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Record: MDI52J04SW00031

General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold

Location

Township or Area: Drayton

Latitude: 50° 2' 39.3"    Longitude: -91° 46' 12.82"

UTM Zone: 15    Easting: 588052   Northing: 5544275    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Kenora

NTS Grid: 52J04SW

Point Location Description: Shaft symbol on map 2243

Location Method: Field Visit with GPS

Access Description: 12 km southeast of Sioux Lookout, access is by water via Alcona Bay on Minnitaki Lakw.

Exploration History

1998 and 1999: Property was staked by prospectors I.J. Riives and A. Glatz. OPAP grants funded stripping, sampling, ground mag and EM surveys. 2004: Numbered company 1179785 Ontario Ltd. conducted geological mapping, trench mapping and channel sampling. 2005: Numbered company 1179785 Ontario Ltd. conducted magnetometer and IP/resistivity geophysical surveys. 2006: Fortune River Resources Corp. optioned the property and drilled 11 DDH and conducted a 3D IP survey. 2007: Fortune River drilled 10 DDH totalling 2340.85 m. 2013: Duncastle Gold Corp. flew airborne EM and magnetic surveys. 2017: Group Ten Metals carried out geophysical modelling and interpretation. 2022: Heritage Mining Ltd. carried out prospecting and sampling.

Assessment Work on File

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Wabigoon

Terrane: Western Wabigoon

Belt: Abram-Minnitaki Lakes

Geological Age: Archean  

Lithology

Lithology Comments

Mar 21, 2016 (Therese Pettigrew) - Mafic metavolcanics comprises both flows and volcaniclastics rocks. Flows are fine to aphanitic, intermediate to mafic composition and exhibit variolitic, amygdaloidal and pillow features. They are also in general are massive to weakly sheared and are exposed on ridges and elevated high grounds. Mafic volcaniclastic rocks comprise tuffs, lapilli tuffs and agglomerates, and occupied low-lying areas between ridges. Medium-grained, equigranular, dioritic flows are recorded on ridges south of Alcona Bay. Intense shearing, quartz-carbonate alteration, auriferous quartz-sulphide veins and stockworks are recorded in trenches adjacent of the Shaft Area (AFRI 20000003428).

Mineralization

Mineralization Comments

Mar 21, 2016 (C Ravnaas) - During the 1998 and 1999 sampling programs, assays up to 9 opt Au from siliceous mafic tuff were obtained. Channel samples retuned up to 23860 ppb Au. A grab sample during a property visit returned 0.22 opt Au from non-oxidized mafic tuff.

Mar 21, 2016 (Therese Pettigrew) - The gold mineralization in trenches in the Shaft Area occurred associated with quartz-carbonate veinlets and veins (average Scm to up to 80cm). Visible gold is evident in some portions of these veins. These veinlets and veins form stockwork zones in places. Thin reddish felsic dykes characterized by euhedral pyrite cubes are recorded in Trench #3 W. During the course of mapping the Abram Lake Sheet, Map 2243, F. J. Johnston observed some old trenching and one diamond drill location near the southeastern comer of Mining Location K171 one of three former patented claims in the area (Johnston, 1972). Glenn Seim, former MNDM Resident Geologist-Sioux Lookout, discovered an old shaft in this block in June 1998. However, there is no known public record on the area. This area lies on a prominent structural feature, a splay or offshoot of the Ruby Island Fault which is part of the same system that hosts the 'WG 16' prospect on the current property as well as the Neepawa Island and Bumthut Island prospects located to the west. The mineralization in this area consists of quartz veins containing sulphides and variable amounts of gold that have been intermittently traced by limited recent surface trenching over an approximately 400 metres strike length. The veins in this area are contained in mafic volcanic that are sheared, silicified and carbonatized. Results from the 2006 and 2007 drill programs included the following significant assays: DDH DT07-14: 1.490 gpt Au over 1.5 m from 167-168.5 m and 13.573 gpt Au over 1.5 m from 217.3-218.8 m; DDH DT06-01: 5.489 g/t Au over 2.17 m from 38.61-40.78 m, 1.705 g/t Au over 1.95 m from 50.5-52.45 m; 1.110 g/t Au over 2.25 m from 54.78-57.0 m, and 1.983 g/t Au over 1.55 m from 104.22-105.77 m (AFRI 20000003428). Sampling in 2022 returned up to 25.0 g/t Au from a quartz-carbonate vein with pyrite (Heritage Mining news release Oct 19, 2022).

Mineral Record Details

References

Map - Abram Lake sheet, Kenora District

Publication Number: M2243 Scale: 1:31,680    Date: 1972

Author: Johnston F.J.

Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines

Location:

MonoMap - Geology of the Vermilion-Abram lakes area, District of Kenora

Publication Number: R101 Date: 1972

Author: Johnston F.J.

Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines

Location:

Mono - Regional Geology of the Sioux Lookout Orogenic Belt, Western Wabigoon Subprovince: Stages of Archean Volcanism, Sedimentation, Tectonism and Mineralization

Publication Number: OFR6017 Date: 2000

Author: Devaney J.R.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

Map - Precambrian Geology of Minnitaki Lake, Northeast Bay Area

Publication Number: P3796 Scale: 1:20,000    Date: 2015

Author: Meade S.R.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

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