63A.473 LEDUC

A report on e Geophysicel survey over the claims known as

The Stoloff - Van Ormen - Peppes Group -

Welters A Leduc Townships

Onterio.

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Jj?ll^HSlJ.0Jl: A t t ne request of the cleim holders, end interested

perties, e survey comprising Megnetometer end

E l ectromegnetometer techniques wes mode over the

ground held by the Stoloff - Von Ormein - Peppes

interests/ to escertein the economic potentiel of

t h e c l s i ms .

Lr.PPJLrJyi The holdings comprise e contiguous group of 10

claims - 3 N.S. end 5 E . W. lying in Welters end

Leduc Townships, Beerdmore Aree, Onterio.

L oca t i on end Ace ess j

The cleims ere loceted e few mi les north of #11

highway, two miles west of the village of Jellicoe.

A good tractor roed goes to within 4 mile of the

sheft.

Ample ve ter end bush ere present on the cleims

and power end communicet ion would be eveileble

from the highway. Topography is reasonably f let .' /

lying, with me x l mum relief of 30 feet. - r,, ...-•.- (

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Overburden is not extensive, with about 40ft

exposure.

The- area geology is well covered, in government

end reports of previous operators.

E conorn i c M i nere l i z a t i on:

A band of Iron formation strikes across the

property in an F. W. direction carrying pyrite.

pyrrhot i te, magnet i te (light) end hematite as

well PS other iro'n minerels.

The Gold carrying vein systems runs almost

parallel to the Iron forme t i on, but crosses it

and was originally suggested as having cut off

by this zone. However recent grab samples

of pyrite mineralized sections of the zone

indicfile that the gold values do carry

through. Parallel zones carrying values

were also noted.

Previous work on the area led to o shaft

being surk on the gold formation end two

levels established with some drifting.

It v/es hoped that using the known zone as a

control,other ore carrying zones could be

established. ^ .~

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Resui ts:

Cone l us i ns:

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over 1he Ifind portions of the property,

end reedings were taken at each station.

A control comprising 12 stations for diurnal

checiv was set up, end ell readings were

corrected for diurnal end temperature

drift. A Me Phi r M 700 mognKtonstcr was

used for the survey. Reedings were

checked hourly against the control stations.

A mean background of 1500 - ICCC gammas

(corrected) was established over the

property. Six anomalous zones, to 1800

gemm?.sfr- 300 over background} were located,

end two enome^lies with values to 2200

gemnias -H-IOOO over background^

An E. W, pattern can be established with

two units, separated by a possible offset

where the gold veins cross the Iron

formation. It is felt thot Iron formations

Cfrry little magnetite and the gold quartz

veins none.

The magnetic results ere indetermi net i ve,

suggesting only that the zones carry

little rnegnetitf. A slioht trend ce

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observed indicating en offset in the zone

end a strike at I000 .

E^j^jSyrv.eyj^ The survey was conducted over the same grid

lines with the transmitter, located 400

feet west of the receiver.

Equipment used wes e McPhar R.E.M. A\erk V

vertical loop unit. Conductive bodies

were located by e negative to positive

crossover.

Results; Seven crossovers over two lines were

located/ and six comprising single readings.

No material correspondence between the E.Vt

results, end the meg results, was

observed/ other then the possibility that

the megnetic meteriel is concentrated on

the south contact of the Iron,zone , which

is e ve l id supposit ion. It can be

expected Ihet the pyrite, end pyrrhotite

content of the gold bearing veins could have

a conductive effect end be located by

E.M. Thus, any E.M. zones should be

examined to locate surface exposures of

i sulphide gold zones, end be sampledl

and l o r trenched. Some major E.M.

i conductors found, correlated withi ' ,..

surface extensions of -the known

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Conoiusions:

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The E.M. conductors ere suggestive of

mineralized zones carrying pyrite end pyrrhotite.

These sulphides may, or may not carry gold

ve lues.

Several erees were suggested where previous

work hed not be-.en performed, end these ereas

could be e target for future work. The

Magnetic correlation expected, to locate

the iron formation, was not present.

Recommends t ions: The E.M. conductors located should be checked

out by surface prospecting end trenching

where necessary. Any mineralized zones

located should be sampled under close

professional supervision. The known showing

areas should be systematically sampled, with

e careful map control.

Should sufficient extent find grade df samples

be found, then e limited programme of short

hole diamond drilling should be undertaken

- 2000 feet as a preliminary terget.

E AM H t.i.ltNCES INK kNAIIHNAt

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Cost of the above programme is es follows:

Sampling, trenching, etc.

Or i l l i ng

Add i t lone l

Total

S2000.00

6000.00

1000.00

19000.00

Respectfully submitie^,

r.H. Sutherlend Jr. 'B.A.Sc. P.Eng. h\. E.

f AKMH .'.[Hi NIIES INI E. RNA1 ICINAL

63A.473 L EDUC

RKPORT OK r:iN3RG CLAIMS

TB 109239 to TB 109248 Inclusive

Located in townships Leduc and Walters

020

July, 1966

J.M. Jphneon

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This report is written after visits to the raining claims in November 1964, August 1965 for purposes of giving the owners my impression of the property, and again in July 1966 to obtain additional information to bring my knowledge of the property more up to date. The report contains two maps. The preliminary prepared in 1964 by compilation from vertical aerial photographs and the Geological map prepared July 1966 by using a base map ( l" - 2 66' ) given to me by Dr. Stolove.

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INTRODUCTJOK

The area under consideration consists of ten claims numbered TJ3 10SJ23S to TB 10924C inclusive. These claims are located in the townships of Leduc and Y/alters, Port Arthur mining division.

The property is readily accessible from highway eleven "by walking along a wagon trail to a beaver marsh, hence by a cut trail across a beaver dam and township line to a mine shaft, formerly known as Oremond. The wagon trail leaves highway elevenat a point about 18.6 miles east of beardmore or 1.4 miles v/est of the Esso Seriee Station at Jellicoe.

The local relief is very low, i.e. mainly less than twenty-five feet. The amount of outcrop is approximately ten pereent. There are many swampy areas.

The owners of the mining claims and submitters of this report are j)r.I".A. Stolove, 274 Cornelius Pky., .'Downs vi e w, Ontario, and Dr. P. 3",. Van Orr.ian, 141 Kenollie Ave., Port Credit Ontario. This report is written by John M. Johnson P.O. Box 412, Prescott Ontario.

The Geological map -//'2 was prepared on a base map which had ay c, ground control north-south cut lines at 400 foot intervals. Drs. Stolove and Van Orman carefully covered these lines and marked on the base map outcrops and their relative sizes computed by pacing. Any grouping of their outcrops estimates was done by reference to the vertical aerial photographs. Using this as a base the author visited outcrops to record geological data to be later added to the map.

G4NiJKAI GEOLOGY

The predominate rock type is a silty quartzite gener

ally dark grey in colour and. very fine grained, in other

areas, light pink to light grey and some shaley sections.

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Conformable with this quartzite is a banded iron formation reported to be ninety feet wide as indicated by a dip

needle survey and according to assay reports about 33^ iron. These rocks have undergone low grade metamorphism, how

ever no metamorphic minerals were noted. Quartz stringers

occur sporadically but where measured in the quartzite they strike predominately at 75 degrees (along the bedding) and at 165 degrees (transverse to the bedding). In the iron formation, however, the quartz stringers strike obliquely at about 30 -40 degrees. These sediments have been highly folded, the general attitude is 75 degrees dipping near

vert j. cal.

As reported in a preliminary Geological Map # P. 241,

District of O'hunder Bay, Ontario Dept. of mines 1964,

a syncllinal fold axis occurs south of Oxaline Lake near the railroad and near highway eleven. The westerly exten

sion appears to be faulted southwards, by a northeasterly trending fault. There appears tp be three major fault

trends in this area.

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY

Regional:

A synclinal axis is reported to occur near highway eleven, south of the claims. According to Ontario Dept. of Mines' Map :// 45a Sturgeon River Gold Area 1936, the attitudes arc generally E-W and dip from 65 degrees north erly to 72 degrees southerly.

The major compressional forces have therefore been N-S. This is confirmed by the fault pattern. There is one set of E-\V faults as well as two sets of shear type faults trending northeasterly and northv/esterly. A pattern that appears on the aerial photo another set of northeast erly trending faults occurs which may be of the en echelon type.

Local:A shear zone varying in width up to thirty feet seems

to follow the southern side of the iron formation, how ever on the opening up of a number of trenches, it was discovered that the shear of off shoots of this shear penetrate well into the iron formation. The general attitude of the rocks of this area is very constant at about N. 75 degrees E. and seldom dipping more than 10 degrees from the vertical. The iron formation is con formable to the quartzite. The shear zone appears to be along the bedding of the quartzite with an attitude of N. 75 degrees E. and dipping nearly vertical. In some sections of the shear zone curved fractures exist that are convex northward.

A complex movement near the fault seems to exist. There are a few drag folds, but not many. Those in the shear are of the S type, which indicates the south side of the shear moved eastwards whereas the north side moved westwards. In a shear that cut into the iron formation another Z type drag fold exists which indicates the direct opposite movements north of the main shear. In other areas north of the shear some striations on the bedding planes were vertically dipping indicating that there was no oblique movement along i-J t bedding planes during folding.

HISTORICAL GEOLOGY

The sediments of this area all appear to be of the Timiskaming type. The iron formation is both underlain arid overlain by silty quartzite. ..The gold values all appear with the sulphide deposits concentrated in the

shear zones and appear of the hydrothermal type. The main sulphides arc arsenopyrite oro. pyiroio.

Gold in Ontario:

Canada producer about S150 million in gold per year from the Canadian Shield, most of which comes from Ontario.

The following experts are taken from the Geological Survey of Canada's " Geology and Economic Minerals of Canada" edited by C.H. Stockwell in 1957.

The Canadian shield is made up of numerous different types of rock, however, "most of the known deposits of metallic minerals occur in 'islands' of volcanic and sed imentary rocks that are scattered through the predomin ately granitic rocks of the Shield and it is these that have received most attention from exploration and prospecting organizations".

Gold is found almost exclusively in the sedimentary rather than the volanic rocks, wheras the base metals e.g. copper, and nickel are found mainly in the volcanic sequences. The gold is found, in the main, "in veins or stringers of quartz that cut the wall-rock, but in others the gold is disseminated in brittle rocks adjacent to faults or in rocks crumpled in tight folds".

The discovery of silver at Cobalt in 1903-'04, pro

vided the capital which flooded Northern Ontario with pros pectors. " The result was the discovery in 1903 of the Porcupine field and in 1911-'12 of the Kirkland Lake field. The yield from these two fields made Ontario the leading gold-producing province and eventually brought Canada into second place as a world gold producer".

Next to these, the mines of the Patricia district; Red Lake with about twelve producing mines and Pickle Crow, are the most notable.

The area that is next in importance, (fourth in Ont.) is in the Thunder Bay District. This district includes the area of interest to this report. "Within a belt of lavas and sediments extending from Lake Nipigon eastward for about 60 miles, eleven mnnes were opened in the

1934-'39 period. These are Bankfield Consolidated, Hard Rock,

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Jellico, Leitch, Little Long Lac,MacLeod - Cockshutt, Magnet Consolidated, Northern LYnpire, Sand River,

Sturgeon River and Tombill. All but the Leitch and MacLeod-

Cockshutt have since closed." Leitch closed in 1965." This group of mines exhibits a rather wide variety

of types. In some of them, such as Leitch, Sand River, and Sturgeon River, the ore bodies are simple quartz veins,

usually less than 4 feet wide, filling somewhat irregular

fissures. The principal constituent of value is native gold; other minerals are scanty in amount.

On the Little Long Lac property, arkose beds l,500

to 2000 feet thick are folded into an anticline,along the

crest of which a number of shear zones strike east. Quartz

injected into these has converted them into lodes that

are uniform in width, and continuous over remarkably long

distances. The quartz carries a large amount of native

gold and small amounts of arsenopyrite, pyrite, bournonite, stibnite and tetrahedrite.

At the IvIacLeod-Cockshutt mine, about 2 miles southeast

of Little Long Lac, the earlier discoveries were in iron- formation, parts of which v/ere fractured and the fractures

filled with quartz and auriferous pyrite. Mining operations have proved that beneath these is a mass of feldspar por phyry, the jipper surface of which contains a deep westward plunging trough or roof pendant of greywacke. Both the sedimentary rocks, and to a less extent, the porphyry along the contact are replaced by coarse pyrite, arsenopyrite, and a little native gold. This ore has an average grade of about 0.15 ounce a ton."

'.''he property under inspection here is located between

Leitch and j.'acleod-Cockshutt. Leitch was forced to close down operations last year (1965).

As reported :in the forty-sixth annual report of the

Ontario Dept. of IJin.es, Vol. XL VI, Part l, 1937, the work on claims in Leduc-V/alters townships presently in the hands

01 ))rs. Stolove and Van Ornian was started in 1936. " In

J'ay a 3 compartment, 18 by B foot, vertical shaft was

sunk about 50 foot south of the vein.. The ve:in consists of quartz and calcite gangue in banded Jron formation, striking about h. 70 degrees JJ, and dipping slighty to the north. Before sinking, the vein was explored on

surface for a length of 154 foot and :" s reported to average 0.34 onucos, over fm average width of 7 feet. The

shaft was sunk 300 feet, v/ith levels at 150 and 275 feet.

On the 150 foot level, 489 feet of drifting and 274 feet

of cross cutting, and on the 275 foot level, 95 feet of drifting and 118 f t; e t of cross cutting were done."

V/ork done by ]Jr. Stolove and associates in 1965 by

stripping, blasting and sampling has proved the shear to coi j tain gold ovur a length of 1850 feet. The greatest assay

of 1.42 o x. of gold per ton was taken approximately 1250 feet west of the shaft. The width of the shear zone does't diminish and more work needs to be done to locate the western l limit of the gold-bearing shear.

The highest goIU'! values were obtained from the part of the s.-oar containing the greatest amount of arsenopyrite.

It r-'i.ust therefore, be assumed that the go],d is intimately

associated v/ith the arsenopyrite. However in some areas that we sampled, no arsenopyrite was apparent. If the arsenopyrite was carried into these fractures by hot aqu

eous solutions then the go]d was concentrated in #he same

way at the same time. It seems reasonable that the gold vHf; deposited v/ith tj.-e sediments as a very low grade placer deposit and '..cis 3.ate:.- concentrated by t.,o previously ment

ioned hydrothermal solutions.

The arsenopyrite contains so.'o cobalt because erythrite was found associated with the part of the shear

t net t contained arsenopyrite. According to Dana's Mineral

ogy, arsenopyrite can contain up to 9/^ cobalt.A dump of material from the shear zone or subsequent

shear zones indicated by the abundance of chlorite schist and sericite contained therein showed gold values ( from

grab samples) ranging from 0.02 oz. to 0.14 o z. gold per

t on.A. quartz vein at the north end of the property

carried a trace of gold.

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I'he shear zone was sampled; the sa^pleo arc numbered

from North to South.

VJDTH LOCATION ASSAY REPORT IN

OZ.GOLD/ TON

north of shaft

l A

113

1C

4-'

4'

approx. 50 ' 0.12

46 0.06

42 trace

along strike approximately 150' easterly from area l

2A

2}]

20

2 D

4'

4'

4 1

3'

north sj.de of shear

south side of shear

0.44

1.19

0.42

0.12

ilong strike approximately 250' easterly from area l

3A 4 1 south side of shear

4

3'c x-north of shear

0.05

0.27

trace

* Gap of 5' is due to no exposure.

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3 Ah1 - i'lt--.-i i ^ l) Jv.i x!i WIDTH LOCATION ASSAY REPORT INOZ. GOLD/TON

600' west of shaft

4A

IB

5 ' north side

of shear

40

4D 2

0.23

0.45

0.18

0.29

-ij( extra) l'

41'1

4G

4H

0.43

0.38

3' 21' from North side of shear

0.47

0.21

It is reported that the shear is at least 36'

wide at this area.

12 ' east of area 1

4' north side of shear

50

south side of shear

0.7

0.1

fo.22

0.16

For locations see Map //l.

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Many of the great producing mines of the past such as lakeshore and Y/right-Hargreaves of Kirkland Lake have closed down. Kerr Addison of Virginiatibwn predicts

less than 10 years of reserves and has cut production almost in half. Gold production in Timmins has declined over the last decade. With these great producers on the wane, Ontario and Canada will be looking for new sources, ',,'ith the world reserve of gold teetering on the brink of insufficiency it seems that the gold standard will

have to be raised thus making it profitable to open many lower grade raines than seems to be indicated at this property.

J.M. Johnson

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