Ti-pa-haa-kaa-ning Gold/Silver/Copper Property

 

 

Project Introduction:

 

Hosting regional structures and favorable geology akin to the prolific Abitibi Gold Belt in Ontario-Québec, combined with the largest gold grain-in-till dispersal aprons in North America and drill core intersections including up to 25.9g/t gold over 13.5m; Northern Superior’s 100% owned Ti-pa-haa-kaa-ning (TPK) property has real potential to become one of Canada’s newest mining camps.

 

The gold grain-in-till dispersal apron defined on TPK is one, if not the largest, aprons in North America. The only comparable dispersal trains or aprons are the ones associated with the Meladine and Meadowbank deposits in Nunavut and the Rainy River deposit in northwestern Ontario.

 

Location

 

The TPK property is a large property, 30 km east-west by 20 km north-south (Figure 1). Located approximately 470 km northeast of Thunder Bay, Ontario, and 190 km northeast of Pickle Lake, the Property is situated within the traditional area of the First Nations community of Neskantaga, located about 30 km southwest of the property.

 

TPK is located 15 km west of the Ring of Fire: the TPK property will only benefit from forthcoming infrastructure development associated with these large chromite, nickel, copper and platinum group element (PGE) deposits. The Musselwhite Mine and mill, located only 150 km west of the TPK project and connected by winter road, validates the presence of large, gold-bearing systems in the region and demonstrates that successful, respectful collaboration between the communities and industry is achievable.

 

Property Size Land Position and Ownership

 

The property consists of 2,431 single cell mining claims totalling 47,796 hectares. The property is 100% owned and operated by Northern Superior Resources Inc. Due to its size, the TPK property has been subdivided into three management units: Big Dam, New Growth and Annex (Figure 2)

 

Exploration costs have been greatly reduced on the property through the development of a modern, all- season camp and integrated trail system from the camp to key drill targets in the Big Dam area. The camp can be serviced by: a) winter road directly from the community of Neskantaga; b) a proposed trail connecting the camp to an established winter road aligned east to west that cuts across the north part of the property; c) float or ski plane during the summer or winter (dock installed); and/ or d) helicopter year round (fuel cache and landing facility installed).

 

 

Figure 1:Location, TPK property, northwestern Ontario.

 

Figure 2:Current outline of the TPK property, highlighting: a) management areas (Big Dam, New Growth, Annex); b) location of the year round camp; c) established trail system to key targets defined in the Big Dam management area; and d) proposed access trail to the established east-west winter road.

 

 

 

“gold grain anomalies of this scale are amalgamated responses from a cluster of gold zones, they normally indicate a large gold system or district rather than a single gold zone” (see Northern Superior Press Release, June 21, 2010).

 

Mineralization Potential

 

The TPK property is in a structurally favourable geological setting where the Archean-aged Bartman Lake Greenstone Belt lies adjacent to a major bend in the regional scale Stull-Wunnummin Fault (Figure 3). The Property has been intruded by the 15 km long Freure Lake Batholith. A gold grain-in-till anomaly extends southwest from the southern edge of the batholith, suggesting that the associated bend in the Stull-Wunnummin Fault propagated a series of gold-bearing splay shears, concentrated along the southern margin of the structurally resistant buttress formed by the batholith. This metallogenic model is an analogous to that for the Malartic-Val d’Or gold district in Québec, where gold deposits are controlled by splay shears related to a major bend in the Larder Lake-Cadillac Fault and is hosted by the synvolcanic Bourlamaque Batholith and several smaller granitoid and porphyry stocks.

 

Big Dam Management Area (eastern area of the property)

 

Reverse circulation drilling and surface till sampling completed over this area of the TPK property:

 

 

To repeat from the opening page of this summary:

 

“gold grain anomalies of this scale are an amalgamated response from a cluster of gold zones which normally indicate a large gold district rather than a single zone” (see Northern Superior Resources Inc. press release, June 21, 2010).

 

The importance of predominately pristine gold grains within a gold grain concentrate from a till sample cannot be emphasized enough. The rule of thumb is that as gold, being very malleable, its original pristine wire- like shape is transformed to a “modified” form within 200 m from its source rock (see Corporate Presentation, Northern Superior Resources Inc. website www.nsuperior.com, “Investors” section).

 

The importance of the gold grain-in-till dispersal apron is accentuated by the presence of several gold and silver- bearing boulder trains embedded within the apron (Figure 5), returning assay values of up to 94.2 g/t Au. It important to note that:

 

 

Annex Management Area (north-central area of the property)

 

Till sampling has identified a 3.5 x 10 km gold-in-till dispersal corridor (Figure 6)(Keely Lake gold grain-in-till dispersal corridor, see Northern Superior Resources Inc. press release, December 11, 2011):

 

 

Various prospecting programs (see Northern Superior Resources Inc. press releases, December 7, 2011; October 11, 2017) defined:

 

 

Limited diamond drilling in the area during 2012 intersected shear zones between felsic and mafic volcanics, which returned anomalous gold values, including 41.5 g/t over 0.6m.

 

New Growth Management Area (western area of the property)

 

The gold grain-in-till dispersal apron clearly defined within the Big Dam management area is thought to extend west another 24 km into the New Growth management area as defined by:

 

 

Like the Annex management area, New Growth also has the potential to host gold, silver and copper:

 

 

 

Figure 3:The TPK property with the current understanding of the regional geology. Mineralization appears to be structurally controlled, analogous to that of the Malartic-Val d’Or gold district in Québec.

 

Figure 4:The Big Dam gold grain-in-till dispersal apron. A unique geological feature, representing one of, if not the largest such dispersal of gold in North America.

 

Figure 5:Distribution of gold and silver- bearing boulders, Big Dam area.

 

Figure 6:Keely Lake gold grain-in-till dispersal corridor.

 

Figure 7:Distribution of gold, silver and copper- bearing boulders, Annex area.

 

Figure 8:Extension of the gold grain-in-till apron west onto the New Growth management area is clearly depicted by: a) extension of the gold-bearing shear zone as illustrated by airborne geophysics; b) anomalous gold grain-in-till values down-ice of this shear zone; and c) elevated arsenic values in till down- ice of this shear zone as illustrated in this Figure (reds and yellows).

 

Photo 1:This quartz vein collected from the New Growth management area returned values of 12.60 g/t gold, 111 g/t silver, and 4.05% copper.

 

 

Prospecting on the newly discovered greenstone belt recovered 100 sheared and/ or mineralized boulders and outcrop samples of which 83 were anomalous- assaying as high as 727 g/ t gold, 111 g/ t Silver and 4.05% Copper.

 

2017 Work Program

 

During Q3 2017, Northern Superior Resources completed a multi-disciplinary mineral exploration program over the Big Dam and Annex management areas of the property, key highlights include:

 

 

 

Figure 9: Five high priority areas within which specific mineral targets have been identified, Big Dam management area.

 

2019 Exploration Plans

 

The heavy lifting on the property is now complete. We have defined several high priority targets. A sustained core drill program is now required. The Company is currently seeking a strategic partner to assist on moving exploration forward on the property.