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Record: MDI000000001562

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Frontenac Exploration and Development Co Ltd. DDH 103 - 1956
Related Record Type
Related Record(s)
Record Status Discretionary Occurrence
Date Created 2013-Jan-26
Date Last Modified 2022-Jul-19
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Copper



Location

Township or Area: Yates

Latitude: 46° 58' 16.63"    Longitude: -80° 0' 13.54"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 575780   Northing: 5202455    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Kirkland Lake

NTS Grid: 41I16NE

Point Location Description: approximate location of DDH-103

Location Method: Based on Assessment



Exploration History

1953: Frontenac Exploration and Development Co Ltd. – DD-2-585 ft


Assessment Work on File

Assessment Work on File
Office File Number Online Assessment File Identifier Online Assessment File Directory
10 31L13NW0002 31L13NW0002

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Abitibi

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Temagami

Geological Age: Archean  



Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Diorite 1 Diorite Host
Felsic lava flow-unsubdivided 2 Rhyolite Adjacent

Lithology Comments

Jan 29, 2013 (A Wilson) - Diamond drilling intersected a thick sequence of diorite containing massive patches of magnetite. Between 181 and 206 ft, the drill hole intersected rhyolite. Weak pyrite-chalcopyrite mineralization was found within the diorite at the contact between the diorite and the rhyolite.




Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
2ChalcopyriteEconomicOre
1PyriteEconomicGangue

Mineral Record Details

References

Part - Northeastern portion of the Timagami Lake area

Publication Number: ARV51-06 Date: 1998

Author: Moorhouse W.W.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


Map - The northeastern portion of the Timagami Lake area, District of Nipissing, Ontario

Publication Number: ARM51E Scale: 1:63,360    Date: 1997

Author: Moorhouse W.W.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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Map - Geological Compilation of the Cobalt-Temagami Area, Abitibi Greenstone Belt

Publication Number: P3581 Scale: 1:100,000    Date: 2006

Author: Ayer J.A., Chartrand J.E., Grabowski G.P.B., Josey S.D., Rainsford D.R.B., Trowell N.F.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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