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Record: MDI42A01NE00184

General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold

Location

Township or Area: Teck

Latitude: 48° 7' 48.66"    Longitude: -80° 3' 23.56"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 570200   Northing: 5331200    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Kirkland Lake

NTS Grid: 42A01NE

Point Location Description: Deposit outline on assessment file map KL-4146-2

Location Method: Based on Assessment

Access Description: The deposit is about 200 m south of Archer Drive in Kirkland Lake.

Exploration History

1911-13: Hunton Gold Mines incorporated (1913) on a claim staked in 1911; surface trenching. 1920-25: Hunton Gold Mines; shaft to 400 ft, levels at 125, 250 and 375ft; north crosscut started on 375-ft level (main exploration level with 550 m development and 1,220 m diamond drilling); further surface and underground drilling. 1921: Canadian Kirkland Mines; shaft to 100 ft on the current AK Property; further work immediately west and reported as a shaft to 816 ft with levels at 80, 250, 400, 800 ft with 641 m lateral development, and a third shaft some 610 m west with 22 m lateral development on 65 and 125 ft levels; 2,439 m of diamond to 1939 - separate from Hunton property. 1922-23: Highland Kirkland Gold Mines; 4 drill holes (977 m), 1,220 m surface trenching, inclined shaft to 100 ft (at -65 degrees) with some development on 60-ft level - south and east of Canadian Kirkland and Hunton prospects. 1925-39: Kirkland Hunton Gold Mines; inclined winze from 375-ft to 675-ft level (1925), later extended to 750-ft level; shaft deepened to 500 ft (1928); 476 m underground development, 2,918 m of diamond drilling. 1936-37: Florena Kirkland Gold Mines; magnetic survey, 7 surface drill holes (2,396 m). 1939-44: Amalgamated Kirkland Mines (incorporated 1939) as amalgamation of Hunton, Honer and Canadian Kirkland lands (10 claims of current group); 27 surface drill holes (3,724 m); crosscut from Macassa 3000-ft level extended toward Amalgamated ground, 2 drill holes (844 m) drilled in 1944. 1945: Frobisher Exploration; 14 surface holes (1,305 m). 1972: Mayfield Explorations and Development; 11 surface drill holes (855 m). 1973: Orme Prospecting Syndicate; one drill hole (37 m) under Highland Kirkland inclined shaft. 1974: Kerr Addison Mines; magnetic surveys, mapping trenching, 4 surface holes (101 m). 1978: Newmont Exploration of Canada; geophysics (includes IP), mapping, 7 drill holes (1,903 m) on former Highland Kirkland/ Florena property. 1981: Lampe Resources; one surface drill hole (61 m). 1983-84: Eden Rock Mineral Corp; three drill holes (359 m.) 1986: Accord Resources; stripping, sampling at Hunton area. 1989: Queenston Gold Mines acquires current claim group. 1989-92: Battle Mountain Canada; airborne magnetic and VLF-EM survey; the property was covered in 1989 by a surface cut grid with the north trending 342 degrees grid lines spacing of 100 m with a base line at 072 degrees; ground magnetic and IP surveys, mapping, stripping/ trenching, 45 drill holes 11,838 m), AK gold mineralization initially discovered by Battle Mountain (Canada) Inc. 1993-95: Cyprus Canada; mapping, 23 drill holes and extensions (14,368 m); first resource estimate. 1996: Canadian Golden Dragon Resources; three drill holes (1,721 m). 1997-98: property sold to Franco-Nevada (1997); property becomes part of Kirkland Lake Joint Venture (Queenston - Franco Nevada) in 1998; no new work undertaken. 2002-03: Queenston purchased Franco-Nevada (then Newmont Mining Corp) interest; 3,010.7 m surface drilling in 7 holes. 2005: Queenston; 7 drill holes and a deepening of a prior Cyprus drill hole (6,126 m). 2008: Queenston commenced a surface deep diamond drilling program on the property. The primary target for this program was the SMC currently being explored, developed and mined by KL Gold on the adjacent Macassa property. 2009: Queenston completed 4 pilot holes and 5 wedge holes (7,030 m). 2010: two drills targeted mineralization similar to that of the South Mine Complex (SMC) along the northern Boundary of the Amalgamated Kirkland property. A total of 5,898 m of drilling was completed in pilot holes and wedge cuts in the Amalgamated property and in extensions onto the South Claims and HM Claim.

Assessment Work on File

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Abitibi

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Abitibi

Tectonic Assemblage: Timiskaming

Geological Age: Archean  

Geology Comments

Nov 25, 2011 (D Guidon) - Gamble (2011) More important in the project area, are the syntectonic intrusives, particularly the late syntectonic members. Ayer (2005) indicates that the late syntectonic intrusives are “broadly coeval with the Timiskaming assemblage”, relatively small, and, occur in close proximity to the regional structures. Larger intrusions of this type include to Otto Stock, Lebel Stock and Murdoch Creek Stock. They tend to be alkalic, ranging from syenite to mafic syenite in composition. The syenite stocks often have contaminated margins and variably altered to metamorphosed contact aureoles. There are three main structural elements in the Kirkland Lake district. These large scale structural elements are the erosional unconformity at the base of the Timiskaming assemblage, the Larder Lake Break (LLB) that separates the Timiskaming Group to the north from the Lower Tisdale Group to the south, and the Kirkland Lake Main Break (KLMB). The Kirkland Lake Gold Camp is essentially defined within a 7 km corridor north of the Cadillac-Larder Lake Break. This major, east-trending, south-dipping, regional structure has juxtaposed Tisdale assemblage mafic to ultramafic rocks against much younger alkalic rocks and sediments of the Timiskaming assemblage. Thus the Blake River and Porcupine assemblages are absent in the immediate area of the break. The Amalgamated Kirkland property is primarily underlain by east-trending and steeply dipping Archean volcanic and sedimentary rocks of the Timiskaming Group with a minor presence of a Lower Tisdale Group assemblage. This volcano-sedimentary assemblage has been intruded by several late Timiskaming-age syenitic bodies. The youngest rocks on the property are Proterozoic diabase dykes.

Lithology Comments

Nov 25, 2011 (D Guidon) - Gamble (2011) The Timiskaming Group rocks are primarily subdivided into sedimentary and volcanic assemblages. There are also with some mixed volcanic and sedimentary assemblages that appear to form a transition as reworked tuffs or tuffaceous sediments. There are four main Timiskaming Group sedimentary lithologies that occur and they are conglomerate, greywacke to lithic pebble greywacke, siltstone, and mudstone. There are five main Timiskaming Group volcanic lithologies that occur and they are fine-grained to coarse-grained sub-aqueous trachyte pyroclastic and volcaniclastic fragmental rocks that includes fine ash, tuff, lapilli tuff, lapilli tuff-breccia, and breccia-agglomerate. Syenite Porphyry can vary from pink leucocratic to brick red, and may contain up to twenty percent stubby feldspar crystals. The syenite porphyry generally occurs as small dykes and may also contain small xenoliths of trachytic tuff. There are usually narrow chilled margins to indicate an intrusive contact. Strongly hematized trachyte tuffs that may have sharp alteration contacts may easily be misidentified as syenites, however their non-porphyritic texture and abundance of fine tuffaceous lapilli are easily identified under a binocular microscope. The trachyte tuff also tends to have a much deeper, hematitic red coloration. Diabase Dyke are usually dark green in color, aphanitic to coarse grained with an interlocking crystalline mosaic forming the typical diabasic texture. There are generally sharp contacts and the dyke contacts generally exhibit fine-grained medium grey chilled contacts. The diabase can be weak to moderate up to locally strongly magnetic with fine-grained crystalline magnetite. Medium grey to dark green fine grained mafic dykes also with medium grey chilled contacts have been occasionally seen in drill core and may represent narrow dyklets of diabase or possibly lamprophyre dyklets.

Mineralization Comments

Nov 25, 2011 (D Guidon) - Gamble (2011) The AK (Amalgamated Kirkland) deposit type is that of a 'lode gold' style of mineralization hosted by altered and pyritized Timiskaming volcanic and sedimentary rock assemblages that form as mineralized 'breaks' and appear to be associated within and nearby local fault and shear structures. The volcanic host rocks are a felsic alkaline pyroclastics sequence consisting of trachyte tuffs to lapilli tuff breccia to breccia agglomerate. The sedimentary host rocks consist of a sequence of mudstone, siltstone and conglomerate that are intercalated within the volcanic assemblage. This subaqueous assemblage strikes east to northeast, dip vertically to steeply south, and stratigraphic face to the south. The alteration assemblage that is associated with the mineralized zones consists of a strong ankerite and sericite envelope with an inner core of pyrite, quartz, and gold mineralization.

Alteration Comments

Nov 25, 2011 (D Guidon) - Gamble (2011) The Timiskaming rocks and associated syenites are weakly altered to the greenschist facies regional metamorphic grade. The alteration assemblage is characterized by regional chlorite-calcite alteration. Superimposed on this regional metamorphic grade are localized hydrothermal alteration assemblages that are associated with structural breaks, shear zones, and mineralized zones or breaks. Commonly the alteration can form a series of progressive alteration 'haloes' that increases in intensity towards a fault or shear structure and /or a mineralized break. This increase of alteration intensity from low (or distal) to high (or proximal) is peripheral to most of the significant mineralization on the AK property. From low to high, the alteration assemblages show a tendency for all rocks to become progressively leucocratic with more bleaching towards the proximal corridor or center of alteration and mineralization. The intensity of the alteration can reach a point where volcanic fragments can bleach out to the level where they become 'ghost-like' and become barely discernible to the stage where they have become completely replaced. Pebbles and cobbles of bright red banded jasper in a coarse polymictic conglomerate that is strongly altered have also been seen to be progressively replaced and almost entirely bleached out. Ultramafic pebbles are easily altered and have become a vibrant green color and are fuchsite altered. As the alteration increases from low to high intensity there is also a tendency to loose all magnetite and also to rapidly diminish the presence of any reddish maroon hematite. As the alteration intensity increases there is also an ever increasing presence of pervasive yellow sericite and as sericite flecks, wisps and filaments. The trachytic pyroclastic volcanics of all grain and clast sizes tend to become strongly bleached to buff tan to beige to light yellow where the alteration is strong. The sedimentary lithologies that include mudstone, siltstone, and conglomerate also tend to become intensely altered to pale yellows and light yellowish green to pale green when the alteration is strong. The alteration assemblages vary from low alteration intensity to high alteration intensity that may appear to be related to distance from the alteration center and can be classified as either distal or proximal. There are at least five alteration assemblages.

Mineral Record Details

References

Book - Technical report on the resources at the Amalgamated Kirkland property, Teck Township - Larder Lake Mining Division on behalf of Queenston Mining Inc.

Publication Number: Date: 2011

Author: Gamble, A.P.D.

Publisher Name: Dave Gamble Geoservices Inc.

Location: SEDAR

File - Resident Geologist file KL-1134

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Location: Kirkland Lake RGP office

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