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General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Kozak 1 Zone - 1992, Kozak East - 2010
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Record Status Occurrence
Date Created 2010-Nov-01
Date Last Modified 2022-Sep-26
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Silver, Gold, Zinc



Location

Township or Area: Abotossaway

Latitude: 48° 12' 50.16"    Longitude: -84° 32' 9.69"

UTM Zone: 16    Easting: 683034   Northing: 5343014    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Sault Ste. Marie

NTS Grid: 42C02NE

Point Location Description: approximate

Location Method: Based on Assessment

Access Description: From Hawk Junction, 11.4km is travelled by vehicle along a bush road to a point along the ACR railway. The route is travelled along the railway for 4km by ATV and for 2km by foot. An old bush road is taken from ACR railway for 1408m to the site which lies at the southeast corner of Kozak Lake.



Exploration History

1992-93: Hemlo Gold Mines Inc. - soil sampling, prospecting, mapping, stripping, ground geophysics 2009: Pele Mountain Resources Inc. - mapping, sampling


Assessment Work on File

Assessment Work on File
Office File Number Online Assessment File Identifier Online Assessment File Directory
WP Abotossaway.25 20000018785 20000018785
WP Abotossaway.26 20000018786 20000018786

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Wawa

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Michipicoten

Geological Age: Archean  



Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Vein 1 Quartz Host
Intermediate Tuff 2 Tuff Sheared Contains

Lithology Comments

Nov 03, 2010 (A Wilson) - Elevated gold, silver and zinc was returned from a series of quartz veins hosted within a 5.0 m wide highly carbonatized, intense zone of shearing occurring within felsic tuffs. A broad zone of silicified felsic metavolcanics was exposed in a trench by Hemlo Gold Mines.




Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
2GalenaEconomicOre
3SphaleriteEconomicOre
1PyriteEconomicGangue

Mineralization Comments

Nov 03, 2010 (A Wilson) - A grab sample collected by Hemlo Gold Mines in 1992 returned 7.8 g/t Au, 1296.0 g/t Ag, 1.8% Zinc. Additional samples from the stripped area grab sample collected by Pele Mountain Resources Inc. in 2009 returned 7.6 g/t Au and 152 g/t Ag.



Mineral Record Details

Classification
RankClassification            
1 Vein
Characteristics
Rank Characteristic            
2 Sheared
1 Vein

References

Map - Precambrian Geology, Abotossaway Township

Publication Number: OFM0223 Scale: 1:15,840    Date: 1993

Author: Sage R.P.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


MonoMap - Geology of Abotossaway, Corbiere, Leclaire and Musquash Townships and Part of Dunphy Township, District of Algoma

Publication Number: OFR5587 Date: 1993

Author: Sage R.P.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


Publication - Report on a geological mapping program of the Highland West project near Wawa, Ontario

Publication Number: Date: 2009

Author: R. H. Thivierge and P. C. Delisle

Publisher Name:

Location: SSM RGO


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