Swell Bay Mine property

Quick Facts
 

The Swell Bay Property is comprised of 7 patented mineral claims. It is located approximately 30 Kms northeast of Fort Frances in the Rainy River District of Ontario, just a few kms from Highway 11.

The earliest recorded work on this property dates back to the 1890’s, when initial developments included the sinking of a shaft along with several pits and trenches. Visible gold was reported and observed historically, and confirmed by other geologists years later and also recently. Gold mineralization is hosted not only within quartz veins but also throughout the shear zones, suggesting the potential for a broader and more structurally controlled gold-bearing system.

More recent exploration has further demonstrated the property’s potential, with sampling completed by King’s Bay Gold in 2001 returning exceptionally strong assay results, including grades of up to 718.06 g/t Au and 535.93 g/t Au.

Property geology highlights

• At the most eastern part of the property, the shear zone is 300 feet wide, it trends southwest, widens to approximately 1,500 feet, and includes all of the rock of the peninsula between the two creeks at the eastern end of Swell Bay. Most of the gold-bearing quartz veins are within this shear zone.
• One thousand feet east-northeast of the shaft, on claim FF3998, a shear zone in the gabbro has partly been replaced by quartz. The quartz zone, which trends N80EE, was traced 600 feet along strike. A 15-foot-long trench at the western end of this vein exposed a 12-foot long zone of chlorite schist, which contains three parallel quartz veins, 2 to 3 feet wide. The host rock on either side of the shear zone ranges from 5 to 25 feet wide and contains massive quartz up to 20 feet wide.
• The vein material one thousand feet east of the shaft on claim FF4004 is limonite-stained quartz, which contains numerous vugs. In some samples, a fine-grained grey sugary quartz was cut by more coarse-grained glassy quartz. In order of decreasing abundance, the quartz contains minor amounts of disseminated pyrite, pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite, and galena, along with streaks of chlorite. Small grains of gold were observed in the limonite-stained vugs with the sulphide minerals and in the sugary quartz.
• Considerable visible gold was also observed on claim FF4000 from a 3ft wide vein that can be followed for 100 ft, where it dips vertically into low ground at the bottom of a ridge.