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| Record Name(s) | Vice Lake - 2009, 2009-Bta-28 - 2009 |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 2011-Mar-09 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Jan-09 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Halcrow
Latitude: 47° 48' 44.61" Longitude: -82° 53' 52.93"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 357905 Northing: 5297193.002 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Timmins
NTS Grid: 41O15SW
Point Location Description: 1.5 km northwest of Vice Lake, small prospector trench blasted in outcrop
Location Method: Field Visit with GPS
Access Description: The southeast part of the Swayze greenstone belt is easily accessible with recently constructed logging roads. Access is gained by way of the Foleyet timber road that leads south from Hwy 101 east of Foleyet or by the Sultan industrial road that links Hwy 144 between Timmins and Sudbury to Hwy 129 south of Chapleau.
No early accounts of the exploration history of the occurrence are known but the area was probably prospected as a result of the discovery of the Halcrow-Swayze Mine that is located 2 km to the southwest and the Lyall-Beidelman occurrence located 1 km to the northwest. A blasted prospector trench of unknown vintage is evidence of previous exploration interest in the area. Melrose Resources Limited flew low attitude helicopter borne magnetic, electromagnetic and VLF-EM surveys over the area in 1984. Line spacing was 100 m, aircraft height was 60 m, the magnetometer was 13.7 m below the aircraft and the EM bird was at an elevation of 30 m. The survey identifed a northwest trending weak magnetic response in the vicinity of the sedimentary rocks that outcrop at the showing and several isolated electromagnetic conductors were detected but these don't correlate with the magnetic patterns. The VLF_EM response show a similar northwest trend but is not definitive.(T2920). In 1992, W. Troup and B. Otton did reconnaissance geological mapping, prospecting and humus and lake sampling. Two stream sediment samples collected down ice from magnetic anomalies were analyzed for diamond indicator minerals. No significant results were reported in any of the sampling. (T3878).
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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| T2920 | 41O15SW0087 | 41O15SW0087 |
| T3878, OP92-559 | 42B01NE0033 | 42B01NE0033 |
| OP92-558, T-3878 | 42B01NE0031 | 42B01NE0031 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Abitibi
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Swayze
Geological Age: Archean Geochronological Age: 2690 Geochron. Age Ref.: Heather and Shore 1999
Metamorphism Type: Regional
Metamorphism Grade: Greenschist
Mar 31, 2011 (B Atkinson) - Gold occurs associated with quartz veins in strongly deformed conglomerates. The presence of granitic clasts suggests the conglomerates are Timiskaming.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Conglomerate | 1 | Polymictic | Clast Supported, Flattened Clasts | Host |
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| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| Ankerite | Alteration | Carbonatization | 1 | Weak | |||
| Quartz | Alteration | Silicification | 2 | Weak | Veins |
Date: Jun 24, 2009
Geologist: B Atkinson
Notes: Routine property visit to the Swayze greenstone belt enroute to the Halcrow Swayze Mine.
Mono - Report of Activities 2009, Resident Geologist Program, Timmins Regional Resident Geologist Report: Timmins and Sault Ste. Marie Districts
Publication Number: OFR6247 Date: 2010
Author: Atkinson B.T., Pace A., Beauchamp S.A., Bousquet P., Butorac S., Draper D.M., Wilson A.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Geology, Swayze greenstone belt, Rollo Lake, Ontario
Publication Number: OF 3384b Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 1999
Author: Heather, K B; Shore, G T
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/210450
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