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Record: MDI31C11NE00010

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Addington Mine - 1984, Golden Fleece - 1984
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Past Producing Mine With Reserves or Resources
Date Created 1984-Feb-29
Date Last Modified 2023-Aug-25
Created By
Revised By

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold

Secondary Commodities: Silver, Tungsten, Copper



Location

Township or Area: Kaladar

Latitude: 44° 42' 49.91"    Longitude: -77° 10' 51.64"

UTM Zone: 18    Easting: 327249.14   Northing: 4953478.99    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario

NTS Grid: 31C11NE

Point Location Description: Precise, shaft just N of Property symbol 2, SW of Village of Northbrook.

Location Method: Conversion from MDI

Access Description: From Belleville, the property is accessed by driving north on Highway 37 for 46 km, then turning east on Highway 7 until Kaladar. From Kaladar, driving north on Highway 41 for approximately 8 km and turning west on the Flinton Road (County Road 29) for approximately 1.5 km. The old mine infrastructure is located north of the Flinton Road approximately another 1.5 km.



Exploration History

1881: Property discovered. 1887-1913: 2 shallow shafts sunk and 10-stamp mill erected. Work done by Adelaide Mining Company Limited then by A.B.P. Mining Company Limited under option. 1915-1922: The Cobalt-Frontenac Mining Company Limited did development work, extending original shaft, sinking of winze, drifting and crosscutting. 1932: C.N. Thompson under option from Rich Rock Gold Mines Limited sampled the deposit. 1935-1939: Development continued, diamond drilling included 8 surface (2,393 ft) and 68 underground holes (6,463 ft). Work done by The Consolidated Mining & Smelting Co. of Can. Limited and subsidiary Addington Mines Limited. 1940: Mill removed. 1969: Cominco Ltd. purchased the property. 1980-1984: E&B Explorations optioned the property. Work included surface sampling, geological mapping, 3000 m of surface diamond drilling (by 1981). 1984: total drilling 32 holes - 21,215 ft. 1987: Cathedral Gold Corp. carried out airborne geophysics including magnetometer and VLFEM. 1988: Michele Gold Mines Ltd carried out 15 diamond drill holes totaling 3,700 feet. 1999: Acquired by Imperial Metals Corp. 2015-2016: Union Glory Gold Ltd. acquired the leases for the property and conducted geologic mapping, sampling, mechanical stripping and completed 48 diamond drill holes totaling 9,553m. No reports have been filed for assessment on this work as the property is a lease.


Assessment Work on File

Assessment Work on File
Office File Number Online Assessment File Identifier Online Assessment File Directory
63.5280 31C11NE0005 31C11NE0005
2.10510 31C11NE0013 31C11NE0013
2.5065 31C11NE0018 31C11NE0018

Geology

Province: Grenville

Subprovince: Central Metasedimentary Belt

Terrane: Elzevir

Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic  



Geology Comments

Aug 23, 2016 (L Hall) - The Addington Property is underlain by metavolcanic rocks of the Tudor Formation, schists of the Ore Chimney formation and the clastic metasedimentary rocks of the Flinton Group.




Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Vein 1 Contains
Conglomerate 2 Adjacent
Mafic pillowed flow 3 Basalt Pillow Near
Quartz Arenite 4 Near

Lithology Comments

Aug 23, 2016 (L Hall) - The shaft of the Addington mine lies at the contact between Tudor Formation metavolcanic rocks and the unconformably overlying Flinton Group clastic metasedimentary rocks. Mineralization occurs in an enigmatic unit named the Ore Chimney Formation. The Ore Chimney Formation is a narrow (10 m or thinner) unit of layered schists consisting of biotite, biotite-garnet, muscovite-biotite, hornblende-biotite and hornblende schist that occurs intermittently at the contact between the older Grenville Supergroup and younger Flinton Group rocks. It has been variably described as a part of the Flinton Group (Thompson 1972), as a paleoregolith derived from the Tudor Formation (Moore and Thompson 1980) and as sheared Tudor Formation (Dillon 1985).




Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
4ChalcopyriteEconomic And AlterationOreSulphidation1
5GarnetEconomic And AlterationOreGreisenization1
9ScheeliteEconomic And AlterationOreGreisenization1
10TourmalineEconomic And AlterationOreTourmalinization1
7PyriteEconomic And AlterationGangueSulphidation1
8PyrrhotiteEconomic And AlterationGangueSulphidation1
1GoldEconomicOre
2ApatiteEconomicOre
6KyaniteEconomicOre
3ArsenopyriteEconomicGangue

Mineralization Comments

Nov 08, 2006 (D Laidlaw) - 1881-1921: 480 ounces of gold produced, unknown tonnage, unknown grade.


Aug 23, 2016 (L Hall) - 11/08/2006 (D LAIDLAW) - 1881-1921: 480 ounces of gold produced, unknown tonnage, unknown grade. Gold on the Addington Property is hosted in quartz-tourmaline veins associated with a shear zone that deforms the Ore Chimney Formation (LeBaron, 1991). Mineralization was identified in four steeply south-plunging zones within the shear-zone. Quartz lenses and stringers are largely concordant with the shear fabric and contain pyrite, arsenopyrite, pyrrhotite, galena, chalcopyrite and sphalerite. Visible gold is present (LeBaron 1991, Smith pers. comm. 2016).



Mineral Record Details

Reserves or Resources Data
Zone Year Category Tonnes Reference Comments Commodities
Addington Mine 1999 Indicated Mineral Resource 712449 Imperial Metals In four mineralized zones, grade 4.5 grams/ton. Gold 4.5 g/t
Addington Mine 1983 Proven 176000 Johnson 1983, Non NI 43-101 compliant report, 31C11NE0027 In four mineralized zones, grade 0.15 oz/ton. Gold 0.15 oz/T

References

Publication - Rocks and minerals for the collector: Hull-Maniwaki, Quebec; Ottawa-Peterborough, Ontario; Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 69-50

Publication Number: Paper 69-50 Page: 89-90  Date: 1976

Author: Sabina, A P

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/103344


Part - Geology of Kaladar and Kennebec townships

Publication Number: ARV51-04.002 Page: 70-72  Date: 1998

Author: Harding W.D.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


MonoMap - Geological notes for maps nos. 2053 and 2054, Madoc-Gananoque area

Publication Number: S012 Page: 30  Date: 1997

Author: Hewitt D.F.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


Mono - Gold deposits of Ontario, part 2, part of District of Cochrane, districts of Muskoka, Nipissing, Parry Sound, Sudbury, Timiskaming, and counties of southern Ontario

Publication Number: MDC018 Page: 37-38  Date: 1979

Author: Gordon J.B., Lovell H.L., de Grijs J.W., Davie R.F.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Mono - Gold development potential in eastern Ontario

Publication Number: OFR5379 Page: 3, 5, 9, 11, 15  Date: 1982

Author: Kingston P.W., Papertzian V.C.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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MonoMap - Geology of the Kaladar area, Lennox and Addington and Frontenac counties

Publication Number: R215 Page: 76-78  Date: 1982

Author: Wolff J.M.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


Mono - Metallogeny of the Grenville Province, southeastern Ontario

Publication Number: OFR5515 Page: 350-363  Date: 1984

Author: Carter T.R.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


Mono - Gold-quartz-arsenopyrite vein deposits localized near the base of the Flinton Group, Kaladar and Barrie townships, southeastern Ontario

Publication Number: OFR5529 Page: 6-27  Date: 1985

Author: Dillon E.P.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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MonoMap - Base metal, molybdenum and precious metal deposits of the Madoc-Sharbot Lake area, southeastern Ontario

Publication Number: OFR5548 Page: 278-85  Date: 1985

Author: Malczak J., Carter T.R., Springer J.S.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Mono - Report of Activities 2015, Resident Geologist Program, Southern Ontario Regional Resident Geologist Report: Southern Ontario and Southwestern Ontario Districts, and Petroleum Operations

Publication Number: OFR6319 Page: 18  Date: 2016

Author: Sangster P.J., LeBaron P.S., Charbonneau S.J., Laidlaw D.A., Debicki R.L., Wilson A.C., Fortner L.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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