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Record: MDI42A01NE00002

General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold

Location

Township or Area: Grenfell

Latitude: 48° 7' 59.75"    Longitude: -80° 12' 59.43"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 558294   Northing: 5331409    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Kirkland Lake

NTS Grid: 42A01NE

Point Location Description: AMIS Shaft location

Location Method: AMIS Site Visit

Access Description: Shaft approximately 450 m east of Highway 11, 2.5 km north of the hamlet of Kenogami.

Exploration History

1915-1922 - trenching, shaft sunk to 100 feet? 1922 - shaft dewatered and underground work 1928 - property taken over by Grenfell-Kirkland Gold Mines Ltd. A second shaft was sunk to 70 feet. 1932 - No.2 shaft dewatered and 50 feet of drifitng done on 70-foot level. 1945 - Property acquired by Grengold Mines Limited and some diamond drilling was completed. 1981 - Ground magnetic survey by Lampe Resource Co. Ltd. 1984 - A.H. Perron completed ground magnetics and electromagnetic surveys and a geological survey on the property. 1986 - A.H. Perron completed overburden stripping in the areas of the shafts east of the pipeline. 1988 - A.H. Perron completed 3807 feet of diamond drilling in 18 holes. Hole 88-1 intersected 23.5 ppm Au over 2.5'. Hole 88-2 intersected 4.4 ppm Au over 4'. Hole 88-5b intersected 6.3 ppm Au over 3'. Shafts were capped. 1989 - 559505 Ontario Limited completed 3 diamond drill holes totalling 1031 feet. Hole S-89-01 intersected 2.2 ppm Au over 2'. 1997 - Kinross Gold diamond drilled 2 holes totalling 811 feet. Hole KR-97-01 was drilled about 150 feet east of the northern shaft and hole KR-97-02 was drilled about 300 feet west of the northern shaft. Hole KR-97-01 intersected 0.07 opt Au over 3 feet. 1999 - Ground mag, geology and sampling by McCombe and Robinson.

Assessment Work on File

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Abitibi

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Abitibi

Geological Age: Archean  

Metamorphism Type: Regional

Metamorphism Grade: Greenschist

Geology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (D Guidon) - 1915 maps of S.W. Dixon indicate that the veins strike at 070 degrees. A 1923 report by F.V.Marsden talks about a sheeted zone (shear zone?) running north-south with parallel veins over the entire width. Geological mapping by J.A. Grant does not indicate shearing in this area. Mapping indicates the vein in the north shaft is at 070-75. A shear zone intersects the vein near the shaft at 110-90. UTM 17 558242E 5331209N. The foliation direction at the south shaft is 320-80. A weak shear intersect near the shaft at300-50. UTM 17 558350E 5331140N. The South shaft is under water in a small pond and the vein is not exposed on surface.

Lithology

Lithology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (D Guidon) - Quartz veins carry gold over narrow widths. The veins are hosted by medium grey-green, mafic Mg- tholeiitic metavolcanics. Disseminated sub-euhedral pyrite to 2 mm. Porphyritic dikes are found nearby.

Mineralization

Mineralization Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (D Guidon) - Narrow quartz veins hosted in Mg-tholeiitic basalts. Veins surrounded by disseminated euhral to subheldral pyrite.

Alteration Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (D Guidon) - Gold carried in sulphides in quartz veins.

Assay Samples

Mineral Record Details

Mineral Zones - Size and Shape

Rank: 1       Structure Type: Vein

Site Visit Information

Date: Jan 20, 2000

Geologist: D Guidon

Notes: Visited June 22/99 . Shaft at 558350E 5331140N. Shaft not visible but under water in a pond. A little dump material is exposed to the north. The shaft vein is not exposed. Collected 2 samples of dump material (99302, 99303). Outcrop to south of shaft area has 2 foliations 320-80 and 290-50. Northern shaft at 558242E 5331209N. Shaft in deep trench in outcrop with vent pipe exposed. Dump material to north on outcrop. Quartz stockwork exposed on east end of trench. Vein at 070-75. Shear zone intersecting shaft at 290-90. According to D. Robinson, another small shaft may be located south of the shaft at 558350E 5331140N (personal communications 1999). According to the information in the asssessment files, there is a shaft on the west side of Hwy 11 at 557930E 5331160N (plotted using the assessment files).

References

File - Resident Geologist files KL-2238, KL-4397

Publication Number: Date:

Author:

Publisher Name:

Location: Kirkland Lake RGP office

Map - Bompas and Grenfell townships, Timiskaming District

Publication Number: M2060 Scale: 1:31,680    Date: 1997

Author: Grant J.A.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:

Part - Mines of Ontario in 1928

Publication Number: ARV38-01.003 Page: 107  Date: 1997

Author: Sinclair D.G., Cleland R.H., Keeley E.C., Jarrett G.S., Webster A.R.

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: 137  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 Page: G0229  Date: 1983

Author: Hodgson C.J.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

MonoMap - Geology of Bompas and Grenfell townships, District of Timiskaming

Publication Number: R030 Page: 17  Date: 1997

Author: Grant J.A.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:

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