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General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold, Silver

Secondary Commodities: Copper, Zinc, Lead, Arsenic

Location

Township or Area: Beatty

Latitude: 48° 36' 29.76"    Longitude: -80° 21' 16.76"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 547571   Northing: 5384111    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Kirkland Lake

NTS Grid: 42A09SW

Point Location Description: Shaft on south shore of Painkiller Lake

Location Method: AMIS Site Visit

Access Description: Proceed 4.4km on Carr Road 2 north from Matheson to Concession 3/4 Road. Continue east for 6.4km to a road and then north on the road, 1.1km to a trail that goes east to the site.

Exploration History

1912-1919: Cartwright Gold Fields Ltd.: sank 25 ft. shaft; shaft deepened to 100 ft. Surface plant burned in the Great Fire; property idle until at least 1919. 1921-28: Blue Quartz Gold Mines Ltd.: acquires assets of Cartwright Gold Fields Ltd.; shaft deepened to 200 ft. level; 400 ft. drifting (100 level), 600 ft. drifting (200 level) completed; bulk sample assayed 0.06-11.9 oz. Au/ ton; sank inclined winze on 200 ft. level; established 3 levels at 100 ft. intervals; completed drifting (1,100 ft.) x-cutting (500 ft.); shaft deepened from 200 ft. to 514 ft. level; a 3 compartment shaft was connected with 100, 200, and 500 ft. levels; drifting (949 ft.), x-cutting (973 ft.), u/g DD (2,665 ft.); 30 ton/day mill constructed on site.; drifting (500 ft.), x-cutting (450 ft.), raising (35 ft.) on 500 level completed; winze deepened, station established at 765 level; main shaft deepened to 514 level; drifting (893 ft.), x-cutting (689 ft.), raising (55 ft.) completed on 500, 625, 750 levels. Operations suspended in June 1928 with sinking (750 ft.), raising (200 ft.), x-cutting (2,000 ft.), drifting (1,500 ft.) completed; 6.72 oz. Au and 2 oz. Ag recovered. 1933-34: Amalgamated Gold Fields Corp.: acquires property; dewaters shaft; constructs 25 ton / day ball mill; 500 tons ore milled (yielding 19.02 oz. Au, 8 oz Ag) on site; 100 tons ore stoped, 1,768 tons ore milled; operations ceased in August. 1944-46: Amalgamated Gold Fields Corp.: DD-7-4850 ft., dewatered shaft. 1950-57: Headwater Mines Ltd.: acquires assets of Amalgamated Gold Fields Corp.; EM and magnetometer surveys; DD-7-1870 ft. 1980-81: Larder Resources: dewatered workings for sampling, mapping and surveying; renovated shaft collar, u/g exploration at Blue Quartz Mine. 1987: Joutel Resources Ltd. and Central Crude Ltd.: property optioned; ground magnetic and VLF surveys; DD-19-3172 m, assays. 2008: Russet Lake Resources Inc. - property optioned, DD-4-828 m, assays. 2010: Red Mile Minerals Corporation - property acquisition, DD-4-1500 m.

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Abitibi

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Abitibi

Tectonic Assemblage: Kidd-Munro

Geological Age: Mesoarchean  

Metamorphism Grade: Greenschist

Geology Comments

Feb 11, 2016 (R Degagne) - Geological mapping indicates that the area is underlain mainly by weakly metamorphosed (greenschist or lower metamorphic facies) massive and pillowed tholeiitic basalts of the (Archean) Stoughton- Roquemaure Group. Local volcanic stratigraphy strikes east southeast, dips steeply, faces north and occupies part of the south limb of the southeast striking and northwest plunging McCool Hill Syncline, the dominant regional scale structure north of the south branch of the Porcupine-Destor Fault Zone in the central BRIM area. Johnston noted the following concerning the Painkiller Lake Fault: Recent regional geology compilation maps have interpreted the western extension of the Munro Fault Zone as consisting of the Painkiller Lake Fault in northern Beatty Township, and the Pipestone Fault which borders the northern edge of the Porcupine Group west of the study area. The connection between these three faults could not be established during field mapping. The linking Painkiller Lake Fault, shown on the Beatty Township map in this study as an independent structural element, is a younger strike-slip fault which cannot be considered part of the long fault represented on the regional maps. Data from the Blue Quartz Mine on the south shore of Painkiller Lake and a displaced Matachewan diabase dike in the area, indicate that the Painkiller Lake Fault, dipping 80 degrees north, is a strike-slip fault with a significant horizontal (dextral-800 feet) component of displacement. The Pipestone Fault is known not to be a strike-slip fault and there is no evidence of strike-slip faults within the Munro Fault Zone.

Lithology

Lithology Comments

Feb 11, 2016 (R Degagne) - Satterly and Armstrong provided the following description of the Amalgamated Goldfields Corp. Ltd. (formerly Blue Quartz Gold Mines Ltd.) deposit: During the field seasons of 1944, the [Blue Quartz] mine remained flooded, making impossible any underground work by the writers. The following notes on the geology underground are based largely upon a private report by Hopkins [P.E.Hopkins, report for Blue Quartz Gold Mines, Limited 1927]. The most abundant rocks in the vicinity of the mine are andesitic and basaltic flows, most of which are pillowed or show flow breccias. In general these rocks are fairly massive and somewhat altered by carbonatization. The lavas have been intruded by gabbro peridotite, which is locally altered to serpentine. These basic intrusives, as well as the lavas, are in turn cut by feldspar porphyry dikes, which extend in an almost east-west direction. Some of the mine buildings are located on outcrops of a dike of coarse grained olivine diabase, about 800 feet in width, which forms the southeast boundary of the minable area. A few narrow dikelets penetrate the adjacent country rock as offshoots of the big dike. the central BRIM area. The shaft is a few tens of metres north of a gently folded 240 m wide northeast striking olivine diabase dike of the (Proterozoic) Abitibi swarm and a few tens of metres southwest of the interpreted location of the Painkiller Lake Fault, a southeast striking structure which along part of its length underlies the southwest shore of Painkiller Lake. Narrow (tens of metres in width) north striking quartz diabase dikes of the (Proterozoic) Matachewan swarm occur in the area (although not near the old workings) and narrow (metres in width) lamprophyre dikes also occur.

Mineralization

Mineralization Comments

Feb 11, 2016 (A Wilson) - The Blue Quartz Vein was intersected in all three holes drilled in 2010. The Blue Quartz mineralized system appears to consist of two to three distinct mineralized zones (1.5 to 5 m in thickness) separated by approximately 10-25 m of weakly mineralized pillowed basalts. The veins comprise 10-20% of the mineralized zone and contain varying quantities of pyrite, arsenopyrite, pyrrhotitie, reddish brown sphalerite and chalcopyrite. No significant gold values were returned from the Blue Quartz system. The No. 2 Vein displays a 1.5 to 2.5 m thick zone of coarse-grained cubic to buckshot pyrite. No other sulphide types were noted throughout the zone. Significant results include 5.3 g/t Au over 2.8 m; including 9.96 g/t Au and 5.7 g/t Ag over 1.0 m. Additional assays from the No. 2 vein include 23.8 g/t Au over 1 m, including 11.9 g/t Au over 2.8 m in RBQ-10-02 and 57.4 g/t Au over 0.2 m, included within 1.6 g/t Au over 9.1 m in RBQ-10-03.

Dec 07, 2005 (R Degagne) - Gold values have been found in two main veins, the discovery or Blue Quartz vein, on which the early work was done, and the No.2 vein, which lies under the lake 750 feet north of the shaft. The Blue Quartz vein is composed of bluish quartz and carries considerable amounts of pyrite together with varying quantities of pyrrhotite, galena, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, telluride and gold. The No.2 or Main vein extends in a roughly east-west direction and dips steeply toward the south. Specimens collected from the dump during the summer of 1945 are almost certainly from this vein. Examination of them shows dark quartz and silicified wall rock mineralized with arsenopyrite and pyrite, together with some chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite, and sphalerite. In some specimens the sulphide mineralization is very heavy. In places the wall rock is mineralized with coarse pyrite cubes. Specimens of the feldspar porphyry show half-inch veinlets of quartz with pyrite and arsenopyrite; the veinlets are bordered by narrow bands of chloritic material. No visible gold was found in any of the specimens, but it is reported to be coarse and nuggety. (p.24-25) Dump samples observed by Bath (1990) suggest that the No.2 vein system gold-sulfide mineralization is associated with brittle deformational regime quartz and quartz-calcite veins and veinlets hosted by variably Fe-dolomitized basalt and/or silicified and/or recrystallized interflow sedimentary material. Once formed, the quartz-(carbonate) vein material and siliceous host rock appear to have been tectonically shattered and sulfidized along fractures prior to having been brecciated and recemented by chloritic gouge.

Alteration Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (R Degagne) - The most abundant rocks in the vicinity of the mine are andesitic and basaltic flows, most of which are pillowed or show flow breccias. In general these rocks are fairly massive and somewhat altered by carbonatization. The lavas have been intruded by gabbro peridotite, which is locally altered to serpentine. These basic intrusives, as well as the lavas, are in turn cut by feldspar porphyry dikes, which extend in an almost east-west direction. Dump samples observed by the present writer suggest that the No.2 vein system gold-sulfide mineralization is associated with brittle deformational regime quartz and quartz-calcite veins and veinlets hosted by variably Fe-dolomitized basalt and/or silicified and/or recrystallized interflow sedimentary material. Once formed, the quartz-(carbonate) vein material and siliceous host rock appear to have been tectonically shattered and sulfidized along fractures prior to having been brecciated and recemented by chloritic gouge. The earliest hydrothermal regime to which the observed samples were subjected appears to have caused dolomitization (as manifested by pervasive host rock Fe-dolomitization), silicification (as manifested by deposition of grey vein quartz), and deposition of sulfide minerals and native gold while later hydrothermal regimes appear to have resulted in formation of quartz, calcite, sulfide minerals, and (possibly) native gold.

Mineral Record Details

Mineral Zones - Size and Shape

Rank: 1       Structure Type: Shear

Rank: 1       Structure Type: Fault

Site Visit Information

Date: Jan 24, 1997

Geologist: R Degagne

Notes: Visited in 1985 by A. C. Bath (OGS OFR 1990, V.1, p.166-182). Analyses*: Sample: AB-85-56 7200 Au ppb, 243 Cu ppm, 27 Pb ppm, 321 Zn ppm, 2 As ppm. 6860 Au ppb, --- Cu ppm, --- Pb ppm, --- Zn ppm, --- As ppm. AB-85-57 2400 Au ppb, 251 Cu ppm, 44 Pb ppm, 157 Zn ppm, 247 As ppm. AB-85-58 820 Au ppb, 525 Cu ppm, 36 Pb ppm, 300 Zn ppm, 1222 As ppm. AB-85-59 6170 Au ppb, 32 Cu ppm,100 58 Pb ppm, 654 Zn ppm, 18 As ppm. AB-85-60 --- Au ppb, --- Cu ppm, --- Pb ppm, --- Zn ppm, --- As ppm. AB-85-61 320 Au ppb, 147 Cu ppm, 5 Pb ppm, 138 Zn ppm, 700 As ppm. AB-85-62 68.18 Au opt, 227 Cu ppm, 448 Pb ppm, 671 Zn ppm, 1292 As ppm. 83.18 Au opt, --- Cu ppm, --- Pb ppm, --- Zn ppm, --- As ppm. AB-85-63 29010 Au ppb, 170 Cu ppm, 12 Pb ppm, 107 Zn ppm, 1589 As ppm. 28110 Au ppb, --- Cu ppm, --- Pb ppm, --- Zn ppm, --- As ppm. AB-85-64 9330 Au ppb, 964 Cu ppm, 37 Pb ppm, 245 Zn ppm, 143 As ppm. AB-85-65 5 210 Au ppb, 577 Cu ppm, 107 Pb ppm, 259 Zn ppm, 12300 As ppm. AB-85-66 4390 Au ppb, 2600 Cu ppm, 111 Pb ppm, 91 Zn ppm, 3613 As ppm. AB-85-67 1990 Au ppb, 1350 Cu ppm, 181 Pb ppm, 10200 Zn ppm, 23000 As ppm. *All assays performed by Swastika Laboratories Ltd., Swastika

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