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West Timmins Porcupine Gold Camp properties and claims in the vicinity of Nixon - Bartleman

 

West Timmins Porcupine Gold Camp properties and claims in the vicinity of Nixon - Bartleman view

 

Nixon-Bartleman Property: 19 contiguous mining claims in Keefer and Hillary Townships in the Abitibi Greenstone Belt of Northeastern Ontario view

 

General geology of Western Abitibi Sub-Province view

The Nixon-Bartleman Property consists of 19 contiguous mining claims located in Keefer and Hillary Townships in the Abitibi Greenstone Belt of northeastern Ontario. The Property lies within the West Timmins Mining Area, in the western part of the Porcupine Gold Camp. The Porcupine-Destor Fault strikes through the centre of the property from northeast to southwest and the property is also believed to host a cross-cutting fault splay. Since the first discovery in 1909, this famous Gold Camp has produced in excess of 66 million ounces of gold from approximately 50 operating mines. To date, the West Timmins area has not been well explored.

Following the exploration success of companies such as Lake Shore Gold Corp., the area has become a major exploration camp as a host of junior exploration companies have acquired ground and are in the early stages of evaluating numerous historical gold prospects and carrying out programs in search of new discoveries.

Most of the known deposits in the Timmins camp are spatially related to a major regional fault structure referred to as the Porcupine-Destor Deformation Zone (PDDZ). They occur in Archean aged meta-volcanic rocks although they are typically accompanied by metasedimentary rocks, quartz-feldspar porphyritic and ultramafic intrusive rocks. Almost all known deposits of this type are hosted within shear zones and are accompanied by quartz-carbonate alteration.

The Nixon-Bartleman gold prospect is located within a narrow band of volcanic and sedimentary rocks that are flanked on the north and south by tonalitic phases of a large granitic body, the Kenogamissi Batholith. The main Au occurrences are centered approximately 22 km southwest of Lake Shore's West Timmins Mine and 10 km from their west claim boundary. The PDDZ structure is not precisely delineated in this area because of overburden cover and the lack of detailed geological mapping.

Five gold bearing quartz veins have been located on the Nixon-Bartleman property. Two of these have been exposed by stripping along a bedrock ridge near the center of the claims . There is limited bedrock exposure in other parts of the property. One of the known gold occurrences is located within a sheared and metamorphosed (diopside-amphibole-carbonate-silica) mafic volcanic rock that has been described as an autoclastic breccia. A quartz vein and stringer zone within this shear has been traced for approximately 60 metres in the most westerly stripped area. Historic samples reported from this zone have returned gold values ranging from trace to 50.7 g/t. Three chip-channel samples collected during an October 2009 property visit by the Company's consultant assayed 9.10 g/t Au over 0.8 m; 6.11 g/t Au over 2.0 m; and 8.65 g/t Au over 2.0 m. The samples were collected to confirm the presence of gold mineralization and did not cover the total width of the zone in these areas.

A second occurrence is located beside an old shaft that is reported to be from 3 to 5 metres deep. The shaft is located approximately 80 metres northeast of the sheared zone but, unless offset by faulting, is not the same structure. A quartz vein beside the shaft is approximately 1.5 metres wide but narrows rapidly along strike towards the west. A grab sample from this vein collected by United Reef's consultant assayed 4.33 g/t Au and a 1.5 metre chip-channel across it assayed 1.52 g/t Au. Notable visible gold has been reported from this old shaft area.

Another grab sample collected from a narrow quartz vein (20 cm) located 35 m southwest of the shaft assayed 13.15 g/t Au and is from a different vein system than either of the two described above. All of the vein material sampled during the property visit contained minor amounts of pyrite, chalcopyrite and galena.

Based upon the data examined to date by the Company's consultant and observations during their property visit in October 2009, they have suggested that the sheared and altered zone exposed in the western stripped area has very good exploration potential. The mineralized veins exposed at surface along the 60 metre strike of the sheared structure have complex shapes and orientations. Individually the veins appear to pinch and swell along strike ranging from several cm to 0.8