Marvel Discovery Corp. announced its return to both its Blackfly Gold Project in Ontario and its Duhamel Nickel-Copper-Cobalt Project in Quebec. As part of this realignment, Marvel will not proceed with its Athabasca Basin uranium property options but will retain its high-potential uranium assets, including Elliott Lake, Pecors West, and East Bull in Ontario.
This will better enable the Company to shift resources to our more advanced stage projects where better infrastructure and lower operating costs are established to advance them. Strategic Focus on Blackfly Gold and Duhamel Projects: The Blackfly Gold Project, located in the prolific gold mining region near Atikokan, Ontario, has demonstrated strong potential with significant historical gold mineralization. Meanwhile, the Duhamel Nickel-Copper-Cobalt Project in Quebec represents a promising critical mineral opportunity amid growing global demand for battery metals.
Blackfly Gold Project Highlights: Located in a historically significant gold region near Atikokan, Ontario, adjacent to the Hammond Reef Gold Deposit held by Agnico Eagle. High-grade gold assays from prior work, with visible gold in drill core. Proximity to infrastructure and established mining operations, historical exploration, and recent fieldwork.
Duhamel Nickel-Copper-Cobalt Project Highlights: Situated in Quebec, a mining-friendly jurisdiction with robust infrastructure. Potential for critical minerals, including nickel, copper, and cobalt, crucial for the transition to a green economy. Historical and recently completed exploration by Marvel pointing to potential significant mineralization.
Refocusing to Drive Shareholder Value: By discontinuing the Athabasca Basin uranium projects, Marvel is redirecting its resources to high-impact exploration at Blackfly and Duhamel. This decision positions the Company to better navigate the challenging market environment and capitalize on emerging opportunities in gold and critical metals while reducing operating costs and reducing shareholder dilution. Blackfly Atikokan Ontario, The Property is located in the developing Atikokan gold mining camp along and within the Marmion Fault Zone, approximately 13.6 kilometers ("km") southwest of Agnico Eagle's Hammond Reef Gold Deposit.
The Blackfly Main Zone area and the Blackfly Northeast Zone occur in areas of magnetic lows along a property-wide, strong, linear northeast trending magnetic high that corresponds with a magnetic mafic dike. Gold is associated with strong silica-sericite-ankerite-pyrite ± chlorite alteration hosted within aquartz-veined granodiorite that has undergone shearing and deformation. Accessory sulphide phases include galena, chalcopyrite and bornite.
Surface sampling, mapping and interpretation of magnetic data by Marvel has resulted in better defined and wider gold intervals than drilling by TerraX between 2009 and 2012. Assessment file records indicate that the original Blackfly gold discovery was made in 1897, making the occurrence one of the earliest found in the Atikokan gold mining camp. The project's 45-foot shaft was sunk in 1898 shortly after gold was discovered.
Several companies have added to the database of the Property including: Rebair Gold Mines Ltd. (1945 to 1948), Steeprock Mines Ltd. (1949 and again in 1961), Aavdex Corporation (2004) and TerraX Minerals Inc. (2009 to 2012). Blackfly Drill Result from 2021 Drill Program: Duhamel Nickel Copper Cobalt - Project Quebec: Located 350 km north of Quebec City, the Duhamel Ni-Cu-Co project lies between two prominent deformation zones in the central part of the Grenville Geological Province (Figure 2). The Duhamel Property is characterized by the presence of large mafic to ultramafic intrusive rock bodies located in northern margin of the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean (SAGLSJ) Anorthosite Suite, one of the largest anorthosite intrusive bodies in the world.
The Chute-des-Passes-Pipmuacan reservoir areas contains numerous massive sulfide and iron oxide mineralization occurrences recognized and documented by the Quebec government. The Duhamel Property currently contains seven (7) occurrences of Ni-Cu-Co sulphides and one (1) Fe-Ti-V iron oxide occurrence discovered between 1997 to 2001 by previous operators who defined a 13 km long mineralized rock corridor (Figure 3). Drill intercept highlights include 1.27% Ni, 0.33% Cu, and 0.12% Co over 3.0 meters by Virginia Gold Mines in 2000 that contained massive sulfides.
Compilation of historic assessment reports to date reveals more than thirty (30) Ni-Cu (Co) and four (4) Fe-Ti (V, Cr) mineral occurrences which confirms this corridor to be highly prospective for new Ni-Cu-Co discoveries, as well as Fe-Ti (Cr, V) discoveries. Compilation of historical data by Marvel uncovered a grab sample from massive iron-titanium oxides that returned 0.28% V2O5 associated with 20.8% TiO2 and 0.13% Cr203. Pecors West property, Located in the heart of the Elliott Lake Ontario historical uranium camp the Pecors West property has the potential to host three unique styles of mineralization under the critical metals criteria: PGM-Ni-Cu magmatic style mineralization associated with the large Pecors regional magnetic anomaly.
Uranium mineralization typical of the Elliot Lake uranium camp within the Pecors Channel. Uranium and rare-earth oxide (REO) mineralization similar to the contiguous Radio Fuels Eco Ridge Project. The Pecors West property is strategically located next door to an inferred resource of 20,000,000 tons grading 0.037% (0.74 lbs./t) U3O8 or 14,800,000 lbs.
U3O8 defined by limited drilling by Rio Algom in1977) . This uranium mineralization is hosted within the Pecors Channel now held by Power One Resources (a spinout from Marvel Discovery). This resource estimated is based on limited drilling and there is potential to expand the Pecors Channel onto the Pecors West property.
Uranium is hosted within the quartz-pebble conglomerate of the Matinenda Formation at shallow depths within the Pecors Channel. ?Channels' within the Elliot Lake uranium camp were mined extensively in the 1950s where production grades averaged 0.100% U3O8. The resource estimate cited above predates and therefore does not conform to the more stringent reporting requirements of National Instrument 43-101 and should not be relied upon according to those standards.
Marvel has not yet done exploration work to verify or classify the historical estimates as a current mineral resource, and the Company is not treating the historical estimates as a current mineral reserve or resource. The Company is currently reviewing all historical and data from its most recent exploration programs to define its second phase of drilling both at the Blackfly and Duhamel Projects planned for early next year.