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Record: MDI52B13SE00024

General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold

Secondary Commodities: Copper, Lead, Silver, Tungsten

Location

Township or Area: Freeborn

Latitude: 48° 47' 49.35"    Longitude: -91° 44' 4.08"

UTM Zone: 15    Easting: 592938.73   Northing: 5405666.56    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay South

NTS Grid: 52B13SE

Point Location Description: Number 2 shaft

Location Method: Field Visit with GPS

Access Description: North from Atikokan on Hwy 622 for 23 km to Valarie Falls Road, then 14.9 km to the Fern Elizabeth Road. Follow the road and tractor trail to the property.

Exploration History

1900: Anglo-Canadian Gold Estates Ltd. Discovery of Quatry discovered gold in veins, and conducted minor trenching, test pits and D.D. 1902: 2 Shafts sunk, No.1 to 110 feet, No.2 to 240 feet. 2000 feet of D.D. indicated the vein structure to 240 feet. Construction of a 10 stamp mill. 1903: 12 D.D. holes completed, 1880 feet, estimating 20,000 tons of ore averaging 0.25 to 0.32 oz/t gold. 1908: 1000 feet of underground development work. 2 Months full time mill run was about $8500.00 (approx 411 oz Au). 1913: No. 2 shaft lowered to 270 feet. With 1205 feet of underground work. 20 oz gold recovered. 1923: The property was bought by Goldex Mining Corp., but they did not work the property.1935-37: Elizabeth Gold Mining Company Ltd. dewatered shafts and re-examined the mineralization. 7 D.D. were completed totalling 1591 feet. A 25 ton/day mill was constructed. 1943-56: Elizabeth Gold found tungsten in the dumps of the No. 1 and No. 2 shafts but none was found in surface exposures. The property was dropped in 1956. 1973: University of Toronto conducted a seismic test at the No. 2 shaft. 1974: Cornell-Pope Exploration Company conducted D.D (4 holes totalling 405 feet), prospecting, trenching and sampling. 1978: Fern Elizabeth Gold Mining Company optioned the property and conducted trenching, stripping, D.D (589 feet) as well as geological mapping and sampling. 1980: Fern Elizabeth Gold Exploration (R.C. Moffatt) drilled 4 DDH totalling 611 ft and did some trenching. A high-grade pocket of gold mineralization was found approx. 100 m east of the No. 2 shaft area. 1981: Camflo Mines Ltd. signed an option agreement with Fern Elizabeth Exploration and geological mapping, geochemical surveys, geophysical surveys, sampling and D.D. (2310 feet) was conducted. 1982: Camflo drilled 4 DDH totalling 704 m. 1984: Bankit Resources drilled 14 DDH totalling 532 m. 1987-88: Societe Miniere Mimiska Inc. drilled 17 DDH totalling 2257.35 m. 2002: Fern Elizabeth conducted a stripping and trenching program. 2007: VenCan Gold signed an option / joint venture agreement with Fern Elizabeth Gold Exploration and R.C. Moffatt for the property. VenCan holds 75% interest in the property. 2008: VenCan drilled 8 DDH totalling 1490 m and conducted soil sampling, geological mapping, prospecting, and ground geophysical surveys. 2009: VenCan changed its name to Red Pine Exploration Inc.

Assessment Work on File

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Wabigoon

Geological Age: Precambrian  

Geology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (J Scott) - Number 1 shaft located at UTM Zone 15 (Nad 27): 5405317 / 592906 ; Bernie-Mitch vein : 5405360 / 593132.

Mar 20, 2015 (Therese Pettigrew) - The Wabigoon subprovince is separated from the Quetico subprovince by the prominent E-W-trending Quetico Fault. The Fault lies approx. one mile to the south of the property, but subsidiary shear zones cut across the south end of the property. The Wabigoon subprovince is composed mainly of metamorphosed mafic volcanics intercalated with felsic cataclastics and volcanic rocks. This sequence was then intruded by granitoid rocks whose composition varies from diorite to tonalite to granodiorite to granites. The property is underlain by felsic and mafic volcanics, diorites and a large granite batholith. It is at the granite-volcanic contact that the Elizabeth Mine lies (AFRI 52B13SE0042).

Lithology

Lithology Comments

Mar 20, 2015 (Therese Pettigrew) - The quartz veins occur in fractures in the granite, in short shear zones in the mafic metavolcanics, in short shear zones in the mafic metavolcanics, and along the contact between these two formations. When they occur in granite, they are usually along zones with chlorite and amphibole, which indicate inclusions of mafic metavolcanics that have been highly altered. Ferriferous carbonate, probably ankerite, is present in many of the veins and in the wall rocks. There are two types of quartz in the veins, a normal solid type and a granular, sugary type, the latter probably representing quartz that originally contained ankerite and pyrite, which have been partly removed in solution. The sulphides present are pyrite and chalcopyrite with a little pyrrhotite and galena (Fumerton, 1980).

Mineralization

Mineralization Comments

Mar 20, 2015 (Therese Pettigrew) - VenCan intersected 12.2 gpt Au over 1.5 m in VC-08-01, averaging 7.6 gpt Au over 3.0 m. VC-08-03 assayed 4.51 gpt Au from 63.0-64.5 m and 1.30 gpt Au from 93.5-94.5 m. VC-08-05 assayed 1.10 gpt Au from 171.0-174.0 m (VenCan press release, Apr. 24, 2008). Samples collected by B. Schnieders at the Elizabeth Mine in 1980 had assays that ranged from 0.02 to 2.92 opt Au and 0.18 to 12.74 opt Ag (AFRI 52B13SE0045). All of the gold mineralization has been found within the quartz or in very close proximity to it. The spectacular gold showing occurs in the sugary white variety and had a high carbonate content. Scheelite has been reported with values up to 7%,but is an untested product. The No. 1 shaft was sunk 34 m on a vein in a shear zone within the mafic volcanics. There was no production from the shaft but values of 0.45 opt Au have been reported over 1 m along 21 m of strike length on surface. The No. 2 shaft was sunk to 82 m on the volcanic-granite contact containing a vein reported to be 900 ft long and up to 5 m wide. All of the production came from this vein (AFRI 52B13SE0042).

Mineral Record Details

Site Visit Information

Date: Jan 26, 2000

Geologist: J Scott

Notes: Visited on 7/15/97

References

Mono - Geology of the Righteye Lake area, District of Rainy River

Publication Number: OFR5299 Page: 68-75  Date: 1980

Author: Fumerton S.L.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

Mono - Gold deposits of the Atikokan area

Publication Number: MDC024 Page: 42-44  Date: 1982

Author: Wilkinson S.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

Mono - Property visits and reports of the Atikokan economic geologist, 1979-1983, Atikokan geological survey

Publication Number: OFR5539 Page: 171-182  Date: 1985

Author: Schnieders B.R., Dutka R.J.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

File - Resident Geologist Mineral Deposit Files

Publication Number: Min Dep Date: 1996

Author:

Publisher Name:

Location: Thunder Bay RGP

Map - Precambrian Geology, Steep Rock Lake (West) Area

Publication Number: P3585 Scale: 1:10,000    Date: 2007

Author: Stone D., Lennox B.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

Map - Righteye Lake, Rainy River District

Publication Number: M2464 Scale: 1:31,680    Date: 1985

Author: Fumerton S.L., Kresz D.U.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

Map - Precambrian Geology, Atikokan Area

Publication Number: P3349 Scale: 1:50,000    Date: 1995

Author: Stone D., Pufahl P., Carter J.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

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