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General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold, Silver

Secondary Commodities: Copper

Location

Township or Area: Lingman Lake Area

Latitude: 53° 52' .33"    Longitude: -92° 53' 23.62"

UTM Zone: 15    Easting: 507240.37   Northing: 5968702.72    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Red Lake

NTS Grid: 53F15SW

Point Location Description: Precise

Location Method: Data Compilation

Access Description: Accessed by float or ski equipped aircraft from the Town of Red Lake 325-kllometers south or from the First Nations community of Red Sucker Lake located In Manitoba, 55-kilometers northwest. llngman lake being 6,000-meters long and 500-meters wide accommodates safe aircraft landings and take-offs.equipped fixed-wing aircraft or helicopter.

Exploration History

1939: Geological mapping partially covering the present claim. 1942: Discovery of gold by A. Van Der Brink. 1945: Lingman Lake Mines Ltd was incorporated and purchased a block of claims. Drilling commenced on the property testing the No. 12 and 15 veins totalling 5919 m. 1946: Sinking of a 3-compartment shaft commenced. Company name change to Lake Lingman Gold Mining Co. 1947: A 907 kg bulk sample were sent to Ore Testing Labs at the Bureau of Mines in Ottawa. A total of 220 m of development on the 150 level to test the North Zone was completed. 1949: Lingman Lake Mines Ltd executed a comprehensive surface and underground exploration program. The programme indicated gold mineralization in four zones. A 250-ton per day mill was transported to the property. Financial difficulties forced the closure of the mine site. 1964: Company name change to Lakelyn Mines Ltd. 1973: A two-hole drill program yielded a 1.53 m intersection of 325.7 gpt Au. 1982: Lakelyn Mines Ltd. was renamed to Twin Gold Mines Ltd. 1986: Massive Energy Ltd. entered into an option agreement with Twin Gold Mines. James Wade Engineering prepared a pre-feasibility study of Lingman Lake property. 1987: Durham Geological Services was contracted to implement geophysical surveys and complete a 12,352 m DDH program. 1988: R.P. Bowen was hired to refine the 1986 resource calculation. 1989: A 78 km EM survey was undertaken. D.S. McPhee Geological was contracted to re-evaluate the resource producing three non-43-101 cutoff categories. Fuel and mining components were mobilized onto the property. 1990: Twin Gold Mines along with Massive Resources Ltd. completed a comprehensive exploration and development program on the Lingman Lake Mine Property. A 550-km AEM survey was flown by Aerodat Ltd. 1992: Massive Energy was delisted and declared bankruptcy. 1994: MNDM consulted consulting engineers to assess the property as an abandoned mine site. Mining patents were rescinded. 1996: Echo Bay Mines - staked all of the open ground, 11 DDH program totalling 1999 m. 1997: Wolfden Resources entered into an agreement with Echo Bay Mines. 1999: Wolfden acquired a 100% interest in the property. 2002: Wolfden sold the proerty to Anacoda Uranium Co. 2003: Clark Exploration was hired by Anaconda Uranium Corp to conduct a prospecting program. 2013: Signature Resources acquired all of the claims. 2015: Signature Resources undertook a resampling program of the 1986-1989 drill core totalling 450 samples. 2016: Signature Resources carried out geological mapping and sampling. 2018: Signature Resources drilled 10 DDH. 2022 Signature Resources completed a 15 drill hole program, totalling 3260 m looking to expand the known mineralization.

Assessment Work on File

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Sachigo

Terrane: North Caribou

Belt: Lingman Lake

Geological Age: Archean  

Lithology

Mineralization

Mineralization Comments

Jan 03, 2012 (A McKee) - GRADE 1946: NORTH ZONE EST. AS 300 FT LONG,7.9 FT WIDE,190 FT DEEP @ $34.62 AU/TON(0.94 OPT), RESERVES 1982: DRILL INDICATED AND PROVEN IN N+S ZONES TOTAL 440,000 TONS AVE. 0.41 OPT AU, RESERVES 1988: PROB+POSS FOR N,S,CENTRAL,W ZONES TOTAL 1,172,753 TONS AT 0.2 OPT (0.08 CUT,5'). 2011 No new updates

Jul 29, 2019 (Therese Pettigrew) - Two styles of gold mineralization were noted on this property. One being the silicified shear variety and the other occurring as interstitial and fractures within the coarsely crystalline mafic volcanics. Gold mineralization at the Lingman Lake mine occurs in multiple zones; which are structurally controlled by sub-parallel shears. These shears form penetrative zones of foliation that tend to pinch and swell both along strike and down-dip. Within these penetrative zones, the most favourable host rocks are mafic volcanics that have been silicified and carbonatized and occur in proximity to feldspar and/or quartz feldspar bodies that are up to 91-meters wide. Intrusive-volcanic contact domains display the best gold mineralized systems e.g. North zones ‘A’ and ‘B’, and Central zone ‘A.’ Inter-intrusive mineralized zones e.g. Central ‘B’ on section 12400E is the least extensive and contains the weakest gold mineralization. Distal contact domains display variable gold mineralization but can form important systems, e.g. South zones ‘A’ and ‘B’. Overall, the porphyries occur as multi-rooted bodies which are altered to quartz-sericite schist. All of these zones occur east of the major north-south dike which effectively bisects the North zone. West of the dike, the North zone continues as the West zone. All of the zones are characterized as discrete assemblages of alteration consisting of silicification ± carbonatization ± biotitization in sheared mafic volcanic and intrusive rocks. They vary in width from 1 m true width to 17 m true width. The broader zones contain multiple sections of significant gold values. Where these zones bifurcate or branch the alteration vein-envelopes attain their widest widths in some cases exceeding 17-meters-true width, especially in the North zone. Overall, the significant gold grades for the zones are variable, ranging from 3.97 gpt to 9.29 gpt. Sulphide content varies from 1% to 15% and includes; pyrite (FeS2), pyrrhotite (Fe1-xS), arsenopyrite (FeAsS), chalcopyrite (CuFeS2), galena (PbS) and sphalerite ((ZnFe)S). Pyrite is the dominant sulphide and high gold values have been reported to be associated with acicular arsenopyrite, although zones of intense silicification with minor pyrite can also contain high gold values. Sample 160921BK3 returned an assay of 125.28 g/t Au, 89.1 ppm Ag, 880 ppm Cu. Sample 160921BK4 returned 23.73 g/t Au and 14.3 ppm Ag. Sample 160921BK5 returned 40.77 g/t Au and 41.7 ppm Ag. Sample 160921BK12 returned 15.19 g/t Au and 6.94 ppm Ag (Assessment report 20000013596). In the 2018 drill program, DDH 18-01 returned 9.50 meters with an average grade of 12.15 g/t Au (from 35.5 to 45.0 meters). Drill hole 18-02 returned 5.0 meters with an average grade of 13.65 g/t Au (from 100.0 to 105.0 meters) (Signature Resources Nov. 5, 2018 press release). Drill hole 18-05 returned 8.0 meters with an average grade of 17.87 g/t Au (from 95.0 to 103.0 meters). Drill hole 18-03 returned 4.0 meters with an average grade of 6.84 g/t Au (from 82.0 to 86.0 meters) (Signature Resources Nov. 8, 2018 press release). Drill hole 18-09, South Zone; returned 3.0 meters with an average grade of 12.20 g/t Au (from 55.0 to 58.0 meters). Drill hole 18-09, Central Zone “A”; returned 9.0 meters with an average grade of 6.55 g/t Au (from 65.0 to 74.0 meters). Drill Hole 18-09, Central Zone “B”; returned 4.0 meters with an average grade of 4.27 g/t Au (from 81.0 to 85.0 meters). Drill hole 18-10, South Zone; returned 14.0 meters with an average grade of 8.56 g/t Au (from 22.0 to 36.0 meters) (Signature Resources Nov. 13, 2018 press release).

Mineral Record Details

References

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

Publication Number: MDC013 Page: 234-235  Date: 1971

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

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs

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Part - Mines of Ontario in 1946

Publication Number: ARV56-02 Page: 52  Date: 1997

Author: Tower W.O., Smith R.L., Bawden W.E., Cooper D.F., Walkom L.K., Little E.S., Kirk A.T., Weir E.B., Douglass D.P., Ward J.L., Barrett C.M.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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Part - Mines of Ontario in 1948

Publication Number: ARV58-02 Page: 44-45  Date: 1997

Author: Williams I.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:

Map - Geological series, Precambrian geology of Lingman Lake area, Kenora District, Patricia Portion

Publication Number: P2485 Scale: 1:31,680    Date: 1982

Author: Wilson B.C., Pelletier C.C., Paktunc D.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Part - Geology of the Stull Lake area

Publication Number: ARV46-04.001 Page: 28  Date: 1997

Author: Satterly J.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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Mono - Operation Lingman Lake

Publication Number: MP027 Page: 17  Date: 1969

Author: Bennett G., Riley R.A.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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Book - Technical Report on The Lingman Lake Property, Lingman Lake Area, District of Kenora. Prepared for Signature Resources Ltd.

Publication Number: 2013 NI 43-101 Date: 2013

Author: Hanych, W., Racicot, F.

Publisher Name: Signature Resources Ltd.

Location: Sedar.com

Atlas - Red Lake Internal File # RL2952, OM88-1-L-008

Publication Number: RL2952 Date: 1987

Author: Massive Energy Ltd

Publisher Name:

Location: Red Lake RGP

MonoMap - Geology of the Lingman Lake area, District of Kenora (Patricia Portion)

Publication Number: R244 Date: 1988

Author: Wilson B.C.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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