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Location
Monument Bay Rig
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The Monument Bay property is located 570 km northeast of Winnipeg and 340 km east southeast of Thompson, Manitoba. The nearest communities are Red Sucker Lake, 60 km to the southwest, and Gods Lake Narrows, 100 km to the west. Hydro power lines currently run as far as Red Sucker Lake.
Size of Property
The Twin Lakes property consists of 35 contiguous claims totaling 6692 hectares. Ground surrounding the immediate project area is currently unstaked, and held by Wolfden and Bema under an exploration permit.
Ownership
The Monument Bay project is 100% owned by Rolling Rock Resources Corp. The Project was acquired from Bema Gold Corp.(70%) and Wolfden Resources(30%)
Project Overview
The area forms part of the Gods Lake Domain or Sub-Province of the Archean Superior Province and, within this, the general area of the property is an extension of the Sachigo Lake Sub-Province in NW Ontario. This elongated greenstone belt extends eastwards from Bear Lake through Gods Lake, Stull Lake to as far east as Big Trout Lake.
The greenstone belt is comprised of the Hayes River Group (HRG) and Oxford Lake Group (OLG) sediments and lesser volcanics; these form the most common assemblages in the region. The HRG is comprised of basaltic to rhyolitic volcanics with minor clastic and chemical sediments. These were intruded by granitoid plutons and this event, accompanied and followed by uplift and associated erosion, provided detritus that is a major contributor to the OLG. This sequence of very coarse to fine clastics and local, usually minor IF on a lesser, basal, felsic/intermediate volcanic sub unit is quite thick, and is dominant in the Stull Lake area. These events were followed by the emplacement of granitic to granodiorite batholiths that confine the greenstone belts. Finally, the latest magmatic activity was the intrusion of Molson and Mackenzie diabase swarms.
The geology underlying the project area consists of an overturned homoclinal sequence of interfingered volcanic and sedimentary rocks, striking at 080° to 100° and dipping to the north at 70° to 90°. Within these units, mineralization is hosted in silicified and sericitized sections of the Monument Bay shear zone, a deformation zone that has been traced with strike length of over 30km.
Previous Work
Between 1959 and 1961, Phelps Dodge conducted airborne surveys on a permit covering the entire greenstone belt, with 8 drill holes recorded in the Little Stull Lake area. Work on the Twin Lakes / Monument Bay property began from 1969 to 1974, with Amax conducting airborne E.M. and magnetometer surveys, staking resultant anomalies and drill testing targets.
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