Mineral Deposit Inventory for Ontario

Ministry of Energy, Northern Development and Mines

Deposit: MDI52N07SE00056

General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: copper, gold

Location

Township or Area: Shabumeni Lake Area

Latitude: 51° 17' 56.55"    Longitude: -92° 34' 31.75"

UTM Zone: 15    Easting: 529596   Northing: 5683166    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Red Lake

NTS Grid: 52N07SE

Point Location Description: Location of sample Z079082 in Assessment file 20000007338

Location Method: data compilation

Source Map: OGS 1989 MAP P.3118 W.BIRCH LAKE AREA

Sources Map Scale: 1:12 000

Access Description: 80 Km ENE of Red Lake

Exploration and Mining History

1965-1966: Staked by A.L. Guest Prospecting Grubstake and optioned to Asarco Exploration Co. - ground magnetic, electromagnetic and IP, geophysical surveys, geological mapping and 12 DDH totalling 160 m. 1969-1970: Vanco Exploration - airborne magnetic, electromagnetic and gamma-ray spectrometer surveys, conducted geological mapping and ground magnetic and self-potential geophysical surveys. 1974: St. Joseph Exploration - 3 DDH totalling 556 m. 1983-1984: Labrador Exploration - magnetic and horizontal loop geophysical surveys and 2 DDH totalling 264 m. 1987: Dome Exploration went back and completed one hole under the area of reported visible gold. 1987-88: Lencourt Ltd. carried out prospecting, sampling, mapping, and magnetometer and EM surveys. 1989: Noranda Exploration - prospecting and lithogeochemical sampling. 1991: Staked by D. Smith. 1992: D. Smith and R. Hodgson carried out mapping and sampling. 2005: Jammin Rock Resources completed an airborne Electromagnetic and magnetic survey over the entire property. 2010-11: Frontline Gold completed a prospecting and sampling program as well as trenching and channel sampling.

Assessment Work on File

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Uchi

Belt: Birch-uchi

Geological Age: Archean   

Mineral Deposit Lithology

Mineralization

Mineralization Comments

01/31/2012 (A Mckee) - GRADE 1966 DDH: BEST SECTIONS:2.15% CU/6.3 FT, 1.60%CU/9.0 FT;4.04% CU/1.4 FT. St. Joseph - intersected 0.11% Cu, 0.08 oz/t Au across 5 ft. Labrador Exploration - assayed as high as 0.11 oz/t Au, 0.08 and 0.22 oz/t Au. Noranda - trench assayed 19.88 g/t Au, 3.77 g/t Au. Explorco Properties - grab sample analyzed 1500 ppb Au.

07/26/2019 (T Pettigrew) - Spotty pyrite, pyrrhotite, and chalcopyrite mineralization in irregular pods, disseminations, and stringers parallel to the bedding, associated with a narrow chert unit. This chert unit is interbedded with intermediate metavolcanics and felsic pyroclastics which themselves carry erratic disseminations of pyrite, pyrrhotite, and chalcopyrite. Chalcopyrite mineralization has been traced for a strike length of 400 feet. The best assay from the chert unit returned 2.15% Cu over 6.3 feet while the intermediate volcanics returned 1.60% Cu over 9.0 feet (Shklanka, 1969). Sampling by R. Hodgson in 1992 returned up to 5.4% Cu and 0.5 ppm Au (Assessment file 52N07SE9919). Samples collected by Frontline Gold in 2011 returned up to 1.183 ppm Au and 2.186% Cu (Assessment file 20000006385). Sample highlights taken from the South Showing in 2011 include sample #Z079082, that assayed 0.8 ppm Au and 43798 ppm Cu and sample #Z079115 that assayed 1.18 ppm Au and 9566 ppm Cu. Both samples were hosted in massive sulphide type mineralization (Assessment file 20000007338).

References

Book - NMI FILE 52N07E CU 2

Publication Number: N/A    Date: 1996

Publication - Copper, Nickel, Lead, and Zinc Deposits of Ontario, p. 176

Publication Number: MDC012    Date: 1969

Author: Shklanka, R.

Publisher Name: OGS

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