lil in i linn i in mi li linn 111"""" 111 E2BHSW8B SABAWI t MCCAUL 010

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1 lil in i linn i in mi li linn 111"""" 111 E2BHSW8B SABAWI t MCCAUL 010 OCTOBER 22, I960. TO FROM SUBJECT ~ MR. K. A. DAVIS, PICKERING HCTAL MINES LIMITED, TORONTO DR. R. A, MALET, ZENMAC METAL MINES LIMITED, TORONTO R. POUTANEN, 430 QUEEN STREET, PORT ARTHUR, ONTARIO REPORT.COVER!NQ PROSPECTING IN SAPAWE AKEA. JNTR.ODUQTION1 THE AREA WEST ON STRIKE or THE LINDSAY EXPLORATION MINING COMPANY'S COLD DEPOSIT HAS PROSPECTED DURING THE PERIOD SEPTEMBER 8 TO OcTonER 12, I960. THE LINDSAY DEPOSIT is LOCATED ON A STRONG EAST-WEST STRIKING FAULT. THE SCARP OF THIS FAULT WAS TRACED WESTWARD OF THE LlNBSAY PROPERTY INTO AN AREA WITHDRAWN FROM STAKING BY THE ONTARIO GOVERNMENT ON BEHALF OF CALAND ORE COMPANY FOR PURPOSES INCIDENTAL TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN IRON MINE. THE BULK OF THE PROSPECTING WAS DONE IN THE AREA RESERVED FROM STAKING* THE PRINCIPAL GEOLOGICAL FEATURE IN THE AREA is A FAULT ZONE SEEN AS A STRONG SHEAR P ARALLELING A N EAST-WEST DI ORITE-GRANITE CONTACT. THE LINDSAY DEPOSIT THE FAULT OCCURS IN quartz PORPHYRY, A BORDER PHASE OF THE ORANITE. THE FAULT, IN ITS WESTWARD EXTENSION FROM THE LINDSAY PROPERTY, SLOWLY BENDS SOUTHWARD INTO THE DIORITES. ANOTHER SHEAR ZONE ROUGHLY PARALLELS THE FAULT ON ITS NORTH SIDE AND LIES FROM 200 TO 600 FEET FROM IT. THE TWO SHEARS APPEAR TO BE SLOWLY DIVERGING TO THE WEST AND CONVERGING TO THE EAST* JOHN HALONEN, WHO PROSPECTED THE TWO SHEARS INTO THE LINDSAY GROUND, STATES THAT THE SHEARS MAY CONVERGE NEAR THE LINDSAY DEPOSIT. A VEIN, PARALLELING THE MAIN BREAK AT LINDSAY WAS PICKED UP IN THE DIAMOND DRILLING OF THE MAIN DEPOSIT, A POS SIBLE INDICATION OF ANOTHER SHEAR. THE TWO SHEAR ZONES GENERALLY LIE IN LOW GROUND AND IN MOST INSTANCES ONLY THE EDGES OF THE SHEAR ZONES WERE BEEN. LOW GROUND AND TROUGHS FORMED BY THE SHEARS HELPED TO TRACE THEM ON SURFACE. THE DIP OF THE SHEARS IB NEAR VERTICAL* AND THEIR AVERAGE WIDTH 18 ABOUT 15 FEET. THE GOLD BEARING QUARTZ AT THF. LINDSAY DEPOSIT IS SMOKY IN COLOUR AND CONTAINS TETRAHEDRITE, THE HOST MINERAL FOR THE GOLD. WHITE O.UARTZ CARBONATE IS ALSO FOUND HERE WITH LOW VALUES IN GOLD. QUARTZ VEINS FOUND IN PROSPECTING WERE MAINLY FOUND IN THE TWO MAIN SHEARS. THE quartz WAS MILKY IN COLOUR AND CONTAINED VARYING AMOUNTS OF CARBONATE AND MINOR PYRITE AND CHALCOPYRITE. THE VEINS VARIED FROM 6 INCHES TO 20 FEET IN WIDTH* GRAB SAMPLES TAKEN FROM THE VARIOUS VEINS GAVE VERY LOW ASSAYS IN GOLD. THESE SAMPLES WERE HAND PICKED TO GIVE THE BEST POSSIBLE ASSAYS. THE VEINS, SHEARS, AND ASSAYS ARE ALL LOCATED ON THE ACCOMPANYING MAP. UNSUCCESSFUL* ATTEMPTS TO TRACE THE SHEAR ZONES WITH A MAGNETOMETER WERE MAGNETITE.jINJTHE GABBRO AND DIORITE CONFUSED THE RESULTS. AT

2 C.PJJCJLJJSJjONSi 2. THE LINDSAY BREAK AND THE PARALLEL SHEAR ZONE EXTEND FOR OVER A MILE WEST OF THE WESTERN BOUNDARY OF THE LINDSAY PROPERTY. QUARTZ VEINS found IN THESE SHEARS IN THE AREA PROSPECTED ftave VERY POOR VALUES IN COLD. ONLY A MINUTE PORTION or THESE SHEAR ZONES WERE SEEN AND DIAMOND DRILLING WILL BE THE ONLY MEANS BY WHICH THEY CAN BE REALLY TESTED. WHEN THE ORIQIN OF THE LINDSAY DEPOSIT is ESTABLISHED, IT MAY HAVE SOME BEARING ON THE PROSPECTED AREA.

3 52B14SW SABAWI i MCCAUL 020 TO: MR. K. A. DAVIS PICKERING METAL MINES LIMITED, TORONTO, ONTARIO. *. AND,. F'ROM: DR. R. A. HALET ZENMAC METAL MINES LIMITED TORONTO, ONTARIO. R. POUTANEN, 430 QUEEN STREET, PORT ARTHUR, ONTARIO. AUGUST 30, I960, THE MERITS OP ACQUIRING THE MINERAL RIGHTS TO A. BLOCK OF TWENTY CLAIMS IN MCCAUL. TOWNSHIP^ ONJARJO IN THE AREA RESERVED. FROM R 1-,* 0r70J 7A.SECTION 4^F ILE INTRODUCTION; ON APRIL 4, 195? A LARGE AREA IN MCCAUL TOWNSHIP WAS RESERVED FROM THE STAKING OF MINERAL RIGHTS ON BEHALF OF THE COLAND ORE COMPANY FOR PURPOSES INCIDENTAL TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN IRON MIME. THIS REPORT WILL ATTEMPT TO SHOW THAT THE REMOVAL OF STAKING RIGHTS IN AT LEAST ONE. PART IN THIS AREA IS HINDERING THE EXPLORATION AND POSSIBLE DEVELOPMENT OF A GOLD MINE OR MINES. THE PART IN QUESTION ADJOINS THE LINDSAY EXPLORATION MINING PROPERTY ON THE WEST SIDE WHERE IT IS FELT THAT THE CHANCES FOR THE LOCATION OF GOLD ORE DEPOSITS ARE EXCELLENT.

4 PAGE 2. GENERAL HISTORY OF THE IMMEDIATE AREA. OTHER THAN THE WORK WHICH COMMENCED ON THE LINDSAY PROPERTY TARIY THIS YEAR THERE HAS BEEN NO EXTENSIVE EXPLORATION IN THE AREA IN AT LEAST THE PAHT TWENTY YEARS. THE LINDSAY GOLD SHOWING IS AN OLD ONE AND HAS BEEN STAKED AND PATE.NTED EOF! MANY YEARS. THERE ARE SEVERAL OTHER OLD GOLD SHOWINGS IN THE AREA,, A QUARTZ VEIN ON THE EAST SHORE OF DAY l AKE HAS HAD CONSIDERABLE STRIPPING AND TRENCHING. A STRONG EAST-VEST STRIKING QUARTZ VEIN ON THE SOUTH SHORE OF SINGLETON LAKE SHOWS CONSIDERABLE PROMISE. OLD AND CANCELLED CLAIMS POME TWO MILE? WEPT OF SINGLETON L.AKE ARE BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN STAKED ON GOLD BEARING VEINS. THE LINDSAY EXPLORATION MINING COMPANY AT PRESENT is DEVELOPING A GOLD MINE IN THE AREA OF CLAIM FF.3417, LOCATED ONE HALF MILE SOUTH or Os INAW i LAKE AND ONE AND A HALF MILES EAST OF THE AREA RESERVED FROM STAKING. THE COMPANY REPORTS THAT IT HAS PROVEN APPROXIMATELY ^5,000,000. WORTH OF ORE. THE POSSIBILITY OF INCREASING THIS TONNAGE IS EXCELLENT AS THE DEPOSIT IS STILL OPEN AT BOTH ENDS. THE SINKING OF A THREE COMPARTMENT PRODUCTION' SHAFT IS EXPECTED TO BE STARTED IN A WEEK*S TIME. GENERAL GEOLOGY: THE LINDSAY GOLD BEARING QUARTZ VEIN LIES IN A STRONG EAST-WEST STRIKING FAULT ZONE NEARBY AND PARALLEL TO A GRANITE:- ANDESITE, DIORITE CONTACT. THE BULK OF THE ORE IS A GREY BLUE QUARTZ CONTAINING MINOR AMOUNTS OF TETRAHEDRITE, PYRITE AND CHALCOPYRITE. THE TETRAHEDRITE IS BELIEVED TO CARRY MOST OF THE GOLD VALUES. WHITE.QUARTZ CONCAlNING IRON CARBONATES IS ALSO PRESENT IN THE VEIN AND BEARS FAIR SOLD VALUES.

5 PAGE 3. THE LINDSAY FAULT LIES IN A QUARTZ PORPHYRY ROC*, WHICH APPEARS TO BE A CONTACT PHASE OF THEGRANITE. STRONG SHEARING IS SEEN IN THE SEVERAL PLACES WHERE THE FAULT OUTCROPS ON THE LINDSAY GROUNO. THE MAJOR PORTION OF THE FAULT LIES IN LOW GROUND BUT THE FAUIT SCARP IS READILY APPARENT. WHEN VIEWED FROM THE AIR THE FAULT SCARP STRIKES STRONGLY FOR APPROXIMATELY ONE AND A HALF MILES TO THE EAST AND WEST OF THE LINDSAY SHOWING. THE SCARP WAS TRACED ALONG ITS WESTWARD STRIKE TO THE SOUTH SHORE OF SINGLETON LAKE WHERE THE FOOTWALL OF THE FAULT IS THE SOUTH SHORE. WESTWARD OF THE LAKE THE SCAFv'P IS NOT SEEN PUT THE FAULT APPEARS TO CONTINUE IN A BELT OF LOW GROUND. DESCRIPTION OF GOLD SHOWING AT SINGLETON LAKE: A STRONG QUARTZ CARBONATE VEIN IS SEEN IN FOUR PLACES ALONG THE SOUTH SHORE Of SINGLETON LAKE AT THE WATER'S EDGE. THE AVERAGE WIDTH IS APOUT TWO FEET AND THE KNOWN LENGTH IS APPROXIMATELY 300 FEET. NORTH. THE STRIKE IS TRUE EAST AND IT DIPS ABOUT 75 DEGREES TO THE THE QUARTZ IS WHITE AND QUITE RUSTY DUE TO THE PRESENCE OF AH IRON CARBONATE. VERY MINOR PYRITE AND CHALCOPYRITE WAS ALSO SEEN IN THE QUARTZ. THE VEIN LIES IN A SHEARED QUARTZ ROCK WHICH ALSO CONTAINS PLENTIFUL RUSTY IRON CARBONATES, MOST OF THE VEIN AND FAULT ZONE LIES UNDERWATER AT THE SHORE OF THE LAKE. THE RUSTY QUARTZ PORPHYRY ZONE EXTENDS ROME 500 FEET NORTH WHERE A GREY GRANTITE TAKES OVER. DIORITE WAS PICKED UP 500 FEET TO THE SOUTH OF SINGLETON LAKE.

6 PAGE 4. SAMPLE: 1. SAMPLE P. CHIP SAMPLE TAKEN ACROSS?.0 FEET OF VEIN MATERIAL RUSTY QUARTZ WITH TRACrs OF PYRITF. ASSAY. GOLD PZ/TON TRACE GRAB SAMPLE TAKEN FROM VEIN 50 FEET EAST or CHIP SAMPLE - RUSTY CARBONATES IN QUARTZ T*HE ASSAYS SHOULD DE RECEIVED SHORTLY FROM THE SUDBURY ASSAY OFFICE. CCJNOUISJONS: AS INDICATED ON' THE ACCOMPANYING SKETCH MAP A BLOCK OF TWENTY CLAIMS STAKED ALONG THE EXTENSION OF THE LINDSAY FAULT WOULD COVER AN AREA FAVOURABLE TO THE DEPOSITION OF A GOLD DEPOSIT. THE MAJOR POINT IS THAT AS ONE GOLD ORE DEPOSIT HAS ALREADY Elf EH DISCOVERED IN THE FAULT ZONE, OTHER DEPOSITS ARE LIKELY TO BE FOUtJD ALONG THE STRIKE. OF THE SAME ZONE, AND IN OTHER ZONES OF WEAKNESS IN THE AREA. THE LINDSAY FAULT HAS BEEN TRACED WESTWARD INTO THE AREA RESERVED FROM STAKING. A STRONG QUARTZ VEIN CONTAINING SOME MINERALIZATION HAS BEEN LOCATED ALONG THE FAULT ZONE ON THE SOUTH SHORE or SINGLETON t AKE IN THIS AREA. THE GOLD CONTENT OF THE VEIN AS SETN IS STILL UNKNOWN, BUT THE GEOLOGICAL CONDITIONS ARE SIMILAR TO THOSE AT THE LINDSAY DEPOSIT. EVEN IF THE GOLD CONTENT OF THE TWO SAMPLES TAKEN IS NEGLIGIBLE, THIS VEIN AND THE FAULT ZONE WARRANT FURTHER EXPLORATION WORK. NO EXPLORATION WORK HAS BEEN DONE IN THIS AREA FOR MANY YEARS At!0 WHAT HAS BEEN DONE IS VERY LIMITED.

7 PAGE 5. THIS ARFA WAS WITHDRAWN FROM STAKING ON APRIL 4, 1952, OK BEHALF or THE CAL AMD ORE COMPANY FOR PURPOSES INCIDENTAL TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN IRON MINE. IT I S S UGGESTED THAT MORF THAN EIGHT YEARS IS SUFFICIENT TIME TO FULFILL THIS PURPOSE. AS IT STANDS, IT IS DIFFICULT TO SEE HOW THE RELEASE OF AT LEAST THE SOUTHERN TIP OF THE RESERVE TO GOLD EXPLORATION WOULD EFFECT THE IRON MINE. OTHER FACTORS IN THIS AREA SUCH AS ROAD ACCESSIBILITY, POWER, TIMBER AND WATER SUPPLY ARE EXCELLENT,,

8 DATE OF ISSUE AUG 31 PAID Sawbill Bay (Marmion Lake) Area- M.2362 SABAWI LAKE a MCCAUL TWP., ^ f\ ^^*!k*r V:, V ' -.-*-~-.*r* -H..VU-J4i *'JL, DISTRICT OF RAINY RIVER RAMSA FORT FRANCES MINING DIVISION LEGEND " O ^ U/ -'.*j^^ PATENTED CAND CROWN LAND SALE LEASES LOCATED LAND LICENSE OF OCCUPATION MINING RWHTS ONLY SURACE RIGHTS ONLY ROADS IMPROVED ROADS KING'S HIGHWAYS RAILWAYS POWER LINES MARSH OR MUSKEG MINES NOTES 400' Reserve around oh Lakes 8 Rivers to Dept. of Lands 8 Forests LO 7017 Catand Ore Ca Ltd for purposes incidental to the development of an Iron Mine ^ V Withdrawn from Stoking OC 18th. Mar Withdrawn from Staking OC 4th. Apr Corporation of the Township of Atikokan shown thus: I27O ' l PLAN NO. M-2382 Pickerel Lake (North Part) Area - M.2366 DEPARTMENT OF MINES - ONTARIO - 52B14SW SABAWI t MCCAUL

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