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| Record Name(s) | Flint Rock Mainland - 1961, Troudor - 1982, Cree Lake Gold - 1984, Mantis Trench 1-5 - 2008 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1994-Jul-27 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Mar-28 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc
Township or Area: Swayze
Latitude: 47° 46' 44.17" Longitude: -82° 41' 8.03"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 373730 Northing: 5293106 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Timmins
NTS Grid: 41O15SE
Point Location Description: Approximate centre of central Trench 1-5 within series of trenches between Cree and Cuckoo Lakes.
Location Method: Based on Assessment
Access Description: From Timmins, take Hwy 144 south past Gogama to Sultan Road. Follow Sultan road west for about 55 km then turn north on Dore Road. Follow Dore Road north for about 29 km to logging road marker #107. At marker, turn west onto logging road (Freyman Lake road) for 5 km to road marker #7A. Turn south at this marker and follow road for 1km to logging trails continuing south to property. Trails can be travelled by 4x4 vehicle but best travelled using ATVs, or snowmobile in winter. (after T-5439, p. 8)
Pre-1961: unknown operator - trenching 1961-62: Flint Rock Mines - prospecting, sampling, drilling (25 holes) (T-2192) 1976: Union Miniere Explns and Mining Corp. Ltd. - airborne geophysics (T-1732) 1982: Canadian Nickel Company - airborne geophysics (T-2446) 1982, 1984: Troudor Resources - ground geophysics, geology, sampling, assays (T-2545, T-5679) 1985: The Canadian Nickel Company - drilling (3 holes) 1988: Charet Syndicate - airborne geophysics (T-3199) 1989-1993: Charles Mortimer - ground geophysics, sampling, assays, stripping, drilling (T-3376) 1993: R. Crichton - extended Mortimer hole M-90-3 by 152ft (T-3678) 1998: Corporation 929257 Ont. Inc. for R.W. Rintala - location of historical workings, designation of the 2 main trenches as Trench 1-5 and Trench 1-3, mapping, sampling (T-5439) 2006: R.W. Rintala - prospecting, clearing of main trenches, grab and channel sampling (T-5439) 2008-09: Mantis Explorations Inc. - ground geophysics; stripping/trenching, sampling; drilling (T-5656; T-5821;T-6080) 2010: Probe Mines Limited - optioned property (Mantis Press Release, April 21, 2010)
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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| T-1732 / 2.2145 | 41O15NE0012 | 41O15NE0012 |
| T-2446 / 2.8151 | 41O15SE0070 | 41O15SE0070 |
| T-2545 / 2.5263 | 41O15SE0085 | 41O15SE0085 |
| T-2545 / 2.7132 | 41O15SE0078 | 41O15SE0078 |
| T-3199 / 2.11349 | 41O15SE0047 | 41O15SE0047 |
| T-3376 / 2.13299 | 41O15SE0035 | 41O15SE0035 |
| T-3376 / 2.14004 | 41O15SE0032 | 41O15SE0032 |
| T-3376 / 2.15105 | 41O15SE9210 | 41O15SE9210 |
| T-3678 / OP92-814 | 41O15SE0049 | 41O15SE0049 |
| T-5439 / 2.33216 | 20000001756 | 20000001756 |
| T-5656 / 2.37625 | 20000002782 | 20000002782 |
| T-5821 / 2.39921 | 20000003678 | 20000003678 |
| T-6080 / 2.44487 | 20000004571 | 20000004571 |
| T-2192 | 41O15SE0095 | 41O15SE0095 |
| T-2446 / 2.4576 | 41O15SE0115 | 41O15SE0115 |
| T-2545 / 2.5002 | 41O15SE0086 | 41O15SE0086 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Abitibi
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Swayze
Tectonic Assemblage: Halcrow-Swayze
Geological Age: Neoarchean Geochronological Age: 2700 MA Geochron. Age Ref.: GOO VOL 1
Metamorphism Type: Regional
Metamorphism Grade: Greenschist
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Vein | 1 | Quartz Vein | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vein | 2 | Quartz-Carbonate | Contains | |
| Schist-Unsubdivided | 3 | Adjacent | ||
| Intermediate lava flow-unsubdivided | 4 | Andesite | Near | |
| Mafic Agglomerate | 5 | Agglomerate | Near |
Dec 07, 2005 (S Fumerton) - The host rocks in the area are agglomeratic, coarse grained mafic volcanics and lapilli tuffs which are locally sheared. The agglomerate is poorly sorted and fragments are up to 10cm in size. There are a number of thin interflow sediments within the volcanic pile. FROM INCO'S WORK.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Galena | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 4 | Gold | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 1 | Pyrite | Economic | Gangue |
Mar 30, 2011 (S Fumerton) - There are a number of small quartz - calcite - epidote veins which locally contain pyrite, pyrrhotite and minor chalcopyrite. These veins are locally associated with the interflow sediments and typically carry anomalous gold values but sub ore grade values. In addition to the small veins similar gold values have also been returned from finely laminated siliceous interflow sediments. Values obtained by Flint Rock Mines from the quartz vein ranged from 0.8 to 250 g/t gold (0.025 - 7.27 opt). The old pits were later resampled by Troudor Resources and quartz vein samples with pyrite and possible telluride ran up to 11 g/t gold (0.33 opt). Two years later the property was remapped and the chip samples from the main trench returned values up to 60 g/t Au and 11 g/t Ag in a pyritic quartz vein with trace amounts of pyrrhotite and galena. In 1985 the Canadian Nickel Company drilled three closely spaced holes apparently to the west of the main trenches. The best values obtained from this drill program were associated with narrow interflow chert horizons (up to 1.7 g/t Au, hole 72525) or thin pyritic quartz carbonate veins (3.02 g/t Au over 6cm, hole 72527).
Mar 30, 2011 (D Draper) - The best values returned from initial drilling by Flint Rock in 1962 was from hole 3C, which assayed 20.46 oz/ton Au and 4.54 oz/ton Ag. Hole 3C was drilled beneath the main trench (later designated Trench 1-5) (Timmins RGO newsclipping files) Grab and channel sampling of the old trenches by C. Mortimer in 1990 returned up to 15.22 gpt Au (0.444 opt). Best assay from Mortimer hole M-90-3 was 3.15 opt Au. A rock sample (04011 B-1) assayed 54.79 ppm Au, but a location for this sample could not be determined from information on file. (T-3376) 1998 sampling of the dump near Trench 1 returned an assay of 24.977 ppm Au. This dump location also returned the best assay in the 2006 followup sampling: 91.228 ppm Au, 34 ppm Ag. Significant assays were also obtained from Trench 1-3 (61.249 ppm Au) and 1-6 (36.698 ppm Au). The highest base metal values obtained were 3867 ppm Pb (1-5 dump site) and 2003 ppm Zn (Trench 1-3). (T-5439) Of the 175 samples (grab, channel, drill plug) collected by Mantis Explorations in 2008, 77 assayed higher than 0.5 ppm Au. Best values (all were bedrock grab samples): C174268, quartz-carbonate vein with V.G., from shear zone near blast pit at far eastern end of trenches - 1300 ppm Au, 259 ppm Ag, 1200 ppm Cu; C174481, metavolcanic, from east end of Trench 1-3 - 89.3 ppm Au, 229 ppm Ag, 6740 ppm Cu; C174214, mafic volcanic from centre of Trench 1-5 - 195 ppm Au, 57.6 ppm Ag, 1.73% Zn, 8300 ppm Pb Followup drilling by Mantis in 2009 returned up to 4.23 gpt Au over 0.5m and 4200 ppm Cu over 1m (in hole CL09-5), but no further significant assays for Ag, Zn or Pb were obtained. Hole CL09-6, collared 150m NE of the main trench area, returned an average of 2.053 gpt Au over a 15.5m core length (including 11.55 gpt over 0.8 m) and was considered to have intersected a new, shallow, gold zone. (T-6080)
Mar 30, 2011 (D Draper) - The entire volcanic succession on the property has undergone pervasive chloritization and carbonatization. (T-6080, p. 21)
| Rank | Classification |
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| 5 | Mesothermal |
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 5 | Vein |
| Shape | Length | Thickness | Depth | Strike | Dip | Plunge | Trend | Age | Reference |
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| Tabular | 100 | 15 | 80 | N/A | N/A |
File - Resident Geologist file T-5679
Publication Number: Date:
Author:
Publisher Name:
Location: Timmins RGP office
Map - Swayze and Dore townships, Sudbury District
Publication Number: M2070 Scale: 1:31,680 Date: 1997
Author: Donovan J.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Part - Geology of the Swayze gold area
Publication Number: ARV43-03.001 Page: 26 Date: 1998
Author: Rickaby H.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - Geology of Swayze and Dore townships, District of Sudbury
Publication Number: R033 Page: 22 Date: 1997
Author: Donovan J.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Publication - Newsclipping File: Flint Rock Mines
Publication Number: Date:
Author: The Northern Miner Press
Publisher Name:
Location: Timmins RGO
MonoMap - Geology of the Chapleau area, districts of Algoma, Sudbury, and Cochrane
Publication Number: R157 Page: 188 Date: 1977
Author: Thurston P.C., Siragusa G.M., Sage R.P.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines
Location:
Publication - Newsclipping File: Mantis Mineral Corporation
Publication Number: Date:
Author: The Northern Miner Press
Publisher Name:
Location: Timmins RGO
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: 85-86 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: 115 Date: 1985
Author: Rose, D.G.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/129999
Book - Swayze Township - unpublished GDIF
Publication Number: GDIF Date: 1988
Author: Resident Geologist Staff
Publisher Name:
Location: Timmins RGO
MonoMap - Mineral Prospects of the Swayze Greenstone Belt (Volume 1, Parts of NTS 41 O and Volume 2, Parts of NTS 41 P, 42 A and 42 B)
Publication Number: OFR5912 Page: 212-213 Date: 1995
Author: Fumerton S.L., Houle K.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Geology, Swayze greenstone belt, Rollo Lake, Ontario
Publication Number: OF 3384b Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 1999
Author: Heather, K B; Shore, G T
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/210450
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