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| Record Name(s) | Western Pacific Energy Corp. Hole G-85-7 - 1985 |
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| Date Created | 2012-Sep-26 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Sep-27 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Garnet
Latitude: 47° 43' 20.47" Longitude: -82° 28' 49.67"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 388974 Northing: 5286503 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Timmins
NTS Grid: 41O10NE
Point Location Description: Hole G-85-7 location
Location Method: Based on Assessment
1966-67:The Canadian Nickel Co. Ltd. held a block of claims along a section of the Wakami River that included the showing. Three holes were drilled in the area around the Wakami River showing but on the south shore. All three holes intersected primarily massive to foliated greenstone with occasional sedimentary interbeds. 1984: A ground reconnaissance geological survey was conducted by Western Pacific Energy over a block of 133 claims in northeastern Garnet Township. Subsequently an airborne magnetic and VLF electromagnetic survey was also undertaken over the entire claim block. 1985-86: Western Pacific Energy conducted magnetic, VLF, and self potential surveys over a gridded block of claims that straddled the Wakami River in the northeast corner of Garnet Township. The geophysics was followed by a 13 hole drill program; 7 holes on the west grid and 6 holes on the east grid, south of the Wakami River. The western grid holes tested geophysical targets and intersected cherty, graphitic, and sulphide rich iron formation with intercalated metavolcanics and gabbroic intrusives. The eastern grid holes intersected iron formation, mafic volcanics, porphyries, and gabbroic intrusives. The best assay, 930 ppb Au, was returned from hole G-85-7 within carbonatized and silicified metavolcanics containing pyrite and arsenopyrite mineralization. Holes G-85-10 and G-85-11 returned Au values between 110 and 380 ppb within iron formation. In the summer of 1986 the gridded portions of the property, as well as shorelines and roadsides, were geologically mapped and sampled. An outcrop on the north shore of the Wakami River, to the west of the subject iron formation, revealed chalcopyrite mineralization associated with a quartz vein within what is described as a quartz porphyritic metavolcanic.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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| T-2079 | 41O09NW0092 | 41O09NW0092 |
| T-2969 / 2.9422 | 41O09NW0084 | 41O09NW0084 |
| T-2969 / 2.8181 | 41O10NE9137 | 41O10NE9137 |
| T-2969 / 63.4494 | 41O09NW0087 | 41O09NW0087 |
| T-2969 / 2.11774 | 41O10NE0004 | 41O10NE0004 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Abitibi
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Swayze
Tectonic Assemblage: Garnet-Tooms
Geological Age: Neoarchean Geochronological Age: 2700Ma Geochron. Age Ref.: GOO VOL 1
Metamorphism Type: Regional
Metamorphism Grade: Greenschist
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Felsic lava flow-unsubdivided | 1 | Carbonatized | Fractured | Host |
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Sep 26, 2012 (P Bousquet) - The hole intersected a felsic tuff which showed brown type carbonatization and silicification, including quartz and pyrite stringers.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Arsenopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| Calcite | Alteration | Carbonatization | 1 | Medium | Replacement | ||
| Quartz | Alteration | Silicification | 2 | Unknown | Veins |
Sep 26, 2012 (P Bousquet) - One foot of core returned an assay of 930ppb of gold.
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-93 Date: 1985
Author: Rose, D. G.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/129999
Map - Geological series, Garnet Township, District of Sudbury
Publication Number: P2340 Scale: 1:15,840 Date: 1980
Author: Siragusa G.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Part - Geology of the Cunningham-Garnet area
Publication Number: ARV51-07 Date: 1997
Author: Meen V.B.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Cunningham and Garnet townships, Sudbury District
Publication Number: M2503 Scale: 1:31,680 Date: 1987
Author: Siragusa G.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Book - GEOLOGY OF THE GARNET LAKE AREA, P64
Publication Number: OFR5483 Date: 1983
Author: Siragusa, G.M.
Publisher Name:
Location: Timmins RGP
Map - Geology, Swayze greenstone belt, Sultan, Ontario
Publication Number: OF 3384E Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 1999
Author: Heather, K B; Shore, G T
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/210453
MonoMap - Geology of the Chapleau area, districts of Algoma, Sudbury, and Cochrane
Publication Number: R157 Date: 1977
Author: Thurston P.C., Siragusa G.M., Sage R.P.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - Geology of the Garnet Lake area, District of Sudbury
Publication Number: R248 Page: 69 Date: 1987
Author: Siragusa G.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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