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| Record Name(s) | Palmer Gold - 1984 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 2012-Mar-22 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Sep-15 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Secondary Commodities: Iron
Township or Area: Palmer
Latitude: 46° 59' 10.63" Longitude: -84° 34' 17"
UTM Zone: 16 Easting: 684680.003 Northing: 5206502.998 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Sault Ste. Marie
NTS Grid: 41K15NE
Point Location Description: Trench
Location Method: Field Visit
Access Description: Access is by taking a logging road named the Carp River road for approxmiately 12 km from the TransCanada Hwy 17.
In 1964 Pall Mall Copper Mines Ltd., drilled 4 diamond drill holes totalling 1606 feet that intersected iron formation. In 984, a groudn geophysicla surveying, geological mapping and diamond drilling was carrid out. The objective of the program was to definitively test the open pit tonnage potential of gold-bearing iron formation which underlies the property. The exploration target was 10 to 20 million tonnes having an average grade of 3.4 to 5.1 g/t Au. Geological mapping had uncovered 15 surface showings of iron fomration in outcrops, pits, trenches. Grab sampling and diamond drilling which entailed 10 holes totalling 1207.5m. In 1990, claim holders with the assistance from an OPAP program were able to proceed with further exploration and drilling, sampling and assaying. The drilling involved 5 drill holes totalling 364 feet. In 1996 surface stripping, trenching, sampling was comnpleted by 90802607 Quebec Inc. A total of 16 trenches were excavated. Sampling was fromm all the trenches. Gold grab samples include 0.49 oz/ton Au, 0.24 oz/t Au, 0.19 oz/ton Au and 0.28 oz/ton Au, 0.6 oz/ ton Au, 1.9 oz/t Au and 0.035 oz/t Au. Diamond drilling Intersecting iron formation: Hole B-84-04: 0.038 oz/t Au over 0.25m Hole B-84-05: 0.034 oz/t Au over 0.5 m. Channel sample of 1.4m ran 0.06 oz/ton Au Background concentrations of gold in the iron formation is considered geochemically anomalous.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| Palmer 0016-B1 | 41K15NE0033 | 41K15NE0033 |
| Palmer-0036 | 41K15NE0027 | 41K15NE0027 |
| SSMP-Palmer-0033 | 41K15NE2003 | 41K15NE2003 |
| SSMP-Palmer-08 | 41K15NE0019 | 41K15NE0019 |
| SSMP-Palmer-12 | 41K15NE0010 | 41K15NE0010 |
| SSMP-Palmer-15 | 41K15NE0001 | 41K15NE0001 |
| SSMP-Palmer-23 | 41K15NE2001 | 41K15NE2001 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Abitibi
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Batchawana
Geological Age: Archean
Mar 22, 2012 (A Pace) - The surface geology consists of volcanic rocks and tuffs, ranging in composition from ultramafic to felsic, siliceous siltstone, mudstone, greywacke, and banded iron formation. The composition of the banded iron formation is quite variable along strike consisting manily of chert and magnetite.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 1 |
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| Ironstone-unsubdivided | 2 |
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Magnetite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| Quartz | Alteration | Silicification | 1 | ||||
| Chert | Alteration | Silicification | 2 | ||||
| Ankerite | Alteration | Carbonatization | 3 |
Mar 22, 2012 (A Pace) - The mafic metavolcanics are silicified with patches of pyrite and ankerite/carbonate alterations observed. The iron formation was observed as a lean chert-magnetite iron formation with no sulphides present.
| Rank | Classification |
|---|---|
| 2 | Hydrothermal |
| 1 | Lode (Gold) |
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 2 | Breccia |
| 1 | Sheared |
Date: Mar 22, 2012
Geologist: A Pace
Notes: A property visit was conducted on the site. Samples were taken in the vicinity of 3 trenches that were completed in the early 1990's. These trenches have been identified as being within approximately 150 feet west of a shaft of an old exploratory shaft. The shaft was not located at the time of the property visit. The trenched consisted of a lean chert-magnetite iron formation with not no evidence of sulphide mineralization. The iron formation was sampled and it did not return any anomalous values. A sheared, silicified mafic volcanic with patches of pyrite mineralization was also sampled in the trench and it returned an assay 0.66 oz/ton gold.
Map - Batchawana, Algoma District
Publication Number: M2251 Scale: 1:63,360 Date: 1974
Author: Giblin P.E., Armburst G.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines
Location:
Map - Geological series, Palmer Township, District of Algoma
Publication Number: P0710 Scale: 1:15,840 Date: 1997
Author: Giblin P.E.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs
Location:
Map - Geological series, Precambrian geology, Batchawana synoptic project, Mamainse Point-Pancake Bay sheet, District of Algoma
Publication Number: P3062 Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 1987
Author: Grunsky E.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Sault Ste. Marie-Elliot Lake, geological compilation series, Algoma, Manitoulin and Sudbury districts
Publication Number: M2419 Scale: 1:253,440 Date: 1979
Author: Giblin P.E., Leahy E.J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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