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Record: MDI31M05SE00128

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Gilbert Interests Ltd. - 1968, Claim C.1107 - 1924, Gillies Limit Block 4 Claim C.1107 - 1927
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Occurrence
Date Created 1980-Sep-22
Date Last Modified 2022-Dec-06
Created By
Revised By

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Cobalt



Location

Township or Area: Gillies Limit

Latitude: 47° 21' 6.53"    Longitude: -79° 43' 45.25"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 595974   Northing: 5245044    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Kirkland Lake

NTS Grid: 31M05SE

Point Location Description: 60 m north from G.Legault "A" frame along west bank of Gillies Creek.

Location Method: Data Compilation



Exploration History

Circa 1964: G.S. Gilbert - adit driven into hill


Geology

Province: Southern

Subprovince: Cobalt Basin

Supergroup: Huronian Supergroup

Formation Group: Cobalt Group

Geological Age: Paleoproterozoic  



Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Quartz Diabase 1 Quartz Diabase Host
Granite 2 Aplite Dike Contains
Vein 3 Host

Lithology Comments

Aug 03, 2017 (A Wilson) - The vein strikes approximately N65E and dips 70°S and has been explored by an adit approximately 60 feet long.The vein is associated with an aplite dike.




Mineralization Comments

Aug 03, 2017 (A Wilson) - Cobalt mineralization is present.



Mineral Record Details

Classification
RankClassification            
1 Vein (Cobalt-Type)
Characteristics
Rank Characteristic            
1 Vein

References

Mono - Preliminary report on parts of Coleman Township and Gillies Limit to the south and southwest of Cobalt

Publication Number: PR1960-03 Date: 1998

Author: Thomson R.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


Mono - Silver cobalt calcite vein deposits of Ontario

Publication Number: MDC010 Page: 274-275, 298  Date: 1968

Author: Sergiades A.O.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


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:


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