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Record: MDI000000001333

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Maya Zone - 2011, SaraCourt Property - 2009
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Record Status Occurrence
Date Created 2011-Dec-06
Date Last Modified 2022-Jan-30
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold



Location

Township or Area: Newton

Latitude: 47° 52' .27"    Longitude: -82° 23' 49.49"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 395517.003   Northing: 5302433.997    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Timmins

NTS Grid: 41O16NW

Point Location Description: Maya Zone area from map on Red Pine Exploration website December 2011

Location Method: Data Compilation



Exploration History

1930's: Hollinger Consolidated Gold Mines Ltd. - exploration. 1966: Hanna Mining Company - airborne mag and EM, reconnaissance and detailed mapping. 1982-87: Dome Exploration - reconnaissance mapping and lithogeochemistry; stripping, diamond drilling (23 ddh), detailed mapping, ground geophysics, prospecting. 1996-1997: Echo Bay Mines Ltd. - prospecting, trenching. 2002-2004: Greenshield Resources Ltd. - ground geophysics, sampling 2009-2011: Red Pine Exploration Inc. - airborne geophysics, ground geophysics, prospecting, mapping, stripping, sampling, till sampling


Assessment Work on File

Assessment Work on File
Office File Number Online Assessment File Identifier Online Assessment File Directory
T-6230 20000006503 20000006503

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Abitibi

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Abitibi

Geological Age: Archean  



Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Porphyry-unsubdivided 1 Porphyry Host
Mafic pillowed flow 2 Tholeiitic Pillowed Adjacent

Mineralization Comments

Dec 14, 2011 (A Wilson) - Grab samples collected from this area in 1985 by Placer Dome returned values of 23.32 g/t gold, 15.09 g/t gold and 21.95 g/t gold.



Mineral Record Details

References

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

Publication Number: OF3384c Scale: 1:50,000    Date: 1999

Author: Heather, K B; Shore, G T

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/210451


Map - Geological Compilation of the Swayze Area, Abitibi Greenstone Belt

Publication Number: P3511 Scale: 1:100,000    Date: 2002

Author: Ayer J.A., Trowell N.F.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


Publication - Red Pine Exploration Inc. - press releases

Publication Number: clippings Scale:     Date: 2011

Author:

Publisher Name:

Location: Timmins RGO


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