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Record: MDI52J02SE00009

General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold

Location

Township or Area: Squash Lake Area

Latitude: 50° 2' 9.48"    Longitude: -90° 38' 36.86"

UTM Zone: 15    Easting: 668744   Northing: 5545290    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Kenora

NTS Grid: 52J02SE

Point Location Description: Sample RNF32533 from Assessment report 20000006555

Location Method: Based on Assessment

Access Description: Access during the summer is by traverse from the south end of McEdwards Lake, a small lake south of Belmore Bay of Sturgeon Lake. A forestry road, which joins Hwy. 599 1800 m south of the village of Savant Lake, can be followed around the east side of Sturgeon Lake to a terminus near Pup Lake.A network of cutting trails allows access to many of the showings. In winter snowmobile access from the road system or from East Bay of Sturgeon Lake is possible from access points off Hwy.599 from Cobb Bay to Horizontal Bay of Sturgeon Lake.

Exploration History

1911: Very little is known about the early exploration of the East Bay area. Moore (1911) states only that on East Bay are a number of abandoned prospects. 1930: Graham (1930) reported on the Davidson Jarvis group of 15 claims which covered the area between McEdwards and Pup lakes. The Davidson Jarvis group of 15 claims is situated north of East Bay. 1981-82: Sherritt Gordon Mines Ltd. carried out a combined mapping, geophysical and sampling program on their East Bay group of claims. This block of 6 claims extended from East Bay to the west end of Magee Lake and appear to be a continuation of, or form part of the work done on Davidson Jarvis group. 1989: Mr. A. Best of Savant Lake bought a group of patented claims in the area. While salvaging blow-down timber, a number of old pits were rediscovered and several new pits excavated. 1990: N. Lee carried out stripping, blasting, and sampling. 1992: K. Bernier conducted a VLF survey, N. Lee carried out trenching. 2011: Paragon Minerals Corp. carried out prospecting, mapping, and sampling.

Assessment Work on File

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Wabigoon

Belt: Sturgeon Lake

Geological Age: Archean  

Geology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (R Tuomi) - The presence of blow-down timber and later salvage operations has led to the loss of surface control from grids or existing aerial photography. A number of showings were found in 7 areas and examined to some degree. Only one area could be reliably located due its location near a road. This area, 30 m by 50 m, had been stripped and 3 existing trenches were cleaned out. All three trenches expose sheared mafic metavolcanics cut by quartz porphyry dikes and deformed quartz veins which carry pyrite, pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite and rare visable gold. The mafic rocks are sheared, silicified and carbonatized in part. Shearing is highly variable and trends easterly with dips of 70 degrees to the north. Three vein segments were grab sampled and returned assays between 0.88 to 2.76 ounce gold per ton. These were selected grab samples and do not reflect average grade of the veins.

Lithology

Lithology Comments

Apr 15, 2020 (R Tuomi) - A number of quartz porphyry dikes penetrate schisted Keewatin acid and basic flows. Quartzites and conglomerate are also found on the property. Three gold bearing quartz veins on claim HW679 have widths from 4 to 6 feet and lengths from 600 to 1000 feet. There are also 2 other smaller veins on claims AL 535 and HW 737.

Mineralization

Mineralization Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (R Tuomi) - 1990: Three grab samples from the Hut zone gave assays of 0.88, 2.76 and 0.92 ounce gold per ton from trenches on quartz veins in a 27 m by 48 m stripped area on a timber access road.

Apr 15, 2020 (Therese Pettigrew) - Mapping of the area by Sherritt Gordon Mines outlined several gold-bearing quartz veins. These veins vary in width up to four feet wide. They are lenticular with a strike length of 200-400 feet and a NNE strike of 15 to 40 degrees. The wall rocks are silicified with up to 5% euhedral pyrite. Assay results by Sherritt Gordon from 165 samples returned several values in the 0.20 to 0.40 oz/ton range with a high of 1.15 oz/ton. In the fall of 1990, N. Lee stripped and blasted the trenches to a length of 150 feet and 10 feet wide. Assays of 0.02 to 0.92 oz/ton were obtained. A result of 0.327 oz/ton was returned from a sample taken by Noranda Explorations Co. Ltd. (Assessment report 52J02SE0004). Samples collected by Paragon Minerals returned up to 22.4 g/t Au (Assessment report 20000006555).

Alteration Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (R Tuomi) - Shearing.

Mineral Record Details

References

Article - Sioux Lookout Resident Geologist's District - 1990

Publication Number: MP152.004 Page: 100, 102  Date: 1997

Author: Janes D.A., Seim G.Wm., Storey C.C.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

Part - Iron ranges of northwestern Ontario

Publication Number: ARV11.011 Page: 149  Date: 1998

Author: Coleman A.P.

Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines

Location:

Part - Sturgeon Lake gold area, districts of Kenora and Thunder Bay

Publication Number: ARV39-02.002 Page: 50  Date: 1998

Author: Graham A.R.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:

Book - CLIPPINGS 1901-06

Publication Number: CLIPPINGS Date: 1901

Author:

Publisher Name:

Location: OGS OFFICE

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