Ontario Geological Survey
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| Record Name(s) | Horne Property - 2011 |
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| Date Created | 2012-Apr-17 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Sep-27 |
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Primary Commodities: Nickel
Township or Area: Horne
Latitude: 48° 30' 58.47" Longitude: -89° 49' 29.7"
UTM Zone: 16 Easting: 291395 Northing: 5377535 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay South
NTS Grid: 52A12SW
Point Location Description: Estimated from claim and township maps
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: 45 km west of Thunder Bay, ON. Access is via a secondary logging road (Adrian Lake Rod) that intersects Hwy 590 approximately 20 kms from Kakabeka Falls. Adrian Lake Road runs just to the west of the Horne Property- from there use a quad access trail
Historical Copper-Nickel showing present in the ultramafic units and historical sampling yielded results up to 2.1 % Ni, 1.2 % Cu in a grab sample (MEI #166). 1939- Acorn Mining Syndicate (geophysical survey); 1940-1950s- Andowan Mines, Manpre Mining, J.Minnoletti held claims and completed some prelim studies looking for economic Fe; 1967-Noranda Exploration, Inco (DDH); 1969- Noranda (Mag and Electromag surveys); 1972- Noranda (DDH); 1972-Jet Mining (airborne mag); 1983- Jalna Resources (ground and airborne geophysics, mapping, geochem, trenching, sampling, DDH); 1984-85 Anaconda Canada Exploration (DDH 1449m); 1987-Inco (grid mapping, DDH); 1988-Inco concludes trenching and sampling (116 g/t Au and 175 g/t Au); 1988- Noranda (mapping); 1988-Royex Gold Mining Ltd. conducts linecutting, mapping, geochem, geophysics; 1991-Goldfields Canadian Mining and Lac Minerals evaluation and chip sampling; 1995-Landore Resources (DDH, geophysics, mapping); 1995- Battle Mountain Canada Ltd, WInslow Gold Corp; 1997- Cumberland Resources (mapping); 2000-Cassidy Gold Resources; 2008 Benton Resources Corp. entered into agreement with Mel Stewart and Michael Stares; 2008-9 Benton Resouces (Trenching, DDH 4 holes total 812m)
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| 2.43546 | 20000005522 | 20000005522 |
| 2.45580 | 20000006712 | 20000006712 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Wawa
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Shebandowan
Geological Age: Archean
Apr 17, 2012 (Shannon Zurevinski) - Carter (1990): The eastern portion of the Shebandowan Greestone Belt is considered the Matawan Gold Belt. This area is underlain by Keewatin age sequences including Komatiitic to Alkali metavolcanics followed by Quetico-type sequences of sedimentary rocks followed by intrusive ultramafic to felsic rocks and finally Timiskaming-type alluvial/fluvial sediments.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Ultramafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 1 | Massive | Medium Grained, Spinifex Textures |
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| Conglomerate | 2 | Timiskaming Conglomerates, Disseminated Sulfides | Angular Clasts- Fine Grained Matrix | Adjacent |
| Commodity | Analytical Method | Digestion Method | Result | Unit | Limit | Qualifier |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nickel | Unknown | .39 | % |
Map - Geological series, Precambrian geology, Horne Township, District of Thunder Bay
Publication Number: P2856 Scale: 1:15,840 Date: 1985
Author: Carter M.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Geology of Forbes and Conmee townships
Publication Number: OFR5726 Date: 1990
Author: Carter M.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Article - Wawa subprovince
Publication Number: SV04-01.012 Page: 572-578 Date: 1997
Author: Williams H.R., Stott G.M., Heather K.B., Muir T.L., Sage R.P.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Geology of Goldie and Horne townships
Publication Number: OFR5720 Date: 1990
Author: Carter M.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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