Ontario Geological Survey
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| Record Name(s) | McMahon Claims - 1932, J. Jones Claims - 1932 |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 2014-Mar-01 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Mar-15 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Tisdale
Latitude: 48° 30' 24.71" Longitude: -81° 19' 35.01"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 475892 Northing: 5372689.99 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Timmins
NTS Grid: 42A11SW
Point Location Description: shaft
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: Travel 1.5 km north of Timmins on McLean drive to the winter snow dump site on the east side of the road.
1932,1941: Hollinger Consolidated Gold Mines Ltd. - sampling from shaft, sampling of vein, assays
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Abitibi
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Abitibi
Geological Age: Neoarchean
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Vein | 1 | Quartz | Host |
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| Mafic pillowed flow | 2 | Pillowed | Contains |
Mar 11, 2014 (A Wilson) - The quartz vein was described as being bluish or grey in colour and ranged in width from 16 inches to 4 feet in width. The vein strikes N78E and has been traced for approximately 300 ft.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Gold | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Gangue |
Mar 11, 2014 (A Wilson) - Grab samples collected from a vein to the east of the shaft returned values up to $10.50 Au. The best assay returned from the shaft returned $1.40. A grab sample collected from a vein on former claim P7926 or P8059 returned values ranging from 2.7 g/t Au, 4.9 g/t Au to 23.9 g/t Au.
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Vein |
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| 1 | Vein |
File - Resident Geologist file T-3605
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Location: Timmins RGP office
Map - Structural geology, Tisdale Township
Publication Number: P3173 Scale: 1:10,000 Date: 1991
Author: Piroshco D.W., Kettles K.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Map - Geological Compilation of the Timmins Area, Abitibi Greenstone Belt
Publication Number: P3379 Scale: 1:100,000 Date: 1998
Author: Ayer J.A., Trowell N.F.
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Map - Timmins, Precambrian geology
Publication Number: M2455 Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 1982
Author: Pyke D.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Map - Tisdale Township, Cochrane District
Publication Number: M2075 Scale: 1:12,000 Date: 1998
Author: Ferguson S.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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MonoMap - Geology and ore deposits of Tisdale Township, District of Cochrane
Publication Number: R058 Date: 1968
Author: Ferguson S.A., Buffam B.S.W., Carter O.F., Griffis A.T., Holmes T.C., Hurst M.E., Jones W.A., Lane H.C., Longley C.S.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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