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Record: MDI41P12SW00071

General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold

Secondary Commodities: Copper, Zinc, Silver

Location

Township or Area: Chester

Latitude: 47° 34' 27.98"    Longitude: -81° 53' 17.08"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 433210.59   Northing: 5269384.71    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Timmins

NTS Grid: 41P12SW

Point Location Description: A series of old trenches at the southeast end of a small lake.

Location Method: Data Compilation

Access Description: Access to the main showing requires a traverse. Either along the river draining into Mesomikenda Lake and these by boat to the lake access on the east shore. Alternatively a series of drill roads directly from the Chester Shannon Mine Access road or via the Kidd #2 come to within 100m of all the known zones and then traversing the remaining distance is required.

Exploration History

1931-33: Beaver Bethnal Syndicate - prospecting. 1969: Renmark Exploration - reconnaissance, VLF-EM survey. 1980: Hanson Mineral Exploration - mapping, VLF-Em survey, drilling, sampling. 1984: Blue Falcon Mines - ground magnetometer survey, airborne magnetic and VLF-EM survey. 1987: Silver Butte Resources - mapping, soil geochemistry, VLF-EM survey, trenching. 2010: Trelawney Augen Acquisition Corporation – GC. Augen Gold Corp. – EM, IP, Mag, RES.

Assessment Work on File

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Abitibi

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Swayze

Tectonic Assemblage: Ridout

Geological Age: Neoarchean   Geochronological Age: 2690 MA   Geochron. Age Ref.: GSC OF 3384G

Metamorphism Type: Regional

Metamorphism Grade: Greenschist

Lithology

Lithology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (S Fumerton) - The mineralization is hosted in a sheared zone within the Ridout Assemblage thickly bedded arenaceous rocks that occur in the area. The rocks within the shear zone are strongly altered with sericite, carbonate, and local bands of chlorite.

Mineralization

Mineralization Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (S Fumerton) - Sulphides are generally disseminated within the shear zone but also occur as thin seams along the shear planes and in uncommon veins up to 10cm thick.

Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - Assay values up to 13 g/t Au were obtained by prospectors in 1931-33. Channel samples from the Main Zone in 1980 averaged 3.8 g/t Au over 0.9m. Channel samples from the East Zone in 1980 returned 2.7 g/t Au and values of 1.8 g/t Au across 1.2m. The South Zone reportedly returned assays oup to 7 g/t Au. Sampling by Silver Butte Resources in 1987 returned values of up to 9.6 g/t Au and 12 g/t Ag from the Main Zone, up to 1.5 g/t Au and 2.7 g/t Ag from the East Zone and up to 27 g/t Au and 5 g/t Ag from the South Zone.

Mineral Record Details

Mineral Zones - Size and Shape

Rank: 1       Structure Type: Shear

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: 41P-32  Date: 1985

Author: Rose, D. G.

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

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

File - Resident Geologist files T-2031

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: 27-28  Date: 1998

Author: Laird H.C.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:

Map - Precambrian Geology, Parts of Chester, Neville, Potier and Yeo Townships

Publication Number: OFM0214 Scale: 1:15,840    Date: 1993

Author: Siragusa G.M.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

Part - Geology of the Makwa-Churchill area

Publication Number: ARV43-03.002 Page: 74  Date: 1998

Author: Laird H.C.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:

Map - Geology, Swayze greenstone belt, Gogama, Ontario

Publication Number: OF3384G Scale: 1:50,000    Date: 1999

Author: Heather, K B; Shore, G T

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/210455

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: 92  Date: 1979

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

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

Mono - Preliminary report on the Timmins-Kirkland Lake area, gold deposits file

Publication Number: OFR5467 Date: 1983

Author: Hodgson C.J.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

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

Publication Number: OFR5844 Page: 110-111  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: 470-471  Date: 1995

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

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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