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Record: MDI52F16NE00008

General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold

Location

Township or Area: Pickerel

Latitude: 49° 57' 4.59"    Longitude: -92° 14' 23.32"

UTM Zone: 15    Easting: 554535.25   Northing: 5533490.36    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Kenora

NTS Grid: 52F16NE

Point Location Description: GPS reading on trenching on Scotia Zone

Location Method: Field Visit with GPS

Access Description: Approx 4.4 km NE of Kathlyn Lake Rd. in HWY 71 is the Miles Lake Rd. Take the Miles Lake Rd. NW about 1.3 km to a gravel pit. An old drill trail. leads off of the SE end of the pit. Follow the drill trail N and E to the occurrence area. Just after the occurrence area the drill trail turns NW. The occurrence outcrops are located about 30 - 60 m S of the drill trail.

Exploration History

1950: Conwest Exploration Company Ltd. carried out geological mapping. sampling, and drilled 5 ddh (1415 ft). 1980 - Nahanni Mines Ltd. carried out sampling. 1981: Nahanni Mines Ltd. carried out sampling and drilled 2 ddh (1146.5 ft). 1990: Nahanni Mines Ltd. conducted mag and VLF-EM surveys. 1996: Nufort Resources Inc. drilled 2 ddh (1304 ft.). 2011: Tamaka Gold Corp. carried out mapping and sampling. 2012: Tamaka carried out prospecting, geological mapping, soil and rock sampling, and IP and magnetometer surveys. 2018: First Mining Gold Corp. carried out sampling and drilled 8 DDH totalling 1255.5 m.

Assessment Work on File

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Wabigoon

Belt: Abram-Minnitaki Lakes

Geological Age: Archean  

Metamorphism Type: Regional

Metamorphism Grade: Greenschist

Geology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (G Seim) - This occurrence includes the Nova, Scotia and Fundy Zones. These zones occur along a northeast striking quartz diorite sill or dike. There is a weak foliation in the dike that trends 045. The dike is vari-textured (medium- to coarse-grained), has different compositional phases and is variably altered, (iron carbonate and albitization). Quartz veins and stringers occurr in all phases of the intrusive and are most prevalent in the more altered areas. Some veins fill tension cracks across the folliation while others are more parallel the the foliation and display evidence of folding (z-shaped folds). The veins are mineralized with iron carbonate, fine- to coarse-cubic pyitie, minor pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite and locally visible gold. The veins are typically narrow 1- 10 cm though some are up to 30 cm in width. Some veins have considerable length (10-20 m) Chisolm (1951) examined this occurrence and reported that the dike was up to 150 ft. wide and had been traced for 1300 ft. on strike. To him it appeared that the dike had intruded and replaced an agglomeritic rock and that relic textures could be observed. He noted that erratice gold values were obtained from the scattered quartz stringers that mainly strike in a north-south direction across the dike and dip at about 60 degrees West. The spacing of the veins is irregular and the veins do not comprise a large percentage of the dike. The host rocks to the zones are unaltered mafic metavolcanics that are highly sheared at 056/90.

Lithology

Mineralization

Mineralization Comments

Jun 30, 2020 (G Seim) - Dh # QM-8 0.07 opt Au over 8 ft., dh # QM-9 0.03 opt Au over 14.2 ft and 0.02 opt Au over 52.7 ft. Grab from Surface 0.06 opt Au. dh# N-96-6 14772 ppb Au over 0.3 ft., 1095 ppb Au over 1.0 ft., 1991 ppb Au over 0.9 ft., 2752 ppb Au over 2.0 ft. dh# N-96-7 1960 ppb Au over2.7 ft., 1015 ppb Au over 4.6 ft., 3626 ppb Au over 5.0 ft., 1531 ppb Au over 3.4 ft., 11742 ppb Au over 4.0 ft., 4784 ppb Au over 10.5 ft., anomalous gold over 171 ft.

Jun 30, 2020 (Therese Pettigrew) - Mineralization at the Miller prospect is hosted in granodiorite intruded into regional mafic metavolcanics and cut by quartz-carbonate veins. Gold-bearing veins at Miller seem to be dominated by steeply 80 °- 85° dipping quartz-carbonate veins. A grab sample collected in 2018 by First Mining returned 4.907 g/t Au. DDH MI-18-001 returned an average of 0.33 g/t Au over 107.6 m including assays up to 32.12 g/t over 0.3 m. MI-18-002 returned an average of 1.9 g/t Au over 142.08 m including assays up to 88.8 g/t Au over 1 m and 54.47 g/t Au over 1 m. DDH MI-18-003 returned an average of 1.07 g/t Au over 48 m including assays up to 17.23 g/t Au over 0.5 m (McCracken, 2019). Grab samples collected in 2011 returned from 3.083 to 5.718 g/t Au (Assessment report 20000008131). The Nova showing is the westward extension of the Miller showing. There is continuous mineralization over a strike length of 450 m and anomalous gold enrichment over a strike length of at least 700 m (Assessment report 20000007949).

Assay Samples

Mineral Record Details

Mineral Zones - Size and Shape

Rank: 1       Structure Type: Vein

Rank: 1       Structure Type: Vein

Rank: 1       Structure Type: Vein

Site Visit Information

Date: Oct 13, 1998

Geologist: G Seim

Notes: This occurrence was visited on May 5, 1998 by G. Seim and C. Bath. The moss covering stripped areas on the 3 zones was stripped off and examined. This occurrence was again visited by G. Seim on May 8 1998 in the company of 2 Cameco Gold geologists.

References

Map - Western Minnitaki Lake area, Kenora District

Publication Number: M2155 Scale: 1:31,680    Date: 1969

Author: Johnston F.J.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:

Mono - Recent activities in the Sioux Lookout area

Publication Number: PR1951-01 Date: 1998

Author: Chisholm E.O.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:

Map - Kenora-Fort Frances, geological compilation series, Kenora and Rainy River districts

Publication Number: M2443 Scale: 1:253,440    Date: 1981

Author: Blackburn C.E., Beard R.C., Rivett A.S.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

MonoMap - Geology of the western Minnitaki Lake area, District of Kenora

Publication Number: R075 Page: 22-23  Date: 1969

Author: Johnston F.J.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:

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

Publication Number: MDC016 Page: 28  Date: 1976

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

Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines

Location:

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

Publication Number: MDC013 Page: 239  Date: 1971

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

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs

Location:

Publication - Technical Report and Resource Estimation Update, Goldlund Gold Project, Sioux Lookout, Ontario

Publication Number: 2019 NI 43-101 Date: 2019

Author: McCracken, T.

Publisher Name: WSP for First Mining

Location: SEDAR

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