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Record: MDI42B05SW00052

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Garvey No. 4 - 1943, Claim SSM 36433 - 1944, Garvey East - 1944
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Occurrence
Date Created 2001-Jun-06
Date Last Modified 2022-Jul-15
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold



Location

Township or Area: Stover

Latitude: 48° 21' 45.2"    Longitude: -83° 59' 7.1"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 278886   Northing: 5360905    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Sault Ste. Marie

NTS Grid: 42B05SW

Point Location Description: Trenches in south central SSM 36433

Location Method: Based on Assessment

Access Description: Drive east from the north end of highway 651 along the Renabie Mine access road for approximately 9 km to the junction of a south trending forestry road just east of Lancley Lake. Drive south for approximately 4 km and then traverse north for approximately 1.5 km to Stover Lake.



Exploration History

1943-44: Sylvanite Gold Mines Ltd. - trenching, stripping, sampling. 1975: Dome Exploration Ltd. - airborne geophysics. 1984-85: Conquest Yellowknife Resources Ltd. - airborne geophysics, ground geophysics, mapping. 2006-2008: Golden Chalice Resources Inc. - prospecting, sampling


Assessment Work on File

Assessment Work on File
Office File Number Online Assessment File Identifier Online Assessment File Directory
Meath 0032 / 2.9036 42C08NE0302 42C08NE0302
WP Stover.21 / 2.41485 20000004162 20000004162
Stover 0026/ 2.6953 42C08SE0004 42C08SE0004
Meath 0019A1 / 2.1725 42C08NE0028 42C08NE0028
Stover 0021A1 42B05SW0086 42B05SW0086
WP Stover.1 / 63.4644 42C08SE0003 42C08SE0003

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Wawa

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Michipicoten

Tectonic Assemblage: Catfish

Geological Age: Neoarchean   Geochronological Age: 2700 MA   Geochron. Age Ref.: GOO VOL 1



Geology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - The Baltimore Lake Deformation Zone (BLDZ) is located in northwestern Stover Township where it is defined by by a 1.2 km wide, SE-trending zone of folding, transposition and shearing. The BLDZ can be traced fro approximately 6 km southeastward across Stover Township. The BLDZ is characterized by rootless isoclinal folds of bedding/schistosity, sinistral and dextral shear folds, transposition and ductile shear zones axial planr to the folds.




Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Intermediate flow breccia 1 Brecciated Adjacent
Terrigenous-Clastic-Unsubdivided 2 Sheared Host
Quartz Porphyry 3 Quartz Porphyry Near

Lithology Comments

Aug 20, 2013 (A Wilson) - A 10 foot wide shear zone carries narrow quartz veinlets and 2 bands of iron formation (pyritized metasediments). The zone trends N45W.




Mineralization Comments

Aug 20, 2013 (A Wilson) - A grab sample from sheared metasediments and quartz porphyry returned 0.40 dwt Au.



Mineral Record Details

Characteristics
Rank Characteristic            
1 Sheared

References

MonoMap - Geology of the Crooked Lake area, District of Sudbury

Publication Number: R172 Page: 39-40  Date: 1978

Author: Bennett G.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


Map - Stover and Brackin townships, Sudbury District

Publication Number: M2380 Scale: 1:31,680    Date: 1977

Author: Bennett G.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


Map - Rennie-Leeson area, District of Sudbury, Ontario

Publication Number: ARM51G Scale: 1:31,680    Date: 1997

Author: Bruce E.L., Horwood H.C.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


Map - Geological series, Stover Township, District of Sudbury

Publication Number: P0790 Scale: 1:15,840    Date: 1972

Author: Bennett G., Dupuis C.P., Elmhirst F., Andrews M.D.

Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines

Location:


Map - Chapleau-Foleyet, geological compilation series, Algoma, Cochrane and Sudbury districts

Publication Number: M2221 Scale: 1:253,440    Date: 1976

Author: Thurston P.C., Sage R.P., Siragusa G.M.

Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines

Location:


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