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Record: MDI52M01NW00002

General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold

Location

Township or Area: Todd

Latitude: 51° 4' 10.54"    Longitude: -94° 8' 42.73"

UTM Zone: 15    Easting: 419763   Northing: 5658188    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Red Lake

NTS Grid: 52M01NW

Point Location Description: Shaft #1 location in AMIS

Location Method: Data Compilation

Access Description: From Red Lake, take the highway to Balmertown and Cochenour, then turn onto Nungessor Road. Approx. 17 km along Nungessor Road (gravel), turn west onto Pine Ridge Road (gravel) for approx. 22 km and then south onto Devlin Timber / Jamie Bush Road. The property is approx. 25 down this rough road. The property can also be accessed via water by travelling on Red Lake and landing at the north end of Golden Arm Bay or the east end of Pipestone Bay.

Exploration History

1920: gold was discovered. 1928: 11 claims were patented. 1934: Frontier-Red Lake Gold Mines Limited acquired the property. 1934-36: Surface work, mainly trenching, and drilled 24 DDH totalling 1995 m. 1936: Shaft to 74 m levels at 38 m, 69 m, diamond drilling. Operations were halted in December. 1939: Gold Frontier Mines Ltd. was incorporated and took over the property. 1940: Shaft deepened to 151 m, levels at 107 m, 145 m; 816 m of lateral development; diamond drilling from surface and underground. 1942: work on the No. 1 Shaft was halted in favour of sinking a second shaft on the North vein. 1944-1947: Bayview Red Lake Gold Mines Ltd. acquired the property. Surface work and diamond drilling; shaft deepened to 238 m; levels established at 191 m, 229 m; 24 m of crosscutting. 1951: Red Poplar Gold Mines Limited acquired the property, dewatered the working and conducted underground sampling. 1949: Gold Frontier Mines Limited. 1955: Consolidated Red Poplar Minerals Ltd. 1971: New Dimension Resources. 1975: Mount Jamie Mines (Quebec) Limited. 1976: mine was dewatered and rehabilitated. Constructed an open-air gravity mill, remnants of the mill are still on the property. Mill was in operation in 1976, 550 tons of material was treated. 1980: Mount Jamie Mines Ltd, processed 420 tons remaining from stockpile of 1976. 1981: same operator completed testing of tailings and surface exploration. 1982: Orenio-Alfa ltd acquired 52% of the property, completed mapping and 5,400 ft diamond drilling, 19 holes, 16 of which were on the No. 1 Shaft zone. 1983: Keeley Frontier Resources Ltd took over Oneiro-Alfa's interest. Shaft 1 was dewatered work consisted of underground and surface drilling (22 surface holes totalling 2560 m, 39 underground holes totalling 1525 m), stripping, sampling and mapping. 1984: Jamie Frontier Resources Inc acquired the property. Completed refurbishing of structures. 1985: Dewatering and refurbishing of the shaft was completed. 1988: Jamie Frontier suspended all operations. 1988: Pezgold Resources Corporation initiated diamond drilling with 11 holes totalling 1397.2 m in the No. 1 Shaft area, 17 DDH totalling 1318 m in the No. 2 Shaft area and 11 DDH totalling 958 m in the North Vein area. 1996: Placer Dome conducted ground magnetic, VLF, and IP surveys. 1997: Placer Dome drilled 5 DDH totalling 951.5 m. 2002-2005: Zenda Capital Corp and Vedron Gold Inc held the property. 2005: Terex Resources took over Zenda. Six DDh completed totalling 736 m. 2007: Hy Lake Gold Inc. acquired the property from Jamie Frontier Resources Inc. drilled 39 DDH. 2010: NI 43-101 was completed, with new calculated reserve estimates. 2011: Hy Lake carried out sampling and drilled 31 DDH totalling 3489 m. 2012: Hy Lake Gold changed name to West Red Lake Gold Mines and drilled 16 DDH totalling 2161 m.

Assessment Work on File

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Uchi

Terrane: North Caribou

Domain: Uchi

Belt: Red Lake

Geological Age: Archean  

Metamorphism Type: Regional

Metamorphism Grade: Amphibolite

Geology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (K R Kettles) - GEOLOGICAL DESCRIPTION: This deposit occurs in a series of intermediate pyroclastic rocks, felsic lava flows and granodiorite sills, all having a foliation that strikes N75 deg. W and dips about 80 deg. to the north. Lithologic contacts as mapped by Flaherty (1944) appear to be parallel to this foliation but a longitudinal section by Horwood (1940) shows some contacts dipping to the southwest. The No. 1 vein occurs in a fracture zone in the altered intermediate pyroclastic rocks close to or along tongues of felsic lava. The fracture zone strikes S65 deg.E and dips 85 deg. S. The No. 1 vein lies north of a unit of felsic flow breccia, intrusive breccia or tectonic breccia that dips southwest less steeply than the fractures such that at one point along its length the vein peters out into this breccia below the 69 m level. The 'vein' splits and branches but in general is confined to a 1.2 m width comprising individual quartz stringers having widths from 5 to 40 cm. The quartz is grey, massive and tightly frozen to the wallrocks and sparsely mineralized. Wallrocks immediately adjacent to vein quartz are sericitized and contain sulphides. DEPOSIT DESCRIPTION: This is a gold-bearing shear zone averaging 1.2 m in width. The zone has been traced 165 m in the 38 m workings level, but was found to be discontinuous at deeper levels. This vein zone strikes S65 deg. E and dips 85 deg.S where exposed on surface. Six ore zones have been outlined along this vein. Three of these are located along the intermediate volcanic rock-felsic breccia contact. This zone is accessed via the No. 1 shaft and lateral workings on the 38, 69, 145 m levels. GEOCHEMICAL DATA: Probable potassium enrichment and sodium depletion.

Lithology

Lithology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (K R Kettles) - DESCRIPTION: This deposit occurs in a series of intermediate pyroclastic rocks, felsic lava flows and granodiorite sills, all having a foliation that strikes N75 deg. W and dips about 80 deg. to the north. Lithologic contacts as mapped by Flaherty (1944) appear to be parallel to this foliation but a longitudinal section by Horwood (1940) shows some contacts dipping to the southwest. The No. 1 vein occurs in a fracture zone in the altered intermediate pyroclastic rocks close to or along tongues of felsic lava. The fracture zone strikes S65 deg.E and dips 85 deg. S. The No. 1 vein lies north of a unit of felsic flow breccia, intrusive breccia or tectonic breccia that dips southwest less steeply than the fractures such that at one point along its length the vein peters out into this breccia below the 69 m level. The 'vein' splits and branches but in general is confined to a 1.2 m width comprising individual quartz stringers having widths from 5 to 40 cm. The quartz is grey, massive and tightly frozen to the wallrocks and sparsely mineralized. Wallrocks immediately adjacent to vein quartz are sericitized and contain sulphides.

Mineralization

Mineralization Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (K R Kettles) - An ore estimate by Red Piper Gold Mines Limited indicates the following: ORE ZONE A: WIDTH: 1.52 m, 3550 TONS, 0.48 OZ/TON Au (CUT), 16.457 G/TONNE Au (CUT). ORE ZONE B: WIDTH: 1.52 m, 7500 TONS, 0.40 OZ/TON Au (CUT), 13.714 G/TONNE Au (CUT). ORE ZONE C: WIDTH: 2.44 m, 3333 TONS, 1.00 OZ/TON Au (CUT), 34.285 G/TONNE Au (CUT). ORE ZONE D: WIDTH: 1.83 m, 3000 TONS, 1.00 OZ/TON Au (CUT), 34.285 G/TONNE Au (CUT). ORE ZONE E: WIDTH: 1.07 m, 918 TONS, 0.23 OZ/TON Au (CUT), 7.886 G/TONNE Au (CUT). ORE ZONE H: WIDTH: 1.28 m, 3780 TONS, 0.60 OZ/TON Au (CUT), 20.571 G/TONNE Au (CUT). This gives a total of 27,081 tons grding 0.61 oz/ton (20.914 g/tonne Au.

May 28, 2015 (Therese Pettigrew) - Significant intercepts from the 2011 drill program include the following: HY-11-05: 4.55 gpt Au over 1 m (68-69 m); HY-11-11: 4.49 gpt Au over 1 m (56-57 m); HY-11-15: 34.28 gpt Au over 1 m (55-56 m); HY-11-16: 5.97 gpt Au over 1 m (20-21 m); HY-11-19: 8.25 gpt Au over 2 m (20-22 m) including 10.20 gpt Au over 1 m (21-22 m) and 6.3 gpt Au over 1 m (22-23 m); HY-11-28: 4.66 gpt Au over 0.5 m (139.5-140 m) (Hy Lake press release April 14, 2011).

Alteration Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (K R Kettles) - The intermediate pyroclastic rocks contain much biotite and some garnet, especially near the No. 1 shaft and to the east of it. The wallrocks are 'waxy' or sericitic and sulphide bearing. The matrix of the coarse felsic breccia is aluminous, containing 55% biotite. This rock may be carbonatized as the matrix contains 7% carbonate.

Mineral Record Details

Mineral Zones - Size and Shape

Rank: 1       Structure Type: Vein

Site Visit Information

Date: Feb 09, 1997

Geologist: K R Kettles

Notes: N/A

References

Publication - Technical Report on the Pipestone Bay Gold Deposit, Prepared for Hy Lake Gold Inc, Todd Twp, Red Lake area, NTS52M1, Sept 2010,

Publication Number: 2010 43-101 Date: 2010

Author: Bevan, P.A.

Publisher Name: Hy Lake Gold Inc.

Location: SEDAR

File - Red Lake Resident Geologists Files

Publication Number: RGF 1936 Date: 1936

Author: Honsberger, H.E.

Publisher Name:

Location: Red Lake RGP

Mono - Gold occurrences, prospects, and deposits of the Red Lake area, volumes 1 and 2

Publication Number: OFR5558 Page: 644-645  Date: 1987

Author: Durocher M.E., Burchell P.S., Andrews A.J.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

Mono - Report of Activities 2003, Resident Geologist Program, Red Lake Regional Resident Geologist Report: Red Lake and Kenora Districts

Publication Number: OFR6127 Page: 45-47  Date: 2004

Author: Lichtblau A.F., Hinz P., Ravnaas C., Storey C.C., Kosloski L., Raoul A.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

Part - Geology and mineral deposits of the Red Lake area

Publication Number: ARV49-02 Page: 115-120  Date: 1998

Author: Horwood H.C.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:

File - Red Lake Resident Geologists Files

Publication Number: RGF 1944 Date: 1944

Author: Flaherty, G.F.

Publisher Name:

Location: Red Lake RGP

File - Resident Geologist's Files, Red Lake

Publication Number: RGF 1947 Date: 1947

Author: Thompson, R.

Publisher Name:

Location: Red Lake RGP

File - Resident Geologist's Files, Red Lake

Publication Number: RGF 1951 Date: 1951

Author: Red Poplar Gold Mines Limited

Publisher Name:

Location: Red Lake RGP

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