m section averaged 3.56 g/t Au.

Oct 11, 2011 (P Bousquet) - MPH Ventures Corp. drilled the area in 2009 and 2010 and samples from the cores returned assays 7.44g/t Au over 6.5 meters (R-09-08) and 4.8g/t Au over1.6m (R-10-01). According to K. Kettles (T-6254), drilling suggests the presence of two to three parallel closely spaced mineralized zones of quart carbonate alteration with quartz veining, pyrite, pyrrhotite and occasionally visible gold. The drilling to date suggests the possibility of a steeply plunging shoot of gold grade over widths of 50 meters strike extent (Kettles, T-6254).

Mineral Record Details

Mineral Zones - Size and Shape

Rank: 1       Structure Type: Shear

Site Visit Information

Date: Jul 06, 1980

Geologist: L Lutha

Notes: Original Comments are more than 2000 characters. The data cannot be converted, however the data will still be available in Digitial Prospector Database

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-125  Date: 1985

Author: Rose, D. G.

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

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

Map - Swayze gold area, District of Sudbury, Ontario

Publication Number: ARM43B Scale: 1:63,360    Date: 1997

Author: Rickaby H.C.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:

Map - Chapleau-Foleyet, geological compilation series, Algoma, Cochrane and Sudbury districts

Publication Number: M2221 Scale: 1:253,440    Date: 1976

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

Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines

Location:

Part - Geology of the Swayze gold area

Publication Number: ARV43-03.001 Page: 35  Date: 1998

Author: Rickaby H.C.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:

Map - Swayze area, District of Sudbury, Ontario

Publication Number: ARM41C Scale: 1:63,360    Date: 1998

Author: Furse G.D.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:

Core - Resident Geologist Core Library

Publication Number: Drill Core Date: 1996

Author:

Publisher Name:

Location:

Part - Geology of the Swayze area

Publication Number: ARV41-03.002 Page: 53  Date: 1998

Author: Furse G.D.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:

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

Publication Number: R157 Page: 182  Date: 1977

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

Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines

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: 115  Date: 1979

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

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: 229-230  Date: 1995

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

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

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

Publication Number: OF 3384b Scale: 1:50,000    Date: 1999

Author: Heather, K B; Shore, G T

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/210450

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