Through its amalgamation with Faymar, Ontex
owns a 100% interest in 26 patented claims,
totaling 399 hectares (985.5 acres) in Deloro
Township near the Dome Mine in Timmins.
A 1% net smelter return royalty is payable
to the vendors of the property. The patents
contain the past producing Faymar Gold Mine
which produced 119,181 tons at an average
recovered grade of 0.183 ounces of gold
per ton and 0.11 ounces of silver per ton
between 1940 and 1942. A total of 44,028
tons were also processed in the Faymar mill
from the nearby Fuller property at an average
recovered grade of 0.148 ounces of gold
per ton.
The Faymar patents are located in the Porcupine
gold camp and are underlain by Archean supracrustal
rocks of the Abitibi Greenstone Belt. On
the property, they predominantly consist
of andesite and basalt flows of the Deloro
Group with minor iron formation. A large
body of dunite ultramafic occurs in the
northwest corner of the property and east-striking
quartz-feldspar porphyry dykes intrude the
volcanic rocks and dunite. Several faults
occur on the property and are splays from
the nearby Destor-Porcupine Fault, a large
regional structure important in localizing
gold in the Timmins area.
Gold on the Faymar property is hosted in
a series of quartz veins and shears, marginal
to porphyry dykes. An old asbestos deposit
is also located in the ultramafic rocks.
An airborne magnetic and electromagnetic
survey flown over the Timmins area in 1987
detected a series of linear magnetic and
electromagnetic anomalies on the Faymar
patents and no follow-up work has been carried
out to test their potential.
Ontex announced encouraging results on the
2002 exploration program on the Faymar Property
in Deloro Township. A mapping program re-discovered
60-year old workings along a NW trending,
high-grade gold-quartz vein from which samples
returned values up to 56 g/t Au. Ontex,
however, was primarily interested in examining
the untested PGE potential of the ultramafic
rocks that lie to the west of the Faymar
Gold Mine. Surface samples from the ultramafic
rocks returned values up to 0.5 g/t Pt+Pd
and 0.6% Ni. A follow-up 2,419m (13 hole)
diamond drill program yielded concentrations
up to 0.96 g/t Pt+Pd over 1.6m and 0.7%
Ni.