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Record: MDI52C13NW00006

General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold

Location

Township or Area: Menary

Latitude: 48° 58' 1.51"    Longitude: -93° 53' 26.76"

UTM Zone: 15    Easting: 434804.555   Northing: 5424179.153    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Kenora

NTS Grid: 52C13NW

Point Location Description: Transfer

Location Method: Conversion from MDI

Exploration History

1984: Agassiz Resources Ltd. optioned the property from J. Hodge and carried out reconnaissance mapping, prospecting, sampling, and mag and VLF-EM surveys. 1989: Western Troy Capital Resources carried out mapping and sampling. 1991: Western Troy discovered the showing and conducted an EM survey and stripping. 1992: Western Troy carried out mapping, trenching and sampling.

Assessment Work on File

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Wabigoon

Geological Age: Archean  

Lithology

Mineralization

Mineralization Comments

Nov 26, 2019 (Therese Pettigrew) - The northern and central trenches expose what appears to be a single structure, within which quartz has filled fracture-controlled dilation zones. Wallrock and small stringers returned anomalous gold values ranging from below detection to about 0.032 oz/ton Au. Grab and chip samples consisting entirely of quartz, and obtained from within the main structure, assayed between 0.036 and 1.47 oz/ton Au. Representative samples including both quartz and wallrock returned gold values ranging from a low of 46 ppb at the north end of the northern trench, to a high of 2.99 oz/ton Au in the centre of the central trench. The highest assay came from a 0.9 metre chip which included only one 5 cm wide stringer of quartz. Within the southernmost of the three trenches two subparallel quartz veins trending northwest-southeast are cut by several quartz feldspar porphyry dykes. Visible gold has been observed at several locations within each vein. Mineralization and textures exposed in this trench resemble those observed in the previous trenches, and assay results suggest a similarly erratic distribution of gold. The trench is approximately 20 metres long, and each vein has been exposed for a length of about 11 metres. Samples consisting entirely of wallrock assayed from around 50 ppb up to 435 ppb (0.013 oz/ton) Au. One sample of silicified chlorite schist occurring adjacent to the northern vein assayed 0.780 oz/ton Au, however, other samples of rocks adjacent to vein contacts returned uniformly low gold values. Grab samples of vein material returned values ranging from a low of 76 ppb to highs of 2.06 and 2.36 oz/ton Au. Results of chip sampling across the veins and adjacent wallrock suggests that gold mineralization is most abundant in the central and southeastern parts of the exposure. Northwest of the westernmost porphyry dyke, assays of quartz typically ran less than 0.075 oz/ton, while southeast of the dyke assays were typically between 0.075 and 0.20 oz/ton Au, with occasional higher values (Assessment report 52F04SW0001). Sample 11266, located approximately 485 m NW of the Agassiz West showing at NAD83 UTM Zone 15 435150 m E, 5424510 m N, returned an assay of 2.059 ppm Au (Assessment report 52C13NW8305).

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