The Galloway
Project
The Galloway property is less than 30 km west of the
Rouyn-Noranda mining district and is easily accessible
via Trans-Canada Highway 117. It consists of three mining
concessions and 95 claims covering a total area of 2,668 hectares.
In the Dasserat Township,
Abitibi district of Quebec
2,668 hectares
What’s the Galloway Project
The Galloway property is the result of the amalgamation of the Hurd, Ogima Nord, Renault Bay, Sandborn, Perron, Cadillac, Francoeur and Lac Fortune claims blocks. Together, they cover a 3-km-wide corridor of gold bearing structures over a total length of 10 km along the Larder-Lake-Cadillac Break (LLCB).
This project is located near the various gold deposits discovered along one of the most prolific gold faults in the world, the Cadillac-Larder Lake Fault, where you can find numerous mines and deposits from the mining camps of Kirkland Lake, Noranda, Cadillac, Malartic and Val-d’Or.
More than 100 million ounces of gold were extracted from these mining camps in the last 100 years.
In the heart of a prolific gold mining district
The Galloway property is in one of Canada’s most prolific mining regions. Many major mining projects, such as Bousquet and Noranda, have achieved impressive drilling results along the Cadillac-Larder Lake Fault.
Open pit and
underground potential
The four main showings (GP, Hendrick, Moriss and Hurd) cover approximately 300 hectares. Connected both by an open pit and underground, they represent an important gold deposit potential.
40,000 m of drilling
in 2020-2021
Fokus Mining Corporation plans to begin drilling as early as 2020 to assess the property’s economic potential.
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The Golden Triangle
The Golden Triangle covers 3 main zones: GP, Hendrick and Moriss. Although not side by side, the various gold zones including the Hurd zone located to the NNE of the GP and Hendrick zone could be connected on the surface and underground forming a potential corridor of approximately 1.7 kilometers.
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GP zone
The GP showing lies immediately at the contact with the syenite stock. It consists of pervasive gold mineralization within a mineralized envelope of 230 m in length by over 100 m in width and over 300 m in depth. Numerous gold intervals of over 1 g/t Au over widths in excess of 20 m, the best gold intersection being 2.19 g/t Au over 19.5 m in hole VHD-09-13. A 43-101 Mineral Resource Estimate by SRK Consulting (2012) gave Indicated Resources of 18,140,000 t at 0.41 g/t Au and Inferred Resources of 2,510,000 t at 0.39 g/t Au using a cut-off grade of 0.21 g/t Au. The resource estimate does not correspond to the entire GP showing but to a pit shell design as required by NI 43-101 regulation. (See report on SEDAR-Vantex).
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Hendrick zone
The Hendrick showing was discovered by Kerr-Addison in the 1980’s. It is located some 500 m south of the GP and Moriss zones. The Hendrick zone is genetically related to the Renault Bay syenite as it lies within or in close proximity to what seems to be an apophysis of the intrusion. It is thus related to the GP and Moriss zones due to the strong similarities between them in the nature of the gold mineralization, its distribution and its geochemistry, as well as the spatial relation. The five holes to date have intersected the zone over a 600 m strike length, and it is presently open in all directions. The Hendrick zone is made of two parallel mineralized envelopes that are 150 and 170 m thick, dipping to the north and plunging to the northwest.
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Moriss zone
The Moriss showing lies about 500 m west of the GP showing. It is spatially associated to an apophysis of the main syenite intrusion. The Moriss showing was originally identified as a geophysical target in 2009 and was discovered by drilling in October 2010. It is actually a composite occurrence: there appears to be three main gold-bearing zones, 1.5 to 10.5 m thick, at the near-surface level (North zone), 60-70 m depth (Moriss zone) and at 115-135 m depth (New zone), though several deeper holes have intersected up to 5 discrete gold-bearing structures which warrant further investigation. It is notable that coarse gold is often found in the Moriss showing. Many assays over 30 g/t Au are found in the Moriss zone with an uncut interval of 59.51 g/t Au over 6.2 m in hole VPE-12-50 (with an individual assay of 285.93 g/t Au over 1.0 m). Free gold is found in pyrite-rich smoky quartz veining, breccia and stockworks within nearly massive intermediate tuffs.
Hurd zone
The Hurd showing is located about 800 m to the north-northeast of the GP showing. Holes VHD-12-57 and 59 were drilled in 2012 to check assay results in hole VHD-09-19 of 0.64 g/t Au over 45 m (84-129 m), including 3.03 g/t Au over 3 m (84-87 m) and 1.43 g/t Au over 6 m (109.5-115.5 m) and 0.51 g/t Au over 13.5 m (165-178.5 m). The gold mineralization is associated with a decametric syenite dike in mafic lapilli tuffs mineralized with pyrite and chalcopyrite. Hole VHD-12-57 intersected 2.68 g/t Au over 9.0 m (210-222 m) in what appears to be an ultrabasic dike or sill in mafic tuffs. It is mineralized with pyrite and traces of malachite. Hole VHD-12-59 intersected 1.38 g/t Au over 12.0 m (153-162 m) in highly fractured syenite with limonite. There are at least four different gold mineralized lenses that seem parallel to syenite contact. Cyanide leach tests by URSTM concluded that the ore from Hurd is poorly suited for leach mining and that the gravity recovery of free gold is low (approximately 32%).
Geology and Mineralization
Regional geology
The property lies within the Abitibi greenstone belt, a subprovince of the Superior structural province. The oldest rock belongs to the Blake River Group which is comprised of mafic to felsic volcanic rocks (andesites being dominant) of tholeitic to calc-alkaline affinities. Numerous intrusions and syn-volcanic intrusions of all compositions intrude the Blake River volcanics. The Timiskaming Group, comprised of sediments and alkali volcanics, lies in erosional discordance above the Blake River. The Timiskaming is intruded by post Timiskaming lamprophyres, alkali porphyries, syenite porphyries, feldspar porphyries, monzodiorites, ultramafics and gabbro-diorites. Finally, the Cobalt Group sediments of Properozoic age overlie the two previous groups along an erosional discordance.
Local geology
The three gold showings share almost all the same geological features. First, they are all associated with a porphyric syenite stock and its apophyses. Secondly, their mineral assemblage is characterized by the presence of pyrite with minor amounts of chalcopyrite and molybdenite. And finally, the higher grade lenses are all parallel to the apophyses of the syenite and plunging towards the main syenite stock. It is therefore suggested that the main control for the mineralization is the syenite intrusion. It is believed that the higher grade shoots are resulting from the brittle deformation along with the circulation of hydrothermal fluids that accompanied the setting of the syenite stock.
Geophysics
The magnetic relief shows a background level with an average relative amplitude of around 57,000 ± 50 gammas. On the new parts of the grid that were recently surveyed, the magnetic relief is generally calm, except on the northeast side of the Hurd sector. On the Baie Renault section (west of Lake Dasserat), a slow decrease in magnetic intensity can be observed as we go up north and away from the main magnetic anomaly in this sector, the maximum of which is around 5338900 mN (around 100S). A few measuring points are prone to noise, possibly due to metal debris, drill pipes or other non-geological causes. In the northeastern portion of the surveyed region, on the south shore of Lake Dasserat, the magnetic activity is characterized by the presence of some considerable anomalies distributed along NE-SW axes, generally. This is likely the northeast (and possibly also subsurface) continuation of the magnetic gabbro unit that was mapped in 2010 between 250W and 450E in the Moriss Zone area. They are believed to be several tabular shaped bodies, elongated in the North-East / South-West direction, the top parts of which would be located under a possible cover of sediments of the Cobalt Group. The magnetic rocks are likely made up of magnetic gabbro, probably similar to the gabbros found further northeast near the Larochelle and Demin lakes. This magnetic phenomenon may be observable at the surface, where anomalies show short wavelengths, but this gabbro is probably covered by sediment (which is magnetically transparent). On the other hand, these gabbros have probably already been intersected by past diamond drilling in the area. The main gabbroic mass in this sector is found between lines 800E and 1400E and between 450N and 1100N.
Complementary ground magnetometric surveys were recently completed on the north and northeast portions of the Galloway project, in the Hurd and Baie Renault sectors, for Vantex Resources Ltd. in September and October of 2012. These surveys made it possible to identify and trace the continuation towards the northeast of several magnetic units likely to be part of the same family as the magnetic gabbro mapped on Cobalt sediments in the Morriss Zone area. It is possible, but unlikely, that these magnetic formations will crop out where the magnetic anomalies are strongest and display very short wavelengths. Of course, these geophysical results should be studied in light of geological, structural and geochemical information in order to derive the maximum amount of data useful for identifying economically interesting sectors. It is therefore recommended to visit this area of the property to look for rocky outcrops (which will be located in areas with strong point magnetism) and perhaps do some prospecting and mapping.
Geochemistry
The MMI-type geochemical survey revealed the presence of several gold and Pb-Zn anomalies on the sampled grids. In addition, the survey confirmed the porphyry Au-Cu-Mo model as the predominant model related to the genesis of the gold deposits on the property. Figure 7.10 shows the 8 anomalies found by associated metal ions domain on the Galloway grid. There are also 2 gold anomalies on the Hurd grid. The Au±Ag±As anomalies 1 and 2 are located near the Morriss and GP gold deposits, confirming that the MMI method is a good prospecting tool on the project. Anomalies 3 and 4 are of the Au-Cu±Ag type and could be indicators of the presence of gold at depth.
Drilling in these areas would be necessary to verify the presence of gold. Anomaly 5 is between the GP and Morriss showings, and almost all elements except copper are anomalous in this area. It possibly indicates a deep connection between these two gold deposits. Anomaly 6 is very interesting, on the one hand due to the strong response ratios for gold, silver and copper. In addition, this anomaly is located just south of the Soaker Hill showing and could be its extension. Anomalies 7 and 8 are of the Pb-Zn type and their main characteristic is to be isolated and distinct anomalies of the “Bull’s Eye” type. They are perhaps indicators for volcanogenic type deposits found in the Rouyn-Noranda mining camp or skarn type, given the proximity of the Baie Renault syenite.
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