Wapistan Mineral Property

 

 

Project Introduction

 

The Wapistan (meaning “Marten” in Cree) mineral property is the first of a series of “new generation” mineral properties recently identified in Québec from Northern Superior Resources extensive geoscientific data base. The Wapistan mineral property is just one of twenty two Québec- based mineral properties, identified from this exercise.

 

The Wapistan mineral property ideally falls within the Company’s exploration criteria of being a large, highly prospective, underexplored, low exploration cost property, situated in a favourable political jurisdiction, such as Québec. In addition, this property is located within an emerging and exciting exploration and mining camp in the James Bay Lowlands of Québec, which includes mining and exploration activities from well-established and successful mining companies such as Eastmain and Gold Corp.

 

The Wapistan mineral property is 100% owned by Northern Superior Resources Inc.

 

 

Highlights

 

 

 

The Property

 

The Wapistan mineral property is district in scale, consisting of 207 claims or approximately 10,408 hectares, covering over a 32 km strike length of a major structure developed in an Archean- aged volcanic-sedimentary package (Figure 1).

 

This property is strategically located to take advantage of established infrastructure, significantly reducing exploration and development costs. The cross roads of two major access routes in the region (Route de la Baie-James and Trans-taiga) occur within this property, while a key secondary road (Chemin de Wemindji; Figure 1), running directly adjacent to the property, provides access to the James Bay coast line. Proximal to the project are commercial airports and fixed wing water bases. Two high voltage power lines also cross the property. Several communities occur within close proximity to the Wapistan property capable of providing support services.

 

Figure 1:Location of Northern Superior’s 100% owned Wapistan mineral property.

 

 

Geology

 

As previously stated, the Wapistan mineral property covers approximately a 32 km strike length of a major structure developed in an Archean- aged volcanic-sedimentary package (Figure 2). This package, enclosed within the Wapistan property, hosts multiple gold and other precious metal occurrences (Table 1, Figure 3): in rocks similar to those associated with the Roberto Deposit (Goldcorp Inc.) and the Eau Claire Gold deposit (Eastmain Resources Inc.). This high potential corridor is characterized by intermediate to mafic volcanics, metasediments and iron formation, providing a wide range of rheological and geochemically contrasting rock types in a strongly deformed setting. These units and associated major structures are typical throughout each of the major gold mining camps in the Canadian Shield. Geological interpretation from previous (but limited) exploration indicate that the Wapistan property is favorable for hosting Orogenic and Porphyry style mineralization within this emerging gold district.

 

 

 

 

Exploration Outlook

 

In the spring of 2017, Northern Superior completed a 600 line-kilometer airborne geophysical survey, which included magnetic 3D inversion, VLF 2D inversion and AFMAG 2D inversion with geology integration. This high resolution, property-scale geophysical data has assisted with identifying targets and provdes a better understanding of the property geology.

 

Table 1. Reported mineral occurrences, Northern Superior’s 100% owned Wapistan mineral property, Québec. Please refer to Figure 3 for location of the mineral occurrences listed in this Table.