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Record: MDI52F11NE00012

General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold

Location

Township or Area: Buchan Bay Area

Latitude: 49° 40' 18.99"    Longitude: -93° 11' 42.86"

UTM Zone: 15    Easting: 485912.816   Northing: 5502175.038    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Kenora

NTS Grid: 52F11NE

Point Location Description: near longitude 93º 10'W longitude and latitude 49º 41'N.

Location Method: Conversion from MDI

Access Description: Access to the property is via boat with a public landing situated on the north shore of Eagle Lake off of Highway 594. An alternate boat launch situated on Rice Bay can be reached by taking Hwy. 502 south from Dryden, then west approx. 15km on Century Road. (Ken AF 52F/11NE, FF-2 - Geo Report)

Exploration History

1930s: work had been concentrated immediately west of the property area; the Fornieri claims located on Fornieri Bay, worked by Erie Canadian Mines Ltd. 1985: Jonpol Explorations staked the property area and carried out limited prospecting and staking. Airborne magnetic and VLF electromagnetic surveys were carried out over the entire property. 1987: A geological survey was carried out on the MacVeigh Option by Noranda Exploration Company Limited, between June 14 and July 09, 1987. (Kenora AF 52F/11NE, FF-2 - Geo Report)

Assessment Work on File

Geology

Province: Superior

Geological Age: Precambrian  

Geology Comments

Nov 23, 2010 (J Bongfelt) - The property is located in the Wabigoon Volcanic Belt of the Superior Structural Province. A broad band of north-south trending basic volcanics occupies the southwest part of the area and joins a north-east trend:ng belt of felsic to intermediate volcanics, principally rhyolite and dacite tuff, agglomerate and flows as well as quartz and feldspar porphyries. This belt which measures approximately 1.6km in width at its widest point, extends for 8km from west of Fornieri Bay eastward to the east end of Eagle Lake (open end of Buchan Bay). The southern and western part of the belt is intruded by granitoid rocks of the Atikwa Batholith (Eagle Lake and Dore Lake Lobes) and a stock centered in Froghead Bay. (Kenora AF 52F/11NE, FF-2 - Geo Report, pg. 2)

Lithology Comments

Nov 23, 2010 (J Bongfelt) - 'Several old pits found over a distance of 300m (6400E, 9100N) near the west boundary of the property expose a rhyolite quartz eye breccia zone that contains 1-3% disseminated pyrite. The zone appears to parallel foliation (070º az) and have a minimum width of 5.0m. Sampling by the author and D. MacVeighof the zone has yielded anomalous Au values to 2060 ppb.' (Kenora AF 52F/11NE, FF-2 - Geo Report, pg. 5)

Mineralization

Mineralization Comments

Nov 23, 2010 (J Bongfelt) - 'Sampling by the author and D. MacVeighof the zone has yielded anomalous Au values to 2060 ppb.' * see Lithology (Kenora AF 52F/11NE, FF-2 - Geo Report, pg. 5)

Mineral Record Details

References

Journal - Kenora Assessment File 52F/11NE, FF-2, Noranda Exploration co. Ltd. (Buchan Bay) 1987

Publication Number: N/A Date: 1996

Author:

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Location: KENORA GEOLOGY OFFICE

Journal - Kenora Historical File 52F/11NE 00012, MacVeigh

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Location: KENORA GEOLOGY OFFICE ONLY

Thesis - Gold Deposits of Eagle Lake

Publication Number: MSc Thesis Date: 1948

Author: Leaming, S.

Publisher Name: University of Toronto

Location: Kenora RGP

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