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|  | Kirkland Lake Minerals Inc. has four claims at Webb Lake and five claims at Browning Lake totaling 360 acres in Cairo Township. In Pacaud Township, Kirkland Lake Minerals Inc. has six claims totaling 240 acres. Many more claims are available to us upon work being performed on a joint venture basis with various local prospectors. These could exceed fifty claims in numbers totaling an additional 2000 acres. The following is a report prepared for Kirkland Lake Minerals Inc. by Ian D. Wilson Associates Limited, Stratford, Ontario dated September 1998. | ||||
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| KIRKLAND LAKE MINERALS Inc. REPORT ON COMPANY ACTIVITIES WESTERN ABITIBI SUBPROVINCE SUPERIOR PROVINCE PROVINCE OF ONTARIO MINING CLAIMS 2.1 Cairo Township: 2.1.1 Webb Lake: (Click here to see Webb Lake map) The Webb Lake Claim 1202490 consists of 4 contiguous units occupying approximately 64.75 hectare (160 acres) with Webb Lake occupying the southwest corner of the claim and including a small, deep lake at the north claim boundary (see Figure 2). Location and Access: The property is located north of Highway 66 approximately 3.3 kilometers northeast of the Matachewan town site. The property is reached via the road to the north to the Matachewan Indian Reservation No. 72 which leaves Highway 66 immediately east of the junction of Highways 65 and 66. A logging road leaves the road to the Indian Reserve approximately 0.6 km north of the intersection with Highway 66, crosses Whiskeyjack Creek and travels generally west to the claim group. The location of the access road is shown on Figure 1. Previous Work on Claims: In 1966 Midrim Mining Company Limited drilled eleven diamond drill holes based on geophysical and geochemical surveys for a total of 1143 meters (3,749 feet). It is understood that the prime target was copper and molybdenum. Bulldozing and trenching were undertaken as part of the exploration program. During 1973 a Mr. R. Newman drilled two diamond drill holes for a combined length of 97 meters (317 feet) on the property. It is assumed that the targets were the same as those of Midrim Mining. In April 1981 Minorex Limited carried out fluxgate magnetometer and VLF-EM surveys of the claims which resulted in a recommendation for the drilling of five diamond drill holes to investigate the central of three conductors located during the geophysical surveys. A total of six diamond drill holes (KL-HW-81-1 to KL-HW-6, inclusive) were drilled on the claims for a total of 598.6 meters (1964 feet). KL-HW-81-1 was drilled at an angle of minus 520 while KL-HW-81-2 & 3 were at minus 41.50 and KL-HW-81-4, 5 & 6 were at minus 430. No assays were available for drill hole KL-HW-81-1, however, the balance of the holes showed low gold values with some significant intersections assaying up to 1993 parts per billion (one 1.4 cm quartz vein assayed 3112 ppb gold). Lead values were shown in drill hole KL-HW-81-5. Topography and Vegetation Cover: The 1202490 Group covers an area of dense secondary growth alders, evergreens, poplars and birch with the more accessible lands being the central sector of the group where the rock outcrops or is close to the land surface. Muskeg surrounds the small lake at the north end of the claim group. The lands slope gently upwards from Webb Lake (320 meters above sea level) at the south to a central highland area at approximately 362m asl, then slopes downward to the small lake at the north end (340m asl) and westward to about the same elevation. The small northern lake is shown to drain to the north with a small creek joining the Whiskeyjack Creek system near the northern road to the Indian reservation. Two predominant ridges of Matachewan age diabase dikes cross the property in a roughly north-south direction. The majority of the rock outcrop on the site occurs between the diabase dikes. General Geology: ERROR MSGOld mineral exploration trails, completely grown in, used by Midrim and Minorex in their exploration programs were cleared by hand over a distance of approximately 1.84 kilometers in order to gain access to the site and to clear vegetation for two exploration trenches and the rehabilitation of an old Midrim trench. A tractor-mounted back hoe was used to remove overburden at the trench sites and to clear the old trench. Archean: Mafic Intrusive Rocks Matachewan diabase Intrusive Contact Silicic Intrusive Rocks Algoman syenite and syenite porphyry Intrusive Contact Sedimentary Rocks Timiskaming conglomerate greywacke quartzite argillite alloggio motel SandsliThe above rocks have been described in detail in previous reports on the property and area and in a report by the Ontario Department of Mines. Economic Geology: Matachewan Consolidated Mines Ltd. and Young-Davidson Mines Ltd., located west of Matachewan in Powell Township, mined gold from volcanic rocks and porphyry masses (Matachewan Consolidated Mines Ltd.) and porphyritic syenite (Young-Davidson Mines Ltd.) according to the Ontario Department of Mines, Geologic Report 51, Geology of the Matachewan Area by H. L. Lovell. Similar syenite rocks, locally porphyritic, were reported on the Webb Lake Claim 1202490, approximately 4.7 kilometers to the east-northeast, showing significant gold values in exploration drill holes. A total of two trenches were excavated on-site the during September 1996; Trench 1 being 37.2m (122.2 ft.) in length while Trench 2 is 70.7m (232 ft.) in length. Trench 1 runs approximately north northwest-south southeast and Trench 2 runs approximately north-south. Both trenches were channel sampled using a diamond circular saw. An old Midrim trench was rehabilitated and "bulk" sampled over its 21.6 metre (71 ft.) length. The samples taken were entirely within the Timiskaming sediments and all samples showed sulphide (pyrite) mineralization. The trenches (stripping) were excavated by back hoe equipped with a one-foot bucket to the bedrock surface where rock samples were taken by diamond saw, ± 8 ins. wide by ± 2 ins. deep. A total of 51 samples were taken from Trenches 1 and 2. One bulk sample weighing 221 lbs. was taken from the old trench after it was cleared out. Four assays were undertaken by Swastika Laboratories on the bulk sample. The claim Group 1202490 shows sulphide mineralization (largely pyrite) throughout the sediments and within the syenite with copper, molybdenum, and to a lesser degree fluorite, occurring in quartz-carbonate veinlets. The northern conductor delineated by Minorex Limited occurs below the deep, northern lake on the property and it is the intention of the company to carry out exploration drilling in this area. Although no economic deposits have been found on the property to-date, the area is highly mineralized in an area of past gold production and with the Cairo syenite stock being present and a syenite porphyry mapped on the claim group, the chances of economic mineralization exist. The drilling by Minorex Limited in 1981 showed encouraging results within the central of the three conductive zones delineated. The company intends to continue exploration work in this area. Proposed Exploration Program - Webb Lake, Cairo Township: The conductor below the small lake at the north claim boundary should be explored by means of at least two diamond drill holes while additional drilling is recommended in the porphyry shown on the claim by Minorex Limited. 2.1.2 Browning Lake: (Click here to see Browning Lake map) The Browning Lake Claims 1202488 and 1202489 consist of 5 contiguous units occupying approximately 80.94 hectare (200 acres) located on either side of the southern sector of Browning Lake (see Figure 3) in Cairo Township. Location and Access: ERROR MSGThe property is reached via a road to the north to the Matachewan Indian Reserve 72 which leaves Highway 66 immediately east of the junction of Highways 65 and 66. A narrow road branches off the road to the Reserve to the east to Browning Lake and a barite showing south of the claim group, approximately 5.6 kilometers north of Highway 66. Topography and Vegetation Cover: Browning Lake is an elongated feature which occupies the Browning Lake north-south fault; a branch of the Whiskeyjack Creek fault system. Tree cover is heavy, consisting largely of evergreens, poplars and to a lesser degree birch with alders occupying the lower areas. The topography is fairly rugged, particularly the central portion of the claim group to the west of Browning Lake (elevation 349 meters above sea level) where the land rises approximately 30 meters to a high point at about 380 meters above sea level. A small beaver pond is located in this area which drains to the east into Browning Lake. The east shore of the lake, within the central sector of the claim group, is not as steep but still rises approximately 20 meters. The topography within Claim 1202389, to the south of the main group is not as rugged. The shores of the lake within the central part of the claim group are steep to shear, particularly on the west side, due to rock outcrop. A small island is located within this sector. General Geology: The entire claim group falls within the Archean silicic intrusive rocks made up of coarse grained syenite and syenite porphyry. Two later Matachewan diabase dikes cross the claim group from north to south on either side of the lake forming the higher lands. The east-west Galer Lake - Fort Matachewan Fault crosses the claim group and appears to have been displaced horizontally approximately 0.2 km by the north-south Browning Lake fault which forms the lake. Economic Geology: An east-west trench exposing a quartz vein in syenite, approximately 0.6 to 0.9 meters wide and 48 meters long, was investigated during 1996. This trench had obviously been excavated and sampled many years ago, however, no assay results are available. Chalcopyrite was visible at many locations along the trench length and gold mineralization had been reported in the past within the quartz vein. The trench was partially cleared out but was not resampled. An east-west barite vein deposit occurs south of the main claim group and west of Claim 1202489. The barite has been exposed over a considerable length where material has been removed. Lead, zinc and fluorite mineralization was also reported at this location. A limited, total magnetic ground field strength survey was carried out close to the west shoreline of Browning Lake where a number of local anomalies were recorded which might prove to be drill targets. Sampling of rock outcrop on the small island in Browning Lake was undertaken in September 1996 but showed no gold or silver values while an I.C.A.P. Plasma Scan of the same samples showed some low values of barium and titanium. Although no economic mineralization has been found on Claim Group 1202488 and Claim 1202489 to-date, the properties are located within syenite and syenite porphyry where two major north-south and east-west fault systems intersect. Definite copper mineralization is present in the trench along the quartz vein on the east shore of Browning Lake where gold has also been reported while barite has apparently been exposed in a pit near the west shoreline of the lake on the claim. This barite showing is approximately 290 meters north of the larger barite works just south of the main claim group. The quartz vein in the old trench on the east side of Browning Lake outcrops on the shoreline of the lake near the intersection of the north-south and east-west faults which shows an interpreted horizontal movement of approximately 220 meters. Although not observed in the field during 1996, it is conceivable that the quartz vein system may also be displaced a similar distance to the north by the north-south fault system and may be located on or near the western shoreline. Additional exploration work is planned for this area. 2.2 Pacaud Township: (Click here to see Pacaud map) The Pacaud Township Claim 1225541 consists of four contiguous units occupying approximately 64.75 hectare (160 acres) southeast of the community of Boston Creek Station in the North Half of Lot 2, Concession V, Pacaud Township (see Figure 4). As of October 28th 1998, two additional claims directly North of claim number 1225541 were added to the inventory and their claim numbers are 1227360 and 1227361. The Boston Creek Station area, located approximately 14 kilometers south of the Kirkland Lake gold mining camp, is a well known area of past mining activity where the highest gold values in the general area have been reported. Location and Access: The claim is readily accessible by the two-lane loose surface Secondary Highway 564 to Boston Creek which branches off Highway 112 approximately 5 kilometers south of Highway 66 near the community of Swastika then by a two-lane hard surface road to the north end of the claim approximately 2.5 kilometers southeast of Boston Creek Station. Access to the western sector of the claim can also be gained using all-terrain vehicles, via a hydro right-of-way which crosses the road between the claim and Boston Creek. Topography and Vegetation Cover: The property is a heavily wooded and relatively flat sandy area in the northeast sector of the claim with more rock outcrop in the southwest. A relatively deeply incised tributary of the Blanche River crosses the property from north to south in the eastern half of the claim. General Geology: According to the Ontario Department of Mines, Geology of Boston Township and Part of Pacaud Township by K. D. Lawton, Volume LXVI, Part 5, 1957, the rocks within the claim are of Precambrian Age consisting largely of Archean volcanics, sediments and intrusives. Diabase dikes of the Proterozoic era intrude the Archean rocks. The claim is located to the immediate northeast of the large Round Lake batholith which is made up essentially of Algoman granite. The northeastern sector of the claim is largely sand covered and underlain by Keewatin andesite, basalt and pillow lava while the balance of the claim is underlain by tuff, tuffaceous sediments and altered equivalents. Narrow bands of syenite porphyry and felsite trend southeast-northwest in this area. Outcrop is more prevalent in the southwest (see Figure 4). The interpreted Pacaud Fault roughly cuts the property in two, striking southeast-northwest. Radial faults striking approximately southwest-northeast away from the Round Lake batholith are shown to the north of the claim. Economic Geology: In the past copper was discovered in the Keewatin tuff and tuffaceous sediments that have been intruded by the Algoman Round Lake batholith along a four kilometre zone stretching from the vicinity of Boston Creek Station to the South Half of Lot 2, Concession V, Township of Pacaud. The Kirkland Lake Minerals Inc. claim occupies the North Half of the same lot and concession. The copper appears to be confined to narrow bands (1.2 to 3.0 meters wide) in siliceous iron formation occurring on both sides of acid tuff along its contact with more basic tuffs. Replacement copper sulphides are associated with small cross faults cutting the iron formation which strikes generally northwest-southeast. Underground development has taken place at the Amity, Patterson and Tretheway-Ossian properties in the past. Gold occurs as native gold and occasionally combined with tellurium in quartz veins in greenstone and younger granite and porphyry. The gold is generally located along with dark coloured bands of chlorite and calcite in the county rocks which are basic and intermediate volcanics and greenstone. Gold bullion has been produced at two mines belonging to Barry-Hollinger Gold Mines Limited and Miller-Independence Mines, Limited in the past, the first being located in Lot 3, Concession VI, the second in the South Half of Lot 1, Concession VI. The Barry-Hollinger and Miller-Independence underground workings are essentially in Keewatin basic lavas which also are shown to occur within the northeastern sector of Kirkland Lake Minerals Ltd. Claim 1225541. Turzone Explorations Limited (Hilltop), held property in the North Half of Lot 10, Concession V and South Halves of Lots 10 and 11, Concession VI, Township of Catharine, to the east of the Kirkland Lake Minerals Inc. claim, which contains a shaft sunk to a depth of 207 meters on a near-vertical quartz vein and shear zone in Keewatin lavas, basalt, diabase, agglomerate and andersite country rocks which have been intruded by a number of rock types. The lense was seen to have a 35.6 centimeter width consisting largely of quartz with pyrite and chalcopyrite. Very fine, visible gold associated with chalcopyrite has been noted in a specimen of the lense. Two other mining companies carried out trenching projects in the vicinity, including one incline shaft. In an article in the Canadian Mineralogist, Volume 30 (1992) entitled Platinum Group Minerals in Pyroxenite from the Boston Creek Flow Basaltic Komatiite, Abitibi Greenstone Belt, Ontario by Messrs. William E. Stone, Michael E. Fleet, James H. Crocket and David M. Kingston, platinum group minerals were discovered in pyroxenite from the Boston Creek Station basaltic komatiite. Similar basic rocks could be present in the northeastern sector of the Kirkland Lake Minerals Inc. claim. Atapa Minerals Limited has claims to the immediate southeast of the Kirkland Lake Minerals Inc. property, in Pacaud and Catharine Townships where according to Ms. S. A. Scott of Exploration Consultants Inc. in her report on the 1995 drilling program for Atapa Minerals Limited, a relatively intensive drilling program was carried out in 1994 and 1995, including 12 drill holes in 1995, for a total (1995 drilling) depth of 1301 meters. It was reported that gold mineralization in the 'Terry Zone' is erratic and does not persist along strike to the south but was found to continue to the north towards the Kirkland Lake Minerals Inc. property where the two northernmost, 1995 drill holes 25 meters apart, intersected gold values of 2.3 gms/tonne over 3.2 meters and 32.3 gms/tonne over 2.3 meters at shallow depths (15.54 and 29.11 meters). This zone could persists along strike to the northwest below the Kirkland Lake Minerals Inc. property. Proposed Exploration Program - Pacaud Township: In June 1998 a total of 1.675 kilometers of grid was cut in the southeast sector of the claim and 1.8 kilometers of total magnetic field strength surveys were undertaken in preparation for a drilling program. Two strongly magnetic signatures were observed, probably caused by magnetite in the country rock. According to the Ontario Geological Survey Preliminary Map P.2273 (1980 Rev.), Kirkland Lake Area, Pacaud Township, Airborne Electromagnetic Survey, there are two relatively strong magnetic signatures separated by a central area of lower intensity which may be of economic interest. The two signatures observed during the ground survey probably represent the southeastern higher-intensity values shown on the airborne map. In addition an airborne EM anomaly is shown on Map P.2273 in the extreme southwestern corner of the claim. During the late summer of 1998 it is proposed to carry out an exploration program largely in the southeast sector of Claim 1225541 to explore the possibility of the continuation of the 'Terry Zone' outlined on the adjoining Atapa property, extending below the claim. The program will consist of prospecting, surface trenching, sampling and limited diamond drilling.
1. Kirkland Lake Minerals Inc. have what are considered to be valuable properties in Pacaud and Cairo Townships with the possibility of acquiring additional mining claims in Catharine and Skead Townships in the Larder Lake Mining Division. 2. Work carried out to-date on the claims owned by the company and on surrounding lands show potential for basemetal and precious metals. 3. Activity in the vicinity of the Pacaud Township claim, including the good gold values on the adjoining Atapa property and past underground development on nearby mining properties augur well for both precious and basemetals on the Kirkland Lake Minerals Inc. claim. 4. Further mineral exploration work should be undertaken on the company's properties in Pacaud and Cairo Townships. 1. Prospecting, trenching and limited diamond drilling should be undertaken in the southeastern sector of Claim 1225541 in Pacaud Township in 1998. Positive results should be followed up by additional exploration work to the northwest along strike. 2. The airborne E.M. anomaly in the southwestern corner of the Pacaud Township property should be investigated in the field with possible future trenching, sampling and diamond drilling to follow. 3. The possible basemetal conductor at the north end of Webb Lake Claim 1202490 in Cairo Township should be explored by means of diamond drilling and consideration should be given to further exploration drilling of the central porphyry and possibly the anomaly below Webb Lake. 4. The anomalies near the western shoreline of Browing Lake (Claim 1202488) should be investigated further.
Ian D. Wilson Ian D. Wilson, P.Eng.
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