GoldON Completes Latest Field Exploration Program at its McInnes Lake Lithium-Pegmatite Prospect Property covers the McInnes Lake greenstone belt in a similar geological setting to Frontier Lithium’s Pak Lithium Project located 50 km to the northeast
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GoldON Completes Latest Field Exploration Program at its
McInnes Lake Lithium-Pegmatite Prospect
Property covers the McInnes Lake greenstone belt in a similar geological setting to
Frontier Lithium’s Pak Lithium Project located 50 km to the northeast
VICTORIA, BC – July 5, 2023 – GoldON Resources Ltd. (TSX-V: GLD) (“GoldON” or the
“Company”) is pleased to announce the completion of its latest fieldwork program on its 100%-
owned McInnes Lake property (the “Property”). The undere xplored 12,598-hectare Property
covers the majority of the McInnes Lake greenstone belt in northwestern Ontario.
The exploration program focused on mapping and sa mpling of areas around previously identified
fertile peraluminous granite plutons and derived exocontact pegmatites in two areas of the McInnes
Lake greenstone belt, McInnes North Pluton and the Lower Bay Pluton. For additional details see
GoldON’s news release of April 24, 2023.
Figure 1. Location and scale of the McInnes Lake Property to Frontier Lithium’s Pak Project, with McInnes OGS geology.
The goals of the fieldwork were to identify various phases of fertile granite plutons, verify rare
metal mineralogy in the plutons and adjacent pe gmatite dykes, and de lineate potential lithium
dispersion halos adjacent to fertile granite plutons.
Detailed fieldwork and sampling covered a total of 50 square kilometres (km) and amassed 231
grab and channel saw bulk rock samples and 20 blocky K-feldspar separates to assess the degree
of fractionation in the peraluminous pegmatitic granites.
All samples have been submitted to analytical labs for rare metal chemistry. Reference hand
specimens from various localities are currently under petrographic investigation to verify rare metal
mineralogy. In addition, four mineral identifica tion separates were submitted to a commercial
geoscience lab for X-Ray diffraction verification.
Figure 2. Large angular boulder of an intermediate metavolcanic fragmental rock on west shore of McInnes Lake, where highest
Li content of 1,126 ppm was sampled in the previous field program.
Highlights of the field program include:
Spodumene tentatively identified as green-black-altered, euhedral inclusions, up to 5 by 7
millimetres, hosted in blocky K-feldspar in the westernmost exocontact pegmatite
approximately 200 metres (m) ea st of the McInnes North Pluton. This is similar to the
altered spodumene observed in the Dryden and Georgia Lake pegmatite fields by GoldON’s
Technical Advisor, Frederick W. Breaks, PhD, PGeo.
Peraluminous granites consist of potassic pegmatite, fine -grained leucogranite and
pegmatitic leucogranite2 units and contain the following accessory minerals: deep orange,
possible spessartine garnet, tourmaline, muscov ite, biotite, possible white beryl, and fine-
grained Ta-Nb oxides.
Blocky K-feldspar samples, to assess the degree of rare metal potential, exhibit a variable
degree of albitization that typically occurs late in pegmatite evolution via auto-
metasomatism. Veins and small masses rich in albite contain accessory muscovite, yellow-
green sericite, biotite, red garnet, specks of black, non-magnetic, possible Ta-Nb oxide
minerals and possible white beryl.
Detailed bulk rock sampling of a monolithic, fragmental intermediate metavolcanic rock
(tuff breccia) with a highly anomalous lithium content of 1,126 ppm1. Five channel samples
of the clasts and matrix selected over the angular boulder (1.5 by 3 m) to determine
mineralogical host(s) of the lithium. The matrix consists of abundant, radiating aggregates
of a light brown amphibole currently sent fo r XRD identification, suspected to be of the
gedrite-anthophyllite series, and an unknown brown mineral. Identical boulders were
previously identified 1.7 km to the northeast that documented 304 ppm lithium1.
Potential bedrock source of a fragmental in termediate metavolcanic rock (tuff breccia)
boulders with anomalous lithium values on McInnes Lake, was discovered in the
exocontact pegmatitic granite swarm, 600 m southeast of the McInnes North Pluton.
The glacial ice direction in area is 70 degrees so it is plausible that these lithium anomalous
boulders on McInnes Lake originated from this area.
Lower Bay Pluton has previously unmapped, exocontact peraluminous pegmatitic granite
dykes, situated 700 m northwest.
“Our field crew did an excellent job identifyin g the potential source of the lithium anomalous
boulders within the southeast exocontact pegmatite aureole linked with the McInnes North Pluton.
Important indicator minerals (beryl, altered spodumene) were tentatively recognized in the parent
granite-exocontact pegmatite system that infers the presence of rare metal mineralization. The
sample and mineral identification results will be reported as soon as they are received,” said
GoldON’s Technical Advisor, Frederick Breaks, PhD, PGeo.
The technical information presented in this ne ws release has been reviewed and approved by
Frederick W. Breaks, PhD, PGeo, a qualified person for exploration, as defined by National
Instrument 43-101, Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects.
Dr. Breaks is a proven explorer with over 40 years of fieldwork experience and is well-known as
a lithium and rare earth elements expert in Canada. His discoveries include two significant lithium-
rich deposits in Northwestern Ontario: the Se paration Rapids pegmatite near Kenora (Avalon
Advanced Materials) and the Pakeagama Lake pegm atite in the North Spirit Lake area (Frontier
Lithium). He authored or co-authored 118 technical publications during his career with the Ontario
Geological Survey and numerous external publications, of wh ich several are available for
download at ResearchGate.
About GoldON Resources Ltd.
GoldON is an exploration compan y focused on discovery-stage prop erties located in the prolific
greenstone belts of nort hwestern Ontario, Canada. Our goal with a property is to add value by
defining (or redefining) the exploration opportunity, maintain ownership control during the value
creation phase of discovery, and then source a well-financed pa rtner capable of accelerating
discovery, resource definition, and development.
For more information, you can visit our website at goldonresources.com, download our investor
presentation by clicking here, and follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/GoldONResources.
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Signed “Michael Romanik”
Michael Romanik, President
GoldON Resources Ltd.
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Referenced Sources:
1. MacLachlan, B. and Robertson, C. 2022. GoldON Resources Ltd. Report on the May to June and
September Exploration Programs in the McInnes Lake Property. Assessment Work Report, MNDM,
Sudbury, Ontario.
2. Černý, P. and Meintzer, R.E. 1988: Fertile granites in the Archean and Proterozoic fields of rare
element pegmatites: Crustal environment, geochemistry and petrogenetic relationships. In Recent
Advances in the Geology of Graniterelated Mineral Deposits. Canadian Institute of Mining and
Metallurgy, Special Publication 39, pages 170206.