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Record: MDI000000000762

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Conquest DH CQ-03-6 - 2003
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Occurrence
Date Created 2010-Mar-25
Date Last Modified 2022-Jul-15
Created By
Revised By

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold



Location

Township or Area: Lower Detour Lake Area

Latitude: 49° 56' 42.41"    Longitude: -79° 39' 21.38"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 596433.002   Northing: 5533393.997    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Timmins

NTS Grid: 32E13NE

Point Location Description: Drill hole CQ03-6

Location Method: Based on Assessment

Access Description: Access to the property is by fixed wing aircraft from Cochrane, or by all terrain vehicle from the Detour Lake Mine site. Detour Lake Mine is accessible by an all-season road from Cochrane.



Exploration History

1980-83: Western Mines Ltd./Westmin Res. - airborne and ground geophysics 1994-95: Placer Dome Canada Limited - airborne and ground geophysics 2003-2004: Conquest Resources Limited / Boliden Westmin (Canada) Limited - drilling; geochemical surveys 2005: Trade Winds Ventures / Conquest Resources Limited - diamond drilling.


Assessment Work on File

Assessment Work on File
Office File Number Online Assessment File Identifier Online Assessment File Directory
T-2331 / 2.3651 32E13NE0091 32E13NE0091
T-3436 / 2.15942 32E13NE0008 32E13NE0008
T-3436 / 2.16492 32E13NE0019 32E13NE0019
T-4882 / 2.26153 32L04SE2003 32L04SE2003
T-5289 / 2.31188 20000001070 20000001070
T-5827 / 2.40227 20000003808 20000003808
T-2331 / 2.5962 32E13NE0057 32E13NE0057

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Abitibi

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Abitibi

Geological Age: Neoarchean  



Geology Comments

Mar 25, 2010 (D Draper) - The property claim package extends east-west across the central section of the Lower Detour Lake Area and was named the South Detour property by Placer Dome and later the Aurora property by Conquest. It is located within the Abitibi Subprovince at the contact between the Abitibi greenstone terrain and the Migmatitic Opatika Subprovince. The property is situated on the southern flank of a synclinal fold structure that extends from the main body of the Abitibi belt in Quebec. The centre of the fold consists mostly of metasediments flanked by metavolcanics. The geological setting is in some ways similar to the Detour Lake property to the northwest in Sunday Lake Area. Thick sequences of massive to pillowed tholeiitic basalt flows contain interflow units consisting of mafic tuffs, greywackes and local chemical sediments. Gabbroic bodies and numerous feldspar porphyry and quartz-feldspar porphyry dykes intrude these sequences. Regional dynamothermal metamorphism, increasing to the west of the property, has resulted in recrystallization and deformation fabrics. Later thermal metamorphism, related to batholith intrusion on the southern edge of the claims, has locally overprinted the regional fabrics. According to the classification adopted by Winkler (1979), the rocks at South Detour would be classified as upper greenschist facies in the eastern portion of the property, to lower amphibolite facies to the west, with amphiboles being the dominant metamorphic mineral. Rocks proximal to the batholith intrusion on the southern edge of the property or the felsic intrusion to the northeast, are hornfelsed with epidote-garnet (almandine?) +I- albite being the diagnostic contact metamorphic mineral assemblage. (adapted from B. Pierna report, Oct. 1997 in T-3436 (2.18222), p.14)




Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Mafic Tuff 1 Tuff Host
Quartz-Feldspar Porphyry 2 Quartz-Feldspar Intrudes

Lithology Comments

Mar 25, 2010 (D Draper) - Hole CQ0306 was also drilled to test a southern section of the Sagimeo Lake Shear. The hole was dominated by mafic tuffs and numerous porphyritic intrusive units.




Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
1PyriteEconomicGangue
2SphaleriteEconomicGangue

Mineralization Comments

Mar 25, 2010 (D Draper) - The best result in CQ0306 was 0.98 g/t Au over 1.15 meter hosted within a pyrite rich section of a cherty mafic tuff. Some minor sphalerite was noted within this unit as well. (T-4882) Trade Winds hole TWCQ-013 was collared 225m west of CQ0306 and intersected a unit of mafic volcanoclastics and cherts at 110m which assayed 0.952 g/t Au over 1m. (T-5827)



Mineral Record Details

References

Map - Burntbush-Detour lakes, Cochrane District

Publication Number: M2453 Scale: 1:100,000    Date: 1982

Author: Johns G.W.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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MonoMap - Geology of the Burntbush-Detour lakes area, District of Cochrane

Publication Number: R199 Date: 1982

Author: Johns G.W.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Map - Geological Compilation of the Burntbush-Detour Lakes Area, Abitibi Greenstone Belt

Publication Number: P3609 Scale: 1:100,000    Date: 2009

Author: Ayer J.A., Chartrand J.E., Duguet M., Rainsford D.R.B., Trowell N.F.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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