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Record: MDI52C10NE00050

General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold, Silver, Zinc

Secondary Commodities: Copper, Lead

Location

Township or Area: Bad Vermilion Lake Area

Latitude: 48° 41' 3.81"    Longitude: -92° 40' 43.51"

UTM Zone: 15    Easting: 523645   Northing: 5392422    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Kenora

NTS Grid: 52C10NE

Point Location Description: AMIS bulk sample pit location

Location Method: Data Compilation

Access Description: The property can be accessed via the Shoal Lake Road, which intersects Highway 11 one kilometre east of Mine Centre. Follow Shoal Lake Road south-southwest to the showing located approx. 300 m south of Bad Vermilion Creek. The property can also be reached by boat from a public boat landing in Mine Centre on the NW shore of Bad Vermilion Lake, 8.5 km due north of the inlet to Bad Vermilion Creek.

Exploration History

1926: Bankfield Mines discovered the showing and carried out trenching, sampling, and diamond drilling. 1934: Staked by Richmore Syndicate; surface sampling by McIntyre, US Smelters, Ventures Group, Wells Long Lac. 1938: Surface sampling checked by Wright-Hargreaves Limited. 1940: Surface sampling checked by Sylvanite Gold Mines Limited. 1980: Stripping, trenching and diamond drilling (5 holes totalling 348.4 m) by Corporate Oil and Gas Limited. 1981: Sherritt Gordon Mines Ltd. optioned the property and carried out soil and humus geochemical surveys. 1983: Steep Rock Resources Inc. optioned the property from S. Lakatos and K. McTavish. Steep Rock conducted magnetometer and IP surveys. 1984: Mine Centre Joint Venture Group too a 25-27 ton bulk sample. 1985: Corporation Falconbridge Copper optioned the property and carried out stripping. 1986: Falconbridge drilled 4 DDH totalling 453 m. 1988-89: Nipigon Gold Resources optioned the property and carried out stripping, trenching, and sampling. 1990: Nipigon Gold set up a 25 ton per day gravity mill, extracted a 1200 ton bulk sample, and carried out mapping, stripping, and channel sampling. 1992: Nipigon Gold drilled 15 DDH totalling 1510.9 m. 2006: Q-Gold carried out an airborne geophysical survey. 2007: Q-Gold Resources Ltd. acquired the property and drilled at 21 DDH. 2009: Q-Gold drilled 12 DDH totalling 1213 m. 2010: Q-Gold carried out IP surveys and drilled 18 DDH totalling 2612 m. 2011: Q-Gold drilled 18 DDH totalling 2756 m.

Assessment Work on File

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Quetico

Geological Age: Archean  

Geology Comments

Feb 09, 2011 (C Ravnaas) - The property is underlain by a tonalite - trondhjemite northeast - southwest trending suite of the Bad Vermilion felsic intrusion. Narrow lenticular xenoliths of mafic and felsic metavolcanic flows are intercalated within the felsic intrusion. In the northeast part of the property under study, the felsic intrusion is in contact with the Bad Vermilion Lake mafic intrusion which is a highly differentiated anorthosite to gabbro suite. Reference REPORT ON THE 1992 EXPLORATION PROGRAM CARRIED OUT ON THE MCKENZIE - GRAY PROPERTY FOR NIPIGON GOLD RESOURCES INC. Assessment File AFRI # 52C10NE0005

Lithology

Lithology Comments

Feb 09, 2011 (C Ravnaas) - This drilling defined a lens - shaped quartz vein within the McKenzie - Gray dextral shear zone. This shear zone is very strong, alteration and deformation can be observed up to 50 feet away from the shear. Usually gold bearing quartz veins form lenses along such shear zones. The vein is located within a highly sheared granodiorite in a NW trending fault/shear zone cross cutting the regional foliation. The vein is bounded by fractures and is boudinaged, folded vertically and horizontally, averages l metre in width and is exposed for 100 metres along strike. Reference REPORT ON THE 1992 EXPLORATION PROGRAM CARRIED OUT ON THE MCKENZIE - GRAY PROPERTY FOR NIPIGON GOLD RESOURCES INC. Assessment File AFRI # 52C10NE0005

May 28, 2019 (Therese Pettigrew) - The property is underlain by coarse-grained tonalite-trondhjemite and minor metagabbro. Metavolcanic xenoliths have been observed in the tonalite. Southwesterly- to northwesterly-striking shear zones host quartz veins (Poulsen, 2000).

Mineralization

Mineralization Comments

Feb 09, 2011 (C Ravnaas) - The lens dips approximately 15 degrees to the northwest along the shear zone plane. On surface, the vein has been trenched for a distance of more than 300 feet and the width of the vein varies from 0.5 to 3.5 feet. The vein has been intersected up to a depth of 200 feet where the width increases to 13 feet and defines a pencil - shape orebody. A tonnage of roughly 100,000 tons grading 0.30 opt Au (gold equivalent) has been estimated. Similar lenses can be expected all along the McKenzie - Gray shear zone. The McKenzie - Gray vein is the only vein containing gold - sulphide mineralization of economic concentrations. The quartz vein is reddish - grey with sericite - filled shear planes within the vein. It contains minor carbonate and tourmaline. Mineralization consists of free gold and gold within sulphides. The sulphides are black, brown and green sphalerite, chalcopyrite, galena and pyrite. The mineralization occurs along the total length of the veining anomalous and high grade sections. Reference REPORT ON THE 1992 EXPLORATION PROGRAM CARRIED OUT ON THE MCKENZIE - GRAY PROPERTY FOR NIPIGON GOLD RESOURCES INC. Assessment File AFRI # 52C10NE0005

May 28, 2019 (Therese Pettigrew) - The quartz veins contain appreciable amounts of sulphide minerals including pyrite, chalcopyrite and sphalerite. Malachite and calcite were also noted. Two principal systems are exposed on the property. The Main vein has been thoroughly channel sampled at various times on surface, and the following values have been reported: 0.49 oz/t Au over 2.9 feet (0.88 m) for 250 feet (76 m); 0.44 oz/t Au, 2.9 oz/t Ag over 4.0 feet (1.2 m) for 175 feet (53 m); 0.27 oz/t Au over 4.0 feet (1.2 m) for 300 feet (92 m); 0.47 oz/t Au over 3.56 feet (1.09 m) for 270 feet (82 m); and 0.49 oz/t Au over 4.6 feet (1.4 m) for 182 feet (56 m). A recent diamond-drill program revealed low gold values with the best reported intersection of 0.08 oz/t Au over 2.4 feet (0.73 m) of core. An earlier shallow diamond-drill program indicated 0.195 oz/t Au, 0.71 oz/t Ag, and 2.11% Zn over 2.36 feet (0.72 m) for a length of 220 feet (67 m) (Poulsen, 2000). The 25 ton bulk sample taken in 1984 was processed through a local mill. Available data indicates that the mill feed was graded at 7.2 g/t Au, 112.1 g/t Ag, 10-16% Zn, and 0.11% Pb. The 1200 ton bulk sample collected by Nipigon gold in 1990 returned metallurgical test samples with a grade of 5.66 g/t Au, 18 g/t Ag, 2.12% Zn, and 0.125% Cu (Assessment file 20000007340). Samples collected by OGS staff in 1980 recorded the following results: Sample 80LRC-12: 49.59 oz/t Au, 22.65 oz/t Ag, 0.25% Pb, 9.45% Zn, 4.20% Cu; Sample 80BCH-1: 1.46 oz/t Au, 5.80 oz/t Ag (Schnieders and Dutka, 1985).

Mineral Record Details

References

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

Publication Number: OFR5539 Page: 326-328  Date: 1985

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

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Mono - Property visits and reports of the Atikokan economic geologist, 1979-1980, Atikokan Geological Survey

Publication Number: OFR5334 Page: 32  Date: 1981

Author: Schnieders B.R., Larsen C.R., McConnell C.D.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Mono - Gold deposits of the Kenora-Fort Frances area, districts of Kenora and Rainy River

Publication Number: MDC016 Page: 29  Date: 1976

Author: Beard R.C., Garratt G.L.

Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines

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Mono - Gold deposits of Ontario, part 1, districts of Algoma, Cochrane, Kenora, Rainy River, and Thunder Bay

Publication Number: MDC013 Page: 261  Date: 1971

Author: Ferguson S.A., Groen H.A., Haynes R.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs

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Mono - Geological Setting of Mineralization in the Mine Centre-Fort Frances Area

Publication Number: MDC029 Date: 2000

Author: Poulsen K.H.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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