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Record: MDI000000001114

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Main Zone West - 1990
Related Record Type
Record Status Occurrence
Date Created 2011-Mar-18
Date Last Modified 2022-Jan-05
Created By J Scott
Revised By J Scott

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold



Location

Township or Area: Moss

Latitude: 48° 31' 58.51"    Longitude: -90° 43' 19.96"

UTM Zone: 15    Easting: 668150   Northing: 5378040    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay South

NTS Grid: 52B10SE

Point Location Description: OGS Map M2624 point 86, confirmed with Google earth

Location Method: Other



Exploration History

1936: Gold discovered just north of Snodgrass Lake, Mining Corp. carried out a trenching program. 1978-1980: Camflo Mines carried out limited diamond drilling. 1982 - Tandem Resources optioned property from Belore and Huronia Mines. 1990: The property was optioned by Central Crude. Noranda Exploration on behalf of Central Crude carried out 24 500 m of diamond drilling in 52 holes as well as limited geophysical surveys and carried out geological mapping, trenching, IP resistivity surveys and re-assaying of previous drill core.


Assessment Work on File

Assessment Work on File
Office File Number Online Assessment File Identifier Online Assessment File Directory
52B10SE-178ab / 2.31459 20000001085 20000001085
52B10SE-102 / 63.6126 52B10SE0170 52B10SE0170
52B10SE-152 / 2.22747 52B10SE2013 52B10SE2013

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Wawa

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Shebandowan

Geological Age: Archean   Geochronological Age: 2720 ma  



Geology Comments

Jan 06, 2017 (Andrew Tims) - The occurrence lies within the a corridor of shearing and albite alteration hosting anomalous gold values. Gold tends to be associated with thin, pyritic shears parallel to foliation within intermediate to felsic tuffaceous units and along the contacts between intermediate to felsic volcanics and porphyry bodies or mafic volcanic flows and displays considerable well-exposed outcrop hosting at least three airborne conductive horizons which have not been drill-tested.




Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Felsic lava flow-unsubdivided 1 Sheared Host
Diorite 2 Diorite Sheared Host

Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
1PyriteEconomicOre

Mineralization Comments

Jan 06, 2017 (J Scott) - 500 ppb Au in grab sample. Erratic high grade grabs from trenches and drill intercepts of 4.6 gpt over 17 m. dacite ash tuff containing thin, rusty interflow bandsand 7% pyrite, ran 1.311 g/t Au;



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