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MDI42C08SE00091
| Record Name(s) | Pileggi West Discovery Occurrence - 1942, Stover Gold Occurrence - 1979, D. A. Fitzgerald Holdings - 1978 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 2001-May-25 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Jul-15 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Stover
Latitude: 48° 20' 30.21" Longitude: -84° 0' 11.74"
UTM Zone: 16 Easting: 722051.39 Northing: 5358622.93 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Sault Ste. Marie
NTS Grid: 42C08SE
Point Location Description: Series of old trenches near road
Location Method: Other Literature
Access Description: Drive east from the north end of highway 651 for aproximately 4 km along the Renabie Mine access road to the junction of a southward trending forestry road. Drive south for approximately 2 km to the occurrence.
1942-44: Pileggi Prospecting Syndicate - stripping, sampling, trenching. 1975-76 - airborne geophysics, 10 ddh (7078 ft). 1984: R. J. MGowan - airborne geophysics. 1996-99. W. Kerr - prospecting, stripping, sampling, mapping. 2005: Laidlaw/Stone/Hume/Mihelcic - ground geophysics.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| Stover 0026/ 2.6953 | 42C08SE0004 | 42C08SE0004 |
| WP Stover.15 / 2.30746 | 20000000820 | 20000000820 |
| Stover 0014B1 | 42B05SW0108 | 42B05SW0108 |
| Meath 0019A1 / 2.1725 | 42C08NE0028 | 42C08NE0028 |
| WP Stover.12 / 2.17069 | 42B05SW0040 | 42B05SW0040 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Wawa
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Michipicoten
Geological Age: Neoarchean
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.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Schist-Unsubdivided | 1 | Silicified Andesite | Host |
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Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - Visible gold was dicovered in a quartz lens adjacent to an aplitic dike. The main host lithology consists of pyritized sheared intermediate metavolcanics.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gold | Economic | Ore |
Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - A chip sample collected by W. Kerr in 1999 returned an assay of 6.2 oz/t Au over 0.60 m.
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 1 | Sheared |
Part - Geology and mineralization in the northern part of Stover Township
Publication Number: ARV51-08.002 Page: 35-39 Date: 1997
Author: Horwood H.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Book - Stover Township - unpublished GDIF
Publication Number: GDIF Date: 1986
Author: Resident Geologist Staff
Publisher Name:
Location: SSM RGO
MonoMap - Geology of the Crooked Lake area, District of Sudbury
Publication Number: R172 Page: 35-36 Date: 1978
Author: Bennett G.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Gold deposits of Ontario, part 2, part of District of Cochrane, districts of Muskoka, Nipissing, Parry Sound, Sudbury, Timiskaming, and counties of southern Ontario
Publication Number: MDC018 Page: 85 Date: 1979
Author: Gordon J.B., Lovell H.L., de Grijs J.W., Davie R.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Book - Sudbury Timmins Algoma Mineral Program, Project 1: mineral inventory of the Sudbury-Timmins-Sault Ste. Marie region, Ontario
Publication Number: GSC OF 1087 Page: 62 Date: 1985
Author: Rose, D.G.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/129999
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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