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General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Crown Minerals Quartz Showing - 2010
Related Record Type
Related Record(s)
Record Status Discretionary Occurrence
Date Created 2013-Jun-14
Date Last Modified 2022-Sep-27
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold



Location

Township or Area: Yeo

Latitude: 47° 32' 41.06"    Longitude: -81° 57' 42.02"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 427635   Northing: 5266150    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Timmins

NTS Grid: 41P12SW

Point Location Description: Outcrop

Location Method: Based on Assessment

Access Description: Easy access to the area is possible by taking the Chester Township logging access road from the main haul road connecting Sultan to Highway 144. The road goes by the stripped area.



Exploration History

1949: Blackstein-Kanovsky - DD - 39 - 4712ft. 1980: Hargor Resources - airborne geophysics. 1981: Kidd Resources Ltd.- Str, Tr. 1985: Kidd Resources Ltd. - Str. 1987-88: Blue Falcon Mines/Kidd Resources - mapping, trenching, stripping. 1987: Chesbar Resources - ground geophysics, mapping, 4 ddh (408 m). 1999: Duess, R.L. - Assays, GL, Pr, Samp. 2010: Trelawney Mining and Exploration Inc. - AEM, AMag.2010: Augen Gold Corp. - EM, IP, RES, Mag. 2010: Crown Minerals Inc. - EM, GL, Samp.


Assessment Work on File

Assessment Work on File
Office File Number Online Assessment File Identifier Online Assessment File Directory
T-1751 / 2.2731 41P12SW0089 41P12SW0089
T-2008 / 41O09NW0065 41O09NW0065
T-2357 / 2.3559 41O09NW9161 41O09NW9161
T-2388 / W8506-00449 41P12SW5015 41P12SW5015
T-2388 / W8106-00531 41P12SW5019 41P12SW5019
T-3159 / 2.10900 41P12SW0049 41P12SW0049
T-3159 / 41P12SW0124 41P12SW0124
T-4302 / 2.19743 41P12SW2004 41P12SW2004
T-6142 / 2.44778 20000006024 20000006024
T-6285 / 2.49320 20000007643 20000007643
T-6382 / 2.50730 20000007118 20000007118

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Abitibi

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Swayze

Geological Age: Neoarchean   Geochronological Age: 2740+/-2 MA   Geochron. Age Ref.: GSC OF3384A



Geology Comments

Jun 27, 2016 (A Wilson) - The outcrop geology is characterized by massive grey felsic intrusive rocks. The rock shows limonitic fractures 70 to 80 degrees of trend, and dips varying from 40 degrees south to 55 degrees north.




Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Vein 1 Quartz-Pyrite Contains
Granite 2 Granite Host
Vein 3 Quartz-Pyrite Vein Host

Lithology Comments

Jun 27, 2016 (A Wilson) - The host rock is a medium-grained, leuco granite typical of the Chester Granitoid Complex. Alteration associated with the faults/shear zones consists of recrystallization and silicification together with some chloritic and pyritic alteration.




Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
1GoldEconomicOre
2ChalcopyriteEconomicGangue
3PyriteEconomicGangue
ChloriteAlterationChloritic1WeakDisseminated
EpidoteAlterationSaussuritization2WeakReplacement
PyriteAlterationPyritic3MediumDisseminated

Mineralization Comments

Jun 27, 2016 (A Wilson) - Grab samples taken on the showing returned assays up to 818 ppb gold (0.8 g/t gold, T-6142).



Mineral Record Details

Classification
RankClassification            
1 Mesothermal
Characteristics
Rank Characteristic            
1 Vein

References

Part - Geology of the Three Duck lakes area

Publication Number: ARV41-03.001 Page: 34  Date: 1998

Author: Laird H.C.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


Map - Three Duck Lakes area, District of Sudbury, Ontario

Publication Number: ARM41D Scale: 1:47,520    Date: 1997

Author: Laird H.C.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


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: 42P-59  Date: 1985

Author: Rose, D. G.

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/129999


Map - Geological series, Precambrian geology of Chester and Yeo townships, and parts of Neville and Potier townships, Jerome area, Sudbury District

Publication Number: P2449 Scale: 1:15,840    Date: 1981

Author: Siragusa G.M.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


Mono - Gold deposits of Ontario, part 2, part of District of Cochrane, districts of Muskoka, Nipissing, Parry Sound, Sudbury, Timiskaming, and counties of southern Ontario

Publication Number: MDC018 Page: 122  Date: 1979

Author: Gordon J.B., Lovell H.L., de Grijs J.W., Davie R.F.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


Map - Precambrian Geology, Parts of Chester, Neville, Potier and Yeo Townships

Publication Number: OFM0214 Scale: 1:15,840    Date: 1993

Author: Siragusa G.M.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


Book - Preliminary Report on the Timmins-Kirkland Lake Gold Deposits File

Publication Number: OFR5467 Date: 1983

Author: C.J. Hodgson

Publisher Name:

Location: Timmins RGO


Map - Geology, Swayze greenstone belt, Gogama, Ontario

Publication Number: OF3384G Scale: 1:50,000    Date: 1999

Author: Heather, K B; Shore, G T

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/210455


MonoMap - Mineral Prospects of the Swayze Greenstone Belt (Volume 1, Parts of NTS 41 O and Volume 2, Parts of NTS 41 P, 42 A and 42 B)

Publication Number: OFR5912 Page: 473-474  Date: 1995

Author: Fumerton S.L., Houle K.A.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


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