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General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold

Location

Township or Area: Turtlepond Lake Area

Latitude: 49° 32' 36.96"    Longitude: -92° 37' 24.33"

UTM Zone: 15    Easting: 527242.715   Northing: 5487956.215    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Kenora

NTS Grid: 52F10SE

Point Location Description: Transfer

Location Method: Conversion from MDI

Exploration History

1988: Bond Gold Canada Inc. identified a gold-bearing shear zone. A significant gold-bearing quartz veins was delineated: the Johnny Wayne quartz vein. 1989: The best gold value obtained from the Johnny Wayne quartz vein was 0.42 oz/ton Au over a 1.95m width. (ROA - Kenora District / OGS 1989)

Assessment Work on File

Geology

Province: Superior

Geological Age: Precambrian  

Lithology

Lithology Comments

Mar 16, 2010 (J Bongfelt) - 'Rock types in the vicinity of Turtle Pond and Whitewater Lakes are “Keewatin”, Wabigoon volcanics. Dr. Satterley has identified isolated and limited areas of, “intermediate to Basic Lavas; Pillow Lavas; carbonated intermediate to Basic Volcanics; carbonate chlorite schist; intermediate to Basic agglomerate and tuff, with some flow breccia; and persistant massive quartz veining, east, north and west of Turtle Pond Lake. Our geological traverses support his thesis in general, and have determined the local geology as shown on “Turtlepond and Whitewater Lakes, Geology Map”, Plate #3.' 'Gold has been found, associated with pyrite and pyrrhotite in rusty-weathering zones intercalated with volcanics, there are also rusty zones mineralized with pyrrhotite and minor sphalerite plus quartz-tourmaline veins with little to no sulphide content, distributed throughout the volcanics.' (Kenora AF 52F10SE, HH-1, p.3)

Mineralization

Mineralization Comments

Mar 16, 2010 (J Bongfelt) - 'Gold mineralization is distributed extensively throughout the Whitewater Lake area as indicated from sampling conducted by Comaplex Resources, Stan and Sherridon Johnson (Stan Johnson, prospector, Wabigoon, personal communication), and the author, J.R. Parker. The author obtained gold values from other locations in the area, including assays of 5410 ppb gold and 0.5 ounce gold per ton from grab samples taken from a quartz vein on the north shore of the small unnamed lake north of Whitewater Lake.' - believing this to be John Wayne Lake. (OFR5723, p.222) 1989: The best gold value obtained from the Johnny Wayne quartz vein was 0.42 oz/ton Au over a 1.95m width. (ROA - Kenora District / OGS 1989) 1990: Drilling program by Bond Gold Canada Inc. - assays ranged from 0.03 oz/ton Au to 0.12 oz/ton Au (Kenora AF 52F10SE, FF-5, Bond Gold Canada Inc.)

Mineral Record Details

References

Article - Kenora Resident Geologist's area - 1987

Publication Number: MP138.001 Page: 19-20  Date: 1997

Author: Blackburn C.E., Hailstone M.H., Parker J.R., Storey C.C.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

Mono - Geology, gold mineralization and property visits in the area investigated by the Dryden-Ignace economic geologist, 1984-1987

Publication Number: OFR5723 Page: 221-223  Date: 1989

Author: Parker J.R.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

Map - Dryden-Wabigoon area, District of Kenora, Ontario

Publication Number: ARM50E Scale: 1:63,360    Date: 1997

Author: Satterly J.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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