Mineral Deposit Inventory for Ontario

Ministry of Energy, Northern Development and Mines

Deposit: MDI52N07SE00070

General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: gold

Location

Township or Area: Shabumeni Lake Area

Latitude: 51° 19' 42.76"    Longitude: -92° 37' 20.25"

UTM Zone: 15    Easting: 526316   Northing: 5686429    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Red Lake

NTS Grid: 52N07SE

Point Location Description: From Assessment report 20000002796

Location Method: data compilation

Source Map: P3118

Sources Map Scale: 1:15 840

Access Description: 80 Km ENE of Red lake

Exploration and Mining History

1969: Falconbridge Nickel completed an electromagnetic survey. 1981: Minorex Ltd. staked the northern portion of the property. Geological mapping, magnetic and VLF-EM surveys and assaying were completed and series of eight gold bearing quartz vein zones were discovered. 1987: Marilyn Resources Inc. conducted line cutting, IP and VLF-EM and magnetic surveys, and drilled 4 DDH totalling 376.1 m, including 1 DDH totalling 98.17 m on the Iceberg Zone. 1990: Milestone Resources drilled 20 DDH totalling 1639.8 m, including 1 DDH totalling 123.78 m on the Snake Zone and 1 DDH totalling 117.68 m near the Iceberg Zone. 2003: Jilbey Gold Exploration Ltd. completed airborne and magnetic and electromagnetic surveys followed up by ground magnetic, soil and rock sampling and MMI soil geochemistry. 2007: Merrex Gold Inc conducted prospecting, geological mapping, sampling, trenching, soil and channel sampling.

Assessment Work on File

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Uchi

Belt: Birch-uchi

Geological Age: Archean   

Mineral Deposit Lithology

Mineralization

Mineralization Comments

01/27/2012 (A Mckee) - Grab samples collected from the Snake vein in 1981 returned assays up to 0.65 oz/t Au and 1.05 oz/t Ag. Assays from diamond drilling completed in 1990 returned assay up to 0.12 oz/t Au over 1.4 ft. The highest returned assay from trench samples was 2770 ppb Au over 0.5 m.

07/29/2019 (T Pettigrew) - Assays from the 2007 trenching program returned values of 1165-2770 ppb Au from the Snake trench and 1245-2310 ppb Au from the Iceberg trench. The Snake trench is a sulphide-bearing quartz + carbonate vein known to host gold mineralization, located at NAD83 Zone 16 526316 m E, 5686429 m N. This trench, named the Snake, exposes a shear-hosted quartz + carbonate vein located within an amygdular intermediate volcanic flow. The vein strikes approximately 042 degrees, and dips sub-vertical. The vein averages 0.4 m in width, and consistently narrows to the south (-80 cm in width from the north edge of the trench to -15 cm at the south edge of the trench). Sulphide mineralogy within the vein dominantly consists of disseminated euhedral to blebby pyrite. The Iceberg trench is located 135 m to the SW of the Snake trench, at NAD83 Zone 16 526251 m E, 5686305 m N and is a sulphide-bearing quartz vein system known to host gold mineralization. This trench exposes a well developed, shear-hosted quartz vein system within a sheared medium-grained gabbro. The quartz veins generally strike between 040 and 045 degrees. The vein system is locally truncated by northeasterly-trending shears, as well as locally boudinaged and folded. Sulphides within the quartz veins consist of disseminated to blebby pyrite and chalcopyrite (Assessment report 20000002796).

Mineral Deposit Details

References

Map - West Birch Lake Area

Publication Number: P3118     Scale: 1:15 840    Date: 1989

Publisher Name: OGS

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