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Record: MDI31M13SW00020

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Leslie-McPherson - 1991
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Occurrence
Date Created 1991-Jan-20
Date Last Modified 2022-Sep-20
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold

Secondary Commodities: Silver



Location

Township or Area: Chamberlain

Latitude: 47° 50' 42.62"    Longitude: -79° 56' 51.29"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 578740   Northing: 5299628    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Kirkland Lake

NTS Grid: 31M13SW

Point Location Description: Trench No. 1 (Main showing) NE 1/4 of S1/2 Lot 6, Con 1.

Location Method: Conversion from MDI



Exploration History

1950s- Leslie- McPherson: Prospecting and trenching.


Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Abitibi

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Abitibi

Geological Age: Archean  



Geology Comments

Dec 10, 2012 (Nazha Sabiri) - 3 mineralized quartz veins respectively 10, 20 and 30 feet wide. Mineralization is spotty consisting of pyrite and minor chalcopyrite and galena. Reported assays returned: Au: 0.02-0.076 oz/t and Ag: 0.37-54.32 oz/t




Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided 1 Greenstone Carbonate Contains
Granite 2 Round Lake Batholith Near

Lithology Comments

Dec 10, 2012 (Nazha Sabiri) - Rusty brown carbonates cut by quartz stringers and mineralized with disseminated pyrite. Granite with greenstone inclusions. Shistosity of the carbonates in contact with the granite. Schistosity strikes N35ºE and dip 45ºSE. the quartz is white, glassy, contain wisps of chloritic material and fractured, the fracturing have a vertical dip and follows the main strike of the veins




Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
1PyriteEconomicGangue
2QuartzEconomicGangue
3ChalcopyriteEconomicGangue
4GalenaEconomicGangue
5AmphiboleEconomicGangue
ChloriteAlterationChloritic1UnknownVeins

Mineral Record Details

References

File - Resident Geologist files KL-1662

Publication Number: Date:

Author:

Publisher Name:

Location: Kirkland Lake RGP office


Mono - Copper, nickel, lead and zinc deposits of Ontario

Publication Number: MDC012 Page: 377  Date: 1969

Author: Shklanka R.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


Map - Geological Compilation of the Central Abitibi Greenstone Belt: Kapuskasing Structural Zone to the Quebec Border

Publication Number: P3565 Scale: 1:250,000    Date: 2005

Author: Ayer J.A., Berger B.R., Hall L.A.F., Houlé M.G., Johns G.W., Josey S.D., Madon Z.B., Rainsford D.R.B., Trowell N.F., Vaillancourt C.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Mono - Gold deposits of Ontario, part 2, part of District of Cochrane, districts of Muskoka, Nipissing, Parry Sound, Sudbury, Timiskaming, and counties of southern Ontario

Publication Number: MDC018 Page: 198  Date: 1979

Author: Gordon J.B., Lovell H.L., de Grijs J.W., Davie R.F.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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