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Nordic Lake Occurrene* ,.j

The Nordic Lake occurrence is situated in south central Irwin j Township 13. 5 km northeast of Beardmore and 4 km south of the i Brookbank gold deposit. The property is accessible by travelling Highway 11 to the Windigokan Lake Road and north for 4. 6 km to a point south of Nordic Lake and at the east end of the claim group. ! A flagged bulldozer trail leads approximately l km west to the main . gold occurrence. Under a 1992 Ontario Prospectors Assistant Program

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(OPAP) grant, property owners Pentti Lassila and Frank Houghton conducted detailed prospecting, mapping, stripping, trenching and sampling along a prominent gold-bearing deformation cone. All activities were centered on a 16-claim unit, TB 1194050.

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The earliest recorded exploration work in the area, which included stripping and trenching, was done by Nordic Sturgeon Gold Mines, Limited and the Rayner-Tyson Syndicate in 1935 (Laird 1936). In the vicinity of the present day claims Laird (1936) reports that "a prospect pit has been sunk on a band of what appears to be a brecciated cherty iron formation. The band at this point is 5V feet wide and exposed over a length of 60 feet. Both the fragments and matrix are heavily impregnated with very fine pyrite". In 1944 initial work was conducted on the Brookbank gold zone by Noranda Mines Limited 4 km north of the present day property.. In 1984 M. P. Cowan completed a detailed geological mapping and magnetometer survey centered around Nordic Lake andcovering the extreme northeast portion of the claim bl octet1 ires cap Energy Corporation conducted a combined airborne magnetic, electromagnetic and VLF survey over most of the southern half of Irwin Township in 1985 During the 1987 season, joint venture partner, (to Wescap Energy Corporation) Coulson Exploration Inc. completed a geological mapping program over a large 152-claim block known as the south Brookbank jpropertyfr This again covered the southern portion of the township. Extensive stripping and trenching was also initiated during this

runtime, primarily concentrated in the eastern portion of the Nordic ' Lake property (assessment files. Resident Geologist's office. Beardmore-Geraldton District, Thunder Bay). It should be noted that the Nordic Lake occurrence (NLO) was not found during this or any previous period of exploration activity. Considering it* (NLO) proximity to the Brookbank gold zone to the north and the concentrated exploration work conducted throughout Irwin TowbshTp, this would seem to demonstrate that numerous mineralized showings with economic potential are yet to be discovered.

Detailed geological mapping of Irwin Township, as well as adjoining Sandra and Dorothea townships to the west, was completed by W. O. Mackasey of the Ontario Division of Mines in 1967 (Mackasey 1975). The Nordic Lake property lies entirely within mafic me t a volcanic rocks of the west central portion of the main Beardmore-Geraldton belt. More specifically, it is situated just north of the Watson Lake fault primarily within pillowed metavolcanics. A shear horizon or deformation zone ranging from 100 to 150 m wide and striking 255* has been traced for at least 1000 m through the central portion of the property. .Outcrops and stripped bedrock ' windows' of highly sheared pillowed metavolcanics define the zone. The deformation zone is abruptly terminated along the northern contact, where large, l to 1. 5 m, well-formed south facing pillows were observed. The southern contact is less well defined due to limited bedrock exposure. Within and along the strike of the deformation zone, areas of prominent chlorite- ! sericite-carbonate alteration associated with quartz-filled tension fractures were noted. Some areas host stretched and deformedpillows exhibiting highly altered sericitlzed-silicified centres/ " ~T which form .knots roughly 10 cm in diameter. Crosscutting mafic and ' feldspar dikes, in addition to marker beds ctf cherty fine-banded ' metasediments up to .5 m wide, were observed at several locations along the deformation zone.

Most of this year* s field work was concentrated at the western end of the deformation zone in an area known as the Glade Trench, which hosts the main Nordic Lake occurrence. The original showing was up to 1. 5 m wide by 7. 5 m long and has since been stripped for an additional 150 m to the west. This area is characterized by a j * quartz vein and stringer system hosted in sheared chlorite-sericite !, i rich mafic metavolcanics which contain from 2 to 5% very fine j j disseminated pyrite. It is from this altered pyritic wall rock j j where the highest gold assay values have been obtained. Further i j stripping at a point 200 m east along strike of the Glade Trench ' ; uncovered a second gold bearing zone (named the Road Vein) of similar size and character. Some ankerite, trace galena and minor purple coloured fluorite were noted in outcrop at both occurrences.

Grab samples of altered pyritic mafic ne t a volcanic host'-rock l collected by the property owners and the authors from both the Glade Trench and Road' Vein assayed consistently up to O. 25 ounce Au per ton (the highest being . 267 ounce Au per ton). Samples collected from the quartz vein and stringer horizons assayed up to . 08 ounce Au per ton (Resident Geologist's files, Beardmore-Geraldton District, Thunder Bay).

POND SHEAR ZONE f NORDIC LAKE OCCURRENCE)

Work during the 1993 field season was conducted over what is known as the "Pond Shear" located approximately 400 m west of the Glade Trench. The Pond Shear lies along the western extension of the main deformation zone on the Nordic Lake property.

An intensely sheared, highly altered, rusty carbonate-rich zone has been exposed on the southern edge of a small beaver pond. The zone strikes 60* AZ and varies from 18 m wide at the pond to 10 m wide at the west end of the exposure. Shearing is well exposed along 80 m of strike length at this point. Stripped outcrop sections at the western end preserve the original pillowed nature of the mafic metavolcanics outside the shearing influence.

The Pond Shear zone is characterized by areas of narrow discontinuous parallel boudined vuggy quartz veins and veinlets throughout. Very fine disseminated pyrite averaging l to 2% was noted associated with the highly altered rusty portions of the shear horizon. At the east end and within the zone adjacent to the pond, a series of undeformed 2 to 15 cm wide dark grey green porphyry dikes were also noted. All contain l * pervasive very fine pyrite. Also observed at the extreme western end of the stripped area within the less deformed pillowed met a volcanic*, were up to l m wide light green felsic dikes. Rusty pyritic rich areas were noted within these dikes. In addition to the overall intense shearing, certain areas within the Pond Shear zone exhibit a high degree of folding.

Gold assay results for a suite of nine channel and chip samples from the Pond Shear zone taken during a field visit (October 1993) ranged from ^.01 oz/ton to O. 02 oz/ton and as high as O. 51 oz/ton Au.

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November 3, 1993

Mr. Frank Houghton P. O. Box 164 Beardmore, ON POT 160

Dear Frank:

The following are gold assay results for a portion of the channel/chip samples that I collected while visiting your Nordic Lake property on October 19. All below are from the Pond Shear area. Results for the remaining samples will follow shortly.

Sample No. Au (oz/ton)

93-MFH-14 (PS-1) *CO. 01

93-MFH-15 (PS-2) ^. 01

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93-MFH-20 (PS-7) 0.51

93-MFH-21 (PS-8) 0.02

93-MFH-22 (PS-9) ^. 01

Sincerely,

Gerry WhiteStaff GeologistBeardmore-Geraldton DistrictMines and Minerals DivisionMinistry of Northern Development and Mines435 S. James St. , Suite B002Thunder Bay, ON P7E 6E3Tel. (807)475-1331

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REPORT ON THE 1993 EXPLORATION PROGRAM

ON THE

NORDIC LAKE PROPERTY

IRWIN TOWNSHIP, ONTARIO

NTS 42 E/13

Longitude 87 50'

Latitude 49* 41*

January 07,1994 P. Lassila

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CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . l

PROPERTY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . l

LOCATION AND ACCESS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . l

TOPOGRAPHY AND OUTCROP EXPOSURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

WORK PROGRAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

PROPERTY GEOLOGY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

SIGNIFICANT MINERALIZATION DISCOVERED . . . . . . . . . . 6

RECOMMENDATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

REFERENCES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

FIGURE 1: Location Map .................2

FIGURE 2: Claim Map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

APPENDIX A; Assay Sample Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

SKETCHES; 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12;

Mapped Bulldozer Stripped Locations

MAP 1: Compilation Map

INTRODUCTION

The exploration program described in this report was

conducted between June and November 1993 by P. Lassila and F.

Houghton, co-owners of the Nordic Lake Property, claim TB 1194050

[16 units]. In consideration of good results, five additional

claims [8 units] were staked in 1993 at the west and southwest

end of claim 1194050.

The 1993 program consisted of detailed prospecting,

handstripping, sampling, diamond saw cut channel sampling,

bulldoser stipping and power washing. Thirty six samples were

collected for assay returning results up to 0.49 oz\t gold t

Sampling by Gerry White, M.N.R. geologist, returned 0.51 oz\t

gold from the Pond Zone (a new 1993 discovery).

PROPERTY

Mining claim TB 1194050 (16 units) Is 50* owned by P. Lassila

of Ajax Ontario and 50% owned by F. Houghton of Beardmore Ontario.

LOCATION AND ACCESS

The property is located at Nordic Lake (Lat.: 49 degrees 41

min.. Long.: 87 degrees 50 mln.) in Irwin Township about 10 km

northwest of Beardmore Ontario. Access Is by Highway 11 east from

Beardmore to the Wlndlgokan gravel road, then north to the east end

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Topographic relief reaches about 50 feet (15 m) along east-

vest trending rocky ridges that form hill and gully terrain north-

south across the geological structure. Much of the area is rock

and swamp with some parts covered by poplar-timbered shallow sand-

clay overburden. The whole area was timber cut some thirty years

ago and is now covered by remanents of overmature timber and thick

scrubby overgrowth. Old brush covered timber roads provide

reasonably good access for heavy equipment movement at some

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WORK PROGRAM

The main 1993 effort was directed at extending westward the

1992 gold discoveries as well as providing additional detail in

areas of the 1992 work. Concentrated detailed prospecting was

carried out over virtually all of the western half of claim TB

1194053. During this prospecting a total of 36 assay samples were

collected and a total of 38 locations were bulldozer stripped.

PROPERTY GEOLOGY

The property is underlain by a 2 km thick section of westerly

trending mafic flows and pillow lavas, minor dacitlc flows and

locally narrow (up to 5 m) dacitlc to cherty commonly pyritic dikes

or interflows. Centrally, along the property, a 100 m vide

deformation system containing veil foliated to schistose,

chloritic, sericitic, carbonatized mafic pillov lavas, trends vest

southvest for at least 3 km. Associated vith this deformation

system are numerous subparallel feldspar porphyry dikes, locally

quartz veins (some vith gold enrichment) and pyritization.

Significant (over 0.20 oz/ton) gold values have nov been

discovered in pyritic silicification at three locations: the Road

Zone, the Glade Zone, and the Pond Zone. This indicates that gold

enrichment has occurred at several locations over a distance of

least 900 metres.

The deformation system exhibits considerable variation along

strike. Pinch and svell and echelon shear systems are clearly

evident. A svarm of feldspar porphyry dikes follovs along or is

close to the main shear system.

Alteration products associated vith the deformation include

moderate to intense chloritization, carbonitization, minor (locally*

substantial) sericitization, introduction of calcite and quartz

flooding and,locally, pyrite enrichment. Best gold values have

been obtained from locations containing both quartz flooding and

pyritization.

Just north of the Glade shoving and Pond shoving a 30 m thick

massive carbonatized mafic volcanic unit flanks the north side of

the shear system.

Within the deformation system the mafic to intermediate

pillows exhibit varying degrees of flattening from ratios of 3 to l

to linear schistose streaks in the most intensely sheared

locations. The known gold-bearing quartz veined zones all occur at

locations of intense shearing.

The total strike length of the deformation system has now been

defined for at least 3 km and it appears to continue veil beyond

that distance.

SIGNIFICANT MTMRRXr.T7.ATTQN DISCOVERED

During the 1992 - 1993 prospecting, significant gold-bearing

mineralization was discovered at three locations on the property

within the Nordic Lake Deformation System:

1) Glade Zone, discovered in 1992, best assay 0.238 oz/t gold,

grab sample;

2) Road Zone, discovered in 1992, best assay 0.494 oz/t gold,

diamond saw cut channel sample, 23 cm;

3) Pond Zone, discovered in 1993, best assay 0.51 oz/t gold, grab

sample (Jerry White, M.H.R);

In each case the gold is associated with pyrite and quartz

flooding in sheared altered volcanics, over a distance of some

900 m from the Pond Zone to the Road Zone, along the deformation

system.

RECOMMENDATIONS

The major surface exploration problem here Is overburden

cover. The showings are located In shallow overburden areas that

have considerable overburden cover on strike. Therefore drilling

will be required to test for values at depth as a veil as along

strike of the gold-bearing showings. This would require a program

beyond the funding available through OPAP Grants.

However, the 1993 staked 8 unit area on strike vest of claim

1194050 has not been explored. This area should also be prospected

in detail, followed by bulldozer stripping in the same fashion as a

has been completed on claim 1194050. A budget of $10 000 should be

sufficient to cover costs of this prospecting - bulldozer stripping

program.

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REFERENCES

Mackasey, W.O.

1975: Geology of Dorothea, Sandra, and Irwin Townships, District of Thunder Bay; Ontario

Division of Mines, Geological Report 122,83p. Accompanied by Map 2294, Scale

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Dear Frank:

The following are gold assay results for a portion of the channel/chip samples that I collected while visiting your Nordic Lake property on October 19. All below are from the Pond Shear area. Results for the remaining samples will follow shortly.

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93-MFH-14 (PS-1) *CO. 01

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Sincerely,

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