NORTHBOUND EXTENSION
Overview
- Metals of Interest:Gold
- Location:Abitibi Greenstone Belt, Quebec
- Surface Area:1,582 hectares, bringing Northbound total land position to 2744.04 hectares
Northbound Property
In February 2020, the Company optioned the Northbound gold property and in March and July 2020 expanded the property by purchasing additional, adjoining claims. In September 2020, the Company exercised its option and acquired a 100% interest in the Northbound property.
The Northbound gold property, contiguous to the northwest of the Wallbridge Mining Company Ltd. Fenelon Gold Deposit, is located approximately 85 kilometres northwest of the town of Matagami in northern Quebec, Canada. The Northbound property totals 56 mineral claims covering approximately 3,076 hectares.
The Northbound property is
underlain by Jeremie Pluton,
an intrusive body becoming
increasingly important at the
contiguous Wallbridge
Fenelon property. Wallbridge
exploration in 2019 tested strike extensions of known mineralization from the metasediments and metavolcanics and gabbro into the Jeremie pluton. Wallbridge drilling to date has confirmed the extensions of the gold-bearing mineralized zones well into the pluton and the zones appear to be open further into the pluton. Great Thunder cautions investors that mineralization on the Wallbridge Fenelon property is not necessarily indicative of similar mineralization on the Great Thunder Northbound property.
The Northbound property optionors recently completed a Long Wave InfraRed (“LWIR”) survey over the Northbound property. LWIR utilizes the long wave infrared bands on the Aster Satellite to penetrate through vegetation into the top 30 to 60 centimetres of the earth’s surface. While the long wave data is readily available, the algorithms to process the data are proprietary. The survey measures the individual mineral reflectance spectroscopy of the various constituent minerals against known standards to highlight anomalies within the area surveyed. The Aster data comes in predetermined sheets, so the data included much of the surrounding area including the ground underlying the Wallbridge Fenelon property.
The resulting plots for each of the 16 end members identified in the survey were examined for anomalies on the Northbound property. Anomalies were also examined on the Wallbridge Fenelon property to compare and contrast against the Northbound property. Three key conclusions were drawn from the LWIR:
While the Fenelon deposit shows a rather muted response under the LWIR, at least one of the key minerals share similar responses at Fenelon and on the Northbound claim block, hematite.
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- The LWIR is suggesting a multi-element area of anomalous responses in the southern portion of the Northbound claim block: chalcopyrite, quartz and to a lesser extent alunite and pyrrhotite.
- The pyrrhotite and the tourmaline responses also appear to show coincidental major and lesser anomalies within the Northbound claim block as well.
The strong coincidental chalcopyrite, quartz and alunite anomalies within the southern portion of the Northbound block are a high priority target and will form the initial focus of the Great Thunder exploration program.
Great Thunder cautions that coincident LWIR anomalies on both the Northbound property and the Wallbridge Fenelon property are not necessarily indicative of similar mineralization on the Northbound property.
In July 2020, the Company completed an airborne survey of the Northbound Property. A total distance of 853 line-kilometres of airborne magnetic survey was flown on 50-metre line spacings. Airborne magnetic was chosen on these property areas to target magnetic responsive structures representing shear zones with quartz. The geophysical data is being analyzed and interpreted for further exploration.
R. Tim Henneberry, P.Geo. (British Columbia), a consultant to Great Thunder Gold Corp., is the qualified person who has reviewed and approved the technical content herein on behalf of the Company