Ontario Geological Survey
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| Record Name(s) | Canada and Thomas Veins - 1945, Claim WD260 - 1902, Goward Lake Option - 1999 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1980-Jun-03 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Sep-20 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold, Copper, Silver
Secondary Commodities: Lead
Township or Area: Strathy
Latitude: 47° 6' 1.98" Longitude: -79° 48' 19.92"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 590639 Northing: 5217030 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kirkland Lake
NTS Grid: 31M04SW
Point Location Description: trench
Location Method: AMIS Site Visit
Access Description: Kanichee Lake cottage access road westerly from highway 11. North ~400m past Trans-Canada pipeline road taking first skidder track south along west side of pipeline route following for 1.2km to first of a series of stripped outcrops and old rock trenches and pits.
Circa 1902-05: Canadian Copper Company - adit developed 1945: Consolidated Mining And Smelting Company of Canada - trenching, DD, sampling. 1995: Wabana Explorations Inc. - airborne geophysics. 1998: Sudbury Contact Mines Ltd. and Falconbridge Ltd. - mapping, ground geophysics, soil geochemistry. 1999: Sudbury Contact Mines Ltd. and Silver Century Exploration Ltd. - ground geophysics, mapping, stripping, DD-4-735 m.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| CO-2285 / 2.17134 | 31M04SE0031 | 31M04SE0031 |
| CO-2759 / 2.20889 | 31M04SW2045 | 31M04SW2045 |
| CO-2760 / 2.20846 | 31M04SW2046 | 31M04SW2046 |
| CO-2591 / 2.20352 | 31M04SE2005 | 31M04SE2005 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Abitibi
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Temagami
Geological Age: Archean
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Gabbro | 1 | Gabbro | Shistose | Adjacent |
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| Vein | 2 | Quartz | Contains | |
| Intermediate Schist | 3 | Andesite And Basalt | Schistose | Adjacent |
| Quartz Porphyry | 4 | Quartz | Footwall |
Nov 28, 2012 (A Wilson) - The Canada vein is described as a well mineralized quartz vein, 3-5 feet wide, striking N30°E and dipping 30°SE. It lies in a greenstone schist along the contact with quartz porphyry which forms the footwall. The schist is well mineralized both above and below the vein. The Thomas Vein has a length of approximately 60m. This vein lies in an agglomerate and ranges from 3.7 to 4.6 m in width. The vein strikes N40°E and dips 85° SE. It consists of well fractured quartz with spotty mineralization.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Pyrrhotite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 4 | Galena | Economic | Ore |
Nov 28, 2012 (A Wilson) - Systematic channel sampling of the Canada Vein has resulted in erratic gold values which range from trace to over 2 oz/t Au. A grab sample collected from the Canada Vein by the OGS assayed 1.41% Cu, 0.14% Pb, 0.07 oz/t Au, 0.99 oz/t Ag and trace Zn, Ni, Co. Channel sampling of the Thomas Vein produced disappointing assays. Copper values obtained from a sampling program conducted by Sudbury Contact Mines typically returned copper values >0.5% with gold values generally greater than 100 ppb and locally to 7 g/t. Highly anomalous copper-gold values were obtained from GL99-1 which intersected an altered pyroxenite near a contact with pyritic amphibolitized flows. A 0.5 m section of core assayed 1.54 g/t Au, 0.6% Cu and a 1 m section of core assayed 1.18 oz/t Au and 0.1% Cu. Further down the hole a well mineralized chloritic mafic flow assayed 0.56% Cu, 165 ppb Au over 1.5 m, 0.71% Cu, 159 ppb Au over 0.9 m and 0.42% Cu and 239 ppb Au over 0.7 m. A 4.2 m intersection of well mineralized siliceous material (possibly lean iron formation) assayed 3.21 g/t Au, 0.69% Cu and 18.71 g/t Ag.
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Vein |
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 1 | Vein |
File - Resident Geologist files CO-2037
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Location: Kirkland Lake RGP office
MonoMap - Geology of the northeast Temagami area, District of Nipissing
Publication Number: R163 Page: 89-90 Date: 1978
Author: Bennett G.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Chambers and Strathy townships, Nipissing District
Publication Number: M2323 Scale: 1:31,680 Date: 1976
Author: Bennett G., Innes D.G.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines
Location:
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