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| Record Name(s) | Faulkenham Lake - 1930, New Faulkenham Mines Ltd - 1930 |
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| Related Record Type | Partial |
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| Record Status | Developed Prospect Without Reported Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1984-Apr-18 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-May-12 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Baird
Latitude: 50° 56' 25.13" Longitude: -93° 56' 7.09"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 434286.577 Northing: 5643603.996 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Red Lake
NTS Grid: 52K13NW
Point Location Description: Shaft symbol in Claim KRL 12881
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: The New Faulkenham Mines Ltd. property is located in Baird Township 1050 metres south-southwest of the community of Starrett-Olsen and the past producing Starrett-Olsen Mine. An old road extends from the Starrett-Olsen townsite approximately 2150 m to the New Faulkenham property.
The property is part of the land package obtained from Madsen Gold Corp and held by Claude Resources Ltd. During the 1930s the property was explored by a shaft 344 feet deep with levels at 125, 225 and 325 feet, with a total of 1445 feet of drifts and crosscuts. There are published reserves of 15,000 tons of 0.428 ounce per ton gold (Holbrooke 1958). No production was recorded from this site but an ore dump was left at the shaft. This material was milled at the Madsen mill by Madsen Gold Corp. 2019-2021: Pacton Gold completed across the Red Lake Gold Project that includes Faulkenham a high-resolution magnetic, VLF, EM and Lidar survey and soil sampling. 10 drill holes were drilled across an IP anomaly at the property, extending mineralization across a 600 m strike length.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| 20000020162 | 20000020162 | |
| 20000019950 | 20000019950 | |
| 20000020223 | 20000020223 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Uchi
Terrane: North Caribou
Domain: Uchi
Belt: Red Lake
Geological Age: Archean
Dec 07, 2005 (C Storey) - The New Faulkenham veins are part of a sheared and altered zone striking 110 and varying in width and degree of alteration. Alteration consists of silicification and sulphidation accompanied by epidote veinlets and pink hematite staining. The area is underlain by east-northeast striking intermediate to felsic rocks mapped as fragmental and grouped with the Confederation Assemblage. The host rock exposed at the surface is sheared dark grey feldspar porphyry, at least in part a felsic crystal tuff, similar in appearance to felsic rocks exposed on Highway 618 at Madsen. The rock at New Faulkenham contains feldspar phenocrysts but no quartz phenocrysts and is more highly deformed. Flattened wispy fragments appear on the weathered surface. The foliation is visible but not intense enough to make the rock schistose. Biotite is present in the foliation surfaces. A trace amount of euhedral pyrite is present. Mapping by Ferguson (1965) shows an east striking granodiorite dike immediately south of the main vein zone. The granodiorite is fine-grained, pink to deep pink in colour and has biotite as the mafic mineral phase. Epidote is present as veins cutting both rock types and as isolated clusters in the granodiorite. The main vein is white to light grey glassy quartz with variable amounts of pyrite and small amounts of chlacopyrite, sphalerite and galena. The host rock is silicified and also carries small amounts of sulphide minerals. Samples from the remaining material from the ore dump showed variable gold values accompanied by high base metal assays. The veins, as exposed in the shaft area trenches look quite barren while the host is mineralized with small amounts of pyrite and other sulphides. Assays of several quartz vein samples indicated that this is not the case. In the area to the east of the shaft the host rock is not apparently mineralized but is still anomalous in gold.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 1 | Latite | Adjacent |
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| Granodiorite | 2 | Adjacent | ||
| Mylonite/Fault Gouge/Pseudotachylite | 3 | Shear Zone | Contains |
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 5 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 10 | Galena | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 15 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 20 | Sphalerite | Economic | Ore |
May 12, 2023 (Paul Malegus) - Diamond drilling in 2020 intersected mineralization associated with alteration and structures. Typically 1-2% disseminated pyrite and pyrrhotite, with local stringers of chalcopyrite and pyrrhotite up to 10%. The best Au intercept was 1.3 g/t over 0.8 m in hole PAC-20-045.
Sep 01, 2022 (Q Unknown) - A series of old trenches, pits and stripped areas on a property scale map by Horwood (1945) show the main vein exposed for 900 feet and two more veins to the north exposed for 125 and 60 feet each. The main vein strikes 107 and dips 85N, the vein pinches and swells with a maximum reported width of 24 inches.
May 12, 2023 (Paul Malegus) - Mineralization is associated with pervasive silica, sericite and potassium alteration.
| Zone | Year | Category | Tonnes | Reference | Comments | Commodities |
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| Faulkenham Lake | 1958 | Unclassified | 13600 | OFR6180, Table 14 (Holbrooke 1958) | Grade: 14.67 g/t Au (15 000 tons of 0.428 opt Au) | Gold 14.67 g/t |
File - Resident Geologist files AF RL 1958 Baird #13
Publication Number: Date: 1996
Author: Holbrooke, G.L.
Publisher Name:
Location: Red Lake RGP
Map - Baird Township, eastern part, Kenora District
Publication Number: M2072 Scale: 1:12,000 Date: 1997
Author: Ferguson S.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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File - Resident Geologist files AF RL 1963 Baird #21
Publication Number: Date: 1996
Author:
Publisher Name:
Location: Red Lake RGP
Part - Geology and mineral deposits of the Red Lake area
Publication Number: ARV49-02 Page: 103-106 Date: 1998
Author: Horwood H.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - Geology of the eastern part of Baird Township, District of Kenora
Publication Number: R039 Page: 28-29 Date: 1997
Author: Ferguson S.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Report of Activities 2000, Resident Geologist Program, Red Lake Regional Resident Geologist Report: Red Lake and Kenora Districts
Publication Number: OFR6047 Date: 2001
Author: Lichtblau A.F., Raoul A., Ravnaas C., Storey C.C., Kosloski L., Debicki R.L., Drost A.P.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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