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Record: MDI41P12SE00010

General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold, Silver

Secondary Commodities: Copper

Location

Township or Area: Champagne

Latitude: 47° 33' 20.75"    Longitude: -81° 40' 36.17"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 449088.45   Northing: 5267148.92    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Timmins

NTS Grid: 41P12SE

Point Location Description: Top of large granitic outcrop directly above slightly inclined shaft.

Location Method: Field Visit with GPS

Access Description: Road into Champagne Twp accessed via Highway 144 approximately 20 km south of the Gogama turn off. When visited the road into Champagne Twp was washed out about 8 km from the highway and required the use of ATVs to reach Makwa Station. The bridges over the Mollie River no longer appear safe for larger vehicles. The total distance from Highway 144 to Makwa Station is about 17 km. The area of the shaft is easily accessed by a small ATV trail leading from Makwa.

Exploration History

1934: Makwa Champagne Gold mines Ltd. conducted surface exploration consisting of trenching and test pitting over a northeast trending vein system said to host visible gold mineralization. 1936-37: Makwa-Champagne conducted a four hole diamond drill program totalling 366 m and sunk a 15 m shaft. The shaft was later deepened to 38 m and a new zone 8 m wide, was stripped and trenched over 152 m. 1971: Molly River Mines Ltd. conducted a ground electromagnetic and magnetic survey over a 23 claim block which included the showing. This survey was followed by a 7 hole diamond drill program in an area just to the northeast of the showing. Drill program intersected primarily granodiorite and diabase dykes with occasional quartz veins and sulphide mineralization. 1982: Hargor Resources performed some mechanical stripping and geological mapping of outcrop in the general vicinity of the old shaft. Hargor exposed several sulphide mineralized quartz veins. 1984: Hargor Resources Inc. flew an airborne electromagnetic and VLF survey over several townships in the area including Champagne Township. 1985: Blue Falcon Mines Ltd. conducted an airborne magnetic and VLF survey over a claim block that includes this showing. 1988: Blue Falcon Mines conducted a power stripping program in the area surrounding the exploration shaft. 1990: Blue Falcon Mines conducted a high sensitivity airborne magnetic and VLF survey over an area that included the showing. 2010: Salo, A.J. – Pr.

Assessment Work on File

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Abitibi

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Swayze

Geological Age: Neoarchean   Geochronological Age: 2740 MA   Geochron. Age Ref.: GSC OF 3384 A

Lithology

Lithology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (K Houle) - The area of the occurrence is underlain by a granitic batholith comprised predominantly of granodiorite grading locally into diorite. The original showing consists of 2 parallel quartz lenses within granodiorite striking in a northeast direction and dipping slightly to the west. The east and west lenses are 2 and 3 feet wide respectively and are exposed over a length of about 10 m. The quartz vein is described as being glassy white with pyrite, chalcopyrite and visible specks of gold. No assay values were found to be quoted.

Mineralization

Mineralization Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (K Houle) - An unknown amount of pyrite and chalcopyrite are said to be associated with milk white, glassy quartz veins. Visible gold is also reported to be associated with the veining as ' visible specks of very pale yellow gold'.

Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - Grab samples collected by the OGS in 1994 returned values of 0.04 g/t Au, 45.359 g/t Ag; 0.02 g/t Au, 54.431 g/t Ag.

Assay Samples

Mineral Record Details

Mineral Zones - Size and Shape

Rank: 1       Structure Type: Vein

Site Visit Information

Date: May 23, 1994

Geologist: K Houle

Notes: Inclined shaft set into the side of large granodiorite intrusive with quartz veining visible on walls of shaft. Set of parallel quartz veins 20-80 cm. striking @ 200 deg and dipping 45-60 deg N. Shaft begins at surface exposure of quartz veins and inclines in a northerly direction to follow dip of veins. Mineralized quartz veins at mouth of shaft containing 1-3% local finely disseminated pyrite. Other sections of the vein contain blebs and discontinuous stringers of pyrrhotite and trace chalcopyrite. Quartz vein is in contact with a medium grained granodiorite grading locally into diorite. Sections of the quartz vein is in contact with sheared and highly chloritized schistose rock with weak pyrite mineralization. Several trenches have been excavated in the immediate vicinity of the shaft exposing little more than medium to fine grained granodiorite - diorite. Infrequent 10-30 cm white quartz veins were seen cross cutting the trenches but no mineralization was seen at these locations. Two long trenches were seen in the area to the north of the shaft ranging in length from about 60 to 75 m. Another cleared area about 150 m south of the shaft, west of the trail hosts other quartz veins within mafic volcanics and granodiorite intrusives. Quartz veins are milk white and contain sparse sulphide mineralization.

References

Map - Geological series, Precambrian geology of Pensyl Lake area, Sudbury District

Publication Number: P2534 Scale: 1:15,840    Date: 1982

Author: Siragusa G.M.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

Map - Precambrian Geology, Parts of Champagne, Groves, St. Louis and Benneweis Townships

Publication Number: OFM0209 Scale: 1:15,840    Date: 1993

Author: Siragusa G.M.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

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: 41P-56  Date: 1985

Author: Rose, D. G.

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

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

Part - Geology of the Makwa-Churchill area

Publication Number: ARV43-03.002 Page: 64  Date: 1998

Author: Laird H.C.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. 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: 51  Date: 1979

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

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

Book - GEOLOGY OF THE SOUTHERN MARGIN OF THE SWAYZE BELT, P. 121-122

Publication Number: OFR5488 Date: 1993

Author: Siragusa, G.M.

Publisher Name:

Location: Timmins RGP

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: 375-377  Date: 1995

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

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

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