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Record: MDI52K13SE00003

General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold

Location

Township or Area: Dixie Lake Area

Latitude: 50° 51' 4.17"    Longitude: -93° 37' 4.07"

UTM Zone: 15    Easting: 456511   Northing: 5633455    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Red Lake

NTS Grid: 52K13SE

Point Location Description: DDH DL-042 collar from 2020 NI 43-101

Location Method: Data Compilation

Access Description: 30 km SSW of Red Lake

Exploration History

1944: A Boyle completed 8 x-ray holes. 1945: Belgold Mines - 4 x-ray holes, prospecting, and trenching. 1951: Currie, Mahoney and McDougall - 9 drill holes totalling 284 m. 1969-1972: Caraville completed mapping, airborne mag and EM surveys. 1970: Newmont - 9 drill holes totaling 1,067 m. 1972: Caravelle - 6 drill holes totaling 451 m. 1985: Golden Terrace completed airborne mag. 1988: Mutual Resources and Consolidated Silver Standard Mints Ltd - 7 BQ totaling 465 m - discovery of 88-04 (main) zone also completed 3 trenchs/rock sampling, ground mag and VLF-EM. 1989: Teck Resources 27 BQ totaling 4,090 m as well as mapping and IP survey. 1990: 13 BQ totaling 2,218 m. 1996: Canadian Gold Dragon completed 12 NW totaling 1,888 m, and in 1997 15 NQ totaling 2,566 m. 2003/2004: Alberta Star/Fronteer Development completed 17 NQ 5 BQ totaling 6,594 m, and ground mag survey. 2005: Grandview Gold Inc completed drill program 16 DDH totaling 2,765 m. 2006: 5 boreholes totaling 1,032.7 m. 2007: completed 18 DDH totaling 4,562.77 m. 2009: Grandview Gold carried out drilling. 2011: Grandview Gold inc. carried out drilling. 2010: Laurention Goldfield Ltd conducted exploration on the property. MMI soil sampling, trenching, lake sediment sampling and grab samples. No anomalous assays returned. 2017-19: Great Bear Resources carried out prospecting, sampling, mapping, a soil gas hydrocarbon survey, and drilled 245 DDH totalling 85,673 m. 2022: Kinross Gold Corp. acquired Great Bear Resources and drilled 50 DDH totalling 34,181 m. 2023: Kinross released a mineral resource estimate.

Assessment Work on File

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Uchi

Terrane: North Caribou

Domain: Uchi

Belt: Red Lake

Geological Age: Archean  

Lithology

Mineralization

Mineralization Comments

Feb 13, 2012 (A McKee) - GRADE 1988 GRAB SAMPLE: 1880 PPB AU. 2007: 4 DDH, best assays 6.08 g/t over 1 m, and 9.25 g/t over 1 m.

Oct 15, 2020 (Therese Pettigrew) - The silica sulfide replacement zones have been the focus of exploration at the Dixie Limb Zone. This zone is associated with the rheological and geochemical contact between pillow basalt (Fe-Tholeiites) and massive basalt (Mg-Tholeiites). The contact is often marked by argillite/siltstones. Mineralization occurs as replacement of sediments if present, or, as silica flooding and quartz-calcite veining in the absence of sediments. Pyrrhotite is the dominant sulphide, with sulphides ranging in concentrations from 2-40% pyrrhotite, 2-15% pyrite,1-4% arsenopyrite, 2% chalcopyrite, minor <2% sphalerite and trace magnetite. Visible gold is not uncommon, and where observed, it is associated with strong pyrrhotite and weaker arsenopyritepyrite mineralization. Drilling on the Dixie Limb zone have defined a steeply dipping consistent gold zone, 5-10 m wide, mineralized from surface to 450 m depth and at a current strike length of 500 m (Adamova, 2020). Drilling of a strong EM conductor discovered 0.212 oz/ton gold over 8.9 feet in a hole DL88-4, resulting in the "88-4 Zone”. Another DDH, 89-25, intersected a new zone of auriferous silicification (0.090 oz/ton Au over 3.4 feet) about 150 m south of the 88-4 zone. DDH DL-96-02 returned up to 1.5 ppm Au over 0.7 m from tuff with massive pyrrhotite and disseminated arsenopyrite, 1.62 ppm Au over 0.7 m from a strongly deformed pyrrhotite-rich argillite unit, and 3.45 ppm Au over 0.5 m from a chert with pyrrhotite. DDH DL-96-03 returned up to 5.5 ppm Au over 0.4 m from an argillite. DDH BL-96-04 returned up to 7.45 ppm Au over 0.3 m from an intermediate tuff with disseminated arsenopyrite. DDH DL-96-06 returned up to 3.36 ppm Au over 0.6 m from a tuff with fine pyrrhotite and arsenopyrite. DDH DL-96-7 returned up to 0.595 oz/t Au (20.4 g/t Au) over 0.6 m from a tuff with 10% fine stringer arsenopyrite (Assessment report 52K13SE0034).

Mineral Record Details

References

Publication - Technical Report on the Dixie Property

Publication Number: 2020 NI 43-101 Date: 2020

Author: Adamova, A.

Publisher Name: Great Bear Resources

Location: SEDAR

Publication - Great Bear Gold Project

Publication Number: 2023 NI 43-101 Date: 2023

Author: Pfeiffer, N., Sims, J., Breau, Y., Greenwood, R., Prawasono, A.

Publisher Name: Kinross Gold Corp.

Location: SEDAR

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