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42A87NW8171 63.4918 THOMAS010
REPORT on the BA RESOURCES LTD., JOSEPH PROPERTY
in THOMAS TOWNSHIP,Porcupine Mining Division
Ontario
by
R. Bruce Durham Bsc. FGAC
DURHAM GEOLOGICAL SERVICES INC.
Box 7341176 Delnite Road Timmins, Ontario
P4N 7G2
42A87NWI8171 63.4918 THOMAS 010C
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION.
PROPERTY.Location, Access, and Facilities. Previous Work....................
CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS.
BUDGET.
SELECTED REFERENCES.
CERTIFICATION.
Page
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LIST OF FIGURES
Figure l Property Location Map
Figure 2 Claim Location Map
Figure 3 Regional Geology
Figure 4 Property Geology Back Pocket
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INTRODUCTION
This report was prepared at the request of
Mr. Norman Chamberl1st, President of BA Resources
and describes the geology, alteration and previous
work, recommended exploration program for a block
of 25 claims in Thomas Township, Ontario.
The BA Resources Ltd., Joseph Property,
located in Thomas Township, approximately 38 km
east of Timmins, Ontario. It is underlain by
predominately basaltic rocks thought to be
stratigraphically equivalent to the lower Tisdale
Group of volcanics which host most of the gold
deposits of the Porcupine Gold camp. The Porcupine
Gold camp has produced in excess of 56,000,000
ounces of gold since the turn of the century.
Renewed exploration in areas of favorable geology
is continually both defining additional reserves,
and resulting in new discoveries, generally
associated with zones of intense carbonate
alteration and quartz veining.
The BA Resources property covers an area of
favorable geology that has been shown to have been
sheared, carbonate altered, veined, and is known
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LEGEND
M Archean greenstone and associated Sediments
D Granitic Terrain
ffi Non Archean Sediments, volcanics, intrusions
DURHAM GEOLOGICAL SERVICES INC.
B A RESOURCES LTD.
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to have returned gold values as high as O.08
ounces/ton gold from surface samples.
The favorable geological environment in
conjunction with excellent access, facilities, and
logistics has lead to the recommendation of a
three phase exploration program estimated to cost
S157,575.00 to evaluate the gold potential of the
property.
PROPERTY
The BA Resources Ltd., Joseph property
located in Thomas Township consists of 25
unpatented mining claims in the Porcupine Mining
Division of Ontario.
The numbers of the claims and their
respective expiry dates are as follows:
CLAIM # EXPIRY DATE
P 867076 September 3, 1986
P 867077 September 3, 1986
P 867078 September 3, 1986
P 867079 September 3, 1986
P 867080 September 3, 1986
P 867081 September 3, 1986
P 867082 September 3, 1986
P 867083 September 3, 1986
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P 867084 September 3, 1986
P 867085 September 3, 1986
P 867508 September 3, 1986
P 867509 September 3, 1986
P 867510 September 3, 1986
P 867511 September 3, 1986
P 867512 September 3, 1986
P 867513 September 3, 1986
P 867514 September 3, 1986
P 867515 September 3, 1986
P 867521 September 13, 1986
P 867522 September 13, 1986
P 867523 September 13, 1986
P 867524 September 13, 1986
P 867525 September 13, 1986
P 867526 September 13, 1986
P 867527 September 13, 1986
TOTAL: 25 claims
The claims were all staked by, and recorded
in the name of, Sydney Joseph, holder of Ontario
Prospector's license number M-21995.
Transfers for the 25 claims have been
executed in favor of BA Resources Ltd., but have
yet to be recorded with the mining recorders
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MACKLEM TWP
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THOMAS TWP
DURHAM GEOLOGICAL SERVICES INC
B A RESOURCES LTD.
CLXi/M LOCATION
office in Timmins, pending the company's
acquisition of an Ontario Prospector's license.
The surface rights to the claims belong to
the crown and as such pose no problem with respect
to any possible future development work.
Location. Access, and Facilities
The property is located in Thomas Township,
38 km east of Timmins, Ontario. The property is
readiliy accessible via a gravel road system that
extends southward from Hwy. 101, from a point
approximately 25 km east of Timmins. This all
weather gravel road, known as the Gibson Lake
road, extends through the extreme northeast corner
of Thomas Township, within 2 km of the eastern
portion of the property. Small bush roads extend
onto the property from that point.
Being located within 40 km of the city of
Timmins, Ontario, one of e premiere mining camps
in Canada, the property is well located with
respect to; a qualified labor force, machine
shops, support facilities, engineering, and so on.
A small mill facility operated by Asarco has
recently been treating ore on a custom mill basis
within 11 km of the property. Water and power
supplies, while not located on the property, are
located within a reasonable distance.
Ample coarse and fine aggregate are present
within a large esker area 2 km east of the
property. As such, the property must be
considered to be ideally located with respect to
infrastructure.
Previous Work
Considering the location and favorable
geology of the area, the area has not been
extensively explored.
In 1965, during the Timmins basemetal "rush"
Markay Mining Corporation Limited carried out
ground magnetic and Crone EM electromagnetic
surveying using a 200 foot coil separation over
much of the subject property. Three drill holes,
totalling 1587.5 feet, were drilled during the
summer of 1965 to test certain magnetic anomalies.
Only 5 samples were selected and analysed for
gold. No values were obtained. The current
location of the drill core is unknown but
interpretation of the original drill boys indicate
a very favorable environment for gold
mineralization. All rocks intersected were
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extensively carbonatized and terms and phrases
such as; sericite, shearing, quartz-carbonate
veins, quartz-tourmaline veins, fault zones, talc
chlorite schist, mariposite, and aplitic dyke,
are used in the original drill logs to describe
the geology of the bedrock encountered.
While geologic mapping and sampling were
recommended, there is no report of such work
having been carried out.
A sketch map showing work carried out, circa
1923, on the property by Foster-Trout Creek shows
outcrops of carbonatized basalt cut by quartz and
quartz-tourmaline veins and assays of up to 0.08
ounces/ton. Of the seventeen samples analysed
seven contained between 0.01 ounces/ton Au and
0.08 ounces/ton Au.
Mr. R. Bradshaw in his December 13, 1964
report for Markay Mines Ltd. indicated that assay
values of up to 0.41 ounces/ton gold over 1.2 feet
were obtained but the author was unable to confirm
the source of the information. In his report he
also mentioned that extensive stripping was
carried out by the Leliever interest who held the
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property at one point. No records of this work
are available.
A junior mining company by the name of WPM
Resources Ltd. acquired a total of 27 unpatented
claims which overlapped the western portion of the
25 claim block now held by BA Resources Ltd.
The only work completed by this company consisted
of the collection of biogeochemical samples from 6
of the claims and subsequent analysis for silver,
lead, copper, and zinc. No anomalies were defined
and the property was allowed to lapse.
Cominco Limited carried out airborne and
ground geophysical surveys over a block of claims
in Sheraton and Thomas in 1971-1973, to the east
of the subject property. The airborne and ground
magnetic survey located an east northeast striking
diabase dike but failed to define the general
geologic trends in the area. The EM surveying
located one conductor in the north half of Lot 9
Concession five of Sheraton Township which was
later drilled (in 1974) and shown to be caused by
graphite. Low copper-sine values were obtained.
No analyses were carried out for gold.
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Noranda Exploration Co. carried out a
magnetometer survey over a group of 6 contiguous
unpatented mining claims in the eastern portion of
Thomas Township, immediately east of the subject
property. The only area of high magnetic gradient
located was an NE-SW trending diabase dike.
A 1230 foot AQ sized diamond drill hole was
put down by Noranda Exploration Co., in 1975 on a
conductive zone known as the Nighthawk Geophysical
Test Range conductor. The hole intersected
numerous graphitic bands within intermediate to
rhyolitic tuffaceous horizons.
A second deep drill hole was put down on the
same claim group by Noranda Exploration Co. in
November of 1983 approximately 450 m northeast of
the hole drilled in 1976. Similar felsic
agglomerate, lapilli, tuffs, graphitic tuffs, and
argillites were intersected and the claims remain
in good standing.
Dome Mines Limited hold the claims
immediately adjacent to the north of the BA
Resources Ltd. property in Thomas Township and
also hold a large block of ground covering similar
carbonatized volcanic rocks in Macklem Township.
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LEGEND
supine Fault Zone.
\n Cobalt SedimentsHI DiabaseIU Granite[f] Sediments[5J Predominantly Felsic rocks (Deloro Group)[D Predominantly Mafic Volcanics[B Ultramafic flows
A Gold ShowingO Producing/Exproducing Gold Mine
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W M GEOLOGICAL SERVICES INC.
B A RESOURCES LTD.
REGIONAL GEOLOGY
(Modified after ODM 22O5)K.B.
A/7S Approved B.D.
A considerable amount of drilling has been
carried out on the property. The claims adjacent
to the BA Resources, Joseph Property remain in
good standing.
Much of the BA Resources Ltd., Joseph
property was originally part of the Dome Mines
Ltd. block of claims.
General Geology
The BA Resources, Thomas Township property
lies within the Abitibi greenstone metavolcanic
belt, an 800 km long, 240 km wide suite of Archean
volcanic rocks that stretches from Chibougamau,
Quebec on the east to the west of Timmins,
Ontario.
While average rock exposure in the area is
less than 1035, outcrop information coupled with
geophysical interpretation, and drill hole
information, indicate that the majority of the BA
Resources Ltd. property and surrounding area are underlain by a suite of komatiitic and tholeiitic
basaltic rocks, which, if not of the Tisdale Group
of volcanics, are certainly similar to the Tisdale
Group.
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"Deloro Group" type rocks to the east in the
extreme northeast corner of the townships of
Thomas, Sheraton and Bend, and to the southwest in
Carman Township indicate that the regional contact
between the Deloro and Tisdale Groups of rocks may
be present on or near the BA Resources Ltd.
property.
This regionally extensive contact has been
shown to be important from an economic point of
view in that many of the Porcupine gold deposits
are located near this time stratigraphic boundary.
One of the other key features found near most
of the gold deposits of the Porcupine Gold camp,
is the Destor-Porcupine Fault zone. This zone of
major regional faulting and structural adjustment
passes through Macklem Township in an easterly
direction approximately 6 miles north of the
property.
The majority of the Porcupine gold deposits
lie within approximately 10 km of this major
structure which usually consists of a highly
sheared zone o f talc-chlorite carbonate schist of
ultramafic composition.
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Basaltic rocks in the vicinity of the BA
Resources property are highly carbonatized and
schisted in a southeasterly direction. Dips,
while near vertical appear to be generally to the
north.
The basaltic rocks are cut by felsite and
diabase dikes, and by a variety of quarts, quarts
-carbonate, and quartz-carbonate-tourmaline veins
similar in nature to those that host the gold
deposits in the Porcupine gold camp.
The diabase dikes are the youngest, and only
non Archean rocks in the area.
Faulting in the area, both parallel to the
Destor-Porcupine Fault and southeasterly, parallel
to the Montreal River Fault appears to be
extensive. Some faulting is also postulated
parallel to the frequently well developed
schistosity (east southeast).
The presence of extensive zones of
mariposite, carbonate alteration, scattered
veining, felsic intrusions, extensive shearing,
and known gold mineralization makes this an
excellent area to explore for mineable
concentrations of gold mineralization.
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CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
The BA Resources Ltd., Joseph Property located
in Thomas Township covers a geologically favorable
area for gold mineralization and warrants further
exploration for its gold potential for the
following reasons:
1) Location: a) Excellent all weather roadaccess
b) Proximity to a skilled labor pool
c) Proximity to mining equipment and supplies
d) Proximity to a custom mill facility
2) Very favorable geological environment
To date, the following favorable indicators
have been found to occur on the property:
carbonate alteration, sericite alteration,
narrow felsic intrusions, extensive shearing,
quartz-carbonate-tourmaline veins, gold values
up to 0.08 ounces/ton Au.
3) No comprehensive exploration program has been
carried out on the entire claim group in
recent years.
4) Competitor activity: Companies including
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Dome Mines, Kidd Creek Mines, and Noranda
Exploration all control land covering similar
environments in the same area.
5) Government geologist E. Leahy, in his 1971
report Geology of the Night Hawk Lake Area,
District of Cochrane made the following
comments on the area,
"The few small outcrops found on Radisson Creek near the eastern Thomas Township line and the outcrop area straddling the Thomas-Macklem Township line both have yielded interesting assays in gold. Both areas are strongly sheared, carbonatized, have quarts-tourmaline veins and minor fuschite."
"Between them is a length of approximately 3 miles in which no outcrop is known to exist and to the writer's knowledge, no work in the form of geophysics or diamond drilling carried out. In the writer's opinion it is a very interesting area."
A comprehensive exploration program
consisting of linecutting, magnetometer surveying,
geological mapping, assaying, backhoe stripping,
and IP surveying is recommended to evaluate the
property. If considered warranted upon completion
of Phases I fc II, a 3000 foot diamond drill
program is recommended to further evaluate any
zones of interest.
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BUDGET
The following work program, estimat to cost
S157,575, is recommended to more fully evaluate
the potential of the BA Resources Ltd., Joseph
Property in Thomas Township.
Phase I
Linecutting 25 miles Magnetometer survey 25 miles
all inclusive. Geological Mapping Assaying Report, Drafting, Printing
@ SSOO/mi
Contingency
Total Phase I Program
$ 7,500
3,7508,0001,5002,500
23.2502.325
Phase II
Backhoe Stripping, Washing, SamplingIP surveyingReport, Drafting Supervision
Contingency
Total Phase II Program
15,00020,00010,00045.0001,500
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Phase III
Dependent upon definition of target after completion of Phases I ft II.
Diamond drilling 3000 feet of BQ diamond drilling @ 20/ft
all inclusiveAssaying, Splitting, Shipping Supervision, Logging, Report, Drafting
Contingency 103S
Total Phase III Program
Total of Phases I, II, III
$ 60,0005,00010,00075.QQQ7.500
Respectfully submitted,
Bruce Durham
May 8, 1986
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SELECTED REFERENCES
Burrows, A.M.1940: Geology of the Langmuir Sheraton area;
Ontario Department of Mines Vol. 49, pt 4, 21 p. Accompanied by Map 49h scale l" inch to l mile.
Fyon J. Andy and Crocket J.H.1983 Gold Exploration in the Timmins Area
Using Field and Lithogeochemical Characteristics of Carbonate Zones; Ontario Geological Survey Study 26, 56 p. Accompanied by 2 Charts, 2 Maps.
Leahy, E.J.1971 Geology of the Nighthawk Lake Area
District of Cochrane, Ontario. Ontario Department of Mines and Northern Affairs, GR 96, 47 p. Accompanied by Map 2222 scale l" inch to l mile.
Pyke, D.R.1981 Relationship of Gold Mineralization to
Stratigraphy and Structure in Timmins and Surrounding Area.
MNR Assessment Files: Timmins, Ontario.
CERTIFICATION
I, R. Bruce Durham, of 1176 Delnite Road, Timmins, Ontario, certify as follows concerning my May 20, 1986 report on the BA RESOURCES LTD. Joseph Property located in Thomas Township.
1. I am a graduate of the University of Western Ontario, having obtained a Bachelor of Science Degree in Geology in 1976.
2. I have been practising my profession, primarily in Canada, since 1975.
3. I have no direct or indirect interest in the leases or securities of BA Resources Ltd. at this time, although I may receive up to 10,000 common shares of the corporation as a finders fee, subject to approval by the appropriate regualtory bodies.
4. I am a fellow of the Geological Association of Canada.
5. That this report is a product of my knowledge of the area, a compilation of available previous work, and a personal visit to the property.
Dated at Timmins this 20th day of May,
R. Bruce Durham, Bsc.
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