Commander Resources Ltd. - Sabin, Zn-Cu, ON

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DEPOSIT TYPE

Precious Metal-Rich Volcanogenic Massive Sulphide

STAGE

Detail IP, Drill-Ready

LOCATION

8 km north-northwest of Savant Lake

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CLAIMS AND OWNERSHIP

Sabin comprises 180 25 units which are wholly owned by Commander Resources Ltd. and an additional 90 claim units that constitute 7 separate mining leases. Of these 90 units, 14 are jointly owned by the Company (66 2/3%) and Noranda (33 1/3%) while 6 other claims are held MGR (58.5%), Noranda (41.5%).

LOGISTICS: The property is located just north of the Community of Savant Lake, Ontario, which is connected to the Trans Canada Highway at Ignace by paved Highway #599. Paved highway #516 which passes through the property, connects Highway #599 with Sioux Lookout, one hour to the west. The east-west CN Mainline runs through Savant Lake, providing key infrastructure to the region. The property can be worked year-round with a hotel for base in Savant Lake.

WORK HISTORY

A total of approximately $1.895 million has been expended on the Sabin property.

1952: First recorded discovery of base metals on southern portion of current claims
1958: Magnetic and vertical loop EM surveying, X-ray drilling by Lun-Echo Gold Mines Ltd.
1963: Diamond drilling 8 holes by Golsil Mines
1974-75: Ground geophysics and trenching Noranda Inc.
1976: UMEX acquires property
1976-1986: Regional airborne EM surveying Questor Surveys (1267 line km) Property airborne magnetic and VLF survey Terraquest Ltd (45 line km) Geochemical, geophysical and geological surveying Diamond drilling-Golsil prospect, 2 holes (259 m); Marchington deposit-69 holes (12000m)
1990: Acquired by Commander Resources Ltd.
1992-93: Under option to Granges; Golsil-EM surveying (9.7 km), mapping lithogeochemical sampling Marchington -- EM surveying (15.7 km)
1995: Under option to Noranda (focus on Noranda 48% claims) Linecutting (13.8 km), geologic mapping, lithogeochemical surveys, geophysical surveys including IP (13 km), magnetic (13 km), Deep EM (4 km), borehole PEM (3 holes totaling 1012m).

RESULTS

Several phases of exploration have been conducted since the 1950's which has led to the discovery of five significant base metal showings and one gold showing to date. Widespread alteration characterized by sodium and calcium depletion is evident in areas underlain primarily by sericitized volcanics containing disseminations of chalcopyrite, spalerite, galena and pyrite.

A large IP anomaly occurs at the Golsil Prospect with highly anomalous gold and base metals in the southeast portion of the property which remains untested. Re-interpretation of historic IP results suggest that the known Marchington, South and S-23 base metal zones remain open along strike and down dip.

Outlined below are some of the more substantial discoveries and potential targets located on the Sabin claims.

GOLSIL: Cu-Pb-Zn-Ag with minor Au, in rock chips coincident with an IP anomaly (100 x 500 m), not drill tested
Marchington Deposit HISTORICAL RESOURCE (non-NI 43-101 compliant) <100,000 tons grading between 2.0 and 2.5% Cu, approx 1% Zn, and 2.5 -3.0 oz/t Ag. Zone(s) 2 to 9.15 m wide, up to 4.28% Cu, 4.75% Zn, 1.62% Pb, 177.2 Ag, 1.17 g Au
South Zone: More copper rich and narrower than the Marchington Zone, not detected by airborne survey. Varies from Cu-Zn-Pb bearing stringers/disseminations within intensely altered felsic tuff to mineralized siliceous matrix within felsic tuff breccia
S-23 Zone: Poorly exposed base metal mineralization associated with quartz sericite schist up to 50 m wide. 460 m strike, open to east and west, not detected by airborne, not tested by HLEM surveying. Possible parallel altered zone 160 m to south remains to be tested by drilling
Kash Zone: 4.4 m wide stringer base metal zone hosted by sericitized felsic tuffs, returned values of (0.15% Cu, 3.96% Zn, 1.43% Pb, 18.7 g/t Ag, 0.35 g/t Au/over ore 0.7 m interval). Mineralization is within a large sodium depletion zone associated with a 900 m long AB conductor tested with only one drill hole to date

PROPOSED EXPLORATION PROGRAM/OBJECTIVES

The potential for new base and precious metal discoveries remain high as limited surveying has identified a number of geophysical anomalies of which only several were drill tested. In particular lithogeochemical sampling at the GOLSIL Zone returned highly anomalous base and precious metal values of up to 2.2% Pb, 219 g/t Ag, 4.4% Zn, 1.2% Cu and 70 ppb Au. The IP survey conducted over this area revealed a 100 x 500 m northeast trending anomaly which may be comprised of up to 3 discreet zones. Work consisted of 2 short holes, both were drilled off the IP chargeability anomaly.

An initial program consisting of detailed IP surveying (10 km) followed by approximately 1200 metres of drilling in 4-6 holes is recommended for the GOLSIL area.

Additional IP surveying followed by diamond drilling is also warranted to test the strike and dip extent of the Marchington/South and S-23 Zones as well as the conductive zone associated with intense alteration at the Kash Zone.