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Record: MDI52K13SE00004

General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold

Location

Township or Area: Dixie Lake Area

Latitude: 50° 51' .09"    Longitude: -93° 37' 15.77"

UTM Zone: 15    Easting: 456281.23   Northing: 5633331.01    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Red Lake

NTS Grid: 52K13SE

Point Location Description: Precise

Location Method: Data Compilation

Access Description: 24 km SE of Red Lake. Accessed by Tucyk’s Road, a logging road to the SW off Highway 105, and a bush road system at 4 km.

Exploration History

1944: A Boyle completed 8 x-ray holes into the A Zone. 1945: Belgold Mines - 4 x-ray holes into the A Zone, prospecting, and trenching. 1951: Currie, Mahoney and McDougall - 9 drill holes totalling 284 m into the B Zone. 1969-1972: Caravelle Mines Ltd. completed mapping, airborne mag and EM surveys. 1970: Newmont - 9 drill holes @1,067 m. 1985: Golden Terrace completed airborne mag. 1988: Mutual Resources and Consolidated Silver Standard Mints Ltd - 7 BQ @ 465 m - discovery of 88-04 (main) zone also completed 3 trenches/rock sampling, ground mag and VLF-EM. 1989: Teck Resources optioned 50% of the property and drilled 27 BQ @ 4,090 m as well as mapping and IP survey. 1990: 13 BQ @ 2,218 m. 1996: Canadian Gold Dragon completed 12 NW @ 1,888m, and in 1997 15 NQ @ 2,566. 2003/2004: Alberta Star/Fronteer Development completed 17 NQ 5 BQ at 6,594 m, and ground mag survey. 2005: Grandview Gold Inc completed drill program16 DDH @ 2,765 m. 2006: 5 boreholes @1,032.7 m. 2007: completed 18 DDH @ 4,562.77. 2017: Great Bear optioned the property from Newmont Mining and drilled 8 DDH totalling 1000 m. 2018: Great Bear drilled 23 DDH totalling 5000 m.

Assessment Work on File

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Uchi

Terrane: North Caribou

Domain: Uchi

Belt: Red Lake

Geological Age: Archean  

Geology Comments

Mar 09, 2015 (Therese Pettigrew) - The Dixie Lake occurrence is located in the western Uchi Subprovince. General geology consists of large, ellipsoidal, felsic domal intrusions with narrow belts of greenstone wrapping around the intrusions. The Dixie Lake occurrence is located 2 km east of the Longlegged Lake Dome within greenstone terrain (Atkinson et al., 1990).

Lithology

Lithology Comments

Mar 09, 2015 (Therese Pettigrew) - Local geology of the occurrence includes mafic metavolcanic flows with intercalated chemical and clastic metasediments. The A Zone or Main Showing exposes a 55 m strike length of thinly banded, chert-magnetite iron formation, trending north. The iron formation is enclosed by massive garnetiferous mafic metavolcanics and crosscut by mafic dykes. Narrow pyrite-bearing quartz veins cut the iron formation (Atkinson et al., 1990).

Mineralization

Mineralization Comments

Feb 13, 2012 (A McKee) - 1988: surface channel sampling assays up to 0.72 opt Au/0.2 m. Several DDH intersections, assays up to 0.169 opt Au/1.0 m. 2005: 5.9 g/t over 4.5 m and 3.5 g/t over 5.2 m. 2007: 3 DDH in the area best assays 1.42 g/t over 1.5 m, 0.58 g/t over 1 m, and 3.55 g/t over 3 m.

Jan 29, 2019 (Therese Pettigrew) - The best results from the Mutual resources 1988 drill program included a 19.4 ft section grading 0.107 opt Au including 5.6 ft of 0.30 opt Au. Teck drilled a followup hole to 88-4 and intersected a mineralized zone 9.3 ft wide that assayed 0.455 opt Au (Atkinson et al, 1990). Highlights from the 2018 drill program include the Hinge Zone which returned 26.91 gpt Au over 16.35 m in DHZ-003, including 5.05 m of 51.39 gpt Au and 1.0 m of 112.63 gpt Au; DHZ-004 - 7.00 m of 68.76 g/t Au (15 m vertically below DHZ-003), including 2.00 m of 228.27 g/t Au, and 1.00 m of 302.48 g/t Au; DHZ-002 - 17.18 g/t Au over 1.7 m, including 46.3 g/t Au over 0.60 m; and DHZ-001 - 10.15 g/t Au over 1.25 m. The Hanging Wall Zone returned 12.41 gpt Au over 1.5 m, including 30.20 gpt Au over 0.55 m in DL-009 (Great Bear Resources website: https://greatbearresources.ca/projects/red-lake-camp-ontario/dixie/). In a Jan 16, 2019 press release, Great Bear reported results up to 1602.73 gpt Au over 0.7 m from DDH DHZ-014. The Hinge Zone has been intersected across 300 m of strike length and is open along strike and at depth.

Mineral Record Details

Mineral Zones - Size and Shape

Site Visit Information

Date: Jun 01, 1997

Geologist: Peter Hinz

Notes: Red Lake Resident Geologists office (OFR5969, p. 18-20) – at the Main Showing Trench, a weakly auriferous, 2-5 m thick, steeply dipping iron formation strikes approx. north and has been traced in outcrop for about 50 m. Diamond drill hole intersections indicate more than 200 m of strike length. Coarse-grained, massive mafic metavolcanic rocks bound the iron formation on both sides. The iron formation consists of thinly bedded chert-magnetite layers, though magnetic attraction is weak. Very fine-grained, disseminated sulphide minerals are pervasive. Pyrrhotite is dominant, although arsenopyrite, sphalerite and chalcopyrite have been reported. Reported gold values are mostly anomalous, the best drill intercept reported by Mutual Resources Ltd. being 0.169 opt over 1.0 m. The author observed previously unreported open S-folding, with steep axial planes striking about NE, within the iron formation. No boudinaging of the unit was observed (Blackburn et al. 1998, p. 18-20).

References

Mono - Report of Activities 1997, Resident Geologists Program, Red Lake Regional Resident Geologist's Report: Red Lake-Kenora Districts

Publication Number: OFR5969 Page: 18-20  Date: 1998

Author: Blackburn C.E., Hinz P., Storey C.C., Kosloski L., Ravnaas C.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

Article - Red Lake Resident Geologist's District - 1989

Publication Number: MP147.003 Page: 56-57  Date: 1997

Author: Atkinson B.T., Parker J.R., Storey C.C.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

Map - Compilation series, Red Lake sheet, Kenora District

Publication Number: P2385 Scale: 1:126,720    Date: 1981

Author: Thurston P.C., Bartlett J.R.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

Publication - Technical Report on the Dixie Property

Publication Number: 2020 NI 43-101 Date: 2020

Author: Adamova, A.

Publisher Name:

Location:

Map - Geological series, Operation Kenora-Sydney Lake, Pakwash-Longlegged lakes sheet, District of Kenora

Publication Number: P1027 Scale: 1:63,360    Date: 1975

Author: Breaks F.W., Bond W.D., McWilliams G.H., Gower C.F., Stone D.

Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines

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Map - Precambrian Geology, Dixie Lake Area (West), District of Kenora (Patricia Portion)

Publication Number: P3299 Scale: 1:20,000    Date: 1994

Author: Muir T.L.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

Map - Precambrian Geology, Dixie Lake Area (East), District of Kenora (Patricia Portion)

Publication Number: P3301 Scale: 1:20,000    Date: 1994

Author: Muir T.L.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

Map - Precambrian Geology, Dixie Lake Area (Central), District of Kenora, (Patricia Portion)

Publication Number: P3300 Scale: 1:20,000    Date: 1994

Author: Muir T.L.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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