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| Record Name(s) | Howey-Cochenour-Willans Occurrence - 1917, Lightning River Gold Mines Ltd. - 1925, Coin Lake Gold Mines Ltd. - 1944, Canadian Nickel Co. Ltd. - 1981, American Barrick Resources Corp. - 1985, Canico-Argentex J.V. - 1981 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1991-Mar-16 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Aug-16 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Secondary Commodities: Copper, Lead, Zinc
Township or Area: Holloway
Latitude: 48° 28' 20.29" Longitude: -79° 43' 32.39"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 594188 Northing: 5369580.99 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kirkland Lake
NTS Grid: 32D05NE
Point Location Description: inclined shaft
Location Method: AMIS Site Visit
Access Description: Proceed 5.5km east of the junction of Hwys 101 and 672 to Holt McDermott Mine. Continue 5.6km south on tailings road site.
1917: Gold (quartz vein material assaying as much as 1.9 ounce of gold per ton is reported) discovered by L.B. Howey, M.R. Howey, W.M. Cochenor, and D. Willans. G. Young and S. Cragg optioned the claim during the year (Hopkins 1918). 1918: A road from the Croesus Mine area (in Munro Township) was cleared to the discovery site. The discovery vein was pitted, trenched, and a 73 foot long inclined shaft was sunk. During shaft sinking, 'considerable' free gold was encountered in the quartz vein. 1919: The American Zinc Co. worked the claims. 1925: By this time, a contiguous 10 claim block was being explored by Lightning River Gold Mines Ltd.. 1933: Lightning River Gold Mines completed geological mapping. 1937: Lightning River Gold Mines properties were advertised as being for sale. 1944: By this time, Coin Lake Gold Mines Ltd. held claims in Holloway township. 1945: Coin Lake Gold Mines diamond drilled 14 holes. 1981: Canadian Nickel Co. Ltd. staked a large claim group in the Harker-Holloway Township area and, with Argentex Resources Exploration Corp. Ltd., completed magnetic and electromagnetic surveys over them. 1984: Coin Lake Gold Mines Ltd. was controlled by Wilanour Resources Ltd. which in turn was controlled by Camflo Mines Ltd. (Canadian Mines Handbook 1984-1985). The Canadian Nickel Co. properties were optioned by a joint venture group involving Discovery Mines Ltd. and Lenora Explorations Ltd.; Discovery Mines acted as operator. Discovery Mines/Lenora Explorations completed geophysical surveys, trenching, 18 DDH's (8,305 ft). 1985: Coin Lake Gold Mines was controlled by Wilanour Resources (which was controlled by Barrick Resources Corp.).
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Abitibi
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Abitibi
Geological Age: Mesoarchean
Metamorphism Grade: Greenschist
Aug 01, 2016 (R Degagne) - Bedrock is the area consists of weakly metamorphosed (greenschist or lower metamorphic grade) east northeast striking, steeply south dipping, and south facing volcanic rocks and minor interflow sedimentary rocks of the (Archean) Kinojevis Group. The volcanic stratigraphy in the area forms a monoclinal south dipping and south facing succession, occupies part of the north limb of the east striking and east plunging Blake River Synclinorium. The occurrence is about 5 km south of the east striking Porcupine-Destor Fault Zone.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 1 | Tholeiitic Basalt | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intermediate lava flow-unsubdivided | 2 | Rhyolite;Cz,Schistose;Cal,Chl | Fine Grained; Amygdaloidal; Flow Banded; | Host |
| Vein | 3 | Qtz,Sph,Gn,Pl, Au,Cal,Py,Chl | Coarse Grained; Locally Brecciated | Contains |
Aug 01, 2016 (R Degagne) - Bedrock near the shaft consists mainly of variably glacial drift covered 080 striking (as shown clearly by a geophysical survey of Holloway Township and south facing tholeiitic basalt and intercalated rhyolitic flows. Rhyolite horizons may be up to 250 feet thick, can be traced discontinuously on surface (and via their magnetic signatures) for as much as 8 km along strike, and are in the shaft area pink, fine grained, amygdaloidal, flow banded, and feldspar phyric. Locally, rhyolite may be fractured and host fracture controlled hematite. Intrusive bodies are absent from the shaft area. The quartz vein system on which the short (about 73 feet deep) inclined shaft was sunk is 110 striking, dips south at about 23 degrees, and crosscuts the east northeast striking and steeply dipping volcanic stratigraphy. The vein is reported to be hosted to the west by basalt and to the east by rhyolite. The vein is reported to have been explored discontinuously along about 175 feet of strike via trenches and pits. The inclined shaft is collared on the vein where it is hosted by basalt about 40 feet north of a basalt/rhyolite contact near the vein's western exposed end. Sinking the shaft revealed the discovery 'vein' to be narrow (locally as wide as 10-12 inches but in general averaging about 4 inches in width) and to have associated with it several parallel veinlets (generally less than 1 inch in width) with the overall form being that of a sheeted vein system confined to a 2-3 foot wide shear. Where the shear hosting the vein(s) crosscuts the basalt/rhyolite contact, about 4 feet of apparent reverse (dextral) offset has taken place.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Gold | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Sphalerite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Galena | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 4 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 5 | Hematite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 6 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 1 | Quartz | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 2 | Calcite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 3 | Plagioclase | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 4 | Chlorite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| Calcite | Alteration | Carbonatization | 1 | Unknown | Veins | ||
| Chlorite | Alteration | Chloritic | 2 | Unknown | Veins | ||
| Pyrite | Alteration | Chloritic | 3 | Unknown | Disseminated |
Aug 01, 2016 (A Wilson) - Visible gold was seen in a number of specimens. A three-inch cross section of the vein assayed $16.30.
Aug 01, 2016 (R Degagne) - Quartz vein material where not fractured is reported to be coarse grained, white, and vitreous, but it may be 'granulated', grey, and host 'secondary' calcite, pyrite, and chlorite. These authors also noted sphalerite, galena, and plagioclase at the occurrences and that these minerals characteristically occur within brecciated vein material rather than in coarse grained unbrecciated intervein domains. In the main vein, both fine grained (visible) gold associated with pyrite and coarser grained (visible) gold occur in granular vein material. Near the vein(s) (and confined to the host shear?) the host rocks are schistose, carbonatized, and host calcite and chlorite veinlets. The vein is reported (assessment files) to pinch out rapidly at depth within rhyolite and along its strike to the east within rhyolite. Vein material is reported to carry only low gold tenors where hosted exclusively by rhyolite.
Aug 01, 2016 (R Degagne) - Quartz vein material where not fractured is reported to be coarse grained, white, and vitreous, but it may be 'granulated', grey, and host 'secondary' calcite, pyrite, and chlorite. These authors also noted sphalerite, Near the vein(s) (and confined to the host shear?) the host rocks are schistose, carbonatized, and host calcite and chlorite veinlets. The vein is reported (assessment files) to pinch out rapidly at depth within rhyolite and along its strike to the east within rhyolite. Vein material is reported to carry only low gold tenors where hosted exclusively by rhyolite.
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Hydrothermal |
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 1 | Vein |
| Shape | Length | Thickness | Depth | Strike | Dip | Plunge | Trend | Age | Reference |
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| Irregular | 53 | .9 | 110 | 23 |
Date: Feb 07, 1997
Geologist: R Degagne
Notes: The quartz vein system on which the short (about 73 feet deep) inclined shaft was sunk is 110 striking, dips south at about 23 degrees, and crosscuts the east northeast striking and steeply dipping volcanic stratigraphy. The vein is reported to behosted to the west by basalt and to the east by rhyolite. The vein is reported to have been explored discontinuously alongabout 175 feet of strike via trenches and pits. The inclined shaft is collared on the vein where it is hosted by basaltabout 40 feet north of a basalt/rhyolite contact near the vein's western exposed end. Sinking the shaft revealed thediscovery vein to be narrow (locally as wide as 10-12 inches but in general averaging about 4 inches in width) and to have associated with it several parallel veinlets (generally less than 1 inch in width) with the overall form being that of asheeted vein system confined to a 2-3 foot wide shear. Where the shear hosting the vein(s) crosscuts the basalt/rhyolitecontact, about 4 feet of apparent reverse (dextral) offset has taken place. Channel sampling of the shaft is reported to have averaged about 1.93 ounces of gold per ton over an undisclosed length. West of the shaft, the vein was not followed west of 2 vertical slips striking 028.At various places in the rhyolitic horizon, considerable pyrite is associated with quartz veinlets.Where such material has been sampled in the shaft area, anomalous (as much as 0.38 ounce of gold per ton) gold assaysare reported. Although the rhyolite is reported to be fractured across at least 120 feet, most quartzstringers are reported to be confined to the northern rhyolite contact; a sample from the contact area yielded about 0.09 ounce of gold per ton.
File - Resident Geologist files KL-0512, KL-1625
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Location: Kirkland Lake RGP office
Map - Gold area between lakes Abitibi and Night Hawk, District of Timiskaming
Publication Number: ARM28B Scale: 1:126,720 Date: 1998
Author: Knight C.W., Burrows A.G., Hopkins P.E., Parsons A.L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines
Location:
Part - Abitibi-Night Hawk gold area, District of Timiskaming
Publication Number: ARV28-02.001 Page: 46-49 Date: 1998
Author: Knight C.W., Burrows A.G., Hopkins P.E., Parsons A.L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines
Location:
Map - Gold area between lakes Abitibi and Night Hawk, District of Timiskaming
Publication Number: ARM28B Scale: 1:126,720 Date: 1998
Author: Knight C.W., Burrows A.G., Hopkins P.E., Parsons A.L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines
Location:
Part - Ontario gold deposits, their character, distribution and productiveness
Publication Number: ARV30-02 Date: 1998
Author: Hopkins P.E.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Part of the Lightning River area, District of Cochrane, Ontario
Publication Number: ARM34A Scale: 1:63,360 Date: 1998
Author: Gledhill T.L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Part - Lightning River gold area
Publication Number: ARV33-03.004 Page: 41-49 Date: 1998
Author: Knight C.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Geophysical/geochemical series, Matheson-Black River area, Holloway Township, airborne electromagnetic survey, total intensity magnetic survey, District of Cochrane
Publication Number: M80600 Scale: 1:20,000 Date: 1984
Author: Questor Surveys Ltd.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Part - Lightning River gold area (District of Cochrane)
Publication Number: ARV34-06.004 Page: 88-98 Date: 1998
Author: Gledhill T.L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Folio - Holloway Township, District of Cochrane
Publication Number: GDIF272 Date: 1997
Author: Kirkland Lake RGO
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Geological series, Precambrian geology of the Lightning River area, Cochrane District
Publication Number: P2433 Scale: 1:63,360 Date: 1982
Author: Jensen L.S.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Geological series, Quaternary geology of the Magusi River area, Cochrane and Timiskaming districts
Publication Number: P2483 Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 1982
Author: Baker C.L., Steele K.G., Seaman A.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
MonoMap - Geology and petrogenesis of the Archean Abitibi belt in the Kirkland Lake area, Ontario
Publication Number: MP123 Date: 1985
Author: Jensen L.S., Langford F.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Article - Quaternary geology and geochemical exploration in the Matheson area
Publication Number: MP140.294 Page: 112-123 Date: 1997
Author: McClenaghan M.B., Lavin O.P., Nichol I., Shaw J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Geological series, Precambrian geology of the Magusi River area, Cochrane and Timiskaming districts
Publication Number: P2434 Scale: 1:63,360 Date: 1982
Author: Jensen L.S.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Geological series, Precambrian geology of the Magusi River area, Cochrane and Timiskaming districts
Publication Number: P2434 Scale: 1:63,360 Date: 1982
Author: Jensen L.S.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Mineral occurrences, deposits, and mines of the Black River-Matheson area
Publication Number: OFR5735 Page: 487-493 Date: 1990
Author: Bath A.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
File - Res/Reg Property Visit KL #342
Publication Number: PV-342 Date: 1901
Author:
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location: Kirkland Lake RGP office
Map - Precambrian Geology of the Highway 101 Area, East of Matheson, Ontario
Publication Number: M2676 Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 2003
Author: Berger B.R., Luinstra B., Ropchan J.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
MonoMap - Geological Synthesis of the Highway 101 Area, East of Matheson, Ontario
Publication Number: OFR6091 Date: 2003
Author: Berger B.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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