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Record: MDI41P14NW00008

General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Nickel, Zinc, Lead, Silver

Secondary Commodities: Gold, Copper

Location

Township or Area: Sothman

Latitude: 47° 54' 27.81"    Longitude: -81° 19' 11.56"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 476096.003   Northing: 5306093.996    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Timmins

NTS Grid: 41P14NW

Point Location Description: approximate

Location Method: Based on Assessment

Access Description: Access to the Budd Lake area is by means of gravel road. The property lies to the west of the forest acess road connecting Timmins to Shining Tree with the distance from Timmins to the property being 85 km.

Exploration History

1944 Gold found by R. Edleston to the west of Budd Lake. 1944 - 1947: Buffalo Ankerite Gold Mines Ltd. - Stripping, trenching and 12 ddh (3050 ft.). 1951: Preston East Dome Mines Ltd. - Geological survey, stripping, trenching and 7 ddh (2269 ft.) 1961: Empire Explorations - DD-2-227 ft. 1965: Consolidated Mining and Smelting Co. of Canada Ltd. - ground geophysics. 1975: Ecstall Mining Ltd. - ground geophysics. 1983-88 Johns-Manville Canada Inc. - ground geophysics, stripping, trenching, sampling 1987-89: Quote Resources Inc. - ground geophysics, trenching 1993: Falconbridge Limited - ground geophysics, DD 1999 Jones and Filo - prospecting, sampling, IP survey, DD-2. 2004: Mustang Minerals Corp: airborne geophysics

Assessment Work on File

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Abitibi

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Abitibi

Geological Age: Neoarchean  

Lithology

Lithology Comments

Aug 27, 2010 (A Wilson) - These trenches expose rusty weathering, blocky jointed, dacitic agglomerate, the gossan apparently resulting from the oxidation of disseminated pyrite. Traces of sphalerite and some nodular pyrite can be seen in the south end of the main trench. 60 ft. to the north where the trench is notched on the west side, a narrow zone of shearing crosses the trench striking S80E and dipping 80S. Massive pyrite and sphalerite stringers can be seen in the shear. In the east arm of the trench incipient shearing can be seen on some E-W joint planes which are occasionally plated with sphalerite. In the north half of the trench there are 2 very narrow irregular veins about 20 ft. apart which are approximately parallel to the shearing. In the north vein massive pyrite, galena, sphalerite and traces of pyrrhotite, associated with calcite and quartz, were observed. The south vein contains stringers of sp and a little galena. In both cases there is a dissemination and plating of sphalerite in the adjacent wall rocks. All the rock exposed by the trenches

Mineralization

Mineralization Comments

Aug 27, 2010 (G Seim) - Grab samples collected by Buffalo Ankerite Gold Mines Ltd. from trenches in the area returned silver values up to 3.16 oz/t Preston East Dome Mines, Ltd. completed a careful channel sampling accros the zone that gave the following results: Width 2.5 ft. 2.92 Pb% 1.68 Zn% 0.08 Ag opt; Width 10.5 ft. Low Values Width 9.5 ft. 0.54 Pb% 1.03 Zn% 0.37 Ag opt; Width 55.5 ft. Low Values Width 4.0 ft. 0.51 Pb% 1.24 Zn% 0.19 Ag opt. Preston also reports that 105 ft. to the north of the lead-zinc mineralization, nickel vlaues report from a carbonated ryholitic agglomerate mineralized with varying amounts of disseminated pyrite and pyrrhotite. The pyrrhotite apparently replaces some of the fragments in the agglomerate, but the nickel values are associated with the desseminated poyrrhotite.: Width 5.0 ft. 0.25 Ni%; Width 10.0 ft. not sampled; Width 5.0 ft. 0.18 Ni%; Width 26.0 ft. not sampled; Width 22.0 ft. 0.20 Ni%. Diamond drilling by Preston East Dome returned the following assays: 0.22% Pb, 1.08% Zn and 0.39 oz/t Ag over 9.8 ft; 0.31% Pb, 1.30% Zn, 0.20 oz/ Ag over 4 ft and 0.26% Pb, 1.54% Zn and 0.26 oz/t Ag over 8 ft. Diamond drilling in the vicinity of the nickel showing returned 0.17% Ni over 45 ft. Manville (1985) reported that diamond drilling in the showing area intersected qtz-carb veins in the dacitic agglomerate which gave isolated gold values up to 0.116 opt Au. Grab samples collected by Manville Canada returned values up to 0.11 oz/t Au. The best assays from the Manville drilling returned 0.12 oz/t Au over 4 m Noranda Exploration Company Ltd. and D. Jones collected samples from the site that returned values up to 3.45% Zn, 0.17% Cu and 18.8 ppm Ag.

Mineral Record Details

References

Map - Township of Sothman, District of Sudbury, Ontario

Publication Number: M1953-03 Scale: 1:12,000    Date: 1997

Author: Abraham E.M.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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Map - Geological Compilation of the Matachewan Area, Abitibi Greenstone Belt

Publication Number: P3527 Scale: 1:100,000    Date: 2003

Author: Ayer J.A., Trowell N.F., Josey S.D., Nevills M., Valade L.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Part - Geology of Sothman Township

Publication Number: ARV62-06 Page: 28-30  Date: 1997

Author: Abraham E.M.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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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: 84  Date: 1979

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

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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