• Dome Property
• Exploration Option Agreement
• Exploration
• Location and Description
• Accessibility
• Climate and Vegetation
• Physiography
• Infrastructure and Local Resources
• Regional History
• Property History
• Regional Geology
• Local Geology
• Deposit Type
• Mineralization
• Adjacent and Deposits in the District

Local Geology

The oldest assemblage of rocks in the Red Lake area is the Balmer assemblage (2860-2840 Ma), which is generally comprised of primarily massive tholeiitic basalts with minor felsic volcaniclastic rocks and metasedimentary rocks (Stott and Corfu, 1991). This assemblage is unconformably overlain by the younger Confederation assemblage (2742-2732 Ma), which generally is comprised of intermediate pyroclastics with minor rhyolitic flows and tuffs built on a sequence of mafic to intermediate pillowed flows (Stott and Corfu, 1991). Outcrop exposure becomes diminished eastward as the blanket of glacial overburden increases and topography flattens; best exposures are found on lakeshores and riverbanks.
Although contiguous, the Dome property is divided between a northwestern, predominantly water based block of claims, and a southeastern, predominantly land based block of claims. It has since been augmented by the acquisition if the McManus property which fills in and squares up the block to the north of the south-eastern and east of the north-western Dome claims.

The map below shows that the northwestern block of the Dome claims is at the confluence of the Flat Lake – Howey Bay and the Chukuni River deformation zones, and that both zones contain a fault.

Source: Geological Survey of Canada – Current Research 2000 C-18

Exploration Program

The Corporation determined that it was best to explore the property initially using shallow and intermediate depth Induced Polarization (“IP”) geophysical surveys, followed by diamond drilling of selected targets identified.