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| Record Name(s) | Oxford Cobalt Silver Mines Ltd. - 1919, South Giroux Mines Ltd. - 1949, Professor Silver Mines Ltd. - 1960, Consolidated Professor Mines Ltd. - 1964 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Prospect |
| Date Created | 1980-Sep-25 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Aug-23 |
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Primary Commodities: Silver
Secondary Commodities: Cobalt, Copper, Lead, Nickel, Zinc
Township or Area: Gillies Limit
Latitude: 47° 21' 36.21" Longitude: -79° 39' 53.42"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 600821.63 Northing: 5246041.49 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kirkland Lake
NTS Grid: 31M05SE
Point Location Description: Oxford Shaft 3.
Location Method: Data Compilation
1920-1926: Oxford Cobalt Silver Mines – trenching, diamond drilling, sinking of 3 shafts; pitting; Oxford No. 3 shaft sunk to 150 ft.; 400-500 ft. of lateral work. 1949-1951: South Giroux Mines Ltd.; diamond drilling, geology. 1960-Professor Silver Mines Ltd.- adit 2004: Cabo Mining Enterprises Corp. – stripping; sampling. 2007: International Millenium Mining Corp.- MMI soil sampling
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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| 2.35596 | 20000002336 | 20000002336 |
| 63A.118 | 31M05SE0086 | 31M05SE0086 |
| 2.28813 | 31M05SE2074 | 31M05SE2074 |
| 2.28634 | 31M05SE2075 | 31M05SE2075 |
Province: Southern
Subprovince: Cobalt Basin
Supergroup: Huronian Supergroup
Formation Group: Cobalt Group
Geological Age: Paleoproterozoic
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Intermediate lava flow-unsubdivided | 1 | Andesite | Contains |
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| Lamprophyre-Unsubdivided | 2 | Intrudes | ||
| Diabase | 3 | Nipissing Diabase | Host |
Aug 04, 2017 (A Wilson) - Steeply dipping Keewatin pillowed andesite that strikes north-west and faces northeast is intruded by irregular mafic intrusives less than 20 ft. thick and dipping less than 30ºW. Hailyburian biotite and hornblende lamprophyre dikes also cut the Keewatin andesite. Nipissing diabase as part of the south dipping north limb of the New Lake Diabase Basin occurs below the Keewatin andesite from 0 to 600 ft. below the surface. Small fractures contain epidote calcite, red feldspar and minor sulphides.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Silver | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Sphalerite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Galena | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 4 | Pyrite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 5 | Arsenopyrite | Economic | Gangue |
Aug 04, 2017 (A Wilson) - No silver or cobalt production has been obtained from the property to-date. The late D.J. Russell, at one time manager of Oxford Cobalt Silver Mines Limited, showed the writer a silver ingot with volume of about one cubic inch, and stated that this had been produced in the assay office from Oxford shaft No, 3 vein. Economic interest in the property is predominantly for silver but there is a galena occurrence at the Cummings pits in the southeast corner of claim T19492 which at one time was regarded as a possible source of lead.
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 1 | Vein |
File - Resident Geologist files CO-1083, CO-1118
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Location: Kirkland Lake RGP office
Mono - Silver cobalt calcite vein deposits of Ontario
Publication Number: MDC010 Page: 274-275, 292 Date: 1968
Author: Sergiades A.O.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Preliminary report on parts of Coleman Township, concession 3, lots 1 to 3, and Gillies Limit, blocks 1 and 2; claims A 48 to 58 and A 88 to 100, District of Timiskaming
Publication Number: PR1961-07 Page: 86-93 Date: 1998
Author: Thomson R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Cobalt silver area, southeastern sheet, Timiskaming District
Publication Number: M2052 Scale: 1:12,000 Date: 1997
Author: Thomson R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
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