Ontario Mineral Inventory

Ontario Geological Survey
Permanent Link to this Record: MDI000000001994

Record: MDI000000001994

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s)	Gc-20-21 - 2005, Moose Calf - 2004
Related Record Type
Related Record(s)
Record Status	Occurrence
Date Created	2016-Aug-15
Date Last Modified	2023-Jan-06
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold

Location

Township or Area: Laurie

Latitude: 48° 33' 22.26" Longitude: -89° 59' 8.43"

UTM Zone: 16 Easting: 279698.86 Northing: 5382425.29 UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay South

NTS Grid: 52A12SW

Point Location Description: GPS

Location Method: Based on Assessment

Access Description: Accessed by gravel and dirt logging roads that branch south from highway #11 at Shabaqua Corners. There are a number of trails on the property that can be accessed by all terrain vehicles.

Exploration History

1950 and 1960: Monpre Iron Mines Limited completed geological and geophysical surveys followed by diamond drilling (19 diamond drill holes totaling 3228 meters) and bulk metallurgical tests over the Matawin Iron Range. 1958 George Chilian excavated four trenches and drilled 10 diamond drill holes totaling 172 meters at the Chilian showing located near the western end of Sand Lake. 1985: Noranda conducted geologic mapping and a ground magnetic survey. 1988: Inco Gold carried out radiometric, VLF EM, and magnetic surveys. 1989: INCO completed ageological mapping program over the property in addition to prospecting. 1997 Freewest Resources conducted 11.5 km of VLF and magnetic ground geophysics over the property. 2004:Joe Hackl conducted prospecting, trenching and sampling of the property. 2010: Five diamond drill holes totaling 2046 meters were drilled on the Moose Calf property in eastern central Laurie township. Drill holes were designed to test geophysical anomalies. 2011: North American Palladium contracted Fugro Airborne Surveys to conduct 200 line km of MIDAS airborne magnetic geophysics over the Moose Calf property.

Assessment Work on File

Assessment Work on File
Office File Number	Online Assessment File Identifier	Online Assessment File Directory
2.46317	20000005623	20000005623
2.48554	20000006545	20000006545
2.48012	20000006775	20000006775

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Wawa

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Shebandowan

Geological Age: Archean

Geology Comments

Aug 15, 2016 (Andrew Tims) - "Keewatin" metavolcanic rocks, including komatiitic,tholeiitic, calc-alkalic, high potassium calc-alkalic and shoshonite affinities are the main constituents of the belt. Timiskaming-type sediments and associated high potassic calc-alkalic and shoshonitic volcanics unconformably overlie Keewatin lithologies.

Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type	Rank	Composition	Texture	Relationship
Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided	1	Intense Ankerite Altertation		Adjacent
Vein	2	Quartz-Ankerite		Host

Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank	Mineral Name	Class	Economic Mineral Type	Alteration Mineral Type	Alteration Ranking	Alteration Intensity	Alteration Style
1	Pyrite	Economic	Ore
2	Gold	Economic	Ore

Mineralization Comments

Aug 15, 2016 (Andrew Tims) - Foliated Timiskaming-type clastic metasedimentary rocks in the vicinity of the road display extensive iron carbonatization and are locally riddled with quartz-carbonate stockwork veins. There are also gold occurrences associated with quartz veins in the Matawin iron formation where the Matawin River crosses the iron formation. These veins returned values up to 18.4 g/t during prospecting activity. 2004 propsecting yielded 1.193 g/t from sample GC-22-21

Mineral Record Details

Site Visit Information

Date: Jul 15, 2015

Geologist: Mark Puumala

Notes: Sampled new showings