Gun Club (Wenasaga) Lithium Property
REGION
English River Subprovince
SIZE
3375 Hectares
NUMBER OF CELLS
165
STATUS
Unavailable
TARGET COMMODITY
Lithium, REEs
ACTIVITY
Grassroots Prospecting
The Gun Club (Wenasaga) Property is located 10 km north of Ear Falls, Ontario.
The property is within the English River Subprovince. The property occupies the majority of the Wenasaga Batholith, a large S-type peraluminous granite and lesser amounts of the surrounding metasediments.
During grassroots prospecting completed by Bounty Gold Corp and Last Resort Resources, several new discoveries of beryl were made within narrow pegmatites hosted by metasedimentary enclaves within the Wenasaga Batholith. While these were hosted in narrow pegmatites, it demonstrates fractioning of pegmatites and the presence of rare-elements.
The nearby Sandy Creek Occurrence, a beryl-type pegmatite, is known to be associated with unusually high lithium values for this type of pegmatite.
A sample (01-FWB-76) collected on property by the Ontario Geological Survey (OGS) in 2001 yielded highly anomalous lithium (1421 ppm), cesium (21.96 ppm) and K/Rb ratio of 136.85. This sample is described as being “biotite muscovite granite” rather than pegmatite. These are unexpected results for a parent granite sample and this warrants further investigation of the area the sample was collected and re-sampling to determine if the results can be reproduced and validated.
Next steps for the Gun Club (Wenasaga) property include continued grassroots prospecting to determine the location and orientation of exposed pegmatites, document the characteristics of the pegmatites identified, as well as sampling and geochemical analysis of the pegmatites to determine the degree and direction of fractioning, and test for the presence of rare-element mineralization.