Timmins South
An early stage exploration project adjacent to the Dome Mine in the world class Timmins gold camp in Northeastern Ontario (formerly called Golden Perimeter).
Snapshot
| Location | Timmins, Ontario, Canada |
| Ownership | 100% |
| Status | Available for option – drill program completed in winter 2020 |
| Deposit Type | Intrusion-associated disseminated gold/sulfide (Main Block); Iron formation-associated gold (Shaw Block) |
| Property Size | Main Block: 102 square kilometres (39 square miles); West Block: 16 square kilometres (6 square miles); Shaw Block: 68 square kilometres (26 square miles). |
| Host Rock | Main Block: Monzonite intruded into lower Tisdale komatiites and mafic volcanic rocks on the south edge of the Shaw dome; Shaw Block: Deloro intermediate volcanics and iron formation, which is uncomfortably overlain by Tisdale tholeiitic mafic to intermediate volcanics and lesser felsic/intermediate volcanics and komatiitic ultarmafic flows in the core of the Shaw Dome. |
| Age | Precambrian (Neoarchean) |
| Main Economic Elements | Gold |
Location Map
An overburden-covered structural intersection which contains excellent targets within the thick, folded and faulted ultramafic, mafic volcanic rocks and adjacent Porcupine sediments – a setting common to many Timmins Camp deposits.
Timmins South Property – Regional Geology
Overview
- The Timmins South property is located immediately south of the Porcupine-Destor Break and 7 kilometers (4.3 miles) southeast and bordering Newmont’s Dome Mine property.
History
- This project includes several well-known high-grade gold occurrences. At the Bay Lake gold showing as 12-meter shaft was sunk in the 1930s on a 1.37 meter wide quartz vein, which returned composite samples of 150.8 g/t gold, 43.2 g/t gold and 35.17 g/t gold and historic grab samples of 766.2 g/t gold and 229.7 g/t gold (reference Ontario Geological Survey Inventory Record MDI42A06NE0017).
*Note – grab samples by their nature are selective and not necessarily representative of the mineralization hosted on the property.
Exploration
- Summer 2022 exploration program consisted of ground-truthing locations of historic drill collars, prospecting and geological mapping to follow up on historic surface sampling and drilling to generate targets for follow-up work.
- Samples contained elevated gold values along the southwest margin of a southeast striking iron formation at the Bay Lake and Turner showings.
- The 2022 rock sample grading 30 g/t gold supports the potential for high-grade gold in quartz-veined iron formation.
- Summer 2023 exploration program consisted of soil sampling and a drone-based airborne magnetic survey to follow up on known gold occurrences and to generate new targets.
Status
Exploration programs have consisted of ground-truthing locations of historic drill collars, prospecting and geological mapping to follow up on historic surface sampling and drilling to generate targets for follow-up work. No work planned for 2025.