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Record: MDI000000000546

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Goodfish Northeast - 2008
Related Record Type
Record Status Occurrence
Date Created 2008-May-09
Date Last Modified 2022-Jan-05
Created By D Guidon
Revised By D Guidon

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold



Location

Township or Area: Morrisette

Latitude: 48° 12' 34.14"    Longitude: -80° 0' 45.19"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 573359.997   Northing: 5340055.005    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Kirkland Lake

NTS Grid: 42A01NE

Point Location Description: Pit

Location Method: Based on Assessment

Access Description: The Goodfish Lake Property is located approximately 5 kilometers due north of Kirkland Lake, Ontario in southeast quadrant of Bernhardt Township and southwest quadrant of Morrisette Township. The property is comprised of eight mining claims consisting of twenty-one units and includes the extreme northwest portion of Goodfish Lake. Access can be made by water across Goodfish Lake by taking a boat or canoe directly onto the property. To access the north half of the property take Goodfish Road out of Kirkland Lake towards the Kirkland Lake airport for 6.0 km to where it meets Harvey Drive leading off to the west. Follow Harvey Drive for 1.0 km to the west, continue past Bernhardt Drive, to where the road ends at the last residence near the east boundary of the property. Follow a path leading north over a rugged outcrop to where northwest trending grid lines have been established on the property. The northern part of the property is also accessible west from the Dorothy/Lawgrave Lakes access road at a point approximately 1 km north of the Kirkland Lake airport turnoff.



Exploration History

In 1984 Nova Beaucage Mines Limited held a group of claims which included the O'Connor Goodfish Lake property, and the Kirana Gold Mines property to the south in Teck Township. An exploration program included gridding, ground geophysical surveys that consisted of total field magnetic and VLF EM surveys. A number of grab samples were assayed for gold with the best value of 40 ppb Au taken from an old trench. In 1988, Minnova Inc. held the same property as Nova Beaucage Mines Ltd. Minnova completed only limited work on a small part of the O'Connor property that included some gridding and ground magnetic surveying. A 1995 surface exploration program by FT. O'Connor of overburden stripping and cleaning the exposed bedrock was conducted on the Goodfish Lake Property. The one area of significance is designated as stripped Area A on the O'Connor Goodfish Lake Property during the autumn of 1995. The 1996 surface exploration program consisted of the linecutting, IP, VLF-EM and sampling pits and trenches found during the program. Samples from Pit A include 1560 ppb Au in sample GFL96-02 and 1371 ppb Au in sample 9542.


Assessment Work on File

Assessment Work on File
Office File Number Online Assessment File Identifier Online Assessment File Directory
KL-4233 42A01NE0314 42A01NE0314

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Abitibi

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Abitibi

Tectonic Assemblage: Blake River

Geological Age: Archean  



Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided 1 Rusty, Carbonate Alt, Disseminated Py Fine Grained Host

Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
1PyriteEconomic And AlterationGanguePyritic1MediumDisseminated
CarbonateAlterationCarbonatization2WeakDisseminated

Mineralization Comments

May 09, 2008 (D Guidon) - from assessment file 42A01NE0314 Pit" A" a 3m x 3m shallow water filled pit exposes pyritic bearing basalt cut by a quartz-feldspar porphyry dike. The QFP, mafic volcanic contact is on a bearing 020 degrees and appears vertical. Both the mafic volcanic and QFP contain finely disseminated pyrite. The QFP displays a pinkish alteration, possibly a hematite dusting. Minor quartz and carbonate stringers occur locally. Seven samples numbered GFL 96 - 02, - 03, -04, and 9541, 9542, 9543, and 9544 were submitted for gold assaying and the assay results are 1560 ppb, 10 ppb, 50 ppb, 175 ppb, 1371 ppb, 195 ppb, and 7 ppb Au respectively. Two significant results were obtained from this pit and appear to be closely associated with the contact area of the QFP with the mafic volcanics.



Mineral Record Details

References

Map - Bernhardt and Morrisette townships, Timiskaming District

Publication Number: M2193 Scale: 1:31,680    Date: 1970

Author: Rupert R.J., Lovell H.L.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines


MonoMap - Geology of Bernhardt and Morrisette townships

Publication Number: R084 Scale:     Date: 1970

Author: Rupert R.J., Lovell H.L.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines


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