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General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Tooms 41 DDH TO-41-1 - 1984
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Record Status Occurrence
Date Created 2013-Jun-20
Date Last Modified 2022-Sep-26
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Zinc

Secondary Commodities: Silver



Location

Township or Area: Tooms

Latitude: 47° 43' 3.17"    Longitude: -82° 58' 11.72"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 352255   Northing: 5286787    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Timmins

NTS Grid: 41O10NW

Point Location Description: Collar for Kidd Creek Mines Ltd drill hole TO-41-1

Location Method: Based on Assessment

Access Description: Recent logging operations came to within 500 m of the old drill collar via a temporary logging road which branches off of the Kormack logging road. Access is also possible via a canoe, 5 km down the Kinogami River from the washed out bridge at Tooms Lake.



Exploration History

1977: Granges Exploration AB – DD – 1 – 207ft, Assays. 1983: Kidd Creek Mines Ltd. – EM, Mag. 1984: Kidd Creek Mines Ltd. – DD – 2 – 237m, Assays. 1994: Kidd Creek Mines Ltd. – Assays. 2008: Benton Resources Inc. – AEM, AMag.


Assessment Work on File

Assessment Work on File
Office File Number Online Assessment File Identifier Online Assessment File Directory
T-2589 / 2.5569 41O10NW0055 41O10NW0055
T-5767 / 2.39317 20000003380 20000003380

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Abitibi

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Swayze

Tectonic Assemblage: Garnet-Tooms

Geological Age: Neoarchean   Geochronological Age: 2730 +/- 3 MA   Geochron. Age Ref.: OF 3384E

Metamorphism Type: Regional

Metamorphism Grade: Greenschist



Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Felsic Schist 1 Felsic Foliated, Crenulated Host
Granitoid-Unsubdivided 2 Carbonated Foliated Adjacent
Amphibolite 3 Chloritic Near

Lithology Comments

Jun 20, 2013 (P Bousquet) - The lithology is consisting of felsic schists with some felsic intrusives, There are also mafic migmatites made out of amphiboles showing little chloritization (T-2589). Overall, the lithology is moderately deformed.




Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
2ChalcopyriteEconomicOre
4SphaleriteEconomicOre
5GalenaEconomicOre
1PyriteEconomicGangue
3PyrrhotiteEconomicGangue
ChloriteAlterationChloritic1MediumDisseminated
SericiteAlterationSericitization2MediumVeins

Mineralization Comments

Jun 20, 2013 (P Bousquet) - Hole TO-41-01 intersected 0.3 metre of a sercitized zone with brown sphalerite filled fractures, trace galena in milky quartz vein. The zone returned an assay of 0.72% Zn (T-2589).



Mineral Record Details

Classification
RankClassification            
1 Exhalative
2 Volcanogenic
Characteristics
Rank Characteristic            
1 Disseminated
2 Stratabound

References

File - Resident Geologist file T-1771

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Author:

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Location: Resident Geologist file T-1771


Map - Tooms and Greenlaw townships, Sudbury District

Publication Number: M2121 Scale: 1:31,680    Date: 1997

Author: Donovan J.F.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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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:


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


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