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Record: MDI42F13SW00002

General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold

Secondary Commodities: Copper, Molybdenum

Location

Township or Area: Klotz Lake Area

Latitude: 49° 46' 21.91"    Longitude: -85° 48' 45.71"

UTM Zone: 16    Easting: 585490   Northing: 5514041    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay North

NTS Grid: 42F13SW

Point Location Description: Diamond drill holes, trenches

Location Method: Based on Assessment

Access Description: The property is located in the Klotz Lake area, southwest of Chowder Lake. Access is via a bush road leaving Highway 11 at the east end of Klotz Lake. Travel south for 3 km to the prospect.

Exploration History

1937: L. Morrow and A.H. Ward - staking. 1958-62: L Morrow - DD-15-1363 ft 1980-81: Exchange Mining - ground geophysics, stripping, sampling, DD-7-1043 ft , mag and VLF surveys. 1983: Exploration Banque-Or Inc.- DD-37, ground geophysics. 1983-84: Getty Canadian Metals Ltd.- airborne geophysics, DD-21-3388m, ground geophysics, mapping and sampling over. 1985: Golden Tiger Mining Exploration Co. Ltd. - ground geophysics, DD-8-1561 ft. 1993: J. Shields - trenching and stripping. 2011: Prodigy Gold Corporation Inc. - ground geophysics, DD. 2012: Goldstream Exploration Limited - mapping, prospecting, sampling.

Assessment Work on File

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Wabigoon

Terrane: Eastern Wabigoon

Belt: Beardmore-Geraldton

Geological Age: Archean  

Lithology

Lithology Comments

Apr 02, 2014 (B Nelson) - The Banque-or Prospect is underlain by a unit of mafic to intermediate metavolcanics consisting of massive to foliated pillowed metavolcanics and pillow-breccia, amygdaloidal and vesicular metavolcanics, flow breccia, feldspar porphyry, variolitic and spherulitic rocks. Intruding the metavolcanics is a porphyritic granodiorite to diorite, possibly the east portion of the Paglamin Lake Stock. Gold mineralization is associated with the contact of the two main lithologies. Irregular quartz stringers in the hornblende schist and diorite are mineralized with native gold, pyrite and chalcopyrite. The quartz veinlets have not been traced for any distance along strike (Evans, 1942). Gold is associated with a silicified and sheared zone displaying potassium and epidote alteration. In contact with the shear zone is a foliated mafic tuff hosting pyrite, pyrrhotite and extensive biotite (an alteration product). Gold values are also associated with this unit. Copper and gold values (minor molybdenum) were noted in diamond-drill logs of Exploration Banque-or Incorporated and exchange Mine Holdings Limited.

Mineralization

Mineralization Comments

Apr 02, 2014 (A Wilson) - The best assay from the Getty drilling was 4.00 g Au/t over a core length of 1.40 m with a section of 8.65 g Au/t over 0.50 m for hole KL-84-21 that was drilled in the Five Trench Area. Drilling showed good continuity along strike of the tuff horizons which were traced for over 250 m laterally and to 60 m in vertical depth. Tight folding has locally deformed the tuffs. Copper and gold values (minor molybdenum) were noted in diamond-drill logs of Exploration Banque-Or Incorporated and Exchange Mine Holdings Limited.

Apr 02, 2014 (B Nelson) - A mineralized zone 200 m x 6 m x 150 m (deep) was defined by Getty Minerals. Assays up to 2.34 oz/ton Au over 10 feet were realized by Exchange Mining.

Alteration Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (B Nelson) - Gold is associated with a silicified and sheared zone displaying potassium and epidote alteration. In contact with the shear zone is a foliated mafic tuff hosting pyrite, pyrrhotite and extensive biotite (an alteration product).

Mineral Record Details

Site Visit Information

Date: Dec 31, 1996

Geologist: B Nelson

Notes: The Beardmore-Geraldton Economic Geologist visited the occurrence June 13, 1984.

References

Part - Geology along the Trans-Canada Highway between Hearst and Longlac

Publication Number: ARV51-09 Date: 1997

Author: Evans E.L.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:

File - Resident Geologist Mineral Deposit Files

Publication Number: Min Dep Date:

Author:

Publisher Name:

Location: Thunder Bay RGP

Map - Caramat-Pagwa River sheet, geological compilation series, Algoma, Cochrane and Thunder Bay districts

Publication Number: M2202 Scale: 1:253,440    Date: 1971

Author: Innes D.G., Ayres L.D.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs

Location:

Map - Klob Lake, Thunder Bay District

Publication Number: M2469 Scale: 1:31,680    Date: 1984

Author: Amukun S.E., Gillespie R.T.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

Map - Caramat sheet, districts of Cochrane, Thunder Bay and Algoma, geological compilation series

Publication Number: P0551 Scale: 1:126,720    Date: 1997

Author: Innes D.G.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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Map - Hearst-Longlac portion of the Trans-Canada Highway, districts of Cochrane and Thunder Bay, Ontario

Publication Number: ARM51H Scale: 1:253,440    Date: 1997

Author: Evans E.L.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:

Mono - Gold occurrences, prospects, and deposits of the Beardmore-Geraldton area, districts of Thunder Bay and Cochrane

Publication Number: OFR5630 Page: 216-217  Date: 1986

Author: Mason J.K., White G.D.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Publication - A Technical Review of the Hardrock East Gold Project, Ontario, Canada for Goldstream Exploration Ltd, 131p.

Publication Number: NI 43-101 Date: 2012

Author: T. Matveeva and J. Hinzer

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