Home / Projects / Slate Falls Property Slate Falls Property PRINT , The Slate Falls project is underexplored and has yet to reveal the source of the numerous high-grade gold and silver showings identified across the ten-plus-kilometre property. While our current focus remains on our Red Lake projects, we are looking forward to returning to Slate Falls and investigating the five new exploration areas identified in 2020 where deformation, folding, shearing and faulting have been mapped,” Michael Romanik president of GoldON. GoldON owns a 100% interest in the 5,656-hectare Slate Falls Property subject to an underlying 2% net smelter returns royalty. A discovery-stage project, Slate Falls represents an excellent risk/reward exploration scenario with fieldwork to date having identified at least 18 gold (Au) and silver (Ag) zones that have produced rock, chip, channel and drill core sample assays of up to 861.3 g/t Au and 3,025 g/t Ag. The Slate Falls Property (the "Property") lies between the Red Lake and Pickle Lake gold camps in the southwestern extension of the Meen-Dempster Greenstone Belt that is hosted within the Uchi Subprovince, one of the most metal-endowed Archean greenstone assemblages in the world (see regional map above). Mineralized showings identified on the Property including the Carpenter, Fly, FTM, J. Loon, L1, L15, Path, Sanderson and Trail Zones. These zones are part of the Slate Falls Deformation Zone and extend for over 10 kilometres (km) in strike and 1.5 km in width within the Property's boundaries. All zones host high-grade Au-Ag mineralization and are related to regional fold axes and structures that provide traps for mineralizing fluids (see maps below). The Property has seen sporadic exploration starting in the 1920s after the gold discoveries at Red Lake and Pickle Lake. To date, GoldON has focused its exploration efforts on a few of the Property's historical high-grade gold and silver showings. Highlights of the latest work include mapping and sampling that returned up to 331.76 grams per tonne (g/t) Au and 3,025 g/t Ag from grab sampling of the shear-hosted polymetallic quartz veins at the Trail and Sanderson Zones (see news release of June 25, 2019). This was followed by an eight-hole diamond drilling program to further investigate the Au-Ag mineralization at the Trail and Sanderson Zones where the best result was a narrow interval of 78.5 g/t Au and 73.7 g/t Ag over 0.24 metres at Sanderson East (see news release of February 25, 2020). Subsequent to the drilling program, it was decided to take a broader more detailed look at the entire Property to gain a better understanding of the intricate structure, folding, shearing and faulting that has been mapped. This broader look included hiring Prospectair Geosurveys to complete a new high-resolution heliborne magnetic survey (see a comparison of historical and 2020 MAG above), and then hiring Orix Geoscience to complete a structural study incorporating the 2020 MAG survey data with all known lithological and mineralogical information and structural measurements. The result of the Orix study is a far better understanding of the geological and structural framework of the Property that is acutely demonstrated in the comparison of maps below from the Dinel & Pettigrew study of 2008 on the left and the Orix study on the right (click images to enlarge). Results of the Orix data compilation and reinterpretation study are as follows: A vastly improved geological map that has turned a ‘sea of green' into a concise stratigraphic and folded layering of various volcanic, ultra-mafic and felsic intrusive lithologies. Extension of the greenstone belt into previously interpreted bounding felsic intrusive plutons. Three deformational events (D1, D2 and D3). Late syn- to post D3 structures. Increased knowledge in the relationship between structure and known mineralization. Many important mineralized zones are in/or proximal to either major early D2 generally dextral east-west shear zones or splays. Similarly, the intersection of late D3 north northeast striking structures with early D2 east-west structures appears to control the mineralized zones structurally by creating or enhancing dilatational sites. Areas along the strike of the major shear zones as well as fault intersections are key potential target areas for future exploration. The results of the Orix study was incorporated into an independent Technical Report prepared in accordance with National Instrument 43-101 - Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects ("NI 43-101") - click here to download Report. The Technical Report recommends a Phase 1 exploration program that includes, but is not limited to, the five areas numbered on the map above and summarized below: 1) The FTM Zone (traced for 500m) now appears to be associated with a fold axis proximal or along a felsic intrusive. This brittle environment crosscut by north northeast structures can provide important traps and pathways for mineralization and thus presents a horizon as a target with high merit. 2) Probable ultra-mafic bodies were better defined by the airborne magnetic survey and associated cross-cutting structural features make these lithologies conducive for possible re-mobilized Cu-Ni mineralization. Structurally damaged ultra-mafic bodies in the Uchi Subprovince are also important hosts for gold mineralization. 3) The extent of volcanic assemblages and possible F2 fold axes in the Scanes Pluton not previously mapped or recognized is also a target of high merit for gold, Ni-Cu- PGE or even VMS-type mineralization. 4) Gold mineralization associated at the Fly Zone in a sericite-amphibole schist in contact with an iron formation and associated structure is another target of high merit. Cross-cutting structural features should be investigated for sulphidation of magnetite, grunerite (amphibole) alteration and shear related quartz veining as a banded iron formation hosted gold deposit model. 5) Structures hosting polymetallic mineralization whether in volcanic packages or within syn-deformational felsic rocks such as the North Bamaji Pluton on the western side of the property should be investigated for a possible Archean-related Au-(Cu) porphyry model deposit. The Slate Falls Property is located in the Patricia Mining District between the Red Lake and Pickle Lake Gold Camps. The Fry Lake-Bamaji Lake Deformation Zone passes through the Property representing first and second-order crustal-scale structures that cut stratigraphy and are similar to and contemporaneous with the stratigraphy that hosts the past-producing Golden Patricia Gold Mine, which produced 620,000 ounces of gold at 15 g/t Au between 1988-1997 and lies 30 kilometres to the northeast. The Property is located approximately 5 km northeast of the community of Slate Falls, 90 km west of Pickle Lake, 120 km north of the community of Sioux Lookout and 160 km east of Red Lake, Ontario. The community of Slate Falls is accessible by an all-weather road and regionally the area is well traversed by logging roads and trails. Slate Falls is also accessible by float- or ski-equipped plane charters from Pickle Lake, Sioux Lookout or Red Lake. A major hydroelectric transmission corridor, extending from Ear Falls to Pickle Lake, crosses the Property. GoldON owns a 100% interest in the Property subject to a 2% net smelter returns royalty, of which the Company may purchase 1% for $1,000,000. Tweet PROJECTS Geographic Focus Property Locations West Madsen Slate Falls Red Lake North Pipestone Bay Pakwash North McInnes Lake McDonough LATEST NEWS 02 December 2021 GoldON Resources Corporate Update 29 September 2021 GoldON Makes New Gold Discoveries on McInnes Lake Property 22 September 2021 GoldON Commences Follow-up Fieldwork at West Madsen Project in the Heart of the Red Lake Camp More inNews SUBSCRIBE FOR UPDATES CONTACT Corporate & IR: Michael Romanik, President, Direct: (204) 724-0613 Admin. Phone: (250) 474 7999 Fax: (250) 474-7997 Email: info@goldonresources.com Mailing address: 179 - 2945 Jacklin Road, Suite 416 Victoria, BC V9B 6J9 Canada Copyright © 2021 GoldON Resources Ltd. 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