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General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold

Secondary Commodities: Silver, Zinc, Copper

Location

Township or Area: Beatty, Coulson

Latitude: 48° 37' 28.16"    Longitude: -80° 21' 1.75"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 547863   Northing: 5385917    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Kirkland Lake

NTS Grid: 42A09SW

Point Location Description: Shaft

Location Method: AMIS Site Visit

Access Description: Proceed 3.4 km east of Matheson on Hwy 101 to Beatty/Carr Township Line Road and travel north for 4.3km to Beatty Concession 3/4 Road. Travel east, then north for 6.4km to the site.

Exploration History

1915: Painkiller Property - 94 ft. shaft sunk on auriferous quartz stringer. 1918-1924: Hattie Gold Mines Ltd. - acquired claims in south central Coulson Twp.; Coulson Tp. Shaft deepened to 400 ft.; 300 ft. x-cutting on 400 ft. level; absorbed Beatty Gold Mines Ltd. acquiring 160 acres of contiguous property in Beatty Twp.; sank #2 shaft to 200 ft. (1923) , established station at 160 ft. level, completed to 1,100 ft. cross-cutting. 1928-1934: Coulson Consolidated Gold Mines.- property acquisition; completed 900 ft. of underground exploration; #2 shaft deepened to 570 ft., 4 levels established; . 1936: Coulson Consolidated: deepened #2 shaft to 570 ft; estab.160, 300, 425, and 550 levels, including 373 ft. x-cutting and 1,050 ft. drifting. 1937-40: Devon Gold Mines Ltd. : acquires assets of Coulson Consolidated; established. 650 ft. level via winze from 550 ft. level; completed 12050 ft. cross-cutting and 16,200 ft. drifting; 1003 ft. raising,; 72 tpd mill established on site. 1943-49: Aljo Mines Limited - takes over Devon Gold property; 1980: W. Foster - DD-1-186 ft. 1979-82: Dalhousie Oil Corp.- stakes 10 claims; magnetometer and VLF- EM surveys; DD-6-2342 ft.. 1988-1992: Kingswood Explorations Ltd.: 65 DDH's ( core assays of 0.353, 0.310, 0.246 oz Au/ ton over 2, 10, and 18.5 ft. respectively; 14 DDH's with assays from 0.35 to 0.97 oz Au/ ton; new shear system (2,000 ft. strike length) delineated).

Assessment Work on File

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Abitibi

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Abitibi

Tectonic Assemblage: Stoughton-Roquemaure

Geological Age: Mesoarchean  

Metamorphism Grade: Greenschist

Geology Comments

Feb 12, 2016 (R Degagne) - Geological mapping indicates that bedrock in the mine area consists mainly of weakly metamorphosed (greenschist or lower metamorphic facies) steeply dipping to overturned east southeast striking and south facing subaqueously deposited tholeiitic basalts of the (Archean) Stoughton-Roquemaure Group. The underground workings are developed within tholeiitic basalt which is immediately (a few tens of metres) stratigraphically beneath a small (aeromagnetic data (OGS 1984) suggest that the maximum cross sectional dimensions of this elliptical and conformable body are no greater than about 300x600 m) ultramafic-mafic sill which intrudes the tholeiitic basalt. The sill and mine workings are on the north limb and within a few hundred metres of the axis of the east southeast striking and west northwest plunging McCool Hill Syncline, the dominant regional scale structure in the north central Black River- Matheson area north of the central branch of the Porcupine-Destor Fault Zone (Munro Fault Zone).

Lithology

Lithology Comments

Feb 12, 2016 (R Degagne) - The underground workings are developed within tholeiitic basalt which is immediately (a few tens of metres) stratigraphically beneath a small (aeromagnetic data suggest that the maximum cross sectional dimensions of this elliptical and conformable body are no greater than about 300x600 m) ultraamafic-mafic sill which intrudes the tholeiitic basalt. The sill and mine workings are on the north limb and within a few hundred metres of the axis of the east southeast striking and west northwest plunging McCool Hill Syncline, the dominant regional scale structure in the north central Black River- Matheson area north of the central branch of the Porcupine- Destor Fault Zone (Munro Fault Zone). Intrusive rocks in the area in addition to the ultramafic to mafic sill (the Painkiller Lake Complex of Johnstone include 2 narrow (about 10 metres in width conformable dikes of feldspar porphyry, one of which is localized at the base of the Painkiller Lake Complex and one of which is located along the southern (stratigraphically upper) contact of older diabase which probably represents a thick tholeiitic flow. Narrow (tens of metres in width) north striking diabase dikes of the (Proterozoic) Matachewan swarm and narrow (several metres in width) lamprophyre dikes also occur in the area.

Mineralization

Mineralization Comments

Feb 12, 2016 (A Wilson) - Significant gold values were encountered in hole BC-92-12. Three high grade assays that occur within a span of 57 feet broadly represent the extension of the South zone. These values include: 1.37 oz Au per ton \ 1.11 : from 195.5' to 196.6* 0.33 oz Au per ton \ 6.0' : from 237.0' to 243.0* 2.58 oz Au per ton \ 1.31 : from 151.3* to 152.6* Hole BC-l2 also intersected a unit of amygdaloidal basalt from 306.0* to 482.0', which returned anomalous values across its entire width. The best assays include: 0.024 oz Au per ton \ 10.0 : from 306.0* to 316.0* 0.078 oz Au per ton \ 1.0* : from 395.0* to 396.0' 0.042 oz Au per ton \ 2.0* i from 446.0* to 448.0* Hole BC-92-13 was drilled to test the downdip extension of the west zone, originally discovered in BC-90-5. The best results encountered include: 0.146 oz Au per ton \ 3.0* : from 152.0* to 155.0* 0.025 oz Au per ton \ 6.5* : from 230.0* to 236.5* 0.096 oz Au per ton \ 5.0* : from 311.0* to 316.0*

Feb 12, 2016 (R Degagne) - Gold mineralization in the mine area is reported to be associated with 2 sets of narrow (generally less than 38 cm in width and often only a few centimetres wide) quartz veins which are developed most commonly within tholeiitic basalt. The first vein set is represented by what Satterly and Armstrong refer to as the No.1 North vein. The No.1 North vein is described to consists in the No.1 shaft area of a narrow (15 cm wide) but laterally continuous (traceable along at least 360 m) southeast striking and steeply north dipping quartz vein hosted by a narrow (about 1.5 cm wide) zone of pyritic schist. The No.1 North vein is reported to be mineralized with visible gold and telluride minerals, to be spatially associated with the east southeast striking contact developed between volcanic rocks to the south and older diabase (which may represent a thick tholeiitic flow unit or series of flow units) to the north. The second quartz vein set in the mine area strikes 065º and dips about 70 ºnorth. At least 40 veins and veinlets belonging to this set have been located via surface and underground exploration. Veins of the second set were apparently the focus of most of the extensive underground exploration work completed in the area. These veins are reported (assessment files Resident Geologist's Office, Kirkland Lake) to be developed as fracture fillings within variably altered (bleached areas of silicification, carbonate alteration and pyritization tholeiitic volcanic rocks and the southern (locally pyritic) feldspar porphyry dike. The veins are reported to range from 7 to 38 cm in width and to pinch and swell in an anatomizing network. Sulfide minerals reported to be associated with visible gold within veins of this set include pyrite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite, pyrrhotite and tellurides. Anomalously elevated gold values are reported to be associated with associated with chalcopyrite and sphalerite.

Alteration Comments

Feb 12, 2016 (R Degagne) - It is noteworthy that although the Aljo vein systems are reported in the assessment files and in the literature to consist of quartz, much of the hydrothermal vein and alteration material at this occurrence is carbonate. Quartz-calcite veins appear to have been the earliest veins to form. These were subsequently brittly fractured, and re-cemented by Fe-dolomite depositing hydrothermal systems. Further deformation affected the area, resulting in brecciation of competent quartz vein material and folding of less competent Fe-dolomite stringers. The final hydrothermal event involved calcite-depositing fluids channelled by narrow, gash-type fractures and resulted in well-developed fracture/veinlet controlled calcite alteration and veinlet calcite. Analyses*: Sample AB-85-49: 5 Au ppb, 79 Cu ppm, <10 Pb ppm, 100 Zn ppm, 15 As ppm; Sample AB-85-51: 5820 Au ppb, 142 Cu ppm, <10 Pb ppm, 44 Zn ppm, 1.6% As Sample AB-85-52: 40 Au ppb, 320 Cu ppm, <10 Pb ppm, 1550 Zn ppm, 16 As ppm; Sample AB-85-52a: 50 Au ppb, 310 Cu ppm, <10 Pb ppm, 2310 Zn ppm, 18 As ppm; Sample AB-85-53a: 1920 Au ppb, 310 Cu ppm, <10 Pb ppm, 72 Zn ppm, 3200 As ppm; Sample AB-85-53b: 18510 Au ppb, 425 Cu ppm, 550 Pb ppm, 1340 Zn ppm, 363 As ppm; 19060 Au ppb, --- Cu ppm, --- Pb ppm, --- Zn ppm, --- As ppm; Sample AB-85-53c 90 Au ppb, 19 Cu ppm, 3 Pb ppm, 37 Zn ppm, 216 As ppm; Sample AB-85-54 950 Au ppb, 361 Cu ppm, 12 Pb ppm, 52 Zn ppm, 2 As ppm; Sample AB-85-55a 160 Au ppb, 145 Cu ppm, 17 Pb ppm, 69 Zn ppm, 3 As ppm; * Analyses for samples AB-85-49 through AB-85-53a inclusive were performed by the Ministry of Natural Resources Geoscience Laboratories, Ontario Geological Survey, Toronto. Analyses for samples AB-85-53b through AB-85-55a inclusive were performed by Swastika Laboratories Ltd., Swastika.

Mineral Record Details

Mineral Zones - Size and Shape

Site Visit Information

Date: Jan 20, 1997

Geologist: R Degagne

Notes: When visited by A. C. Bath in 1985, south facing rusty weathering carbonatized and sericitized pillowed basalt and variably serpentinized peridotite of the Painkiller Lake Complex were well exposed in the mine area. Surface exposures of the vein systems on which the extensive underground development work was concentrated, however, were not located. All vein material samples were obtained from extensive waste rock piles which surround the old shafts and the old mill foundation. Limited assaying by the present writer suggests that anomalously elevated gold tenors are associated with anomalously elevated arsenic and lead contents. The wide range in gold contents displayed by sulfide-bearing dump samples (ranging from 40 to 19,000 ppb of gold) and the apparent lack of correlation between sulfide content or presence of a specific sulfide mineral and gold tenor suggests that gold occurs here in the free state and that pulp and metallic or analogous analytical methods designed to minimize the 'nugget effect' should be utilized here. Whether the multiple vein types suspected to be associated with the 065 striking vein net were formed as part of a single (consanguineous) dynamic hydrothermal/tectonic system or as the result of multiple discrete superimposed hydrothermal systems is not known.

References

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Publication Number: ARM24A Scale: 1:63,360    Date: 1998

Author: Hopkins P.E., Greenland C.W.

Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines

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Map - Black River-Matheson Area

Publication Number: OFM0013 Scale: 1:15,840    Date: 1985

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Map - Geological series, bedrock samples from the sonic drilling program 1987, Matheson area, District of Cochrane

Publication Number: P3114 Scale: 1:100,000    Date: 1989

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Publication Number: ARV56-07 Page: 20-23  Date: 1997

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Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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