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| Record Name(s) | Province of Ontario - 1906, Cobalt Provincial Mining Co. Ltd. - 1909, Twin Silver Mines Ltd. - 1924, Clifton Consolidated Mines Ltd. - 1924, leased to G.D. Lynch - 1928, leased to R. Sullivan - 1930, G. Martin - 1937, Cobalt Products Ltd. - 1949, Silanco Mining and Smelting Co. Ltd. - 1943, Sudbury Contact Mines Ltd. - 1965 |
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| Related Record Type | Compound |
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| Record Status | Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1980-Sep-25 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Aug-22 |
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Primary Commodities: Silver, Cobalt
Secondary Commodities: Nickel
Township or Area: Gillies Limit
Latitude: 47° 22' 36.36" Longitude: -79° 41' 11.5"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 599152.64 Northing: 5247870.5 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kirkland Lake
NTS Grid: 31M05NE
Point Location Description: Provincial Mining Shaft
Location Method: Data Compilation
1910: The vein upon which the main [provincial] shaft was sunk, though showing much native silver at the surface, did not prove persistent or rich in depth, and the Department had the alternative of spending a further sum, probably a large one, in the endeavour to find payable ore, or of offering the property for sale and permitting private enterprise to supply the capital for the test and reap the benefit should it be successful. 1910-1923: Cobalt Provincial Mining Company Ltd. property acquired; 1924-1925: Clifton Consolidated Mines Ltd. – extensive underground work. 1938-1968: drifting and raising; 4-DDH; small scale mining and salvage opertaions have been continued. 1941-1953: Cobalt Products Ltd. – underground workings; DD-4. 1971: Teck Corporation Limited – mag and EM surveys. 1998-2007: Cabo Mining Corp. – DD-13-1910.51 ft.; geological mapping, stripping, sampling.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| 2.20048 | 31M05SE2015 | 31M05SE2015 |
| 2.29134 | 31M05SE2078 | 31M05SE2078 |
| 2.28288 | 31M05SE2078 | 31M05SE2078 |
| 2.27440 | 31M05SE0071 | 31M05SE0071 |
| 2.28255 | 31M05SE2068 | 31M05SE2068 |
| 2.18933 | 31M05SE2004 | 31M05SE2004 |
| 2.18899 | 31M05SE2005 | 31M05SE2005 |
| 2.27941 | 31M05SE2067 | 31M05SE2067 |
| 2.28634 | 31M05SE2075 | 31M05SE2075 |
| 2.34330 | 20000001958 | 20000001958 |
Province: Southern
Subprovince: Cobalt Basin
Supergroup: Huronian Supergroup
Formation Group: Cobalt Group
Geological Age: Paleoproterozoic
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Conglomerate | 1 | Hanging Wall |
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| Sandstone | 2 | Greywacke | Bedded | Footwall |
Aug 02, 2017 (A Wilson) - On the dump of shaft No.2 are pieces of black carbonaceous bedded Keewatin sediments. This may indicate that the easterly extension of the band of Keewatin sediments exposed at surface in the southwest corner of Nipissing claim R.L.406 passes through the No,2 shaft workings. The Cobalt Series which is 50 ft. think in the western part of the claim thickens to 350 ft. in the east part of claim where it occupies a paleovalley trending NNE in the Keewatin surface. The Cobalt series is underlain by steeply dipping black carbonaceous Keewatin sediments in the eastern part of claim in the vicinity of shaft No. 2.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 2 | Silver | Economic | Ore |
Aug 02, 2017 (A Wilson) - No.2 shaft vein and No.1 shaft vein furnished almost the entire production. Shaft No.2 vein strikes N.65ºE. and dips vertically. Gareau in charge of exploration for Cobalt Products Limited, reports that the vein carried silver only in the conglomerate above the bedded greywacke (217 to 242 feet below the shaft collar); below this was cobalt mineralization, which in places was disseminated through the sediments and difficult to recognize. In No.1shaft vein, very high grade silver occurred but the production was disappointing. Near shaft No.3 minor veins strike N.25ºW. No clear cut relationship is apparent between the position or metallic content of the veins and the well-marked trough-like depression in the Cobalt series – Keewatin contact.
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Vein (Cobalt-Type) |
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 1 | Vein |
| Year | Tonnes | Commodities | Reference | Comment |
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| 1940 | 418 |
Silver 8923494 Cobalt 24731 Nickel 1290 |
MDC010, p.226-227 | total production 1908-1940 (intermittent): 54,473 lb Co; and 346,897 oz. Ag; 2842 lbs. Ni |
Map - Cobalt silver area, southwestern sheet, Timiskaming District
Publication Number: M2051 Scale: 1:12,000 Date: 1997
Author: Thomson R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Silver cobalt calcite vein deposits of Ontario
Publication Number: MDC010 Page: 84-86, 226-227 Date: 1968
Author: Sergiades A.O.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Preliminary report on parts of Coleman Township, concession 4, lots 1 to 5, and Gillies Limit, the eastern "A" claims, District of Timiskaming
Publication Number: PR1961-06 Page: 96-99 Date: 1998
Author: Thomson R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
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