Flint Lake Gold

The Flint Project is located in the Dogpaw Lake Area approximately 60 kilometers south‐southeast of the town of Kenora, in northwestern Ontario.

The Flint Lake Project is also hosted within an emerging gold belt which has seen major new gold discoveries and resource delineation.

First Mining’s Cameron Lake Deposit is 6km to the east
New Gold Inc.’s Rainy River Mine is located approximately 50 km to the south
Treasury Metals’ Goliath deposit 100kms north‐east

The project consists of four separate unpatented cell groups referred to as:

Bag Lake
Dogpaw
Flint Lake
Stephen Lake

Total: 73 full and boundary cells or 1,712 hectares

Flint Project Report

High-grade and numerous gold occurrences across the claim blocks have been historically documented, and are summarized below:

Stephens Lake Claims

Starlyght Zone: channel sampling of 4.22 g/t Au over 10.0m in 2003. Drilling in 2007 reveal 0.77 g/t Au over 33.7m, including 1.178g/t Au over 7.7m in hole DP-07-08

Bag Lake Claims

Jenson-Johnson Occurrence: grab sample of up to 28.66 g/t Au
Bag Lake South Occurrence: channel sample results up to 3.73 g/t Au over 2.73m

Flint Lake Claims

Flint Central Occurrence: channel sample of 7.8 g/t Au over 3.1m. Grab sample of rubble pike from historical trench, with 112.5 g/t Au
Thomas Edison (Flint Mine) Occurrence: sampling of historical stock-piles reveal an average of 25.05 g/t Au over 10 samples

Dogpaw Claims

New Dogpaw Occurrence: grab samples up to 23.42 g/t Au
Gauthier Occurrence: grab samples up to 127.8 g/t Au

Flint Lake Mine – (Thomas Edison Occurrence)

A number of ‘ore stockpiles’ a few meters each in size, are found at the northwestern end of the historic trenching.
Grab sampling* in 2009 of this quartz material returned values up to 720 g/t Au with significant amounts of visible gold.
In 2015, ten random unbiased samples* of quartz‐carbonate material were collected from the stockpiles returning an average grade of 25.05 g/t Au.
Channel sampling at the west end of the historic mining returned gold values of 4.26 g/t Au over a 50cm channel.
Trenching between the historic mining and two historic shafts to the east returned 1.64 g/t Au over 1.20m including 7.05 g/t Au over 0.20m from quartz‐carbonate veining.

* Grab samples are selective by nature and may not represent the true grade or style of mineralization across the property

FLINT CENTRAL

The Flint Central zone consists of quartz veining/stockworking 0.5 ‐ 3 meters wide within a 20+ meter sheared and altered mafic volcanic unit. Metals Creek personnel sampled the historic trench in 2009 and returned grab samples up to 112.5g/t Au from blasted quartz rubble hosting visible gold.
Trench FTR5 (eastern trench) returned a continuous channel sample of 7.8 g/t Au over 3.1m. This interval was from quartz stockworking within a vertically dipping, intensely sheared, chlorite/carbonate schist, oriented at 334 degrees and directly along strike from the high‐grade grab samples and quartz veining present in the historic trenching (situated 10‐15 meters to the northwest).

NEW DOGPAW SHOWING

The zone contains strong Fe‐carbonate and finely disseminated pyrite between 2‐8% with initial grab samples returning gold values between 12 ppb and 23.42 g/t. Follow‐up included a continuous channel sample across an exposed 6.8m of 1.05 g/t Au.

GAUTHIER OCCURRENCE

Lies along a sheared contact between felsic to intermediate pyroclastics and mafic volcanic rocks, exhibiting a halo of carbonate‐chlorite alteration up to 8m wide on surface.
Historical and more recent grab samples returned assay values of 111.98 g/t and 127.8 g/t Au from mineralized quartz veining. The original Gauthier Occurrence has had a total of 5 drill holes testing the zone with varying results. Three very short and shallow holes were drilled in 1945 and returned reported grades of 24.10 g/t Au over 1.52m and 19.84 g/t Au over 1.83m.

Jenson-Johnson Occurrence

As a result of the discovery of the original Bag Lake (Knapp) occurrence, further work in the area was carried out and a fractured and mineralized porphyry dike assaying 0.72, 1.80 and 2.00 ounces per ton Au was discovered and labeled the Jenson‐Johnston occurrence. This area is located approximately 1200m to the northwest of the Bag Lake trenches. MEK has conducted some prospecting as well as hand stripping and minor channeling to confirm historic gold values. Values to 28.66 g/t Au have been obtained from silicified gabbros/volcanics.
In 1987‐88, Granges Exploration Ltd. re‐drilled the original Jenson‐Johnston Prospect in 7 holes. A best assay of 34.90 g/t Au (1.12 ounces per ton) for a core length of 0.25 m was obtained.

Bag Lake South

An auriferous quartz vein was discovered in 2004 with grabs to 9.42 g/t Au that is hosted in a bleached and altered diorite/quartz‐feldspar porphyry.
After the discovery in 2004 and follow‐up in 2008 with grabs to 15.91 g/t Au, a one day hand stripping and small channeling/mapping program was carried out in 2009 to test the continuity and grade of the structure. The quartz vein averages 0.37m of 4.04 g/t Au from channel samples cut across the vein.
As a result of the anomalous nature of the host diorite/porphyry, channel results up to 3.73 g/t Au over 2.73m have been returned. Due to the limited stripping done on the zone, the strike length of the quartz vein as well as width of the anomalous host rock remains undetermined and requires follow‐up.

Porphyry Prospect

An area of particular interest is the discovery of a high level felsic intrusive located approximately 450m north of the Bag Lake South occurrence. This is an interesting new prospect in that it has similar characteristics to the Stephens Lake occurrences, as well as being a possible bulk tonnage, low grade target similar to the Hammond Reef deposit in the Atikokan area.
Discovered in 2008 and sampled through 2012, this prospect has a strike length of 450m, extending from the east shoreline of Bag Lake striking 155 degrees, remaining open to the south‐east. The width is undetermined as the prospect sits adjacent to a large swamp paralleling the structure. Grab samples are highly anomalous and range from 18 ppb to 4672 ppb averaging approximately 602 ppb Au. Further work is warranted to test the size and grade of the prospect.

Historic work in the vicinity of the Stephens stock dates back to the late 1960’s when VMS exploration started taking place in the area. Minor drilling and numerous geophysical surveys were conducted in the volcanics surrounding the stock. Gold exploration within the stock itself has taken place since 2003.

2003:

Work by Endurance Gold, consisted of reconnaissance prospecting, geological mapping, and sampling resulting in the discovery of the Starlyght Showing. Grab samples from this showing ranged from 3.19 to 47.29 g/t Au. Following the discovery of the gold zone, line‐cutting took place on the northwest side of the intrusion totaling 25 line‐kilometers.
Subsequent washing and channel sampling of the Starlyght Zone took place totaling 93 samples for 87.5m in 15 separate channels across the zone. Highlights included 4.22 g/t Au over 10.0m.

2004: All seven holes returned anomalous gold with a best intercept of 1.79g/t over 7.0m.

2005: Geochemistry and rock sampling, 15 of them were greater than 0.5g/t Au returning a high of 14.09g/t Au.

2007: Three drill holes. Highlighted assays included 1.178 g/t Au over 7.7m in hole DP‐07‐08, 1.4 g/t Au over 5.0m in hole DP‐07‐09, and 0.564 g/t Au over 3.8m in hole DP‐07‐10.

2008 – 2018: Work consisted of multiple prospecting expeditions, line‐cutting, ground induced polarization and two programs of mechanical trenching. A total of 253 grab samples were collected with 20 samples exceeding 5.0 g/t Au and a highest grade grab of 29.47g/t Au.

2012 trenching results:

D‐zone (1.42 g/t Au over 10.0m)
Baseline (1.43g/t Au over 21.0m including 2.27 g/t Au over 11.0m)
Ladder Vein (0.59 g/t Au over 15.0m)
Blue (1.03 g/t Au over 20.0m)
Busch (1.94 g/t Au over 6.6m)

The 2016 trenching program focused on the D‐Zone and the surrounding area was the focus of the majority of the trenching with one additional trench south of the Busch/Blue zones and a small pit in the middle of the intrusion totaling approximately 925m2. The trenches generally do not exceed 43 meters in length with an average width of 3 meters.

The trenching continues to show the complexity of the mineralization and structure of the area. Highlights include 0.94 g/t Au over 12.0m including 1.44 g/t Au over 6.0m (trench STR13).

Flint Lake Gold

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