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Record: MDI52F16NW00004

General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold

Secondary Commodities: Silver

Location

Township or Area: Echo

Latitude: 49° 53' 48.06"    Longitude: -92° 20' 52.54"

UTM Zone: 15    Easting: 546831.99   Northing: 5527347.33    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Kenora

NTS Grid: 52F16NW

Point Location Description: Precise

Location Method: Conversion from MDI

Access Description: Access to the property via road north off Hwy 72 about 1 km south of Franciscan Lake.

Exploration History

1941-48: 9000 ft surface stripping/trenching; 45303 ft dd. 1945: Lunward Gold Mines conducted a 12 hole DD program. 1947: Lunward Gold Mines conducted a 38 hole DD program totalling 4863 m. 1949-52: Newlund Mines Ltd. acquired the property in 1949. Vert shaft 825 ft; lateral dev 15027 ft on 200, 350, 500 and 800 ft levels. U/G drilling ~154 holes, 20419 ft. 1952: Newlund’s operations were suspended late in the year. Goldlund mine property idle from 1952-71. 1972: Newlund conducted surface work, sampling & testing. 1973: Name changed from Newlund Mines Ltd. to Goldlund Mines Ltd. and acquired original prospect from Lunward Gold Mines Ltd. Entered a joint venture agreement with Rayrock. Rayrock erected a headframe, rehabilitated the plant, dewatered and sampled. 1974: Rayrock decides mine is uneconomic at $200 gold and doesn’t plan any further work. Property is placed on care and maintenance. 1976-79: Goldlund Mines drilled 5 DDH totalling 484 m. 1977: Goldlund conducted a ground magnetometer survey. 1978: Goldlund Mines conducted a 3000 pound bulk sampling program on its underground operations. The shaft was dewatered down to the 200 ft level for the purpose of the bulk sampling program. 1979: Goldlund completed 18,144 feet of underground drilling and 11,900 feet of surface drilling. A decline was started late in the year, with plans for the decline to intersect the ore zone at the 200 level. 1980: Goldlund Mines conducted a magnetic survey. The decline was completed and a high voltage power line to the site was repaired. In December, they announced an agreement with Hollinger Mines Ltd. for a mill feasibility study for an initial 500 t per day mill and underground development to support it. Tarbush Lode Mining Drilled 3 DDH totaling 425 m on their Eaglelund property north of the Goldlund mine. 1982: Goldlund Mine started production in early summer of 1982 with a 200 tpd mill and a head grade of 0.2 oz/t Au. Goldlund completed mag and EM surveys and 2 DDHs. 1983: Goldlund announced an agreement with Campbell Resources Inc. involving a management contract and financing allowing Campbell to take up to a 40.3% interest in the property if all options are exercised. Goldlund drilled 4 DDH totalling 540’. 1984: Goldlund completed the expansion of their mill, installing a new mill with a capacity of 300-400 tpd, intended to run in parallel with the 200 tpd mill. 1985: Goldlund Mine shut down after 1.5 years of production. 2006: Goldlund Resources Ltd. becomes a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tamaka Holdings Inc., who acquired the property. 2007: A 3D model of the deposit was created, leading to the drilling of 43 DDHs, totalling approximately 9300 m. 2008: Tamaka drilled a 66 hole DD program, totalling 19,445 m, as well as linecutting, stripping and sampling channel cuts. 2010: Tamaka conducted prospecting and sampling. 2011: Tamaka drilled 4 DDH, totalling 1412 m. 2012: Tamaka conducted geological mapping, stripping and sampling. 2013: Tamaka drilled 5 DDHs, totalling 1765 m, as well as conducting geological mapping, channel cutting and sampling. 2014: Tamaka continued the drill program completing 19 DDH for 7237 m. 2016: First Mining Finance amalgamated with Tamaka Gold. 2017: First Mining drilled 123 DDH totalling 34,178.7 m and released a revised 43-101 resource calculation. 2018: First Mining carried out geological mapping, sampling, and drilled 15 DDH totalling 5082 m.

Assessment Work on File

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Wabigoon

Belt: Savant Lake

Geological Age: Archean  

Geology Comments

Feb 09, 2011 (D Farrow) - Keewatin basic metavolcanic rocks are intruded by qtz porph stock and later granodiorite and qfp. Lavas strike ~070 and dip steeply south to vertical. Mineralization is associated with qtz veining, stockworks and associated alteration zones, principally in the granodiorite. The Goldlund deposit is a mesothermal deposit hosted within a Precambrian formation that is approximately 3 kilometres wide and strikes along an ENE axis. The formation is composed of granodiorite sills intruding a series of basaltic formations. The basaltic formations consist of spherulitic lavas, tuffs and pillowed lavas. The basaltic units are bounded on the north and south by Precambrian sediments. This strata-bound granodiorite intrusion is known to extend northeastward well beyond the Goldlund property southwestward beyond the Windfall properties and it reappears just South of Troutfly Lake.It has been postulated that this granodiorite may occur intermittently over a strike length of approximately 15 kilometres Reference Peterise, K., Tamaka Gold Corporation Technical Report and Mineral Inventory Estimate for the Goldlund Property, April 2009.

Lithology

Lithology Comments

Feb 09, 2011 (C Ravnaas) - Gold mineralization occurs primarily within the granodiorite dykes or sills, predominantly in those places where fracturing, quartz veining and quartz-carbonate veining are predominant. The veins display narrow to broad alteration haloes (bleaching), characterized by quartz, ankerite, calcite, ilmenite, magnetite, pyrrhotite with local gold and telluride minerals; galena, sphalerite and chalcopyrite are found occasionally. The igneous sheets which host the most important zones of mineralization at Goldlund have been referred to as "grey granodiorite" because of their light colour and significant amounts of biotite and free quartz (Armstrong 1951). Metagabbroic or metadioritic rocks in both transitional and intrusive contact with the "granodiorite", as well as crosscutting feldspar and quartz-feldspar porphyry dikes, were at times themselves referred to as "granodiorite", causing the terminology to become confused. Reference Peterise, K., Tamaka Gold Corporation Technical Report and Mineral Inventory Estimate for the Goldlund Property, April 2009.

Mineralization

Mineralization Comments

Dec 14, 2012 (C Ravnaas) - At the Goldlund Mine, gold mineralization is related to dense arrays of narrow, relatively straight, en echelon (transverse) quartz veins, mainly, but not exclusively, hosted by igneous sheets of rock variously referred to as granodiorite, tonalite, and gabbro. : The gold occurs concentrated in quartz filled cross fractures that trend N 5°to N l5°E and dip35°to 5O°SW. The gold bearing shoots are related to tension fractures. The thicker lenses of quartz filled tension fractures clearly pinch out at the chilled borders of the host sill. These gold bearing fractures occurs concentrated in zones that extend intermittently at intervals of 200 to 350 metres along the 2 kilometre length of granodiorite that has been explored by various operators to a vertical depth of 150 to 200 metres at the Goldlund property. The modeling has indicated that the mineralized zones are near vertical and arranged in an en-echelon fashion. The known combined cross sectional extent of these mineralized zones defined to date is in excess of 800 metres. In the gold bearing shoots, the richer concentrations of visible gold occur in the altered wallrocks immediately adjacent to the quartz-filled tension-fractures. There does not seem to be any correlation between the thickness of the quartz-filled fracture and gold content of the wallrocks. The presence of greater carbonate content in the wallrock and tension fractures is a favourable factor. Where pyrite occurs as coarse cubes and/or massive pyrite or with ilmenite and/or tourmaline, the gold content commonly increases but the gold occurrences are clearly associated with the later bluish quartz-filled fractures. Two minerals are occasionally found that are related to gold occurrences, these are altaite and sphalerite. The property was mined at various times commencing in January 1948 when a three compartment (11.5m x 7 metre) shaft was collared. There exist 4 levels, an open pit and a decline on the property. The total amount that has been mined by 1984 as reported by the MNDM is 111,891 tonnes at .15 opt (5.14 g/t). Geological reserves (historical and non NI 43-101 compliant) have been calculated and as of December 1st 1984 they stood at 324,308 tons at a grade of 0.181 Au. Opt (6.17 g/t) undiluted. The total mineral inventory has been calculated to be 39.6 million tonnes at a grade ranging between 1.21g/t (uncapped high grade) to 0.94 g/t (capped at 36 g/t). This mineral inventory is found in 23 zones defined by a 350 ppb grade cut-off.Reference Peterise, K., Tamaka Gold Corporation Technical Report and Mineral Inventory Estimate for the Goldlund Property, April 2009 Production: 111 891 t grading 0.15 opt Au (Dec. 84) taken from Tamaka Gold Corp., technical report, Apr. 20, 2009. Mineral Resource Estimate Reserves: cut-off 0.3 g/t Au Measured: 4 700 000 tonnes grading 1.74 g/t Au Indicated: 3 600 000 tonnes grading 1.42 g/t Au taken fromTamaka Gold Corp., technical report, Apr. 20, 2009

May 14, 2020 (Therese Pettigrew) - Gold occurs in essentially two types of deposits in the area of the Goldlund Project. The most important gold mineralization is associated with quartz vein and stock-work structures, which are found in albite-trondhjemite dykes, as well as in porphyry dykes and meta-volcanic rocks. Trace to minor quantities of gold (and silver) are found in disseminated and massive sulphide deposits (copper-nickel, copper-zinc) in metavolcanic rocks. Gold mineralization at the Goldlund Project is hosted by zones of northeast-trending and gently to moderately northwest-dipping quartz stockworks (comprised of numerous quartz veinlets less than 1 to 20 cm thick). The stockwork zones form bands within the dykes that intrude the east-northeast-trending mafic volcanic country rocks. The quartz veins and veinlets contain occasional fine-grained to coarse-grained pyrite. The intervening areas between the quartz veinlets exhibit strong to moderate feldspathic alteration associated with common fine to medium-grained pyrite and magnetite. The mineralized sills strike generally northeast (065°) and dip steeply to the southeast. The quartz stockwork veins generally strike 010° to 015° and dip northwest at -40° to -75°. This results in a shallow rake within the various zones (McCracken, 2019).

Mineral Record Details

References

Map - Township of Echo, District of Kenora, Ontario

Publication Number: M1950-01 Scale: 1:12,000    Date: 1997

Author: Armstrong H.S., Webb J.K.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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Publication - Northern Miner 85-09-09, Bold, p. 13

Publication Number: NMINER Date: 1996

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Publication Number: M2528 Scale: 1:20,000    Date: 1989

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Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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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: 29  Date: 1971

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Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs

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Publication Number: ARV59-05 Page: 32-35  Date: 1997

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Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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Publication Number: P1204 Scale: 1:63,360    Date: 1976

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Publication Number: MDC016 Page: 140  Date: 1976

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Publication Number: MP117 Page: 36  Date: 1984

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Publisher Name: Wardrop

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Mono - Report of Activities 2011, Resident Geologist Program, Red Lake Regonal Resident Geologist Report: Red Lake and Kenora Districts

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