Geological Report P.O

GM 03320 GEOLOGICAL REPORT P.O. 80X. 801 PHONE 641 VINCENT CORRIV QUEBEC DEPARTMENT OF MINES l'ro(essioncrl Engineer ,Amos, One. JUN 2 7 1955 MINERAL DEPOSITS BRANCH r;fl Report on the G 33a ~ WHITNEY URANIUM MINES LIMITED (N. P. L.) PROPERTY, Vassan township, Abitibi-East County, Northwestern Quebec; By V. Corriveau, Prof. Eng. June 10th., 1955. INTRODUCTION The property described in this report consists of eight (8) mining claims, located a short distance to the south of Amos Lithium, New Jerzey Zinc, Lithium Corporation of America and Nolybdenite Corporation of Canada properties which are ~~. all located for the most part in the adjoining township of La Corne, and where numerous beryl, lithium and molybdenum showings have been found over the pas t years. The holdings of Quebec Lithium Corporation, the center of all interests at present, a s a result of the finding of a major lithium deposit now being prepared for production on a scale of one thousand tons per day, are located some ten miles to the northeast of the present property. The WHITNEY URANIUM NINES property is underlain by the same type of rocks as that in which the Quebec Lithium Corporation, finds its ore bearing pegmatite dykes. The contact of the granit traverses most of your ground from north to south, and further to being in the immediate neighbourhood of numerous lithium showings, this is the right place to look for pegmatite dykes; there- - 2 fore the ground must be considered as worthy of systematic surface exploration. The object of the present report is to study the best means of exploring the property and appraise the chances an intensive program of exploration would have to discover com- mercial lithium ore deposits. PROPERTY TITLES AND LOCATION The claims described in this report are numbered A- 201?77 to A-201788 inclusive, and were staked in virtue of Miner's Certificates 83135'claims 1 and 2; 83143 claims.1 k and .2; 83136 claims 1 to 4 inclusive and 83137 claims 1 to 1 4 inclusive, as shown on the official recording maps of the Quebec Department of Mines. They were recorded at the Amos Bureau of Mines care of L. G. Cossette, who has since had the proper transfers and titles documents delivered to Whit- ney Uranium Mines for registration in your company's name. The claims occupy lots 7 to 14 inclusive, and lots A, B, C, ~~ D & E, in range VIII (8) Vassar township, Abitibi-East County,\ 1 Province of Quebec. Nominally, the claims have an area of --- 800 ac res, including the bed of creek La Corne located on your property. The ground has been staked last November and is in good standing until early days of this month in 1955. Mining rights are renewable from year to year, provided 125 days of assess- ment work are performed on every 200 acres of land, and a tax of 25 cents per acre is paid. The claims are located in the northwest corner of Vassan township, and the property is readily accessible by highway No. -3- 60 going across the west part-of your ground, and is about half way between the towns of Amos and Val d'Ort where sup- plies, accomodations, transport and electric power are all readily available. DESCRIPTION OF THE PROPERTY General Features The main value of the Whitney Uranium Mines property at present, is its location in a favrouable section of the La Corne Batholith area. For several years it has been known that lithium bearing pegmatite dykes existed near the borders of this batholith. The sudden expansion of the uses of lithium in industry which took place in the past years, made the deposits of La Corne township particularly valuable and gave an impetus to the major development of the Quebec Lithium Mines who has outlined over 15 million tons of ore. Numerous other mining companies are actively engaged in the search for other large deposits, and your property warrants extensive exploration for such a deposit. Recent uses of lithium have expended enormously even though it is a rather newcomer in the mining industry. It became an additive to. greases and is a very important ingre- dient in.the manufacture of certain, still secret war and defense items. It also has, further to strategic applications, a great power potential, since it is used in the H-bomb and other thermonuclear weapons, while it is a mighty performer in peacetime industry which extends to virtually every industry nowadays. It w as used as a fuel for German submarines during the last War. These known uses, which for the lack of -4- space, I have to skip over lightly, will serve as a prelude for future applications for lithium. They are indicative however, of an extremely promising outlook for the lithium mining industry as a whole and for this district in particular. Quebec, through good fortune of location, is in possession of an extensively mineralized area centered in La Corne township, adjoining immediately north of Vassan township, which area - scientists and geolo- gists are convinced - hold the world's largest known deposits of lithium. Production of lithium compounds has increased tenfold since 1947. Interesting data on the utilization of lithium are given In 1) A report of the Battelle Institute to the President (1952) ; 2) The "Chemical Week" magazine, November 6, 1952 is- sue; 3) A more recent report of the "Minerals Economics sub- committee of the Senate Interior Committee on the Accessibi- 1 ity of Strategic Ea terials to the United States in Time of War and For our Expending Economy". General. Geology The general , geology of the property appears on the fol- lowing Government maps: 1."Fiedmont Sheet" Maps No. 206A and 999A, issued by the Geological Survey of Canada in 1929 and 1950 respecti- vely. 2. "Fiedmont Map-Area Abitibi County, Quebec" by L. P. Tremplay, Memoir 253 of the Geological Survey of Cana- da issued in 1950. 3."Fegmatitic Beryllium and Lithium Deposits, Preissac- La Corne Region,Abitibi County, Quebec" by Robert B. Rowe, Geologica Survey of Canada, Paper 53-3, issued in 1953. - 5 - 4. "Structural Features of the Preissac-La Corne Batho- lith, Abitibi County, 'Quebec", by K. R. Dawson, Geo- logical Survey of. Canada, Paper 53-4 issued in 1954. 5. The area has been air photographed by the Federal Go- vtrnment and the corresponding photographs can be purchased through the National Air Photographic Li- brary in Ottawa. Geology_ of the Property It must be emphasized that the property is almost entirely covered by overburden. Geological maps published who are above referred to, show a few outc rops in the east section of your 800-acre claims group. On a recent visit to the property, we have observed the granite contact can easily be seen on one of these outcrops. Furthermore the prospectors of the previous owner from whom you have acquired the ground, have uncovered a quart vein, where a few specs of molybdenite could be seen, and this find surely deserves further investigation due to the fact of your company's close location to the only molybdenite producing mine in Canada. More s tripping and trenching should be done along this vein, and it should be blasted into, in or- der to get fres h material for chemical assaying and channel samplings. New outcrops and possibly pegmatite dykes as w ell could be found by searching thoroughly and carefully along the north-sou th granite contact that crosses the east part of your property. The 1 ithium deposits in the area, have all been found in pegmatite dykes so far, but all pegmatite dykes do not ne- cessarily contain lithium. Actually, thousands of dykes occur in the area, particularly in and around. the muscovite granite, which your property borders for, nearly one mile on the west contact of the La Corne Batholith. Those carrying lithium in - 6 - appreciable amounts are distributed in a "T"-shaped area composed of a northern east-west zone close to the north .boundry of the main intrusives, and a wide, central north- south area between the intrusives, roughly centered along the La Motte-La Corne township line, and striking directly toward your property, as shown on Figure 1 of Paper 53-3, by Robert B. Rowe cited above. Properties in the Area Your property is located a short distance south of Amos Lithium, where a recent find has been made near Lake Baillargé, not very far from a previously known spodumene-bearing dyke. The importance of the new discovery cannot be ascertained yet, but it must be noted that the previous showing of Amos Lithium located at the western end of Range III (3) of La Corne township, a few miles north of your ground, was described by W. N. Ingham and N..Latulippe in their brochure M-3744, on "Lithium Deposits of the La Corne Area" for the Quebec Department of Mi- nes, as follows: ."The dyke is up to 40 feet wide and has been traced on surface for a length of 1,200 feet. It contains large crystals, some 3 feet long, of green spodumene, books of clear green mica, clean while feldspar, a few grains of black côlumbite-tantalite, and molybdenite." As previously stated, in the township to the north of Vas- s an where your property is located, northeast of your area, Quebec Lithium Corporation has blocked out by diamond drilling 15 million tons of ore with a spodumene content of 20%. Shaft sinking and mill constructions are progressing rapidly, with production scheduled to start at the end of this year or early in 1956.

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