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Record: MDI53F03SW00004

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) North Sandborn - 1977, Sandborn No. 1 - 1977, Wavano - 1983
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Occurrence
Date Created 1977-Feb-18
Date Last Modified 2022-Feb-24
Created By
Revised By

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold



Location

Township or Area: Granite Bay Area

Latitude: 53° 4' 18.82"    Longitude: -93° 24' 27.76"

UTM Zone: 15    Easting: 472684   Northing: 5880346.01    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Red Lake

NTS Grid: 53F03SW

Point Location Description: Location of DDH 83-9 on map in 2003 NI 43-101 report

Location Method: Data Compilation

Access Description: 225 km North of Red Lake and 70 km SE of the Manitoba-Ontario boundry. Sandy Lake settlement is 7 km north, served by regular airline flights.



Exploration History

1983: Wavano drilled 2 DDH totalling 123.75 m. 2013: Goldeye Explorations Ltd. conducted mapping and sampling, and IP and magnetic geophysical surveys. 2015: GPM Metals Inc. signed an option agreement and contracted an airborne mag and VTEM geophysical survey. 2016: Treasury Metals acquired Goldeye.


Assessment Work on File

Assessment Work on File
Office File Number Online Assessment File Identifier Online Assessment File Directory
2.56795 20000014175 20000014175
10 53F03SW8149 53F03SW8149
2.56039 20000008751 20000008751
2.55263 20000008331 20000008331

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Sachigo

Terrane: North Caribou

Belt: Sandy Lake

Geological Age: Archean  



Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Intermediate lava flow-unsubdivided 1 Dacite Adjacent
Vein 2 Quartz Contains

Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
1PyriteEconomicOre
2PyrrhotiteEconomicOre
1FuchsiteEconomicGangue

Mineralization Comments

Jan 09, 2012 (A McKee) - GRADE 1938: ODM GRAB SAMPLE ASSAYS 0.03 OPT AU, GRADE 1983: DDH #9 (WAVANO) INTERSECTS QZ VEIN @ 4' ASSAYING 0.22 OPT AU /3 FT.


Aug 16, 2019 (Therese Pettigrew) - Wavano’s DDH 9 assayed 0.22 oz/t Au over 3.0 feet (7.5 g/t Au/ over 0.91 m) from a quartz vein with 2% pyrite (Assessment report 53F03SW8149). Samples collected by Goldeye in 2013 returned assays up to 1050, 1730, 2540, 3950, and 8590 ppb Au (Assessment report 20000008751).



Mineral Record Details

References

Mono - Operation Lingman Lake

Publication Number: MP027 Scale:     Date: 1969

Author: Bennett G., Riley R.A.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


Part - Geology of the Sandy Lake area

Publication Number: ARV47-07.001 Scale:     Date: 1997

Author: Satterly J.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


Publication - Technical Report, Sandy Lake Gold-Base Metal Property

Publication Number: 2003 NI 43-101 Scale:     Date: 2003

Author: von Guttenberg, R.

Publisher Name: Strathcona Mineral Services Ltd. for Goldeye Explorations Ltd.

Location: http://www.treasurymetals.com


Mono - Gold deposits of Ontario, part 1, districts of Algoma, Cochrane, Kenora, Rainy River, and Thunder Bay

Publication Number: MDC013 Scale:     Date: 1971

Author: Ferguson S.A., Groen H.A., Haynes R.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs

Location:


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