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Record: MDI52M01SE00024

General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold

Location

Township or Area: Ball

Latitude: 51° 1' 51.61"    Longitude: -94° 13' 18.96"

UTM Zone: 15    Easting: 414316   Northing: 5653983    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Red Lake

NTS Grid: 52M01SE

Point Location Description: TRENCH WITH QUARTZ PORPHYRY WITH TRACES OF VISIBLE GOLD

Location Method: Conversion from MDI

Access Description: 900 ft W of Bridget Lake.

Exploration History

Pre-1935: stripping and trenching carried out by Big Lode Gold Mines Ltd. 1937: Faulkenaham Lake Gold Mines/Piper Red Lake Gold Mines drilled 15 diamond drill holes totalling 574 m. 1963: Cochenour Willans Gold Mines drilled 14 holes, totalling 392 m, carried out self potential, magnetometer, and geological surveys. In 1981 limited surface work occurred. 1997: Redbird refurbished the trenches and completed a detailed channel sampling program, mapping, and a magnetometer survey. 2002: Tribute Minerals drilled 7 DDH totalling 939 m. 2003-04: Goldcorp carried out prospecting and sampling. 2009: Halo Resources carried out sampling of historic trenches. 2010: Halo Resources carried out prospecting and sampling. 2012: Halo Resources drilled 2 DDH totalling 380 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: U. Greenschist

Geology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (K R Kettles) - This prospect is underlain by a 305 m thickness of dolomite, chert, and chert-magnetite iron formation, with lenses of carbonaceous argillite and felsic volcanic rocks. Bedding strikes S 80 degs E and dips steeply north. The sediments are cut at approximately 90 degs by gold-bearing west-dipping quartz veins up to 1.8 m wide.

Lithology

Mineralization

Mineralization Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (K R Kettles) - Quartz veins up to 1.8 m wide cut chemical sediments at 90 degs. The veins have been exposed over lengths of 36.5 m to 55 m, and dip west. The quartz is grey, and contains gold and minor pyrite, chalcopyrite. Channel samples from 4 VEINS assayed:NIL-1.16 OPT AU/1.5 M . Drill core intersections were typically:.0.10-1.46 OPT AU/0.30-1.2 M. FISHER(1963) , OPINION ON RESERVES: INSUFFICIENT DRILLING HAS BEEN CARRIED OUT TO PROVE THE VOLUME OF ORE PRESENT, BUT SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF ORE GRADE (>0.3OPTAU) MATERIAL EXISTS. Geophysical data indicates 'the entire (gold-bearing) zone is bracketed within the 1500 - gamma magnetic contour'(Fisher, 1963).

Oct 14, 2020 (Therese Pettigrew) - In 2009, Halo Resources resampled the quartz veins sampled by Redbird. Assays ran as high as 210 g/ton Au over 60 cm. DDH BL12-037 returned up to 0.58 ppm Au over 4 m from a mudstone with disseminated pyrite and 1.385 ppm Au over 1 m from a contact between a dolostone and a siltstone unit (Assessment report 20000008939). Of the 111 channel samples taken in 1997, 32 returned values greater than 0.5 g/t Au and 8 samples assayed between 15.6 and 42.3 g/t Au. Mapping and sampling results indicate that the highest gold values are associated with north-trending quartz veins and pyrite filled fractures, which crosscut the iron formation and iron formation (Assessment report 52M01SE0088). DDH BL-2002-01 retuned up to 4.567 g/t Au over 1 m including g17.9 g/t Au over 0.25 m from Zone 3 and 3.67 g/t Au over 0.25 m from Zone 4, and 4.85 g/t Au over 0.25 m from Zone 5. DDH BL-2002-02 retuned up to 0.952 g/t Au over 0.25 m from Zone 1, 0.669 g/t Au over 0.25 m from Zone 2, 2.81 g/t Au over 0.5 m from Zone 3, and 6.0 g/t Au over 0.25 m from Zone 4. DDH BL-2002-04 returned up to 2.71 g/t Au over 0.25 m from Zone 3, 1.44 g/t Au over 0.25 m from Zone 4, and 3.835 g/t Au over 1 m including 5.78 g/t Au over 0.5 m (Assessment report 52M01SE2037).

Alteration Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (K R Kettles) - Volcanic rocks underlying the thick sediments are carbonatized. Carbonate wallrocks are silicified and contain actinolite adjacent to the veins.

Mineral Record Details

References

File - Resident Geologist files Ball #56

Publication Number: Date:

Author:

Publisher Name:

Location: Red Lake RGP office

Map - Ball Township, Kenora District

Publication Number: M2265 Scale: 1:12,000    Date: 1975

Author: Riley R.A.

Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines

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

Publication Number: OFR5558 Page: 123-124  Date: 1987

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

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Part - Gold deposits in the vicinity of Red Lake

Publication Number: ARV44-06.001 Page: 46  Date: 1997

Author: Hurst M.E.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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Part - Geology and mineral deposits of the Red Lake area

Publication Number: ARV49-02 Page: 106-108  Date: 1998

Author: Horwood H.C.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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