- SMDI #
- 0674
- Current Showing Name
- Wapa No. 13 Au Showing
- Historical Showing Names
- Wapa No. 13 Au Showing
- Company Name
- Project Name
- UTM Easting (NAD83 Z13)
- 559053.8800
- UTM Northing (NAD83 Z13)
- 6087823.3700
- NTS Sheet
- 073I16
- TRM (Township-Range-Meridian)
- 68-14-2
- Primary Commodities
- Gold
- Associated Commodities
- Iron, Tungsten
- Discovery Type
- Outcrop Grab
- Status
- Occurrence: Primary Exploration
- Geological Details
- The showing consists of gold-bearing samples taken from the north side of a small peninsula on the north shore of Wapawekka Lake approximately 3.4 km (2.1 miles) from the east end of the lake.
The area of the showing is underlain by east-trending, 30° north-dipping thin sliver of dark fine-grained hornblende-rich metavolcanic rock of possible tuff or flow origin.
An amphibolite-hosted limonitic quartz vein or lens exposed in trench no. 1 strikes parallel to the bedding and lies stratigraphically north of the rocks, under the lake, along the shore of the point. The vein has a true drilled width and surface exposure of 5 ft (1.5 m) and contains abundant calcite and minor pyrrhotite, and chlorite along narrow fractures running parallel to the walls of the vein. Cross fractures at right angles to these contain narrow veinlets of pyrrhotite. The quartz lens appears to die out down dip. The gold mineralization occurs in the quartz lens and in the nearby metavolcanics.
Grab samples obtained from trench no. 1, 1200 ft (365.8 m) southwest of trench no. 9 gave 0.52 oz./ton from sample #2851 and 0.01 oz./ton Au from sample #2854. One channel sample over 60 ft (18.3 m) from trench no. 9 assayed 0.12 oz./ton Au.
Three drill holes were completed on the showing and 3 samples taken over 5 ft (1.5 m) core lengths returned values of 0.02 oz./ton Au and trace Ag.
In 1989, G. Delaney examined the showing. He noted that the showing consisted of a variety of mineralized quartz veins. Some are boudinaged, some parallel foliation and a third very narrow set of quartz veins that cross-cut foliation are highly contorted. Upon sampling the veins, Delaney noted that the boudinaged veins returned the highest gold values and that one of the veins that cross-cut the foliation contained anomalous tungsten. Trenches 8 and 9 cut a sequence of volcanic fragmentals, lapilli tuffs, bedded tuffs, and hornblende schists which are cut by a series of locally boudinaged, folded quartz veins. The results of sampling by G. Delaney are as follows:
SAMPLE PPM PPM PPM PPM PPM PPM PPM PPB ROCK
NUMBER MO CU PB ZN AG AS W AU TYPE
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8922-329 3 173 3 59 0.1 37 3 30 qtz vein -trench 1
8922-330 1 300 3 70 0.5 21 1 37 foliated qtz vein
8922-331 1 93 7 115 0.1 7 1 10 foliated amphib.
8922-332 3 58 7 21 1.7 39 18 260 boudinage qta vein
8922-333 16 216 11 61 1.2 233 2231 30 quartz vein. 2015 prospecting and rock sampling of historical trenches. Grab sample T-3-QV (83/13, 6087877 N, 558733 E) taken from the east wall of Trench 3 from a boudinaged, 15 cm wide, smoky quartz vein associated with an arsenopyrite-bearing shear zone with an analysis of 460 ppb Au.
- Geological Domain
- Glennie
- Host Rocks
- Host Minerals
- Pyrite
- Indicators
- Exploration History
- 5/3/1989 In 1958, Korand Minerals Ltd. staked PAW claim No. 13 over the showing. Two trenches were completed (AF 73I16-0003), but no assay results were given.
The WAPA no.13 claim was staked in 1960 by L.A. Lusk, and activity as reported from 1960 to 1965 consisted of the excavation of 9 trenches (AF 73I16-0014). The trenches returned the results listed above.
In 1968, Len Lusk (on behalf of La Ronge Mineral Syndicate) drilled three diamond drill holes totalling 172.4 ft (52.5 m) were completed under the lake within 75 ft (22.9 m) of trench no.1. Three samples were taken and returned the values listed above. No further work was reported and the WAPA no. 13 claim lapsed in 1970.
In 1972, Hudson Bay Exploration and Development optioned the property and completed a HLEM survey over the showing area (AF 73I16-0019).
In 1983, the showing was within MPP 1140. Granges Exploration flew an INPUT and magnetic survey that covered the showing (AF 73I16-0022). In 1984, Granges completed follow-up ground EM and magnetic surveys (AF 73I16-0023).
By 1984, the showing was covered by S-98404, which was staked by Partridge Contracting Incorporated within MPP 1140. The immediate showing area was geologically mapped, sluiced and sampled by M. Pyke of Wallex Exploration (AF 73I16-0027). No significant values were returned by chip and biogeochemical samples taken from the Wapa Showing.
In 1989, G. Delaney mapped the showing area for the Saskatchewan Geological Survey.
- Production History
- Reserves and/or Resources