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Record: MDI52N04SE00174

General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Copper

Secondary Commodities: Gold, Silver

Location

Township or Area: Byshe

Latitude: 51° 0' 38.38"    Longitude: -93° 44' 29.14"

UTM Zone: 15    Easting: 447986.595   Northing: 5651271.916    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Red Lake

NTS Grid: 52N04SE

Point Location Description: Trench symbol with qv,py,cp,ery property 8 on map P.2213

Location Method: Data Compilation

Access Description: 5 Km East of Red Lake, Hwy 125, numerous 'bush' roads

Exploration History

1947 &1947: Kilbarry Red Lake gold Mines Ltd, did several thousand feet of diamond drilling, during the same time Virinia Red Lake Mines Ltd explored their property adjoined Kilbarry property to the east. 1950: Woodward Syndicate conducted geological mapping and mag survey on claims west of the Chukuni River. 1964: Perterson Red Lake Mines Ltd, acquired the ground. They completed trenching as well as a total of 1,422 ft of diamond drilling with 8 holes. 1966 Peteson Red Lake Mines ltd conducted trenching and diamond drilling in the area and to the north of Blamer Township. 37 DDH, 3,037 ft. 1973: Hudson Bay Exploration drilled a single hole as follow up to a ground electromagnetic anomaly west of Keg Lake, 1991-1999: Charles Peterson staked the area of the present claims, prospecting trenching and shallow drilling was completed. 1999-2001: Rubicon Minerals staked the property and optioned the property to Sunridge Gold Corp no work was carried out. 2008-2008: Perry English staked the property and optioned the claims to Solitaire Minerals Corp. Solitaire completed a 43-101 report on the property followed by an airborne mag and ground based VLF and gravity surveys. In 2006 an 11 DDH program totalling 2,117 m drill was completed. 2009: Ashburton Ventures Inc. optioned the Chukuni Property from Solitaire and completes a work program consisting of 18 km geophysical surveying, also in 2009 Ashburton completed soil geochemical sampling program and rock samples. 2010 Completed a 5 hole1007.4 DDH program on the Chukuni Property the program was unsuccessful in locating an auriferous vein system.

Assessment Work on File

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Uchi

Terrane: North Caribou

Domain: Uchi

Belt: Red Lake

Geological Age: Archean  

Mineralization

Mineralization Comments

Feb 24, 2012 (A McKee) - GRADE 1964: NUMEROUS DDH'S, ASSAYS REPORTEDLY GREATER THAN 0.05 OPT AU, GRADE 1968 GRAB SAMPLES: NO LOCATION - UP TO 2.26%CU, 1.1 OPT AG AND 0.06 OPT AU, NOTES 1983: GEOLOGY ONLY - NO SAMPLES. 2009: 5 grab samples taken in the area highest assay returned 186 ppm Au and 1090 ppm Cu.

Mineral Record Details

References

File - Resident Geologist files AF RL 1964-70 Balmer #53

Publication Number: Date: 1996

Author:

Publisher Name:

Location: Red Lake RGP

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

Publication Number: P2213 Scale: 1:12,000    Date: 1979

Author: Pirie J., Kita J.H.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

File - Resident Geologist files AF RL 1983 Byshe #28

Publication Number: Date: 1996

Author:

Publisher Name:

Location: Red Lake RGP

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