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| Record Name(s) | Hilltop - 1990 |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 2013-Oct-28 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Sep-09 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Norberg
Latitude: 47° 6' 31.59" Longitude: -84° 27' 38.52"
UTM Zone: 16 Easting: 692655.11 Northing: 5220380.65 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Sault Ste. Marie
NTS Grid: 41N01SW
Point Location Description: trench
Location Method: Based on Assessment
In 1955, Matinenda Uranium Mines Limited carried out a prospecting program that consisted of trenching and blasting. The company discovered 2 mineralized zones named No. 1 and No. 2 zones. 1989-90: Loydex Resources Inc. carried out a prospecting, washing, trenching and assaying program.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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| Juillette-0015-D1 | 41J06NE0051 | 41J06NE0051 |
| 63.531 | 41N01SW0040 | 41N01SW0040 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Abitibi
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Batchawana
Geological Age: Archean
Oct 28, 2013 (A Pace) - The area consists of metavolcanics, minor intercalated acid metavolcanics and iron formation. The rocks have been intruded by Archean granite, lower Keweenawan diabase dykes, and middle Keweenawan felsite dykes. The rocks associated with mineralization include gabbro-diorite host rock and dacitic to rhyolite sequence portions of which are cherty and brecciated. A sulphide bearing cherty rhyolite sequence some 4000 feet north-north-east of the previous located high grade zinc at the Matinenda and north creek zone.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 1 |
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| 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 | Sphalerite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| Quartz | Alteration | Silicification | 3 | Medium | Veins | ||
| Calcite | Alteration | Carbonatization | 4 | Medium | Massive | ||
| Sericite | Alteration | Sericitization | 5 | Medium | Massive |
Oct 28, 2013 (A Pace) - Mineralized zones were found by Matineda Uranium Mines Ltd. in 1955. They identified these zones as the No. 1 and No. 2 zones. The No. 1 zone showing is a large shear zone over thirty feet wide strikng east-west; it was discovered at a point where it crosses the Batchawana River. The showing is badly weatehred and oxidized. Grab samples show 1.02% Cu and 0.07 oz gold per ton. The no. 2 zone showing is also located in a large shear zone striking almost due north. A channel sampled in the badly weathered shear gave 0.76 oz Ag, 0.68% Pb, 4.91% Zn across half feet. From surface trenching and blasting the leaching and weathering will extend downward for 10 to 20 feet. Samples that were not too bady weathered gave 0.21% Pb and 12.5 % Zn, 1.05 oz Ag, 2.96% Pb, 7.55% Zn, 1.17 oz Ag, 3.34% Pb and 15.05 % Zn. Loydex Resources Inc. Loydex Resources Inc., discovered that the gold occurrences occur within a gabbro-diorite sequence. A total of 9 map locations were sampled with 2 map locations identified as having significant gold assays. These locations include Map 8 location returning 0.093 oz/ton Au, 0.224 oz/ton Au, 0.102 oz/ton Au, 0.08 oz/ton Au and Map 9 location returning 0.056 oz/ton Au.
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 1 | Vein |
Map - Township 27, Range 13 [Norberg Township], District of Algoma
Publication Number: P0359 Scale: 1:15,840 Date: 1997
Author: Giblin P.E.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Geological series, Precambrian geology, Batchawana synoptic project, Batchawana-Searchmont sheet, District of Algoma
Publication Number: P3063 Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 1987
Author: Grunsky E.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Batchawana, Algoma District
Publication Number: M2251 Scale: 1:63,360 Date: 1974
Author: Giblin P.E., Armburst G.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines
Location:
Map - Geological compilation series, Batchawana sheet, districts of Algoma and Sudbury, Sault Ste. Marie Mining Division
Publication Number: P0302 Scale: 1:126,720 Date: 1997
Author: Giblin P.E., Leahy E.J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Sault Ste. Marie-Elliot Lake, geological compilation series, Algoma, Manitoulin and Sudbury districts
Publication Number: M2419 Scale: 1:253,440 Date: 1979
Author: Giblin P.E., Leahy E.J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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