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Record: MDI31M05SE00161

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) J. Armstrong - 1956, Cobalt Lode Silver Mines Ltd. - 1968
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Occurrence
Date Created 1991-Feb-08
Date Last Modified 2023-Aug-23
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Silver



Location

Township or Area: Gillies Limit

Latitude: 47° 20' 16.27"    Longitude: -79° 41' 15.88"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 599133.62   Northing: 5243544.48    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Kirkland Lake

NTS Grid: 31M05SE

Point Location Description: Diamond drill hole

Location Method: Data Compilation



Exploration History

1956: J. Armstrong - Gilles Limit Claim A-83: DD-1 put down on topographic depression; Armstrong Group DD-1-400 ft.


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
Conglomerate 1 Quartz-Pebble Conglomerate Host
Vein 2 Calcite-Chalcopyrite Host
Quartz Arenite 3 Host

Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
1SilverEconomicOre
1ChalcopyriteEconomicGangue
2PyriteEconomicGangue

Mineralization Comments

Aug 04, 2017 (A Wilson) - Assays from a calcite-chalcopyrite vein returned 182 g/t Au over 2.5 cm in a calcite-chalcopyrite vein in Huronian Conglomerate.



Mineral Record Details

Classification
RankClassification            
1 Vein (Cobalt-Type)

References

File - Resident Geologist files CO-1003, CO-1086

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Location: Kirkland Lake RGP office


Mono - Preliminary report on parts of Coleman Township and Gillies Limit, near New Lake, southeast of Cobalt, District of Timiskaming

Publication Number: PR1961-02 Page: 39  Date: 1998

Author: Thomson R.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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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

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