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| Record Name(s) | Quartz Lake Adit - 1927, Canyon Lake Adit - 1962 |
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| Related Record Type | Partial |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 2007-Jul-19 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Nov-09 |
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Primary Commodities: Copper, Lead, Silver
Secondary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Fripp
Latitude: 48° 15' 4.28" Longitude: -81° 23' 41.86"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 470681 Northing: 5344295 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Timmins
NTS Grid: 42A06SW
Point Location Description: adit on SW shore of Canyon Lake
Location Method: AMIS Site Visit
Access Description: Travel 10 km south of Timmins on the Dalton road to the Grassy River where an ATV trail leads 12 km to Quartz Lake. Travel by boat to the west side of Canyon Lake.
1927-28: Quartz Lake Mines Ltd. - adit driven into vein on west side of Canyon Lake; sampling, drilling. 1962, 1965: Hollinger Consolidated Gold Mines Ltd. - mapping, ground geophysics, sampling. 1964: Nipiron Mines Limited - mapping, ground geophysics. 1966: Acme Gas & Oil Limited - airborne geophysics 1988: R. Garneau: airborne geophysics.1991: D. Tichinoff - ground geophysics. 2009, 2011: D.M. Lefort - manual stripping of quartz vein extending east from 8x8ft shaft on shore of east end of Quartz Lake. This shaft is 100m SW of the adit on Canyon Lake; sampling, assays; mapping.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| T-0702 / 63.1845 | 42A06SW0511 | 42A06SW0511 |
| T-1026 / 63A.434 | 42A06SW0510 | 42A06SW0510 |
| T-3222 / 2.11615 | 42A06SW0504 | 42A06SW0504 |
| T-0702 / 63.1190 | 42A06SW0514 | 42A06SW0514 |
| T-6265 / 2.48494 | 20000006459 | 20000006459 |
| T-1377 / 63.2118 | 42A06SW8460 | 42A06SW8460 |
| T-3483 / 2.14622 | 42A06SW0503 | 42A06SW0503 |
| T-6262 / 2.48493 | 20000006458 | 20000006458 |
| T-6264 / 2.48491 | 20000006456 | 20000006456 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Abitibi
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Abitibi
Geological Age: Archean
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Vein | 1 | Quartz | Host |
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| Diorite | 2 | Diorite | Contains |
Sep 08, 2014 (A Wilson) - The quartz vein ranges in width from a few feet at the west end to 12 feet near Quartz Lake, it is traceable for 2000 ft. The vein dips steeply to the north.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Galena | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Pyrite | Economic | Gangue |
Sep 08, 2014 (A Wilson) - Assay values up to $0.80 gold were recovered from grab samples the quartz vein. A sample from a muck pile near the lake returned 0.9 oz/t Ag. Visible gold was panned from sludge from one of the drill holes. Two other samples from the dump reportedly returned values of: 5.38% Cu, 3.54% lead, 1.2 oz/t silver and $0.60 gold; and 21.89% Pb, 0.98% Cu, 5.8 oz/t Ag and $0.40 Au. A sample taken by Lefort in 2009 from the mouth of the shaft on the east shore of Quartz Lake assayed 2.74% Cu.
| Rank | Classification |
|---|---|
| 1 | Vein (Polymetallic) |
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 1 | Vein |
File - Resident Geologist files T-4270
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Location: Timmins RGP office
MonoMap - Geology of the Timmins area, District of Cochrane
Publication Number: R219 Date: 1982
Author: Pyke D.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Map - Timmins, Precambrian geology
Publication Number: M2455 Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 1982
Author: Pyke D.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Map - Geological Compilation of the Timmins Area, Abitibi Greenstone Belt
Publication Number: P3379 Scale: 1:100,000 Date: 1998
Author: Ayer J.A., Trowell N.F.
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