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Record: MDI000000001330

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Mac-Jo Extension, Sample 521922 - 2008
Related Record Type
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Record Status Occurrence
Date Created 2011-Nov-15
Date Last Modified 2023-Mar-15
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold



Location

Township or Area: Osway

Latitude: 47° 36' 4.91"    Longitude: -82° 17' 31.88"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 402868.997   Northing: 5272804    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Timmins

NTS Grid: 41O09SW

Point Location Description: Sample 521922 location (T-5852)

Location Method: Based on Assessment



Exploration History

1982: Hargor Resources Inc. - DD (T-2517); Granges Exploration AB - EM, Mag (T-2821 / 2.5448). 1983: Hargor Resources Inc. - DD (T-2517). 1986: Hargor Resources Inc. - DD - 2 - 231m (T-2517). 1988: Canadian Gold Resources - DD - 1 - 188m, Assays (T-3218).1989: Pioneer Metals Corporation - AEM, AMag (T-3344 / 2.12956); Canadian Gold Resources - DD - 2 - 86m, Assays, Mag (T-3218 / 2.12751). 1990: Canadian Gold Resources - DD - 2 - 48m (T-3218). 1999: Prospectors Alliance Corporation - Comp (T-4516). 2007: Augen Gold Corp. - AEM, AMag, ARAD (T-5671 / 2.37373). 2008: Augen Gold Corp. - Samp, Assays (T-5852 / 2.40516)


Assessment Work on File

Assessment Work on File
Office File Number Online Assessment File Identifier Online Assessment File Directory
T-2821 / 2.5448 41O09SW0005 41O09SW0005
T-3218 / 2.12751 41O09SW0531 41O09SW0531
T-3344 / 2.12956 41O09NW0002 41O09NW0002
T-5671 / 2.37373 20000002805 20000002805
T-5852 / 2.40516 20000003874 20000003874

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Abitibi

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Swayze

Tectonic Assemblage: Garnet-Tooms

Geological Age: Neoarchean  

Metamorphism Type: Regional

Metamorphism Grade: Greenschist



Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Sulphide Ironstone 1 Sulphide Facies Banded Host
Chert 2 Magnetic Banded Adjacent

Lithology Comments

Nov 15, 2011 (P Bousquet) - The mineralization is hosted in a locally exposed brecciated banded iron fomation, with chert-magnetite horizon. Minor sphalerite, galena and chalcopyrite is found (T-5852 / 2.40516)




Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
1ChalcopyriteEconomicOre
3SphaleriteEconomicOre
4MagnetiteEconomicOreDisseminated
1PyriteEconomicGangue
2PyrrhotiteEconomicGangueDisseminated
3ArsenopyriteEconomicGangue

Mineralization Comments

Nov 15, 2011 (P Bousquet) - Brecciated, banded chert-quartz-sulphide horizon containing 40-45% sulphides including pyrite, chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite and minor amounts of sphalerite and arsenopyrite. One sample , sample 521922, returned an assay of 0.614 gpt Au (T-5852 / 2.40516).



Mineral Record Details

References

Book - Sudbury Timmins Algoma Mineral Program, Project 1: mineral inventory of the Sudbury-Timmins-Sault Ste. Marie region, Ontario

Publication Number: GSC OF 1087 Page: 41O-43  Date: 1985

Author: Rose, D. G.

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/129999


File - Resident Geologist files T-2517, T-4516

Publication Number: Date:

Author:

Publisher Name:

Location: Timmins RGP office


Map - Geological series, Jerome area (west), District of Sudbury

Publication Number: P2369 Scale: 1:15,840    Date: 1980

Author: Siragusa G.M.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


Map - Precambrian Geology, Osway Township and Part of Fingal Township

Publication Number: OFM0211 Scale: 1:15,840    Date: 1993

Author: Siragusa G.M.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


Map - Township of Osway, District of Sudbury, Ontario

Publication Number: M1949-02 Scale: 1:12,000    Date: 1997

Author: Moorhouse W.W.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


Map - Geology, Swayze greenstone belt, Opeepeesway Lake, Ontario

Publication Number: OF 3384f Scale: 1:50,000    Date: 1999

Author: Heather, K B; Shore, G T

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/210454


Part - Horwood Lake area

Publication Number: ARV44-07.002 Date: 1997

Author: Laird H.C.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


Part - Geology of Osway Township

Publication Number: ARV58-05 Date: 1997

Author: Moorhouse W.W.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


MonoMap - Geology, Geochemistry and Mineralization of the Southern Margin of the Swayze Belt

Publication Number: OFR5844 Page: 70  Date: 1993

Author: Siragusa G.M.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


MonoMap - Mineral Prospects of the Swayze Greenstone Belt (Volume 1, Parts of NTS 41 O and Volume 2, Parts of NTS 41 P, 42 A and 42 B)

Publication Number: OFR5912 Page: 84-85  Date: 1995

Author: Fumerton S.L., Houle K.A.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


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