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Record: MDI53C13SE00087

General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold, Silver, Copper

Secondary Commodities: Zinc

Location

Township or Area: Setting Net Lake Area

Latitude: 52° 45' 53.27"    Longitude: -93° 32' 33.59"

UTM Zone: 15    Easting: 463384.11   Northing: 5846244.74    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Red Lake

NTS Grid: 53C13SE

Point Location Description: Map in Assessment report 53C13SE0036

Location Method: Data Compilation

Access Description: Access is from Red Lake by float- or ski-equipped aircraft, a distance of 190 km.

Exploration History

1944: Trenching, sampling and diamond drilling (1115.6 m in 20 DDH) by Kega Gold Mines. 1952: Peteque Mines & Exploration drilled 7 DDH totalling 191.3 m. 1956-57: geological mapping, sampling and geophysics by Senet Copper Mines. 1987: Geotest Corp. carried out prospecting and sampling. 1989: Noramco Explorations Inc. carried out prospecting and sampling. 1996-97: Prospecting, geological mapping, geophysics and diamond drilling (1330 m in 10 DDH) by Wolfden Resources. 2014: GoldShare completed a lithogeochemical sampling program to evaluate historical showings and to help define types of alteration associated with the mineralization.

Assessment Work on File

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Sachigo

Terrane: North Caribou

Belt: Favourable Lake

Geological Age: Archean  

Geology Comments

Nov 15, 2016 (Andrew Tims) - the Young Showing consists essentially of a main trench surrounded by several small trenches and test pits located within 40-50 m. from the main trench. The main trench is discontinuous over a length of 25 m., with an average direction of 110°. The background rock is a relatively massive diorite, medium grained and medium-dark grey. The main trench exposes a rusted Quartz vein with some sulfides. The Quartz vein, which appears to have an “en echelon” pattern, has a width of about 40 to 50 cm. The segments of the vein, observed in the discontinuous trench, have an orientation of approximately 145°, and a steep dip to the SW.The sulfides, mainly Py with occasional specs of Chalcopyrite, range from trace to 40-50% locally.

Lithology

Lithology Comments

Nov 21, 2014 (Mark Puumala) - -Atkinson et al. (1990) indicate that the Young prospect is hosted within a porphyritic hornblende-biotite trondhjemite, near the western contact with massive mafic metavolcanics. The surface showing is reported to consist of numerous narrow 128º-striking shear zones that host mineralized quartz veins (in 1944, Kega Gold Mines reported 6 parallel veins in a 120 m wide zone). The shears are 0.6 to 1 m wide, while the quartz veins are reported to range in thickness from 0.2 to 0.6 m, with strike lengths of up to 30 m.

Mineralization

Mineralization Comments

Nov 15, 2016 (Mark Puumala) - Atkinson et al. (1990) report numerous anomalous assays from sampling of this showing that was conducted by Kega Gold Mines and the Ontario Geological Survey. Notable results include a Kega Gold channel sample results of 3.94 oz/ton Au over 50 cm and 10.14 oz/ton Ag over 75 cm. Ayres (1972a) reported grab sample assays of up to 0.92 oz/ton Au, 10.18 oz/ton Ag and 2.51% Cu from samples of quartz vein material, while Atkinson et al. (1990) reported a grab sample of 1090 ppb Au and 11 ppm (11,000 ppb) Ag from a sample of altered, pyritic wall rock. Ayres (1972a) also reported quartz-filled fractures hosting chalcopyrite at a location 200m north of the Younge showing. During 1996 and 1997, Wolfden Resources conducted an exploration program that included sampling of the Younge surface showing and advancing 10 diamond drill holes (Downie 1996 and 1997). Several anomalous gold, silver and copper assays were reported from this exploration program, with notable mineralization encountered in diamond drill holes SN9704, SN9706-SN9708, SN9711 and SN0712). Downie (1997) has interpreted the drilling results as being indicative of three mineralized veins. Drawing No. WRSN 006 (Downie 1997) indicates that the vein system strikes approximately northwest-southeast, and that the mineralization was outlined over a zone covering a strike length of approximately 100 m and a width of 50 m. Notable results reported from the 1996-97 Wolfden exploration program (Downie 1996 and 1997) included the following: 45.2 g/t Au, 54 g/t Ag and 2984 ppm Cu in a surface grab sample (K-WR-2) of altered wall rock; 2.04 g/ton Au over 1.75 m in DDH SN9704; 11.18 g/t Au, 61.6 g/t Ag and 1.24% Cu over 1.95 m in DDH SN9706; 207.46 g/t Au over 0.6 m in DDH SN9707; 35.19 g/t Au and 56 g/t Ag over 0.6 m in DDH SN9708; and 0.64 g/t Au, 27.8 g/t Ag, 0.35% Cu and 0.82% Zn over 3.05 m in DDH SN9711. Goldenshare reported the following assays: 38.50 g/t Au, 497.00 g/t Ag and 5.10 % Cu 26.10 g/t Au, 103.00 g/t Ag, 2.44 % Cu and 0.21 % Zn 23.60 g/t Au, 169.00 g/t Ag, 1.86 % Cu and 1.13 % Zn 21.10 g/t Au, 535.00 g/t Ag, 5.23 % Cu and 0.34 % Zn

Mineral Record Details

Mineral Zones - Size and Shape

References

Article - Northwind Lake area, District of Kenora (Patricia Portion)

Publication Number: MP049.001 Page: 7-8  Date: 1997

Author: Ayres L.D.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs

Location:

Map - Geological series, Northwind Lake area, District of Kenora (Patricia Portion)

Publication Number: P0756 Scale: 1:15,840    Date: 1972

Author: Ayres L.D.

Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines

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Article - Red Lake Resident Geologist's District - 1990

Publication Number: MP152.003 Page: 31-66  Date: 1997

Author: Atkinson B.T., Parker J.R., Storey C.C.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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