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Record: MDI52O06SE00084

General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Copper, Gold

Location

Township or Area: Kawashe Lake Area

Latitude: 51° 21' 13.12"    Longitude: -91° 6' 40.41"

UTM Zone: 15    Easting: 631519.298   Northing: 5690846.074    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay North

NTS Grid: 52O06SE

Point Location Description: Diamond drill hole

Location Method: Data Compilation

Access Description: LOCATION: 63 KM WSW of Pickle Lake, and 2 km SE of the Golden Patricia Mine. The occurrence is located near the Golden Patricia Mine power line about midway between Muskegsagagen Lake and Hour Lake (Local Name) ACCESS: Access to this occurrence is best gined through the Golden Patricia mine which is serviced by an all-weather airstrip and a winter road from Pickle Lake. Apropriately equipped aircraft may land on Muskegsagagen Lake and Hour Lake (local name).

Exploration History

1984: Airborne MAG, EM survey over an area including the occurrence. Follow up with ground MAG. 1985: Ground MAG, EM and IP surveys by St. Joe Canada 1986: Separate airborne MAG and EM surveys over the area by St. Joe Canada and Geocannex 1986: Diamond drilling in area by St. Joe Canada. 1988: Additional geophysics by and diamond drilling by St. Joe and Bond Gold which located the occurrence. 1989-90: Additional drilling by Bond Gold on Powerline Zone.

Assessment Work on File

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Uchi

Geological Age: Archean  

Geology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (A Mitchell) - Gold has 2 modes of occurrence in the Powerline Zone. The first is in a series of 6 parallel gold bearing qv's. The second is in silicified replaced iron formation. The iron formation, banded chert and magnetite, occurrs with tuffaceous metasediments within a succession of mafic metavolcanic flows. The succession is cut by qtz-feld porphpyry intrusives. The 6 gold-bering qv's strike 075 deg and dip steeply south. They occur in mafic metavolcanics and appear to occupy axial planar structures to minor drag folds in the iron formation. The gold in the iron formation occurrs where it is cut by the axial planar structures hosting the gold-bearing quartz veins. There, the principal sulphide replacing magnetite is pyrrhotite, although pyrite, chalcopyrite and sphalerite are noted in the drill logs. Visible gold is also present in the zone. Gold at the Power Line Zone is also found with light grey, quartz-carbonate veining hosted by a mafic metavolcanic flow and with a strongly brecciated and sheared zone mineralized with pyrrhotite within a mafic metavolcanic flow.

Lithology

Lithology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (A Mitchell) - Gold has 2 modes of occurrence in the Powerline Zone. The first is in a series of 6 parallel gold bearing qv's. The second is in silicified replaced iron formation. The iron formation, banded chert and magnetite, occurrs with tuffaceous metasediments within a succession of mafic metavolcanic flows. The succession is cut by qtz-feld porphpyry intrusives. The 6 gold-bering qv's strike 075 deg and dip steeply south. They occur in mafic metavolcanics and appear to occupy axial planar structures to minor drag folds in the iron formation. The gold in the iron formation occurrs where it is cut by the axial planar structures hosting the gold-bearing quartz veins. There, the principal sulphide replacing magnetite is pyrrhotite, although pyrite, chalcopyrite and sphalerite are noted in the drill logs. Visible gold is also present in the zone. Gold at the Power Line Zone is also found with light grey, quartz-carbonate veining hosted by a mafic metavolcanic flow and with a strongly brecciated and sheared zone mineralized with pyrrhotite within a mafic metavolcanic flow.

Mineralization

Mineralization Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (A Mitchell) - Gold has 2 modes of occurrence in the Powerline Zone. The first is in a series of 6 parallel gold bearing qv's. The second is in silicified replaced iron formation. The iron formation, banded chert and magnetite, occurrs with tuffaceous metasediments within a succession of mafic metavolcanic flows. The succession is cut by qtz-feld porphpyry intrusives. The gold in the iron formation occurrs where it is cut by the axial planar structures hosting the gold-bearing quartz veins. There, the principal sulphide replacing magnetite is pyrrhotite, although pyrite, chalcopyrite and sphalerite are noted in the drill logs. Visible gold is also present in the zone. The following are among the better assays reported from the Power Line Zone: PL-88-07 in iron formation, 5.86 g/tonne over 7.55 m, including 60.00 g/tonne over 0.65 m in quartz-carbonate veins, 2.74 g/tonne over 0.30 m in brecciated and sheared mafic metavolcanic flow 5.86 g/tonne over 0.95 m PL-88-08 in iron formation, 7.25 g/tonne over 2.80 m and 2.41 g/tonne over 0.95 m.

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