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| Record Name(s) | Bannockburn - 1984 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Developed Prospect With Reported Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1984-Feb-29 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Apr-14 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Madoc
Latitude: 44° 38' 22.4" Longitude: -77° 33' 17.2"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 297385 Northing: 4946086 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31C12NE
Point Location Description: Shaft just south of property symbol 2 west of Highway 62 and northeast of Bannockburn
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: Drive to the hamlet of Bannockburn and turn west onto a bush road leading into the old Bannockburn gold mine. The site is approximately 1/4 mile west of the town of Bannockburn on the west side of the Moira River. Bannockburn is 16 km north of the town of Madoc.
1894-1898: Bannockburn gold mine in operation. 1905: The mine closed after being farmed out to an American on a royalty basis. 1894: four shafts were reported to have been sunk on the Property- they were 26, 30, 30, and 45 feet deep respectively. One of the shafts had 17 feet of drifting off of it. A ten stamp Mill was also reported to have been in operation at this time. 1897: The Bannockburn gold mining company deepened the shaft on which the drifting had been started, to 75 feet and new shaft was sunk to 35 feet. 1965: R. Belanger Carried out trenching, 12 diamond drill holes totaling 5,100 ft and sampling on and around lot 28, con. 5. 6 x-ray holes, all 140 to 150 feet in depth were drilled along the ore zone. Highest assays were around 3 oz/au per Ton. The shaft was pumped out and sampled at this time and values of 0.7 oz/au per ton were obtained. 1981-1987: Mono Gold Mines Inc. carried out exploration work including geophysical surveys and diamond drilling in the old bannockburn gold mine area. 1997-1998: Madoc Mining formed a new company, Adobe Ventures Limited, to exclusively develop the Bannockburn gold prospect. Adobe Ventures reported that testing of a 1,800 ton bulk sample trucked to the St. Andrews Goldfields mill in Timmins was not completed. The property was placed on temporary suspension and is currently inactive. (OFR 5992, p5). 2015: Crown William Mining Corp. commissioned stripping, trenching, channel sampling and georeferencing of historic diamond drill collars. This work identified 4 suites of quartz veins 2 of which are gold-bearing; significance of proximity to the volcanic-sedimentary contact; discovery of untested quartz veins. 2016: initiated a relogging and sampling of historic drill core from the Resident Geologist Program Tweed Drill Core Library (OFR6319, p.18).
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| Tweed file Madoc #103 / 2.11570 | 31C12NE0035 | 31C12NE0035 |
| 32 | 31C12NE0050 | 31C12NE0050 |
| 39 | 31C12NE0048 | 31C12NE0048 |
| 63.4698 | 31C12NE0036 | 31C12NE0036 |
| 63.5365 | 31C12NE0031 | 31C12NE0031 |
| 2.9048 | 31C12NE0043 | 31C12NE0043 |
| 2.16064 | 31C12NE0001 | 31C12NE0001 |
| 2.6903 | 31C12NE0047 | 31C12NE0047 |
Province: Grenville
Subprovince: Central Metasedimentary Belt
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Vein | 1 | Quartz Carbonate | Contains |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Syenite | 2 | Near | ||
| Sandstone | 3 | Greywacke | Near |
Jan 30, 2020 (Sheree Hinz) - The prospect is on the boundary of the east extension of a syenite intrusion in the north part of Madoc townships. The intrusion, known as the Gawley Creek Syenite is composed of a coarse-grained pink biotite-hornblende syenite. It straddles the north part of the Marmora-Madoc township. The east side of the syenite is bounded by clastic metasedimentary rock. In a N-S trending shear zone, the syenite has become a biotite carbonate-K-feldspar schist containing lenses and veinlets of quartz and carbonate and disseminated pyrite mineralization. The shear zone is up to 2 m wide and usually contains a series of parallel veins which range in width from 3 to 10cm. The contact between felsic intrusives and schistose metasediments is cut by a vein, strike N78E, dip almost vertical, up to 3 feet wide, which has been stripped for a continuous length of 700 feet.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | Malachite | Economic And Alteration | Ore | Supergene | 1 | ||
| 4 | Pyrite | Economic And Alteration | Ore | Sulphidation | 1 | ||
| 5 | Pyrrhotite | Economic And Alteration | Ore | Sulphidation | 1 | ||
| 1 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Gold | Economic | Ore | ||||
| Ankerite | Alteration | Carbonatization | 1 | Medium | Replacement |
Jan 30, 2020 (Sheree Hinz) - The sheared syenite contains pyrite in disseminated subhedral to euhedral grains and massive lenses 1-2 cm wide; in localities near veins, the sulphide content is as high as 30%. Mineralized veins are composed of white, massive, medium-to coarse-grained quartz and locally ankerite with up to 10% disseminated pyrite, minor chalcopyrite, and gold. A grab sample of the vein material assayed at 0.17 oz/ton Au. House (1984) reports assays of 0.069 and 0.114 oz Au/ton from surface samples of quartz veins within the main zone.
| Zone | Year | Category | Tonnes | Reference | Comments | Commodities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bannockburn | 1999 | Possible | 225000 | OFR 5992, 1999, p. 5 | Imperial measures 225,000 tons at .267 ounce gold per ton | Gold .26 oz/T |
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
Part - Sixth report of the Inspector of Mines
Publication Number: ARV05.009 Page: 264-265 Date: 1998
Author: Slaght A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines
Location:
Part - Mineral occurrences in the north Hastings area
Publication Number: ARV52-03 Page: 32 Date: 1998
Author: Thomson J.E.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - Geology of Madoc Township and the north part of Huntingdon Township, Hastings County
Publication Number: R073 Page: 1, 21 Date: 1968
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: 34 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, 18 Date: 1982
Author: Kingston P.W., Papertzian V.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Metallogeny of the Grenville Province, southeastern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5515 Page: 104 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: 296-301 Date: 1985
Author: Malczak J., Carter T.R., Springer J.S.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Report of Activities 1998, Resident Geologist Program, Southern Ontario Regional Resident Geologist Report: Southeast and Southwest Districts, Mines and Minerals Information Centre, and Petroleum Resources Centre
Publication Number: OFR5992 Date: 1999
Author: Sangster P.J., McGuinty W.J., Papertzian V.C., Steele K.G., Lee C.R., Laidlaw D.A., Stewart J.M., Carter T.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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: 113 Date: 1976
Author: Sabina, A P
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/103344
Publication - Rocks and minerals for the collector, Hull-Maniwaki, Quebec, Ottawa-Peterborough, Ontario; Geological Survey of Canada, Miscellaneous Report 41
Publication Number: GSC MR 41 Page: 88 Date: 1987
Author: Sabina, A P
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/122460
Mono - Exploration for gold in southeastern Ontario, 1980-1990
Publication Number: OFR5808 Page: 75-77 Date: 1991
Author: LeBaron P.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 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
Location:
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