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Turner Falls Property - REE
Property Description and Location The Turner Falls property consists of 16 contiguous claims totaling 942 hectares located in Villedieu and Senezergues Townships, approximately 140 km south of Rouyn-Noranda in the Kipawa area of the Temiscamingue District in southwestern Quebec. The claims are wholly owned by Globex and are not subject to any underlying royalty or third party agreements.
The property is located 2 km northeast of Sairs Lake and is accessible from the town of Temiscamingue by traveling 65 km on all-weather logging roads, followed by 5 km by boat across Sairs Lake and finally 2-3 km along an ATV trail to Globex’s exploration camp on a small lake located approximately in the centre of the property. Topography of the area is characterized as gently rolling with local steep cliffs and situated between 290 and 340 metres above mean sea level. There are several small lakes on the property and numerous streams and creeks draining southwest into the south flowing Kipawa River, which eventually discharges into the Ottawa River 60 km to the south which demarks the provinces of Ontario and Quebec. The vegetation is typical of the mixed, mature forests in southwestern Quebec with large expanses of tall mature deciduous (maple, birch, poplar, oak, elm) and majestic coniferous (white pine, red pine, cedar, balsam, spruce) trees with generally clear underbrush and relatively well-drained, sandy soil. The property is also located 62 km east of the Algonquin First Nation’s Kipawa Reserve, an important site for fishing/hunting tourism in the area. History Documented historic exploration dates back to the mid 1950’s when Turner Falls Mining Ventures reports having collected surface chip samples from a pegmatite dike on the shore of a small lake (500 metres west of Globex’s exploration camp) which returned 0.13% - 0.35% U3O8; 0.85% - 1.44% ThO2; 1.05% - 4.06% Nb2O5 and where a mixture of equal parts of each sample returned 2.04% Nb2O5 and 8.05% total Rare Earth Oxides (GM 06623A). This location is referred to as the “Old Turner Falls Showing”. Turner Falls Mining Ventures subsequently drilled six holes in 1958 totalling 558 metres in this area and report intersecting pegmatite and granitic rocks with subordinate amphibole and mica schist however assay results are not published (GM 06623 B). Geological Setting The reader is referred to the 2011 Annual Information Form for details concerning the regional and local geological features of the Kipawa Alkaline Complex (K.A.C.) underlying the Property. Exploration Globex acquired the Turner Falls property by staking in 2007 and began fieldwork in 2009. 2009-2010: Following initial prospecting and cursory scintillometer checking in 2009, work in 2010 included the establishment of a geophysical grid at 100 metre line spacing and the undertaking of 20 ln-km of systematic ground magnetic and scintillometer surveying along with geological mapping with local sampling and trenching. This work lead to the discovery of several new rare earth showing with anomalous values in the light rare earths including lanthanum (up to 4,980 ppm), cerium (up to 12,800 ppm), praseodymium (up to 1,440 ppm), neodymium (up to 4,400 ppm) and samarium (up to 1,450 ppm) while heavy rare earth values included: europium (up to 3.3 ppm), Gadolinium ( up to 1,260 ppm), terbium ( up to 263 ppm), dysprosium (up to 1,770 ppm), erbium (up to 1,150 ppm), thulium (up to 174 ppm) and ytterbium ( up to 1,100 ppm). Better high field strength (H.F.S.) metal values included: yttrium (up to 6,700 ppm), zirconium (up to 41,600 ppm) and hafnium (up to 1,060 ppm). Grid mapping by Globex in 2010 confirmed the presence of a granitic to quartzo-feldspathic gneiss, syenitic gneisses and coarse-grained pink pegmatite within the Kipawa Alkaline Complex as well as local bands of amphibolites, and uncommon iron rich gneissic schists. The pegmatites host some, but not all of the high-grade samples collected in 2010. Grab samples from the Old Turner Falls Showing returned values up to 2.2% Y2O3, 4.8% ZrO2, 3.7% LREO, 1.0% HREO and 4.8% TREO. Globex’s New Turner Falls Showing, located 1 km southeast of the former showing, displaying anomalous punctual REE values over a general area of approximately 65 metres by 140 metres and where best grab samples returning 0.85% Y2O3, 5.6% ZrO2, 3.2% LREO, 0.6% HREO, 3.7% TREO and 1.2% Nb. 2011: Additional ground geophysical surveys including approximately 50 ln-km of scintillometer and magnetometer coverage along with detailed grid surface outcropping mapping and bedrock/bolder sampling, limited stripping and prospecting were undertaken by Globex to compliment the field work undertaken in 2010. A total of 230 rock samples were collected and analysed. Ten (10) new sites of rare earth bearing mineralized outcrops were identified. The table below summarizes the analytical results of selective grab from these various sites and highlights the very anomalous nature of the REE mineralization.
The samples were assayed by ALS Minerals in Vancouver, British Columbia using the inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectroscopy (ICP-MS) method. All analytical and mapping information were subsequently compiled to provide a preliminary exploration model for the REE-Y-Zr mineral occurrences on the property. Detailed petrographic studies including microscope petrography on 42 thin sections and EMPA X-ray spectral analyses on certain samples were also undertaken to provide an initial mineral characterization of the REE mineralization.
2012: An initial five (5) hole orientation helicopter-supported drill program totaling 968 metres was carried out in early July in the vicinity of selected geophysical/ bedrock geochemical anomalies . The program which included four, relatively wide spaced, vertical holes and one angled hole, tested the bedrock formations to depths of 150 to 220 metres and at drill hole spacings of 300- 800 metres. The program was not however successful in confirming similar REE grades to those encountered in the surface sampling. Drill holes were sampled in their entirety, generating a total of 550 samples. These core samples were processed for high-grade multi-element ICP-REE determinations at ActLabs in Ontario. Detailed core logging and cross sectional interpretation of these five initial drill holes was completed and the new data will serve to guide the next phase of exploration work on the property. Exploration and Development No field work was carried in the first Quarter of 2013, although a program of detailed surface mapping, sampling/trenching and site specific structural analysis is in preparation and will be undertaken during the summer months to a) provide needed reconciliation of the contrasting assaying results between the surface, (very strongly anomalous) sampling and drill hole sampling(very weakly anomalous) and b) gather the additional petrographic and structural data to successfully guide the next phase of diamond drilling in this structurally and geologically complex and challenging exploration environment for these special commodity metals.
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