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Record Name(s) | Gold Island - 2009 |
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Record Status | Discretionary Occurrence |
Date Created | 2011-Mar-22 |
Date Last Modified | 2022-Jul-15 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Greenlaw
Latitude: 47° 44' 9.93" Longitude: -82° 44' 1.1"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 370022 Northing: 5288424 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Timmins
NTS Grid: 41O10NW
Point Location Description: Small island in east part of Ridout Lake
Location Method: Field Visit with GPS
Access Description: Access is by way of the Sultan industrial road that connects Highway 129 south of Chapleau and Highway 144. From Sultan road, at km 64, the Blamey road leads north through Blamey Township. A newly constructed logging road extension from Blamey road leads to the south side of Ridout Lake. A boat is required to access the island where the occurrence is located.
Prospector Wm, Garvey discovered the west-trending quartz vein on Gold Island in the 1930s. 1990: McDonough, K. – Str, Samp, Assays (T-3415). 1990 – 1991: McDonough, K. – GL (T-3415). 1991: McDonough, K. – Tr (T-3415). McDonough, K. - GL (T-3415). 1992: McDonough, K. – GL (T-3415). 1993: McDonough, K. – Str (T-3415). McDonough, B. – EM, Mag, Pr (T-3415). McDonough, K. – EM (T-3415). 1993 – 1995: McDonough, D. – Assays, EM, Mag, Tr (T-3415). 2009: Tremblay, M.A. – Assays, Pr, Str (T-6017). 2011: Tremblay, M.A., Robert, J. and Broomhead, K.W. – Assays, Pr (T-6379).
Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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T-3415 / OP93-323 | 41O10NE2001 | 41O10NE2001 |
T-3415 / OP93-324 | 41O10NE2001 | 41O10NE2001 |
T-3415 / OP91-425 | 41O10NE0008 | 41O10NE0008 |
T-3415 / OP91-426 | 41O10NE0008 | 41O10NE0008 |
T-3415 / 2.15918 | 41O10NW0002 | 41O10NW0002 |
T-3415 / 2.15050 | 41O10NE9212 | 41O10NE9212 |
T-3415 / 2.15057 | 41O10NE9213 | 41O10NE9213 |
T-3415 / 2.14652 | 41O10NE0086 | 41O10NE0086 |
T-3415 / 63.5719 | 41O10NE0097 | 41O10NE0097 |
T-6017 / 2.42668 | 20000005158 | 20000005158 |
T-6379 / 2.50316 | 20000007098 | 20000007098 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Abitibi
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Swayze
Geological Age: Archean
Metamorphism Type: Regional
Metamorphism Grade: Greenschist
Mar 22, 2011 (B Atkinson) - The occurrence consists of a boudinaged quartz vein that strikes across the island and attanis a maximum width of 30 cm. It is sparesly mineralized with pyrite and several prospector trenches have been excavated on thevein, several of these have been blasted and indicated depth continuity of the vein to 1m depth. A set of conugate fractures crosscut the quartz vein, giving it a shattered appearance.
Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Intermediate lava flow-unsubdivided | 1 | Schistose | 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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Quartz | Alteration | Pyritic | 1 | Medium | Veins |
Rank | Classification |
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1 | Lode (Gold) |
Rank | Characteristic |
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1 | Vein |
Shape | Length | Thickness | Depth | Strike | Dip | Plunge | Trend | Age | Reference |
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Tabular | 50 | .3 | 70 | 90 | 70 |
Date: Sep 23, 2009
Geologist: B Atkinson
Notes: Property visit to the site completed September 23, 2009 in the company of the current claim holders.
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, Sultan, Ontario
Publication Number: OF 3384E Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 1999
Author: Heather, K B; Shore, G T
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/210453
Map - Tooms and Greenlaw townships, Sudbury District
Publication Number: M2121 Scale: 1:31,680 Date: 1997
Author: Donovan J.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Greenlaw Township, District of Sudbury
Publication Number: P0324 Scale: 1:15,840 Date: 1997
Author: Donovan J.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
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