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General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Regal Mining Co. Ltd. Shaft - 1908
Related Record Type
Related Record(s)
Record Status Discretionary Occurrence
Date Created 2011-Oct-08
Date Last Modified 2022-Sep-20
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Silver



Location

Township or Area: James

Latitude: 47° 44' 25.03"    Longitude: -80° 21' 41.82"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 547859.002   Northing: 5287632.001    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Kirkland Lake

NTS Grid: 41P09NW

Point Location Description: shaft

Location Method: AMIS Site Visit

Access Description: Proceed 1.2km north from Elk Lake on highway 65; turn west into gravel pit; walk north along hydroline for 100m; take old bush road west to Motherlode shaft; proceed 150m due west to claim line and then 25m south



Exploration History

1908: Regal Mining Company Ltd. - shaft sinking


Geology

Province: Southern

Subprovince: Cobalt Basin

Supergroup: Huronian Supergroup

Formation Group: Cobalt Group

Geological Age: Paleoproterozoic  



Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Vein 1 Aplite Host
Diabase 2 Diabase Contains
Terrigenous-Clastic-Unsubdivided 3 Footwall

Lithology Comments

Oct 12, 2011 (A Wilson) - Pits and a shaft were sunk on calcite and aplite veins within diabase.




Mineral Record Details

Classification
RankClassification            
1 Vein
Characteristics
Rank Characteristic            
1 Vein

References

File - Resident Geologist files CO-1274

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Author:

Publisher Name:

Location: Kirkland Lake RGP office


Mono - Silver cobalt calcite vein deposits of Ontario

Publication Number: MDC010 Page: 356  Date: 1968

Author: Sergiades A.O.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


MonoMap - Geology of the Elk Lake area, District of Timiskaming

Publication Number: R062 Page: 38  Date: 1968

Author: MacKean B.E.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


Part - Mines of Ontario

Publication Number: ARV22-01.003 Page: 124  Date: 1998

Author: Corkill E.T.

Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines

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Part - The cobalt-nickel arsenides and silver deposits of Temiskaming (Cobalt and adjacent areas), chapters 1, 2 and 3

Publication Number: ARV19-02.001 Page: 161  Date: 1998

Author: Miller W.G., Burrows A.G., Hore R.E., DeLury J.S., Knight C.W., Stewart R.B., Collins W.H.

Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines

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Map - Mickle and James townships, Timiskaming District

Publication Number: M2151 Scale: 1:31,680    Date: 1968

Author: MacKean B.E.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


Map - James Township, District of Timiskaming

Publication Number: P0239 Scale: 1:15,840    Date: 1997

Author: MacKean B.E.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


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