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MDI31C11NE00010
| Record Name(s) | Addington Mine - 1984, Golden Fleece - 1984 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Past Producing Mine With Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1984-Feb-29 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Aug-25 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Secondary Commodities: Silver, Tungsten, Copper
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.
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.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| 63.5280 | 31C11NE0005 | 31C11NE0005 |
| 2.10510 | 31C11NE0013 | 31C11NE0013 |
| 2.5065 | 31C11NE0018 | 31C11NE0018 |
Province: Grenville
Subprovince: Central Metasedimentary Belt
Terrane: Elzevir
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
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.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Vein | 1 | Contains |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conglomerate | 2 | Adjacent | ||
| Mafic pillowed flow | 3 | Basalt | Pillow | Near |
| Quartz Arenite | 4 | Near |
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).
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | Chalcopyrite | Economic And Alteration | Ore | Sulphidation | 1 | ||
| 5 | Garnet | Economic And Alteration | Ore | Greisenization | 1 | ||
| 9 | Scheelite | Economic And Alteration | Ore | Greisenization | 1 | ||
| 10 | Tourmaline | Economic And Alteration | Ore | Tourmalinization | 1 | ||
| 7 | Pyrite | Economic And Alteration | Gangue | Sulphidation | 1 | ||
| 8 | Pyrrhotite | Economic And Alteration | Gangue | Sulphidation | 1 | ||
| 1 | Gold | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Apatite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 6 | Kyanite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Arsenopyrite | Economic | Gangue |
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).
| 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 |
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
Location:
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
Location:
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
Location:
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
Location:
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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