Gold project located 7km from the Seabee Mine in North eastern
Saskatchewan. The Munro Lake is a Joint Venture between Wescan with a
98.4% interest and the operator and Shane Resources Ltd (1.6%). The
Munro Project is an early stage gold exploration play which encompasses
the northeast projection of the Laonil Lake Shear Zone which is the main
ore control structure for the Seabee Mine gold mineralization.
Project Background: The project area covers 2,480 ha situated about 130
kilometers northeast of La Ronge, Saskatchewan and approximately 7
kilometers northeast of the Seabee Mine/Mill complex. The Munro Lake
project was part of the Shore Gold Inc. portfolio of properties
transferred to Wescan at the company's formation.
The area is accessible from La Ronge and Otter Lake by float or ski
equipped aircraft. It is also possible that Claude Resources would
permit access from their Seabee minesite, which has an all weather
airstrip. The property can be accessed from Seabee Mine via winter
drill roads. The Seabee Mine is connected to a 115 KV hydro electric
power line from Island Falls. The property lies within the Glennie Lake
area of the Churchill Structural Province. All rocks in the area are of
Precambrian age and comprise mixed metavolcanics and metasedimentary
belts within dominantly granitic gneisses and younger granitic bodies.
Emplaced within this complex are younger basic and ultramafic bodies and
more massive and homogeneous tonalites, granodiorites and granites.
The Munro Lake property exhibits less than 15% outcrop. Several known
copper-gold occurrences are reported in the area.
The property has been explored since the mid 1950s, when minor copper
and pyrite mineralization was noted on the west side of the Lake.
Limited trenching and drilling was conducted at the time, but with only
low grade mineralization reported, the claims were allowed to lapse in
1960.
In 1984, the property was registered to Claude Resources inc (Claude),
though ownership was recorded as 30% Claude and 70% by Rapparee
Resources. By 1986, Claude was the 100 % owner and had acquired
additional claims.
From 1985 to 1988, Claude carried out regional prospecting to trace the
pyrite--chalcopyrite mineralization. Geophysical surveys were conducted
which outlined the geological contacts. The early holes had been
drilled in the south end of a magnetic high at the southern end of the
property. The mineralization and quartz veining intersected occurred
within metavolcanics and granodiorite.
By 1990, the claims had been amalgamated into a single mineral
disposition which was registered to Shore Gold Inc (Shore) 51% and Shane
Resources Ltd - 49% Subsequently, Shore conducted prospecting work in
the vicinity of the early trenching on the west shore of Munro Lake and
geochemical soil surveying, prospecting, trenching and sampling of other
mineralized showings and has identified several areas that contain
anomalous gold values. The highest gold values coincide with the
trenched mineralization, though a discrete area of elevated gold values
up to 70 ppb occurs in the north of the survey area; this trend
cross-cuts the geological strike at shallow angle and appears to extend
for a further 3-400 meters. The zone is open to the northwest. A
second anomalous area some 50 meters wide, 200 meters west of this zone,
trends north-north-easterly and is open to the north and south.
Prospecting of the area located the trenches excavated between 1956 and
1958. Mineralization exposed in these trenches included pyrite,
chalcopyrite, bornite and malachite staining within sheared mafic
volcanics flanked by foliated granodiorite. A grab sample from one of
the excavations returned a value of 0.414 oz Au/ton. The prospecting
program also discovered three additional showings that host anomalous
gold, copper and nickel values.
The following discoveries were also made (as per rock descriptions and
hand-drawn plots in the reports):
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A sheared mafic volcanic, approximately 4 meters in width
containing up to 3% pyrite and minor chalcopyrite was discovered
approximately 55metres west of the earlier trenches.
- A rusty, sheared pyroxenite was located on the west side of the
surveyed area, 300 meters northwest of the early trenches.
Mineralization included pyrrhotite, pyrite, traces of disseminated
chalcopyrite and traces of disseminated pentlandite. A rusty quartz
vein, containing disseminated pyrite, was identified 150 meters farther
north along strike at the contact between moderately sheared
intermediate volcanics and amphibole-feldspar- biotite- quartz gneiss.
All of the mineralized areas were stripped, trenched, mapped and sampled
by Shore Gold's contracted exploration field team. The trenching
located several zones with elevated gold values. Visits to the trenched
area and confirmed the presence of sulphide mineralization, including
chalcopyrite and secondary copper minerals in both gneiss and sheared
volcanics.
Available satellite imagery indicates that the known gold mineralization
lies on the continuation of the shear which hosts the Seabee gold mine.
A review of the property by an outside consultant resulted in a
recommendation for a phased exploration program for the Munro property.
Included in the 2011 phase of exploration are the following:
- Compiling of all available data into a geographical information
system (GIS) package.
- Completing a satellite interpretation of the area to be used as
the base map for the GIS compilation. This enables structural controls
to be interpreted and determine whether any major shearing is present on
the property.
- Carrying out a reconnaissance geological and prospecting survey
to permit ground truthing of the GIS data and preliminary investigation
of targets identified during the interpretation.
- Conduct a field exploration program consisting primarily of
geochemical sampling and geological mapping on areas of known and
potential interest. An airborne geophysical survey maybe be conducted to
provide further assistance with proposing our exploration program. The
Munro Lake property is situated on trend with the Claude Resources
Santoy Zone which makes for even greater potential with future
exploration on this property.