The Dore Gold Project (previously Swayze Gold Project) is located 40 kilometres east of Newmonts’s Borden gold project and 30 kilometres northwest of IAMGOLD’s Cote Lake gold project in Ontario. The land package consists of approximately 212 square kilometres and covers a 12-kilometre-long section of Archean greenstone within the Swayze Greenstone Belt.
Property Location Map
The Dore Gold Project is located within the Swayze Greenstone Belt that is part of the western extension of the Abitibi Subprovince, a Neo-Archean granitoid-greenstone belt. This greenstone belt is bounded to the west by the Kapuskasing Fault and to the east by the Kenogamissi Batholith. Several major fault systems transect the greenstone belt including the interpreted westward extension of the Porcupine-Destor Deformation Zone and the Ridout Fault.
The Dore Gold Project covers east-west oriented Timiskaming-type volcano-sedimentary rocks that overlie mafic and felsic volcanic packages along the Rundle Fault Zone, located a few kilometers north of the Ridout Fault Zone that hosts the Cote Lake gold deposit.
The western limit and central zone of the Dore property package is located within the Bret Lake synform, which is composed mainly of metasedimentary rocks and metavolcanic flows from the Swayze-Dore stratigraphic package. The rocks are a mixed group of felsic to intermediate pyroclastic and volcaniclastic rocks intercalated with epiclastic metasedimentary rocks of the Swayze series. Irregular feldspar-quartz porphyry stocks, dykes, and sills, and medium to coarse-grained diorite-gabbro intrude all rocks within the supra-crustal sequences. Northwest striking diabase dikes intrude all older lithologies. Known gold mineralization described in this area is related to shear zones; porphyritic intrusions, and quartz-carbonate-sericite veins with associated carbonatization, silicification, chloritization, and potassic alteration.
The eastern-most claims of the property package cover the central section of the Bret Lake synform at the contact with a large intrusive center that include dioritic and syenitic marginal intrusive phases. Quartz-carbonate-sericite gold mineralization is reported in close special relationship with the intrusive rocks.