Ontario Geological Survey
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| Record Name(s) | ABC Zone - 1987 |
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| Record Status | Prospect |
| Date Created | 2006-Dec-21 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Jan-21 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Connell
Latitude: 51° 30' 42.06" Longitude: -90° 2' 1.93"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 705814 Northing: 5710900 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay North
NTS Grid: 52O09SE
Point Location Description: Location from mineral deposit files (McGregor 1993).
Location Method: Data Compilation
Exploration history of Pickle Crow Property: 1928: No. 1 vein discovered by J. MacFarlane and H.H. Howell. 1928-1930: Trenching and diamond drilling by Northern Arial Minerals. 1933: Shaft sunk on property by Northern Arial Minerals. 1934: Pickle Crow Gold Mines is incorporated. 1935-1966: Producing mine. 1981-1984: Surface exploration and diamond drilling by Golden Shadow Resources and Gallant Gold Mines. 1985-1988: Diamond drilling, geophysics, outcrop stripping and geological mapping by Noramco Mining Corporation. 1988-1990: Partial feasibility study for underground mining by Noramco and Brampton Mining Services. 1999: property acquired by Wolfden Resources. 1999-2000: bulk sampling by Cantera Mines. 2006: Wolfden Resources has completed a 225 ton per day mill on the site to process 403,800 tonnes of ore that have been outlined in crown pillar areas.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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| 63.5078 | 52O09SE0031 | 52O09SE0031 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Uchi
Terrane: North Caribou
Domain: Uchi
Belt: Pickle Lake
Geological Age: Mesoarchean
Dec 21, 2006 (Mark Puumala) - The geology of the Pickle Crow area is described in MDI52O09SE00007.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 1 | Contains |
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| Ironstone-unsubdivided | 1 | Contains | ||
| Porphyry-unsubdivided | 3 | Near |
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Sulphides | Economic | Ore | ||||
| Silica | Alteration | Silicification | 1 |
Dec 21, 2006 (Mark Puumala) - The ABC Zone is described by McGregor (1989) as an area of complex mineralization in mafic metavolcanics and narrow iron formations. Mineralization is characterized by a wide zone of fracturing, brecciation, silicification and porphyry dikes (Winter 1987). The results of trenching reported by Winter (1987) identified two mineralized zones and included assay results of 0.10 oz/ton over 20 m and 0.05 oz/ton over 6.1 m. Diamond drilling carried out in the 1950s by Pickle Crow Gold Mines and in the 1980s by Highland Crow Resources has returned numerous gold assay results that indicate that this mineralized zone plunges to the east and is open to depth (Winter 1987).
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Lode (Gold) |
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 1 | Breccia |
Book - Report on Phase A of a Feasibility Study of the Pickle Crow/Central Patricia Deposits
Publication Number: Scale: Date: 1993
Author: McGregor, J.A.
Publisher Name: unpublished report, mineral deposit files
Location: Thunder Bay RGP
Book - Report on Mineral Reserves at the Pickle Crow Property for Noramco Mining Corporation
Publication Number: Scale: Date: 1989
Author: McGregor, J.A.
Publisher Name: unpublished report, mineral deposit files
Location: Thunder Bay RGP
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