Douglas Bundy

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Survey Conclusions and Recommendations

The property is broken down into 3 geological domains from north to south (plan A). Following the claim boundary line between the No.1 and west to No.4 post is the interfingering intrusion of the Dryberry Batholith. For report simplicity, this intrusive unit is classified as “granite” and is #3 in the report’s geology legend. This latest intrusive body is a biotitic, medium grained, equigranular and pink to red in colour.
Occupying the northwestern quadrant of the claim and striking northeasterly through Kite and Trembe Lakes is rock units #2. They are labelled as ultramafic to intermediate intrusive/extrusive rocks of gabbro to pyroxenite appearing as a layered – differentiated – still like body. The gabbros are massive, medium to coarse grained, equigranular and green to dark green in colour. On the south flank of the gabbro is a thick unit of pyroxenite. Unit #3 is composed of basaltic flows. These rocks consist of massive and porphyritic (plagioclase crystals) flows and pillows. They are dark green to green and aphanitic to fine grained. These volcanic rocks comprise about 60% of the property lying just north of the Witch Bay ( Wendigo) Road and south to the No.2 corner claim post.
On examining the Witch Bay Mine occurrence, the east trending shear zone is about 1.5 km wide in basalt. The quartz vein lenses are fractured with chalcopyrite and pyrite. There is silicification and carbonate development within the zone. This structure seems to be a splay off the major northeasterly limb of a synclinal fold system.
Based on field examination and referenced to the modified geology map of the Witch Bay Area by government geologist Davies and Smith, 1984 (fig.3), the Wendigo Mine and the Witch Bay Mine occurrence on the south and the Stella Prospect to the north are located on the outside flanks of a regional syncline and lie proximal to the pyroxenite (peridotite) rock unit. the NE striking axis of the syncline and lie proximal to the pyroxenite (peridititite4) rock unit. The NE striking axis of the syncline passes through Lac La Belle bisecting the above noted showings. As previously noted at the Witch Bay Mine area, the gabbro-pyroxenite appear as layered.
The recommendation for the next phase of exploration is to focus on the ultramafic assemblage lying in the northwest quadrant of the claim. The grid system is to be oriented northwest, spaced at 100m with 25m stations. the grid system is to be oriented northwest, spaced at 100m with 25m stations. The grid is to be laid out north of the Witch Bay wendigo) Road. the first survey is to be detailed geology and rock sampling assaying for PGEs, Au, Cu and Ni. the second survey is to be a ground geophysical survey – magnetometer and VLF EM. This program is more in line with the geology and addresses the mineral hosting potential of the ultramatics.

Historic Reports

Summary
Three properties: Jenny Leigh, Hay Island and Scotty Island were examined on Lake of the Woods. There are a large number of gold showings and current interest is generally the result of spillover from Nuinsco’s discovery of about 1 million tons, grading 0.20 oz/ton gold in the Cameron Lake area, about 50 km to southeast. A total of 40 man days were spent on geological mapping, sampling and report preparation on the three properties by Ulrich Kretschmar in August and September.
There is a close similarity between the geology of the Jenny Leigh property and the adjacent Wendigo Mine where about 200,00 tons grading 0.33 oz/ton gold and 9.2% copper were produced during 199-1951. The value of this production would be about $30 million dollars at current metal prices.
Major lithologies consists of mafic volcanics and interbedded differentiated ultramafic flows of probably komatiitic affinity. These are folded in a series of tight isoclinal drag folds on the Wendigo property and the mine horizon is repeated by a major east-west tending syncline on the Jenny-Leigh property. Mineralization on both the Jenny-Leigh property and at the Wendigo Mine occurs in gold-bearing conformable siliceous, locally graphitic interflow sediments. Associated sulfides are mainly chalcopyrite and minor pyrrhotite and pyrite. Two separate horizons have been identified on the Jenny-Leigh property and the potential for the occurrence of others ins excellent. The best assay obtained from the stratiform mineralization is 0.15 oz/ton gold over 50 cm.
A two stage program is recommended. Initial work is to consist of line-cutting, remapping, stripping, trenching and an I.P. survey. If results of this program warrant it, a 3000 ft. drill program is proposed.

Highlights

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Highlights

The property contains the old Witch Bay Mine which lies about 2.5 km northeast of the past producing Wendigo Gold-Copper Mine, the second largest gold producer in the region next to the St. Anthony Gold Mine. The Wendigo Mine was in operation from 1899 to 1943 producing 67,000 oz of gold, 14,760 oz of silver and 1,866,246 lb. of copper from 206,504 tons milled. The average grade of the one milled was 0.33 oz gold/ton.

The Witch Bay Mine was discovered in the early 1930’s. A Government reports assays from the quartz vein of 8.2 to 29.5 g/mt across 0.33 (1.1ft) over a known length of 240m (787 ft). No production recorded. Chalcopyrite is present in the quartz vein at the No.2 Shafto.

Area Geology

The Witch Bay property lies in the GIBI Lake area which comprises the eastern part of the Lake of the Woods Metavolcanic-Metasedimentary Belt within the western part of the Wabigoon Sub province of the Superior Province.

The belt consists generally of easterly to northeasterly isoclinals folded meta-volcanic and sediments intruded by mafic to ultramafic and intermediate to felsic intrusions. An example is the gold-copper mineralization at the Wendigo Mine which is associated with folded, differentiated and ultramafic to mafic intrusions. The Mine development lies on the outside of the south limb of a large fold structure(s). The vast majority of the various rock units have been metamorphosed from the greenschist to lower amphibolite.

Larger granitoid intrusives; ie:, Dryberry Batholith, have deformed and reoriented the earlier developed isoclinal folds. The area’s major shearing/faulting is east and northeasterly with minor sets striking northwesterly.

Area's Historical Exploration

Historically, the area was prospected for gold during the late 1800’s continuing into the early 1930’s. This resulted in 4 golf discoveries: the Stella, Triggs, Wendigo and Witch Bay mines.

Considerable trenching and underground work was performed at all the above sites. The Wendigo Mine (1899 to 1934) was the only gold-copper producer in the area.

After the former years pf prospecting and mine development; exploration activities in the are has been sporadic to none existent up to the present. Work consisted of additional pitting, trenching, geological mapping, drilling and geophysics. The primary areas of geological interested being held in old mining claim patents and leases.

Witch Bay Mine History

The Witch Bay Gold Mine (1934) is situated about 30m south of Kite Lake. The main showing consists of lenticular masses of white quartz occupying a shear zone in basaltics. The exposed zone had a length of 280 feet striking N 85 degrees E and dipping 45 to 70 degrees south. The maximum surface width of the quartz is about 1.5 ft. Three shafts were sunk on this vein starting with No.1 on the west, No.2 and No.3 on the east. The No. 2 had the best gold encouragement and was deepened. A mill plant was installed but work was discontinued in the winter of 1935.

South of this quartz bearing fault zone is a well pronounced rusty shear zone in basalt striking N 60 degrees E dipping 57 to 80 degrees NW. The No.4 shaft was developed at the south end.

Between 1950 and “53, Rexora Mining Corp. Ltd. conducted geological mapping, diamond drilling and trenching. In 1985, Mistango Consolidated and Goldstreet Resources Ltd carried out additional geological mapping and drilling. Canadian Nickel Company Ltd. (Fort Knox Resources) in 1987 performed geological mapping, rock assaying and geophysical work north of the Witch Bay Mine.

Discussion

During early June 2008, geological reconnaissance was conducted on the claim block. The claim boundary lines, roads and trails were used for traverse control. Approximately, 18.5 km was covered. A truck and 2 quads assisted in the ground program.

The purpose of the field survey was to get a visual handle on the geological terrain in conjunction with previous historical exploration work. This work was conducted on portions of the ground controlled by cut north-south grids. Their focus was gold and base metals. Frill testing was limited, and geological mapping was general with no report of surface sampling and assaying.

Included near Stella Lake

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Included near Stella Lake

Sample 15: From the Blue Star vein. Quartz-filled shear strikes at N110° E. In the largest of the trenches, the face at the east end shows a flat lying fault lying above and cutting off the vertically-striking vein. Slickensides on the wall of the fault suggest a dip-slip movement. Visible gold was seen in numerous loose samples lying in the trench. The zone is about 4 feet wide, with mafic volcanic unsheared on either side. Numerous pits along the zone. Sample 15 is a random grab of loose pieces.

Triggs Mine October 8, 1899

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Triggs Mine October 8, 1899

The workings are confined to an elevated portion of ground 40 or 50 feet in height, about 150 in feet in width and from 700 to 800 feet in length, surrounded by low, swampy ground. The formation is fine grained trap. The richest ore is confined to veins, and consists of zones of quartz and greenstone mixed, extending along the top of the hill with a strike of nearly east and west. There are two of these veins, one on the north and the other on the south side of the hill, about 150 feet apart: but the manager has made repeated tests, resulting in the conclusion that gold is contained to a sufficient extent and sufficiently diffused to warrant treatment of the whole mass between the veins. The quartz in the veins assays exceptionally high, and the greenstone between gives promising returns.

No.1 vein, on the south side, has been exposed by a number of small test pits two or three feet in depth, sunk at frequent intervals, extending over a distance of several hundred feet. Oxidized material is revealed in most cases, with from a few inches to two feet of quartz. A shaft has been sunk on the vein to a depth of 80 feet, but was not in operation and was partially full of water at the time of my visit, preventing ingress. At a depth of 40 feet a drift has been driven eight feet west along the vein. Mr. Triggs informed me that the shaft followed a very rich pay streak for the greater part of the distance, but this dipped so flatly near the bottom that sinking was continued in the foot wall. Several hundred tonnes of rich ore have been dumped separately at the surface, awaiting the erection of a mill. A neat collar and a ladderway have been provided, and a temporary shaft house built.

Rat Portage News 1897

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Rat Portage News 1897

Some Rich Ore December 2, 1897 – Capt. Triggs while watching his teamsters haul 25 tons of ore from the Triggs mine to the lakeshore, amused himself by picking up the small pieces that fell from the shovel, and in this way gathered about 25 pounds of ore. He brought it to town and out of curiosity has it assayed at the Keewatin Reduction works and got a return of $366.00 to the ton. Before the assay was made all visible gold was eliminated. It is pretty evident that there is going to something of a surprise when the first mill run is made of ore of the Triggs mine.

Gold Brick Talks December 2, 1897 – Mr. F.D. Sargent of the Triggs Gold Mining company who has been here a couple of weeks left Wednesday for St. Paul, Minn with a nice little lump of gold, the result of the clean-up of the Triggs ore at the Keewatin reduction works. The lump of gold weighed 118.6 ounces and was taken from 85.6 tons or ore. It is exceptionally pure being worth 18.37 which per ounce, which makes the value of the brick worth $2,086.83. This is very practical demonstration of the value of a large mount of rock from the Triggs mine and shows just what will result when a mill is erected on the mine.

December 2,1897 – Capt. Triggs has sent out more men to his mine of Gibi lake. His foreman reports that some remarkably rich ore is coming out of the shaft the days.

The Canadian Mining Review 1898

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The Canadian Mining Review 1898

Stella Mine- Work had been going on steadily all winter. A new shaft is being sunk on the Stella vein at the mount of the tunnel which was run for a short distance on the vein into the hillside. The shaft is down about 40 ft., and the vein is 4 to 5 ft. wide, consisting of a whitish quarts carrying pyrite, and good value in gold. There is a streak about 6 inches in width that is highly mineralized with pyrites chiefly and is quite rich in gold. A good sized sample of this lately brought in shows gold quite freely. The owners are quite elated by the way this shaft is turning out. A shaft had been sunk on each of two other veins, but work on these is suspended at present. There is as yet no machinery on this property, the hoisting being done with a horse and “whip”.

Trigg’s Mine- work was suspended here some weeks ago, but is to be resumed shortly. The shaft is down 80 ft.; it is solidly timbered in two compartments, and all the work has been done in most work man like manner. The sinking was by contract, but all the work was done under the supervision of Tom Philbrook, an experienced California miner, who was placed in charge by the owners. Hoisting was effected with a horse and “whip.” The country is a massive trap.

Rat Portage Miner July 6, 1899

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Rat Portage Miner July 6, 1899

The Triggs Mine

The Triggs shaft is now down 130 feet. The management have started to cross cut the vein on the 108 foot level. An immense body of siliceous schist, all pay ore. It is 200 feet wide on the surface. The cross cut, including the shaft 7 feet in now driven in 27 feet of solid pay ore. The work of cross cutting and shaft sinking is going on the rate of one foot a day and there will be no let up day or night. The company is now building a fine new lodging house for the men

Triggs Mine

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Triggs Mine

On the same belt as the Stella, with similar formation and ore bodies, is the Triggs mine, situated east of Witch bay on a fairly good wagon road about 2 mile in length extending from a small lake which is crossed by canoe shortly Triggs Mining Company after leaving the landing at Witch bay. The property consists of three locations, McA56, 129 and 148, aggregating 113 acres. It is owned and operated by the Triggs Gold Mining Company of Ontario, Limited. President, F.D. Sargeant, St. Paul. Minn.; vice-president J.W. Millar, Rat Portage; secretary and treasurer, J.H. Triggs, Rat Portage. I visited the place in August. Work has been going on since October, 1897, under the management of J.H. Triggs, secretary of the company. The workings are confined to an elevated portion of ground 40 to 50 feet in height, about 150 feet in width and from 700 to 800 feet in length, surrounded by low, swampy ground. The formation is fine grained trap. The richest ore is confined to veins, and consists of zones of quartz and greenstone mixed, extending along the top of the hill with a strike of nearly east and west. There are two of these veins, one on the north and the other on the south side of the hill, about 150 feet apart: but the manager has made The other 6 repeated tests, resulting in the conclusion that gold is contained to a sufficient extent and sufficiently diffused to warrant treatment of the whole mass between the veins. the quartz in the veins assays exceptionally high, and the greenstone between gives promising returns. 

No. 1 vein, on the south side, has been exposed by a number of small test pits two or three feet in depth, sunk at frequent intervals, extending over a distance of several hundred feet. Oxidized material is revealed in most cases, with from a few inches to two feet of quartz. A shaft has been sunk on the vein to a depth of 80 feet, but was not in operation and was partially full of water at the time of my visit, preventing ingress. At a depth of 40 feet a drift has been driven eight feet west along the vein. Mr. Triggs informed me that the shaft followed a very rich pay streak for the greater part of the distance, but this dipped so flatly near the bottom that sinking was continued in the foot “wall. Several hundred tons of rich ore have been dumped separately at the surface, awaiting the erection of a mill. A neat collar and a ladderway have been provided, and a temporary shaft house built.  On No. 2 vein, which is  traceable for 500 to 800 feet along the northside of the hill, two test pits have been sunk: one 10 feet deep revealed four feet of vein matter consisting of quartz and “greenstone, charged with pyrites and said to assay well. The other,70 or 80 feet west, was six feet in depth and 14 feet in length, exposing about 10 feet of vein matter; the vein branched aggregating about five feet in  width. Iron and copper pyrites were abundant and assays w. re satisfactory. Near the foot of the hill, on the north side, a tunnel was commenced which was in tended to be dr. ven through to the south side, cutting both veins. I learned later from Mr. Triggs that this had been driven 40 feet, and work at the mine suspended, with the intention of commencing again during the winter. The force consisted of three miners and a cook. Boarding camps, a stable and a black smith shop had been built.

The Triggs mine closed down on July 14, owing to lack of capital for further development work. One hundred tons of the low grade ore have been brought in for treatment at the Keewatin Reduction Works, and if ^2.50 per ton, or more, is obtained, the result will be considered satisfactory. Mr. Triggs has hopes in the event of such being the case, of being able to obtain sufficient capital for the further necessary development of the mine by the sale of treasury stock. The capital of the company is $500,000, divided into 100,000 shares wit a par value of each. Twenty thousand shares are in the treasury, and these cannot be sold at less than par value. Mr. Triggs gave me the following underground measurements since the closing down of the mine: Main shaft; depth 225 feet, First level: depth, 108 feet. No. 1 crosscut, driven northwest from shaft, 58 feet. Drifting in crosscut at distance of 51 feet from shaft; length 206 feet; direction, west. Drifting from about same point in crosscut, in same drift, at a distance of 186 feet from No. 1 crosscut; length, 58 feet; direction, southeast; driven towards air shaft, which is 242 feet from the main shaft, and 61 feet deep, vertical dip. A crosscut has also been driven 19 1/2 feet northwest from the same drift at a distance of 51 feet from No.1 crosscut. Second level: depth, 208 feet: crosscut, northwest from shaft, 29 1/2 feet, Drifting from end of crosscut, 59 feet west and 50 feet east. Total length or amount of development work on property, 826 feet. Other shafts have been mentioned in previous reports of the Bureau.

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Kite Lake

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Mineralization Comments

Nov 22, 2017 (R Tuomi) – 1970 drilling best intersection assayed 0.38% Cu and 0.02% Ni over 1.2 m. Mineralization included pyrite, pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite. Sheared mafic metavolcanic rocks only lithology intersected. Silicification predominant alteration type. 1990: Chip samples assayed: 2.15% Cu over 2m; and 1.55% Cu over 1.5m. Host rock was shared mafic metavolcanic rocks and gabbro.

Nov 22, 2017 (Theresa Pettigrew) – Fine-grained basalt underlies an area south of Kite lake. Near the southernmost tip of Kite Lake, an east-striking zone of schist and breccia, from 1-2 m wide and dipping south at from 50-70 degrees contains some carbonate and one or more quarts veins and lenses with a maximum width of 45 cm. The quartz is fractured, encloses minor silicified basalt, and contains abundant chalcopyrite and pyrite in and near some of the fractures. Two shafts about 30m apart have been sunk on the zone. A chip sample across 50 cm of the mineralized quartz vein at the east shaft assayed 1.93 opt Au. A third shaft was put down a further 75 m t the east. A fourth shaft was sunk on a separate zone approximately 100 m to the SW. The best intersection reported from DDH 70-2 where a 3.8 ft interval from 89.0-92.8 feet assayed 0.38% Cu, 0.02% Ni, 0.06 opt Au and 0.10 opt Ag. McLaren for Rexora in 1950 wrote that “two veins, each about 500 ft. long are found in a wide shearing… four shaft were sunk in the early work to various depths on these veins”. McLaren also stated that a bulk sample was taken by Rexora, partly at the 50′ level at one shaft and partly from surface. The pulp from this bulk sample was shipped to a number of assayers with highly variable results. Of 15 separate assays the gold assayed at 0.22 to 3.28 opt Au, the silver assayed 0.71 to 4.26 opt Ag, and 2.37% to 11.28% Cu (AFRI 52E09SE0012). Sample 57906 near the No. 2 shaft in 2011 assayed 1.260% Cu, 11.55 ppm Au, and 20.1 ppm Ag. The best nickel assay was 125.5 ppm Ni from sample 57907 (AFRI20000007065). Pyrite, pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite mineralization occurs in silicified and sheared Early Precambrian andesitic volcanic rocks.

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