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| Record Name(s) | Solano Property - 2004, Richore - 1966, Central Matachewan - 1934 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 2008-Feb-26 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Jan-30 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Baden
Latitude: 48° 5' 16.68" Longitude: -80° 45' 57.87"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 517420.003 Northing: 5326103.996 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kirkland Lake
NTS Grid: 42A02SW
Point Location Description: GPS location from KL 5362
Location Method: Based on Assessment
Access Description: The property can be accessed from Kirkland Lake by Highway 66 west towards Matachewan for 50 km to the Matachewan Native Reserve road, then north along the reserve road to the village (a distance of 13 km). From the reserve village the property is located 8 km northwest along the Radisson Lake Road, then 3 km west along a tertiary road. The property can also be accessed by boat north from Matachewan along the Montreal River to Matachewan Lake or by float plane.
2004: J. Forbes: trenching and sampling 1989: Queenston Mining Inc: magnetometer and induced polarization surveys 1988: Strike Minerals Inc: surface stripping, trenching, mapping and sampling 1986: Premier Explorations Inc: airborne magnetic and VLF electromagnetic surveys 1934: Central Matachewan Mining Corporation Ltd: claim acquisition and trenching
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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| KL5362 | 42A02SW2015 | 42A02SW2015 |
| KL5441 | 20000000335 | 20000000335 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Abitibi
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Abitibi
Geological Age: Archean
Jun 16, 2010 (J Suma-Momoh) - A sheared, fracture zone about 300 feet long and 3 feet wide strikes N55E and dips 85 degrees north. The shear zone cuts altered volcanic rocks and granite, and contains a few quartz-carbonate stringers and a small amount of pyrite. Quartz constitutes 60 percent of some parts of the granite. REF: ODM 1967, GR 51, P26-27.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Granite | 1 | Quartz-Feldspar-Hornblende-Biotite Granite | Fine-Grained; Red- To Grey-Coloured; Massive | Host |
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| Vein | 2 | Quartz | Veins And Stringers, Narrow Lenses | Contains |
| Mafic Lamprophyre | 3 | Lamprophyre And Diabase Dykes | ||
| Intermediate Tuff | 4 | Mainly Calc-Alkaline Andesite | Agglomerates, Tuff And Fragmentals | Near |
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | Disseminated |
Jun 16, 2010 (J Suma-Momoh) - In the year 2004, J. Forbes collected 43 samples from the showing. The best assay from the Richore shear was 54.23 gram of gold per tonne (sample # B-42). REF: Report by Brian Nelson (dated April 28, 2005), page 7, in KL 5441. The other assay values range from 0.022 g/t gold to 17.634 g/t gold. REF: Technical Report on the Solano Property, by Des Cullen and Dennis Bordin (dated February 21, 2005), pages 15 through 17, in KL 5441.
MonoMap - Geology of the Matachewan area, District of Timiskaming
Publication Number: R051 Scale: Date: 1967
Author: Lovell H.L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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