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Record: MDI31C11SW00035

General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold, Arsenic

Location

Township or Area: Elzevir

Latitude: 44° 32' 51.71"    Longitude: -77° 19' 49.53"

UTM Zone: 18    Easting: 314886.726   Northing: 4935348.96    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario

NTS Grid: 31C11SW

Point Location Description: Dot symbol ' Au ' just NW of Actinolite, on S side of Hwy 7.

Location Method: Conversion from MDI

Access Description: The major workings are located immediately S of Hwy 7 and W of the Skootamatta River.Travel W on Hwy 7 from Hwy 37 for 320 m and turn S into the Price Conservation Area. Follow the road 160 m along the river until the water pump and old concrete bridge supports are reached. Pit # 7 is located 70 m at N30E from the concrete supports. Return to Hwy 7 and head W 420 m. Turn S on a side road and drive 200 m to a junction, then 65 m E to a bend in tbe road. A tiny, hidden track bears E; follow it for 91 m until a small gate is reached (where the fence changes from barbed wire to page wire). Pit # 6 is 30 m S and pit # 2 is 43 m N. Return to the track at the gate and go a further 390 m E along the bottom of the ridge until a point, directly behind a telephone pole and house to the N, is reached. Pit # 1 is 35 m S on the side of the ridge. Pit # 4 is 88 m W along the road and 11 m N from the previously mentioned junction. Pits A and B (Clapp Property ) are S 55 m from the road at this point. Pit # 3 is 73 m further W along the road and 60 m N, perpendicular to the road. Pit # 5 is 91 m further W along the road and 23 m N.

Exploration History

1872: 5 pits/shafts, 20-42 ft deep were sunk by Flint. c1901: Joseph James further developed the property and deepened 1 shaft by 10 ft. (2 pits were opened up on the adjoining Clapp property - see ' Clapp ', MDI31C11SW00057). 1987-88: Lacana Mining Corp and Corona Corp carried out geological, soil geochemical and geophysical (mag, VLF-EM) surveys on claims covering the Barry and James Joseph properties (lots 4-6, con 2). They drilled 5 holes on lot 5, con 2 and lot 4, con 3.

Assessment Work on File

Geology

Province: Grenville

Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic  

Geology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - Located at the contact between mafic metavolcanics and overlying clastic metasediments. Minor gold mineralization occurs within an anastomising quartz vein system reported to be about 400 ft wide and 0.5 ml long. Mineralization is said to occurr in veins and irregular lenses up to 3.5 ft wide, and there are at least 4 distinct zones, 1 of which appears to be nearly 100 ft wide (1902). The quartz veins carry tourmaline and arsenopyrite (up to 5 % by vol over a 2 ft length of DDH core) with po, cp, py. Au is low and erratic - assays from core ranged from 0.033 to 0.099 oz/t over 2 ft (Lacana/Corona, 1988) though earlier assays have contained almost 1 oz/t.

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References

Publication - Arsenic-bearing deposits in Canada; Geological Survey of Canada, Economic Geology Series 4

Publication Number: Econ Geol 4 Page: 107-109  Date: 1927

Author: Hurst, M.E.

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/102439

Part - The eastern Ontario gold belt

Publication Number: ARV11.013 Page: 102, 200  Date: 1998

Author: Miller W.G.

Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines

Location:

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

Publication Number: S012 Page: 19  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: 43  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 - Metallogeny of the Grenville Province, southeastern Ontario

Publication Number: OFR5515 Page: 103  Date: 1984

Author: Carter T.R.

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: 267-9  Date: 1985

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

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Part - Mines of northwest Ontario, parts 1 and 2

Publication Number: ARV10.004 Page: 102  Date: 1998

Author: Bow J.A., Carter W.E.H.

Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines

Location:

Part - The pre-Cambrian geology of southeastern Ontario

Publication Number: ARV22-02 Page: 105  Date: 1998

Author: Miller W.G., Knight C.W.

Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines

Location:

Book - Resident Geologist 1982, property exam # EL-1

Publication Number: Date: 2000

Author:

Publisher Name:

Location: Tweed RGP

Mono - Exploration for gold in southeastern Ontario, 1980-1990

Publication Number: OFR5808 Page: 59-62  Date: 1991

Author: LeBaron P.S.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

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