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Record: MDI52N04SE00040

General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold

Location

Township or Area: Balmer

Latitude: 51° 5' 34.89"    Longitude: -93° 43' 42.46"

UTM Zone: 15    Easting: 448986.648   Northing: 5660421.989    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Red Lake

NTS Grid: 52N04SE

Point Location Description: DDH P-2 on claim KRL 20898 map P.1976A

Location Method: Data Compilation

Exploration History

1945: Consolidated Mining and Smelting - 12 short x-ray drill holes and limited trenching. 1947: Redcon Gold Mines completed 4 diamond drill holes.1953: Performed further drilling. 1959: By this point had completed 43 holes totalling 8347.85 m. 1959-1960: Rio Tinto completed 15 holes totalling 3327.55 m, and IP and magnetometer surveys. 1972: Dickenson Mines completed airborne magnetometer and EM surveys, ground geophysical surveys, and drilled 7 holes totalling 762.81 m.1973; Performed detailed geophysics over anomalies. 1978-79: Drilled 28 holes totalling 2638.25 m. 1981: Further drilling, depths unknown. 1983: Goldquest Explorations drilled 9 holes totalling 1367.62 m.

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Uchi

Terrane: North Caribou

Domain: Uchi

Belt: Red Lake

Geological Age: Archean  

Metamorphism Type: Regional

Metamorphism Grade: Greenschist

Geology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (K R Kettles) - The property is underlain by an interlayered sequence of mafic metavolcanic flows and pillow breccia with a few thin units of sedimentary rocks. The sedimentary units are mainly iron formation and fine argillaceous rocks which are generally thin but some layers are up to 7.3 m in thickness. Intrusive rocks on the property include sericitic quartz porphyry, quartz diorite, and thin lamprophyre dikes which are weakly magnetic and contain minor disseminated pyrite. The gold mineralization occurs in narrow quartz veins in the mafic metavolcanics.

Lithology

Lithology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (K R Kettles) - The mafic flows are comprised mainly of massive fine grained flows with subordinate amounts of pillowed flows and pillowed breccia. Sedimentary rocks are comprised mainly of iron formation with fine argillaceous rocks. The lamprophyre dikes are thin fine grained black dikes, and are weakly magnetic.

Mineralization

Mineralization Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (K R Kettles) - Little information exists on this zone but it appears that narrow quartz veins host the gold mineralization , and that the quartz veins may occur in mafic metavolcanics. Section of drill core from two holes returned assays of: 0.40 opt Au/0.3m and 0.19 opt Au/0.95m.

Mineral Record Details

References

File - Red Lake Resident Geologists Files 1979 Balmer #75

Publication Number: AF RL 1979 Date: 1979

Author: Harper, H.G.

Publisher Name:

Location: Red Lake RGP

Map - Geological series, Balmer Township, District of Kenora (Patricia Portion)

Publication Number: P1976A Scale: 1:12,000    Date: 1978

Author: Pirie J., Grant A.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

Part - Geology of Balmer Township

Publication Number: ARV60-10 Page: 54-55  Date: 1997

Author: Chisholm E.O.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:

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

Publication Number: OFR5558 Page: 159-160  Date: 1987

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

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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