Napping Dwarf
Location, Access, Description
The Napping Dwarf property is located in the Eeyou-Istchee Territory of Quebec Province, about 65 km north of Amos (Qc) and 130 km northeast of Rouyn-Noranda. The property consists of eleven (11) contiguous mining claims covering 620.06 Ha in NTS 32E01, Glandelet township. Globex owns 100% of the property rights. The property is not subject to any third-party interests.
The property is easily accessible in vehicle from Amos by the Provincial Road 109 north then taking a network of gravel roads toward east. A high-voltage power line runs about 5 km east of the property along road 109.
The Sleeping Giant mine with a total Production (1988-2014) of 3,367,091t @ 10.24 g/t Au – 1,108,031 oz Au (NI 43-101 Technical Report and Mineral Resource Estimate for the Sleeping Giant Mine – Vadnais-Leblanc and Lecomte, 2023), is located 5 km east of the Napping Dwarf property. A Mineral Resource Estimate (MRE) by InnovExplo for Mines Abcourt in 2023 estimated a Indicated Resource of 755,000 t @ 7.14 g/t Au (173,300 oz Au) (Vadnais-Leblanc and Lecomte, 2023). The site is currently shut down, however most of the surface facilities and underground infrastructure are still in place and functional, including the plant with a processing capacity of 700 to 750 tons of ore per day, or approximately 250,000 tons per year (Abcourt website, January 2026).
Geology and Mineralization
The Napping Dwarf property is located within the Northern Volcanic Zone (NVZ) of the Archean Abitibi Subprovince (Chown et al., 1992). The area belongs to the Abitibi Greenstone Belt.
Recent geological mapping in the area was conducted by Guemache in 2018 (RG2018-01). Regional geology is dominated by mafic volcanics of the Vanier-Dalet-Poirier Formation, intercalated with felsic to (ultra)mafic sills and sediments. Volcanic rocks of this area are pinched between three large felsic intrusions composed of granodiorite-tonalite: the Marest Intrusive Suite, the Bernetz Intrusion, and the Mistaouac Pluton ; both regional foliation and shear zones are molded around these large intrusions.
Geology of the Napping Dwarf property is not well known due to thick overburden. According to Quebec public data, it consists of E-W-oriented mafic volcanics intercalated with gabbro sills, felsic porphyry and sediments. The property is located between two regional E-W to ESE oriented shear zones : the Laflamme shear zones to the south, and the Maizerest shear zone to the north. All rock types, including gold-bearing veins, have been affected by regional ductile deformation and metamorphism to the greenschist facies. Archean rocks were later cut by two generations of Proterozoic diabase dykes oriented NE (Abitibi swarm) and N-S (Matachewan swarm).
Sleeping Giant is a sulphide-rich lode gold deposit of volcanogenic affinity. According to Vadnais-Leblanc and Lecomte, 2023, four (4) mineralization styles are observed in this area : (1) gold-bearing veins (economically the most important), (2) stratabound gold-bearing, (3) SE-NW veinlet arrays, and (4) veining within the QFP dykes.
History
Numerous historical work was carried-out in the area, mostly before the 2000’s. This included geological mapping, sampling, geophysics, trenching, channel-sampling, and thousand metres of diamond drilling. Detailed history of the property area is presented in the 2023 NI 43-101 MRE on the Sleeping Giant deposit by Vadnais-Leblanc and Lecomte (2023).
Recent developments :
In 2018, Globex carried-out detailed compilation of historical work on the Napping Dwarf property (GM70877). This work highlighted the presence of historical, ESE to E-W oriented, weakly defined EM and IP axes in the eastern part of the property.
The most recent works listed in Quebec public data (Sigéom) refers to an Helicopter-borne high-resolution magnetic survey by Globex in 2020 (GM65172). This survey highlighted contrasted magnetic relief on the property which reveals more complex geology than actually mapped in Quebec public data. In particular, a folded magnetic feature with a hinge pinched to the east clearly appears in the central part of the property. This could be explained either by more mafic (magnetic) volcanic horizons or ultramafic sills (Maizerest Intrusions), eventually associated with sulphide mineralization.
Resources and Potential
Historical work in the area identified a strongly favorable context for gold (Au) mineralization, essentially associated with quartz-carbonate veining and shear zones. The presence of UM intrusions in the area could also be prospective for Cu-Ni-Co-PGE mineralization.
Richard (2010 – GM65172) noted that “Some of the work in the area during the 1980s did yield anomalous gold and zinc assays with traces of copper, but exploration difficulties imposed by thick overburden in the absence of modern geophysical technologies forced companies to abandon their holdings.”
No mineral resource has been estimated on the Napping Dwarf property yet. No diamond drilling has ever been implanted on the Napping Dwarf property. The property should be covered with new geophysics. A gravity survey would help interpreting the folded magnetic anomaly observed on the novatem survey in 2020, while ground IP would identify sulphide disseminations in order to generate new stripping and drilling targets. However the area faces thick overburden, which significantly limits the presence of surface outcrops and may affect the quality of geophysical surveys.