SUMMARY TECHNICAL REPORT Elkin Des Richesses Naturelles, Québec
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GM 07690 SUMMARY TECHNICAL REPORT Elkin des Richesses Naturelles, Québec ..... w__...::.._ ..... .:_......_ SERVICE DES Gl~`ES aI1NERAUX r/ ~ 6, ît) No G~1- _._._ TECHNICAL REPORT -on- MINING CLAIMS Nos.A-270396 to 398 incl. 09 99 I3o5.A-270101 and 270402 99 99 Nos,A-270111 to 430 incl. ST.HELEN YOWNSFIIP, ABITIBI EAST COUNTY'Que. -for- ST, HELEN "MINING EXPLORATION * LTD. (No Personal Liability) -by- L.Germain,P.Eng, REPORT No. M - 109 DATE: October 20th, 1958 7062 PIE IX BOULEVARD TF.L. RAYMOND 2-3771 Kroztarb OrrYltatYt B A.. A.R C.S. (ENGLAND) CONSULTING ENGINEER MINING & CHEMICAL MEMBER OF THE CORPORATION OF PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS OF QUEBEC MEMBER OF THE C.I.M.M. AND A.A.A. S. innntrral. October 20th, 1958 CANADA INTRODUCTION The present report is being produced specifically to conform with the requirements of the Quebec Securities Act. It is supplemen- ted by two maps, one shoving the location of the Company's hold- ings in St.Helen Township, in the electoral district of Abitibi East, Quebec, and the other, shoving the locations of the various mining properties mentioned in the present report, as well as the regional geology. • For reasons given in detail in the present report, the author considers this mining property worth prospecting for a combination of precious and base metals, more particularly, for gold, silver, copper and zinc. It should, however, be clearly understood that this opinion is based on the author's knowledge of the regional geology, structure and diamond trilling results on some of the properties lying within the area, and, is not directly derived from the results..' of actual exploration of the property itself. To our .knowledge, no mineral exploration of any kind has been performed yet on_ this pro party but, there is reason to believe that it lies within a_ new.me- tallographic province recently brought to light. (2) St.Helen Mining .Exploration Co.Ltd. (ContPd) This new metallographic province is located in the Mattagami Lake area of northwestern Quebec HISTORICAL First results of mining importance in the area were obtained by the Mattagami Syndicate last year. Diamond drilling indicated some 14 million tons averaing 13.5% zinc, 0.65% copper, 1.11 ozs, of silver and 0.016 ozs. gold per ton.(- 1) The second major discovery occurred this summer when New Hosco located a new copper deposit the extent of which is yet to be determined. This was followed by another new discovery by Kennco Explorations, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ken- necott Copper Corp. which turned the discovery property over to Con- west Exploration. Lately, what appears to be the extension of. the Mattagami Syndicat& s ore-body has been picked up by Orchan Mines Ltd. on the adjoining ground where initial drilling has yielded widths of the order of 50 feet averaging more than 7% in zinc with low values in copper, gold and silver. 1 The original, find by the Mattagami Syndicate has now been taken over for further exploration by.Noranda Mines, McIntyre Por- cupine Mines and Canadian Exploration Ltd. The prospecting activity has now splashed out over an area of over 2,000 square miles becoming one of the most active areas in Canada in recent years with International Nickel Co.., Newmont Mining Corp., Rio Tinto Canadian Exploration, Dome Mine, Phelps Dodge, etc. participating in the activity. (1) Engineering and Mining ,Journal: Octôber 19589 page 184 (3) St.Helen Mining Exploration Co.Ltd. (Cont' d) PROPERTY The property is made up of 25 mining claims of approximately 140 acres each staked between the 3rd and 7th of July 1958 and recor- ded as follows in the books of the Quebec Bureau of Mines:(2) ' CLAIM Nos. CERT.Nos. EXPIRY DATES A-270396 to 398 incl..,;' C-1142835: éls.1. to 3 incl.' 7/7/59 A-2701401 and 2701402 C-114263V'cls.1 and 2.9 .1 6/7/59 A-2701411 to 1415 incl. ~ C-1I42632: cls.1 to 5 ihcl.~ 3/7/59 A-2701416 to 420 incl. C-1142633: cls.1 to 5 incl» 4/7/59 A-2701421 to 1425 incl. .6 C-11428314: cls.1 to 5 incl. ' 6/7/59 A-2701426 to 1430 incl. 4 C-142635s cls.1 to 5 incl./ 7/7/59.2 located in the township of St.Helen, in the electoral district of Abitibi East, Province of Quebec, Canada. These mining claims are.unsurveyed but, their approximate area is 140 acres each, or, a total of 1,000 acres for the entire group. HISTORY This property was staked between the 3rd and the 7th of July 1958 but, to our knowledge, it has otherwise no history of its own, its acquisition being presumably the result'of developments at the Mattagami Syndicate and New Hosco, some twenty miles to the east. LOCATION This ground is located almost at the center of St.Helen township, at the intersection of Longitude 78°20'W. and Latitude 149°501 N. It lies about 21 miles due west of the New Hosco prospect, .25 miles in the same direction from the Watson Lake property of the Mattagami Syndicate, and, 12 miles east of the Harricanaw River. ACCESSIBILITY The only practical way to reach the property at the present time is by float-equipped aircrafts from either Val D'Or, Amos or Senneterre along the Canadian National Railwayys. The respective dis- tances from these places are: From Amos 85 miles " Senneterre 110 11 " Val D'Or 120 11 P (2) Quebec Department of Mines: Letter from the Chief Mining Recorder dated October 17th/58 copy of which is appended hereto. (4) St.Helen MiningvExploration Co.Ltd.(Coni'd). A small lake located immediately to the north of the property is providing a landing place for aircrafts but it is doubtful if this lake could permit take-offs with appreciable loads. The nearest lake of any size for the purpose would be Grasset (Kitchigama) Lake which is located some 10 miles to the northeast. Pending further developments within the area, it is impossi- ble to forecast the kind of ground transportation that will be pro- vided eventually. Should a railway be built to serve the Mattagami Syndicate's property, it would probably branch. out from the C.H.R. lirfb from Barraute to Chibougamau from a point near Quevillon Lake where the present line crosses the Bell River. Although there are large areas of muskeg to cross, the terrain is relatively flat and, it is believed that construction of such a branch line would be a simple matter. HYDRO - POWER One of the large pulp and paper operators in the area is pre- ,sently giving consideration to the establishment of a pulp mill at Mattagami Lake. In this connection, the Quebec Government, for the past two or three years, has been carrying out a survey of the hydro- electric power resources of the region. A suitable site, on a tri- butary of the Bell River, is being studied. Z TOPOGRAPHY The area lies within the "clay belt" and is well kIown for its good farming land. With the exception of a few isolated ridges and scattered knolls, the area is low, flat and covered with deep overburden for hundreds of square miles rendering prospecting very difficult. The average elevation of the ground is about 700 feet above sea-level. The irainage is to the northwest to James Bay with numerous small creeks and rivers parallelling the Harricanaw River for appreciable distances before joining it. Although the thickness of clay overburden within the area could be considered a difficulty in prospecting for mineral depo- sits, it should be remarked that modern geophysical techniques have overcome this difficulty to an appreciable extent. This has been de- monstvated in a very striking manner by the discoveries recently made in the region at points where the overburden varied from 60 to 100 feet in thickness over the mineral deposits. ~ ~ a LEONARD GIRMAIN ~ lgf‘ey~a~ 0 (5) St.Helen Mining Exploration Co.Ltd. (Conttd) REGIONAL GEOLOGY Owing to the swampy character of the area and, the consequent. paucity of rock outcrops, the region has not been geologized in detail by the Geological Survey of Canada or the provincial Department of Mines. The most recent geological work done covered the Mattagami Lake area on the one hand and, the Kitchigama (Grasset) Lake area on the other hand. H. C. Freeman surveyed the Mattagami Lake area for the C.G.S. in 1936 and, results of his work have been published as Map No.571A entitled "Mattagami Lake".''W.W.Longley mapped the Kitchigama Lake area for the Quebec Department of Mines in 1938 and 1939 and, his find- ings have been published in Geological Report No.12 entitled "Kitchi- game Lake Area". Longleyts map extends westerly to the Imbeault River and, consequently, comes very close to the property itself which lies only one or two miles outside Longleyts map. Consequently, for all practical purposes, it would be convenient to extrapolate slightly on Longleyts observations and all the geological information given below is taken from this source. All the rock formations presently found within the area are Precambrian in age. Arty other consolidated material which may have been present at one time or another after the Precambrian has now been removed by erosion. As a result, the Precambrian formations are now partially covered by varying thicknesses of varved clays, silts and till representing the debris left by continental glaciers or by gla- cial lakes subsequent to glaciation of the country. In this connection, it might be interesting to mention that Longley has observed two very distinct directions to the glacial striae exposed along the south shore of Kitchigama Like.