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| Record Name(s) | Surluga Gold Mine - 1950, Wawa Gold Project - 2014, Citadel Gold Mine - 1983, Cora Shaft - 1900 |
|---|---|
| Related Record Type | Compound |
| Related Record(s) | |
| Record Status | Developed Prospect With Reported Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1987-Dec-10 |
| Date Last Modified | 2024-Aug-28 |
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| Revised By |
Primary Commodities: Gold
Secondary Commodities: Silver
Township or Area: McMurray
Latitude: 47° 59' 2.91" Longitude: -84° 44' 49.7"
UTM Zone: 16 Easting: 668100.33 Northing: 5316993.59 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Sault Ste. Marie
NTS Grid: 41N15NE
Point Location Description: Headframe on patented claim SSM 60942
Location Method: Field Visit
Access Description: Drive south from highway 101 along the Surluga Road for approximately 1.5 km. The mine site is located on the west side of the road where the road forks.
1899: H. W. Evenden and Johnson Brothers - 2 shafts sunk. 1927: Power and Mines Syndicate - 3 ddh. 1950s: T. Surluga - prospecting and staking. 1960-62: Sutherland Company - 9267 ft diamond drilling (25 holes). 1962-73: Surluga Gold Mines Ltd. - diamond drilling, geological mapping, in 1966 shaft sunk to 950 feet with 7 levels developed, in 1968 a 750 tpd mill installed, mine in production 1968-69, joint ventured with Prado Explorations Ltd./Pango Gold Mines in 1969, ground geophysics, reserve calculation. 1973-80: Pango Gold Mines and Pursides Gold MInes Ltd. - surface and underground exploration, detailed diamond drilling. 1980-90: Citadel Gold Mines Inc. - ground geophysics, diamond drilling, stripping, trenching, geological mapping, test mining of ore, shaft dewatering. 1990-92: Pan Orvana Resources optioned the property and carried out soil sampling. 1995-96: L. Melnick conducted a VLF-EM and ground magnetics survey. 1996-97: Goldbrook Exploration Ltd. optioned the property and calculated a resource estimate. 1998: Transgold Exploration conducted an IP survey. 1998-2000: J. Leadbetter carried out prospecting, sampling, and a beepmat survey. 2000: Tri Origin conducted ground geophysics and drilled 6 DDH totalling 789 m. 2004: P.L. Mousseau conducted a ground mag and VLF-EM survey. 2007: Wawa General Partnership drilled 14 DDH totalling 8410.2 m. 2009: Augustine Ventures Inc. optioned the project. 2011: Augustine conducted a helicopter-borne VTEM survey, carried out sampling, and drilled 18 DDH totalling 2944 m. 2014-2022: Red Pine carried out sampling, ground magnetics, IP, and resistivity, and gravity surveys, channel sampling, drilled 413 DDH totalling 114,840.5 m, and calculated a mineral resource.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| WP McMurray-20 | 42C02SE0220 | 42C02SE0220 |
| MCMURRAY 62 | 41N15NE0036 | 41N15NE0036 |
| MCMURRAY 40 | 42C02SE9043 | 42C02SE9043 |
| MCMURRAY 39 A1 | 41N15NE0062 | 41N15NE0062 |
| McMurray-0027-D1 | 41N15NE0094 | 41N15NE0094 |
| MCMURRAY 22B1 | 41N15NE0063 | 41N15NE0063 |
| McMurray-0017 | 41N15NE0085 | 41N15NE0085 |
| WPMCMURRAY 56 | 41N15NE9044 | 41N15NE9044 |
| WP McMurray-3 | 42C02SE0504 | 42C02SE0504 |
| 41N15NE0004 | 41N15NE0004 | |
| 41N15NE0029 | 41N15NE0029 | |
| 42C02SE0026 | 42C02SE0026 | |
| 42C02SE0022 | 42C02SE0022 | |
| 42C02SE2001 | 42C02SE2001 | |
| 42C02SE2002 | 42C02SE2002 | |
| 42C02SE2003 | 42C02SE2003 | |
| 41N15NE2002 | 41N15NE2002 | |
| 41N15NE2003 | 41N15NE2003 | |
| 42C02SE2014 | 42C02SE2014 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Wawa
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Michipicoten
Tectonic Assemblage: Wawa
Geological Age: Neoarchean Geochronological Age: 2750 MA Geochron. Age Ref.: OFR 5888
Metamorphism Type: Regional
Metamorphism Grade: Greenschist
Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - The Citadel Mine is hosted within the diorite to granodiorite of the Jubilee Lake Stock and the tuffs and breccia of the Jubilee tuffs surrounding it. Gold is found in siliceous parts of fractures or shear zones in this sequence. The principal gold-bearing structure is the Jubilee Shear Zone which extends from Wawa Lake in the north to a point about 2 miles south of Minto Lake. A possible faulted extension extends south towards the Darwin Gold Mine. The Jubilee Shear Zone comprises several cataclastic units each up to 150 feet wide in a wider band. Ore zones within the Jubilee Shear are siliceous sericitic cataclastic foliated rocks with greater or lesser amounts of lensey quartz or quartz stringers and fine disseminated pyrite.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Diorite | 1 | Diorite | Brecciated | Footwall |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Schist-Unsubdivided | 2 | Chlorite-Sericite | Host | |
| Gabbro | 3 | Gabbro | Adjacent | |
| Lamprophyre-Unsubdivided | 4 | Adjacent |
Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - The productive part of the Jubilee shear is restricted to the part where the wall rocks are predominantly diorite or granodiorite. In the granodiorite, the shear consists of a carbonatized and locally slicified sericitic to chloritic schist zone. late gabbroic dikes have intruded along the shear zone. The gold-bearing portions of the shar are silicified and mineralized. The shcist pinch and swell along strike. In the vicinity of the min, large xenoliths of mafic metavolcanic rocks are present in the diorite. These random inclusions are of similar size as the ore shoots and their presence in and around the shear zone may be a controlling factor in localizing ore shoots.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gold | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 1 | Tourmaline | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 2 | Pyrite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 3 | Arsenopyrite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 4 | Galena | Economic | Gangue |
Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - Three types of mineral zones carry gold at the Surluga Mine. The upper gold-bearing zone is associated with quartz-tourmaline mineralization and averages 0.05-0.15 oz/t Au, this is followed by a deeper zone of quartz-pyrite mineralization with values ranging from 0.2 to 0.4 oz/t Au which in turn is follwed by a deeper quartz-arsenopyrite gold bearing zone that averages 0.2 oz/t to 0.5 oz/t Au. The galena and sphalerite mineralization below the bottom pinch of the ore shoots is restricted to narrow veins or veinlets of quartz and some carbonate.
| Rank | Characteristic |
|---|---|
| 2 | Podiform |
| 1 | Sheared |
| Shape | Length | Thickness | Depth | Strike | Dip | Plunge | Trend | Age | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Irregular | 3200 | 60 | 35 | 40 |
| Zone | Year | Category | Tonnes | Reference | Comments | Commodities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Surluga | 2019 | Inferred Mineral Resource | 2362000 | 2023 NI 43-101 | 396,000 oz contained Au | Gold 5.22 g/t |
| Surluga | 2019 | Indicated Mineral Resource | 1202000 | 2023 NI 43-101 | 205,000 oz contained Au | Gold 5.31 g/t |
| Surlaga | 1996 | Unclassified | 9319000 | 2023 NI 43-101 | 1.03 g/t Au cut-off grade | Gold 1.75 g/t |
| Surluga | 1967 | Proven | 162844 | Gold 8.9 g/t | ||
| Surluga | 1967 | Possible | 99396 | Gold 9.6 g/t | ||
| Surluga | 1967 | Probable | 2895860 | Gold 9.14 g/t |
| Year | Tonnes | Commodities | Reference | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | 8518 |
Silver 1059 Grams Gold 45293 Grams |
MRC 13, P. 35 | |
| 1968 | 23936 |
Silver 1380 Grams Gold 54153 Grams |
MRC 13, P. 35 |
File - Resident Geologist files WP McMurray-36, WP McMurray-37, McMurray-0022-A1
Publication Number: Date:
Author:
Publisher Name:
Location: SSM RGP office
Map - Michipicoten area, District of Algoma, Ontario
Publication Number: ARM36A Scale: 1:47,520 Date: 1998
Author: Gledhill T.L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Publication - Technical Report for the Wawa Gold Project
Publication Number: 2023 NI 43-101 Date: 2023
Author: Thomas, B., McDonald, J., Haggarty, S.
Publisher Name: WSP Canada for Red Pine Exploration
Location: SEDAR
Map - Michipicoten area, compilation sheet, District of Algoma
Publication Number: P0184 Scale: 1:126,720 Date: 1997
Author: Goodwin A.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Geological compilation series, Wawa sheet, districts of Algoma and Sudbury
Publication Number: P0640 Scale: 1:126,720 Date: 1997
Author: Leahy E.J., Rupert R.J., Giblin P.E., Giguere J.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs
Location:
Map - Geological series, McMurray Township and parts of surrounding townships, formerly Township 29, Range 23, District of Algoma
Publication Number: P0828 Scale: 1:15,840 Date: 1973
Author: Rupert R.J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines
Location:
Map - Geological series, Precambrian geology of McMurray Township, Wawa area, Algoma District
Publication Number: P2441 Scale: 1:15,840 Date: 1982
Author: Sage R.P., Sawitzky E., Turner J., Leeselleur P., Sagle E.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Precambrian Geology, Michipicoten Greenstone Belt, Central Portion
Publication Number: P3303 Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 1994
Author: Sage R.P.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Book - McMurray Township - unpublished GDIF
Publication Number: GDIF Date: 1985
Author: Resident Geologist Staff
Publisher Name:
Location: Timmins RGP
Journal - Newspaper - Citadel Gold Mines Inc
Publication Number: Date: 1996
Author:
Publisher Name:
Location: Timmins RGP
Journal - Newspaper - Cora Gold Mines Ltd
Publication Number: Date: 1996
Author:
Publisher Name:
Location: Timmins RGP
Journal - Newspaper - Pango Gold Mines Ltd
Publication Number: Date: 1996
Author:
Publisher Name:
Location: Timmins RGP
Journal - Newspaper - Surlaga Gold Mines Ltd
Publication Number: Date: 1996
Author:
Publisher Name:
Location: Timmins RGP
Journal - Newspaper - Pursides Gold Mines Ltd
Publication Number: Date: 1996
Author:
Publisher Name:
Location: Timmins RGP
Mono - Annual report on mining operations in Ontario during calendar year 1969
Publication Number: ARV79 Page: 32 Date: 1998
Author: Riddell G.S.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs
Location:
Mono - Gold deposits of Ontario, part 1, districts of Algoma, Cochrane, Kenora, Rainy River, and Thunder Bay
Publication Number: MDC013 Page: 34-35 Date: 1971
Author: Ferguson S.A., Groen H.A., Haynes R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs
Location:
MonoMap - Geology of McMurray Township and parts of surrounding townships, District of Algoma
Publication Number: OFR5283 Page: 79-88 Date: 1979
Author: Rupert R.J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Wawa mineral deposits data base
Publication Number: OFR5775 Page: 270 Date: 1991
Author: Frey E.D., Stewart R.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Book - Gold Occurrences of the Wawa-Missanabie Area, unpublished report
Publication Number: Robinson Page: 14 Date: 1983
Author: Robinson, D.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location: Timmins RGP
MonoMap - Geology of Chabanel, Esquega, Lastheels and McMurray Townships, District of Algoma
Publication Number: OFR5586 Page: 423-428 Date: 1993
Author: Sage R.P.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Part - Michipicoton Mining Division
Publication Number: ARV09.005 Page: 114 Date: 1998
Author: Boyd D.G.
Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines
Location:
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