REPORT ON THE VALE LAKE PROPERTY THUNDER BAY MINING DIVISION ONTARIO (JRE DST A R) for Inco Technical Services Ltd. 2060 Flavelle Boulevard, Sheridan Park Mississauga, Ontario L5K 1Z9 by JAMES M DAWSON, P.Eng, 860 - 625 Howe Street Vancouver, B.C. V6C 2T6 RECEIVED JAN 1 O 2CC2 GEOSCIENCE ASSESSMENT i OFFICE_____J Thunder Bay Mining Division 52I03NE2003 2.22218 PILLAR LAKE 010
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REPORTON THE
VALE LAKE PROPERTYTHUNDER BAY MINING DIVISION
ONTARIO(JRE DST A R)
for
Inco Technical Services Ltd.2060 Flavelle Boulevard, Sheridan Park
Mississauga, OntarioL5K 1Z9
by
JAMES M DAWSON, P.Eng,860 - 625 Howe Street
Vancouver, B.C. V6C 2T6
RECEIVEDJAN 1 O 2CC2
GEOSCIENCE ASSESSMENT i OFFICE_____J
Thunder Bay Mining Division
52I03NE2003 2.22218 PILLAR LAKE 010
Stephen Stares 3290 Willard Ave ThunderBay ON PIE 6J7 October 9, 2001
VALE LAKE PROPERTY PROSPECTING AND TRENCHING
LOCATION:
The property is located approximately 15km southwest of Armstrong Ontario.
ACCESS
Access to the property' is by logging road. The logging road is located 12km south of Armstrong on Hwy 527. Drive west for 8km, this is near the center of the claim block.
PROSPECTING AND TRENCHING
During tlie dates of November 3,1999 to November 18,1999 Mick and Steve Stares prospected and trenched the Vale lake showing in the Pillar lake area. A private contractor out of Armstrong using a Case C 30 backhoe did the trenching over two areas that had large angular floats. The backhoe was used for 16 hours trenching and four hours mobe, demobe. Both trenches are north/south and were dug down 2 meters but did not reach bedrock. Trench # l is located at GPS coordinate 342890E and 55646 ION and is about 14meters long and 20*^ of the material dug from the trench contained small to large size radioactive floats. Samples were taken in the till as composite grabs at l-meter intervals along the edge of the trench. Trench # 2 is located at GPS coordinate 342765E and 5564585N and is 10 meters long and did not reach bedrock. Four grab samples of radioactive synite were taken along the edge of the trench. Prospecting was done along new logging roads and clear cuts by using a scentalometer. The boulders
contain Thorium and Uranium along with other rare earth elements approximately 70 samples were taken in a 5km long by 2km wide area. All samples are located on the map and accompanied by GPS coordinates on the sample description sheets. During November 12, 1999 to Novemberl4, 1999 Jim Dawson visited the property and wrote a report for INCO Ltd.
CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
The Redstar showing is a number of angular hematized red to altered white synite/graninte boulders. The boulders are radioactive and cany high values of rare earth elements. Recently companies from around the world are looking for Olympic Dam style deposits along the Black Sturgeon fault. These deposits are associated with RE elements and hematized red granites along large structures. The Redstar showing has excellent potential to host an Olympic Dam style or RE element deposit.
R. C. Bell, Vale l**** Property
To: R. C. BellFrom: JM Dawgon <jmdawson.gdirect.ca>Subject: Vale Lake PropertyCc:Sec:Attached:
The Vale Lake Property consists of 16 claims totalling 201 units, and is located 15 tan. southwest of the village of Armstrong, Ontario about 30 km. west of the north end of Nipigon and roughly 200 km. north of Thunder Bay. Geographic co-ordinates are 50 13' M and 89 12' W. Access is excellent via Provincial Highway 527 north from Thunder Bay to a point roughly 12 tan. south or Armstrong and thence westerly for about 5 km. on good quality logging roads, tha region is typical, low rolling shield country, heavily forested except for patches of recent clear-cut logging. Elevations average 350 meters a. s.l.
There is no history or evidence of previous staking or prospecting activity. Radioactive, specularite -bearing float was encountered while prospecting the area for Olympic Dam style mineralization.
The area is interpreted as being underlain by granitic gneiss immediately west of the boundary of the Red Granite Lake Pluton. These rocks are partly covered by the extensive sheet of Keweenawan diabase sills whose northern boundary lies just south of the center of the property. A number of outliers of these younger rocks are located north and west of the property.
The central part of the property (where the mineralized float was discovered) is mantled by extensive glacial material, both, terminal morraine-like and fluvioglacial sand deposits. Extensive fields Of large boulders are suggestive of retreating or stagnating glaciers. Very little outcrop is present but what can be seen suggests an older granitic gneiss terrane intruded by younger, equigranular, pinkish granite or quartz monzonite of the Red Granite Lake Pluton. Occasionally, there are coarse blocks of gneissic material totally enclosed within the "granite" as veil as local coarse pegmatitic
Routine prospecting with a scintillometer encountered strongly radioactive float in a small burrow pit adjacent to the main loggong access road, this float proved to b* highly anomalous in a vartiety of rare earth elements as well as niobium and zirconium, follow-up prospecting has delineated a northwest-trending "zone" measuring about 2500 meters by 400 meters wide (see attached sketch) in which there are at least 200 radioactive boulder*. The bulk of these boulders are located in areas disturbed by logging so it is almost certain that there are many more.
The radioactive boulders vary from 10 cm. to 50 cm. in diameter and are "slabby" and easily fractured, probably explaining why larger ones have not been located to date. The boulders are weakly radioactive to as much as 50 times background or more. Typically, the radioactive boulders are fine grained, gray-pink to gray-red feldspar porphyry with minor, scattered, smoke y quartz eyes. Subhedral, white feldspar phenocrysts range up to 6 cm. long; quarts eyes to 5 cm, in diameter. The feldspar (?) phenocrysts are frequently bleached and may be clusters of feldspars and other crystals in glomaro-porphyritic masses. Frequently, the phenocrysts are completely altered to earthy masses of (?) clay minerals. There are occasionally vugs containing reddish, hematitic patches as well as disseminated grains and clots of specular hematite, there is sometimes other material in the matrix which weathers orange-yellow in color. Locally, ther are small clusters of unknown, yellow-green, white and golden colored crystals in a matrix which sometimes looks sericitized. Occasionally there is what appears to be a fine graphic texture quartz-feldspar, one specimen had sozne prismatic, black crystals up to 12 nro. long (allenite ?) sometimes weathering out to leave a black manganese-like residue.
Outside the mainarea of strongly radioactive boulders there are two other locations wher weakly radioactive syenite boulders returned anomalous rare earth values but only background values in Nb and Zr. These boulders are of a fine to medium grained, red syenite. This rock consists of about 80 % K-feldspar with the balance, fine grained amphibole as well as several percent magnetite and specularite. A possible dike-like body of this material was seen at Locality 2 (see sketch) . it could be at least several meters wide but snow cover prevented a good inspection. At Locality 3, similar red syenite boulders are found along a logging road over a 200 meter long section. An. additional 15 samples were recently taken from this area and depending upon results, additional staking may be recommended.
Because of the fairly extensive float boulders in the discovery pit, it was felt that these might represent subcrop. Accordingly, a 30 meter long trench wag cut using a small backhoe. This trench averaged 4 meters deep and may have encountered bedrock in two areas. However it was too unstable to allow other than a very rapid inspection. There are two strongly radioactive zones - each at least 5 plus meters wide (one at the west end of the trench may be significantly wider since it appeared to be stronger and had to be terminated at the edge of the road while still in radioactive float or (?) subcrop. Because it was too dangerous to sample the bottom of the trench itself, a series of 2 meter long grab samples of the spoil at the side of the trench were taken. These samples are currently being analyzed and results should be available in 10 days.
In the strongly radioactive zones, considerable fragments or boulders of the "feldspar porphyry" are present AS well as abundant float of highly sheared hematitic gouge material (not radioactive). The impression ia of perhaps a series of dikes of the porphyritic material intruded along a major fault or shear zone. It should be noted that the orientation of the boulder zone roughly parallels a series of prominent northwest trending linear* (see attached sketch).
The association of zirconium, niobium and rare earth elements is an unusual one. A search of the literature turned up several examples of this association in mineral deposits related to nepheline syenite-dominated complexes. At Ilimaussaq ( Greenland a composite, peralkaline intrusion contains areas of widespread metasomatism, hydrothermal alteration and epigenetic vein fpnnation. These alered areas contain zones greatly enriched in Zr, REE,Nta,Ta,Th,U and Be. A similar occurrence at Lovozero, Kola Penninsula,Russia is currently in production although it is not clear what commodities are being recovered. Here, a large, composite, alkaline intrusive complex contains zones grading up to S.6% Zr, Q.5% Ta-i-Nb and 1.11 REE.
The unique set of anomalous elements found in float at the vale Lake Property certain ly seems to fit the syenite associated, model. The two float clusters of red syenite boulders are petrologically compatable with this model, however, the presence of quartz eyes in the distincyive fine grained porphyry of the main boulder zone seems at odds with highly anomalous concentrations of such elements, It is possible that the feldspar-quartz porphyry dikes (?) or plugs!?) have been pervasively metasomatized with this strange set of elements along with extensive iron oxides.
it is the writer's opinion that the mineralized boulders have not been extensively transported by glacial action. The current claim block probably covers the bulk of the prospective area for the strongly radioactive porphyry. However, depending upon results of samples currently being analyzed, Inco may want to acquire additional ground to the north.
We have approved your Assessment Work Submission with the above noted Transaction Number(s). The attached Work Report Summary indicates the results of the approval.
At the discretion of the Ministry, the assessment work performed on the mining lands noted in this work report may be subject to inspection and/or investigation at any time.
The information currently available indicates that the field work component of this submission was performed prior to the recording date of the claims. The only work eligible for assessment work credit is the analyses of 21 samples performed after the recording of the claims. The eligible assessment credit has been pro-rated based on the total analytical costs reported 3588 (21xS28).
Assessment work credit has been approved as outlined on the attached Work Report Summary. The assessment credit is being reduced by S13.524. The TOTAL VALUE of assessment credit that will be allowed, based on the information provided in this submission, is 3588.
NOTE: This is insufficient credit to prevent forfeiture of mining claims TB 1238089 and TB 1239879.
If you have any question regarding this correspondence, please contact BRUCE GATES by email at [email protected] or by phone at (705) 670-5856.
Yours Sincerely,
Ron GashinskiSenior Manager, Mining Lands Section
Cc: Resident Geologist
Stephen A Stares (Agent)
Assessment File Library
Ninety-Nine Resources Ltd. (Claim Holder)
Ninety-Nine Resources Ltd. (Assessment Office)
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