Other Cadillac Break Group Properties
- Overview

Thirteen other properties occur in the Cadillac Break Group of properties; all have had various amounts of exploration work on them since the early 1930’s, ranging from early-stage prospecting and geophysics to exploration drilling. These are underexplored properties, as most of the scattered drilling has not penetrated below 100 m vertical depth. Given the depth of recent discoveries elsewhere in the belt, for example, greater than 1,000 m at Lapa, and more than 500 m at Goldex, there is considerable potential for new discoveries on these properties. Alexandria has conducted minor work on most of the properties, including at a minimum first round of drilling on each, and is evaluating all for future drilling targets. From west to east across the property group, these are:

The Airport Property (39 claims, 601.2 hectares) is the westernmost property in the group, and straddles the Cadillac Break, bounded on the north and east by the past-producing Lamaque and East Sullivan mine properties. Historic drilling (1936 to 1984) intersected up to 13.71 grams gold over 0.76 m. In 2007 Alexandria drilled 2.14 g/t Au over 2.80 m including 9.35 g/t Au over 0.7 m. A 1985 overburden drilling program discovered highly anomalous gold grain counts in basal tills south of the Cadillac Break, which led to the 1986 discovery of a new gold zone within a silicified shear in Pontiac sediments near the south contact of the Piche Group. Highlights include 6.1 metres grading 3.43 grams gold and 1.2 metres of 6.65 grams gold per tonne. Other targets were identified, including a shear zone in Cadillac Sediments yielding values of 2.88 grams, 6 grams and 4.53 grams gold, each over 0.9 metre.

The Robert and Orenada Extension Properties were acquired through staking and property agreement, and lie to the west and south of the Orenada property, and therefore host potential for similar type of gold mineralization as at Orenada. Little work has been conducted on these properties, but historic drill hole shave yielded up to 15.77 g/t Au over 0.3 m, and 6.17 g/t Au over 0.3m.

The Mid Canada Property (1 claim, 73.62 hectares) lies just to the north of the Orenada property, and is underlain by volcanic rocks adjacent to the Centre-Post Intrusion. It was first explored in the 1930s for its copper potential, and intermittently explored over subsequent decades, with mineralization identified in two main areas. In 1969, a previous operator calculated a preliminary resource estimate of 113,950 tons of 1.02% copper and 4.05 grams silver for the North Zone. An underground development program was carried out on the South Zone in 1979, culminating in a preliminary resource estimate of 188,448 tons grading 0.139 oz. gold per ton. In the early 1980s, Mid Canada Gold and Copper Mines Ltd. produced 6,146 oz. gold from the Orenada 1 Mine, which had been developed with a 2,230-ft. long decline sank to the 350-ft. level, and 1,273 ft. of lateral drifts and crosscuts.

The Ducros Property (37 claims, 568.6 hectares) also lies to the north of the Orenada property, underlain by the Centre Post Intrusion. Historic exploration identified porphyry-style copper-molybdenum mineralization, Belmoral-type gold mineralization in east-west shear zones (as found on a property to the north), and copper-zinc-gold-silver massive sulphide mineralization. Historic drilling during the 1940s and ‘50s on the western part of the property intersected copper mineralization, notably 1.4% copper over 22 ft., and 2.1% copper over 5 ft. Gold values of up to 0.2 oz. over 2 ft. were returned from shear zones in the same area. A broad zone of porphyry-style copper-molybdenum mineralization was found in 1974 on the southern part of the property, with one hole intersecting 0.21% copper and 0.02% molybdenum over 558 ft. in the Centre Post Intrusion, while another hole intersected 1.37% copper over 35.8 ft. in the contact zone.

Lying to the east of the Oramaque property is the Sabourin Creek Property (98 claims, 1,627.44 claims), an extensive property straddling the Cadillac Break.  Gold mineralization in the area is associated with quartz-tourmaline-arsenopyrite veining zones along the Cadillac Break. Recent exploration has outlined several isolated occurrences, including one that returned 6.5 grams gold over 1.8 metre from the west end of the property. A 1997 drilling program encountered sulphide mineralization within breccia skarn zones similar to that at the nearby Akasaba (gold-silver-copper) deposit. The breccias yielded anomalous gold and copper, with the exception of two intercepts: 2.6 metres of 0.56 gram gold and 1.4% copper, and 3.5 metres of 0.58 gram gold and 0.61% copper, including 1.06 gram gold and 1.03% copper.

Gold mineralization at the Orcour Property (50 claims, 787 hectares) is mainly hosted by vein stockwork zones developed within large differentiated mafic sills, similar to that at the Sleepy Zone. Two such gold deposits, Sigma II and Lapaska, lie immediately east and north of the property. Exploration to date has identified gold-bearing quartz-tourmaline-pyrite veins within mafic sills, as well as in volcanic rocks, with one recent hole returning 1.93 grams gold over 0.5 metre.

The Lourmet Property (9 claims, 144 hectares) covers poorly exposed felsic and intermediate volcanic rocks of the Upper Malartic Group and also the regional gabbro sill hosting the historic Louvicourt Goldfields (Simkar) mine. Historic drilling has returned 0.15% zinc over 3 metres in a pyritic chloritized lapilli tuff, as well as 0.31 gram gold over 2.4 metres in carbonate-quartz-pyrite veins.

The Bloc Sud West Property (30 claims, 480 hectares) lies immediately to the east of the Akasaba property, and is prospective for shear zone-hosted gold along the Cadillac Break as well as gold-rich massive sulphide targets similar to that found at Akasaba. Recent drilling in 2007 by a joint Cambior-Alexandria effort, led to the new discovery of gold along the Cadillac Break, in which a drill hole intersected 1.97 g/t Au over 4.50 m.

The Deckeyser, New Claims, and Bloc Sud Trivio Properties were acquired through property purchase and staking, and lie to the east of the Bloc Sud West Property. These properties straddle the Cadillac Break, and historical exploration has yielded a number of as yet untested geophysical and geochemical anomalies, suggesting potential for Chimo Mine type of gold ore, hosted in iron formation and volcanic rocks.

Previous exploration on the Trivio Property (43 claims, 1,021.2 hectares) has identified gold-bearing quartz-tourmaline-pyrite veins within mafic sills and in volcanic rocks of the Upper Malartic Group. Five gold zones have been outlined on the Trivio property, all in the central part of the property, consisting mainly of quartz tension veins and stockworks spatially related with porphyritic dykes and sills. High-grade gold values were obtained from grab samples collected from these zones, notably the Trivio Lake Showing, which returned 8.4 grams gold over 6.1 metres.