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General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Calvert - 1996
Related Record Type
Related Record(s)
Record Status Occurrence
Date Created 2016-Sep-30
Date Last Modified 2022-Jan-30
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold



Location

Township or Area: Conacher

Latitude: 48° 37' 22.66"    Longitude: -90° 8' 18.68"

UTM Zone: 15    Easting: 710860   Northing: 5389496.01    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay South

NTS Grid: 52B09NE

Point Location Description: GoogleEarth

Location Method: Based on Assessment

Access Description: Occurrence is 1.4 km east of the Hwy586/11 junction 80 north of the Hwy 11.



Exploration History

1996: Allan Wing and Dan Calvert completed two diamond drill holes on claim TB 1210004 to test the down dip extension of the altered quartz diaorite. 1998: D. Calvert completed diamond drilling, prospecting, stripping and channel sampling focussed on the Halverson Gold Occurrence (TB1210004) 2011: Golden Share prospected the old trenches sampling two boulders that assayed 21.2 and 26.4 g/t gold. The old trenches were cleaned out and expanded.


Assessment Work on File

Assessment Work on File
Office File Number Online Assessment File Identifier Online Assessment File Directory
52B09SE2009 52B09SE2009 52B09SE2009
2.53625 20000013644 20000013644

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Wawa

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Shebandowan

Geological Age: Archean  



Geology Comments

Sep 30, 2016 (Andrew Tims) - sigmoidal quartz vein hosted in the sheared and locally silicified Shebandowan tonalitic intrusive was exposed and shows a width of up to 50 cm. Channel samples (20 samples) within the vein and its immediate wall rock yielded steady anomalous gold values peaking at 1.06 g/t Au over 1.40 m while individual grab samples of the vein (3 samples) yielded results of up to 1.65 g/t Au.




Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Granitoid-Unsubdivided 1

Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
1PyriteEconomicOre

Mineral Record Details

References

MonoMap - Geology of the Lower Shebandowan Lake area, District of Thunder Bay

Publication Number: R110 Scale:     Date: 1973

Author: Morin J.A.

Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines

Location:


Map - Lower Shebandowan Lake, Thunder Bay District

Publication Number: M2267 Scale: 1:31,680    Date: 1973

Author: Morin J.A.

Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines

Location:


MonoMap - Geology of Hagey and Conacher townships, District of Thunder Bay

Publication Number: OFR5074 Scale:     Date: 1997

Author: Morin J.A.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs

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Mono - Property visits and reports of the Atikokan economic geologist, 1979-1983, Atikokan geological survey

Publication Number: OFR5539 Scale:     Date: 1985

Author: Schnieders B.R., Dutka R.J.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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