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| Record Name(s) | Barry Occurrence - 1987, Barry Mine - 1869, Barry Gold - 1869 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Prospect |
| Date Created | 1981-Dec-03 |
| Date Last Modified | 2024-Mar-18 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold, Copper
Township or Area: Elzevir
Latitude: 44° 33' 1.41" Longitude: -77° 21' 44.45"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 312359.705 Northing: 4935721.024 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31C11SW
Point Location Description: 2.5 km N of S boundary and 2.5 km Eof W boundary, of Elzevir township.
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: From Hwy 7 W of Actinolite, drive Hastings Road 20 for 1 km to the driveway of a red brick house. From here, shafts 1 to 3 are a further 131 m along the road and 84 m W from it. Shaft 4 is 88 m along the road and 18 m E from it.
Circa 1870 : a shallow shaft was sunk at the Barry Mine - in 1870 there was, reportedly, 40 tons of ore at their mill ready for crushing, and more at the mine. Four shafts were located in 1986 - 3 on lot 4, con 2 and 1 on lot 4, con 3 - not on lot 5 as stated in the literature. # 1 was 2.4 x 3.6 x 2.4 m deep to water; # 2 was 1.5 x 4.5 x 3.0 m deep and dry; # 3 was 4.2m in diameter and 0.6 m deep to water; # 4 was 2.4 x 3.0 x 1.8 m deep and dry. None of the shafts was fenced and shaft # 1 was well camouflaged with vegetation. 1987-88 : Lacana Mining Corp carried out geological, soil geochemical and geophysical surveys (mag,VLF-EM) on lots 4-6, con 2 (the Barry-Joseph property / Dingham option). 1988 : Corona Corp drilled 5 holes (1,402 ft) on lot 5, con 2 (S 1/4) and lot 4, con 3 (NW 1/4).
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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| Elzevir No. 22 | 31C11SW0002 | 31C11SW0002 |
| Elzevir No. 21 | 31C11SW0001 | 31C11SW0001 |
Province: Grenville
Subprovince: Central Metasedimentary Belt
Terrane: Elzevir
Domain: Grimsthorpe
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - At the Barry Mine the ore was said to be made up of native gold in very white quartz with little sulphide and ' very rich ' (1870). Gold is hosted in a strongly silicified and carbonatized zone (15-100 ft wide) which contains cross-cutting quartz veinlets. It appears to be a quartz-ankerite breccia zone in metasediments. This is exposed in a road cut on Hastings Co Rd 20, 1.1 km N of Hwy 7 (an 80 ft wide zone) Mineralization consists of pods of pyrite and arsenopyrite (< 3 %) These average 100 ppb Au with a high of 805 ppb Au. Dumps and trenches occur 100 ft E of the road and 250-375 ft W of the road. The drilling suggests that the gold mineralization is low grade and erratic.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Amphibolite | 1 | Foliated | Host |
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| Vein | 2 | Quartz-carbonate | Breccia | Host |
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | Garnet | Economic | |||||
| 1 | Gold | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Arsenopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Pyrrhotite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 4 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 5 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 1 | Quartz | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| Hematite | Alteration | Hematization | 1 | Medium | Disseminated | ||
| Ankerite | Alteration | Hydrothermal | 2 | Strong | Replacement |
Mar 18, 2024 (Nazha Sabiri) - A foliated amphibolite sample with disseminated arsenopyrite from DDH BJ-88-4 returned gold value above 10,000 ppb. An ankerite altered sample from the quartz -carbonate breccia zone returned 6559 ppm copper and 1120 ppm gold (31C11SW0001).
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Hydrothermal |
Date: May 06, 2010
Geologist: P LeBaron
Notes: No samples analysed; strong quartz-ankerite breccia zone up to 30m wide with pyrite and arsenopyrite.
Publication - Gold occurrences of Ontario east of lake Superior; Geological Survey of Canada, Memoir 192
Publication Number: GSC Mem 192 Page: 115 Date: 1936
Author: Kindle, E D
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/100824
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
Location:
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: 351F Date: 1985
Author: Malczak J., Carter T.R., Springer J.S.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Exploration for gold in southeastern Ontario, 1980-1990
Publication Number: OFR5808 Page: 55-58 Date: 1991
Author: LeBaron P.S.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Book - 1870 Report of Commissioner of Crown Lands
Publication Number: Page: 29 Date: 2000
Author:
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Crown Lands
Location:
Publication - Report of progress from 1866 to 1869
Publication Number: RepProg 1866-69 Page: 150 Date: 1870
Author:
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/222878
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