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Record: MDI52B09SE00029

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Creek Zone - 1986, Jalna Resources West - 1984, QUARTZITE Mine - 1896
Related Record Type Partial
Related Record(s)
Record Status Prospect
Date Created 1991-Mar-23
Date Last Modified 2024-Aug-13
Created By
Revised By

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold

Secondary Commodities: Silver



Location

Township or Area: Duckworth

Latitude: 48° 31' 14.2"    Longitude: -90° 2' 41.56"

UTM Zone: 15    Easting: 718200   Northing: 5378384    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay South

NTS Grid: 52B09SE

Point Location Description: General

Location Method: Data Compilation

Access Description: Access to the property is relatively simple, from Highway #11, enter the Shebandowan turn-off and keep going on the paved road leading to the former Inco Shebandowan Mine. About 2 kilometres from the highway, a main logging gravel road, the Duckworth road, heading south, gives a good access to the claims.



Exploration History

see MDI52B09SE00029


Assessment Work on File

Assessment Work on File
Office File Number Online Assessment File Identifier Online Assessment File Directory
2012889 52B09SE0011 52B09SE0011
2.7577 52B09SE0045 52B09SE0045
22 52B09SE0016 52B09SE0016
2.12580 52B09SE0015 52B09SE0015
63.4618 52A12SE8102 52A12SE8102
2.8204 52B09SE0040 52B09SE0040
20000021037 20000021037
20000021480 20000021480

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Wawa

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Shebandowan

Geological Age: Archean  



Geology Comments

Aug 18, 2016 (Andrew Tims) - The old ,Quartzite mine, a long known gold prospect consisting of auriferous, siliceous, pyritic schist which isexposed on the shores of Gold Creek very complex due to episodes of fracturing, brecciation, veining, and redeposition of breccia as well as several stages of volcanism and magmatic intrusion, all of which occurred before the superposition of a strong, penetrative, steeply plunging, stretching lineation and minor late tectonic adjustments. The original lithology was a pyroclastic or volcaniclastic unit. The most intensely sericitized rocks in this zone occur as septa of lineated sericite schist within and surrounding fractured tourmaline-quartz alteration zones.




Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Felsic lava flow-unsubdivided 1 Host

Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
1GoldEconomicOre
2PyriteEconomicOre

Mineralization Comments

Aug 18, 2016 (Andrew Tims) - A base metal bearing quartz vein reported values up to 35.65 g/t Au (1.04 oz/t) and 295 g/t Ag (8.6 oz/t). The vein, which is described in the section on mineralization, was intersected at a depth of 18 meters below surface, but contained only 0.77 g/t Au over l meter.



Mineral Record Details

References

Mono - Property visits and reports of the Atikokan economic geologist, 1979-1983, Atikokan geological survey

Publication Number: OFR5539 Page: 208  Date: 1985

Author: Schnieders B.R., Dutka R.J.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Mono - Geological setting of gold mineralization in the western part of the Shebandowan Greenstone belt, District of Thunder Bay, northwestern Ontario

Publication Number: OFR5636 Date: 1987

Author: Chorlton L.B.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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