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| Record Name(s) | Yama Gold Mines - 1937, Cathroy-Larder Mines - 1943, Mirado Nickel Mines - 1960, Royado Mines Ltd. - 1961, Golden Shield - 1985, Mirado Gold Project - 2012 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Developed Prospect With Reported Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1991-Jan-20 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Aug-17 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Secondary Commodities: Silver, Zinc
Township or Area: McElroy, Catharine
Latitude: 48° 0' 46.37" Longitude: -79° 49' 44.79"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 587321 Northing: 5318395 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kirkland Lake
NTS Grid: 32D04SW
Point Location Description: Open pit south of hwy 564, in north 1/2 of Lot 7, Con 6, Catharine Tp.
Location Method: AMIS Site Visit
Access Description: The property is located approximately 35 km by road southeast of the town of Kirkland Lake, Ontario, which is approximately 585 km by road north of Toronto, Ontario. The Properties are accessible from Kirkland Lake via Hwy 66 to Hwy 112, then travelling south along Hwy 112 to Hwy 564 (gravel) east, through Boston Creek and then eastward along a gravel road. A 4-wheel drive truck, snowmobile or ATV is needed to get to the property at certain times of the year as the road past Boston Creek is not regularly maintained year round. Old drill and logging roads cross the properties and are in a variety of conditions.
1937-43: Yama Gold Mines Limited – DD, shaft sinking, mine development, production. 1943-60: Cathroy Larder Mines – DD- 32,000 ft, underground development. 1960-1963: Mirado Nickel Mines- underground rehabilitation, DD- 37,908 ft surface and underground drilling, resource estimate. 1963: Broulan Reef Mines- DD- 5,125ft surface. 1980-83: Amax Minerals Exploration- compilation, ground geophysics, mapping and prospecting, DD-55- 30241ft, stripping and sampling. 1985-87: Golden Shield Resources Ltd- DD-101- 18752 ft, underground development, metallurgical test-work, stripping. 2012-13: Orefinders Resources Inc. – IP and ground Mag, DD-40-12,049m, trenching,
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| KL-0070/63.3963/OM73-PE69-C-81 | 32D04SW0201 | 32D04SW0201 |
| KL-0992/63.5016/OM86-6-P-101 | 32D04SW0141 | 32D04SW0141 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Abitibi
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Abitibi
Geological Age: Archean
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Intermediate Agglomerate | 1 | Agglomerate | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intermediate Tuff | 2 | Tuff | Host | |
| Intermediate Tuff | 3 | Tuff And Lapilli | Host |
Apr 09, 2014 (J Suma-Momoh) - The Mirado Property lies on the north limb of a major antiformal structure. Rock types in the mine area are largely fragmental volcanics and rhyolite cut by small dykes of syenite porphyry, diorite and lamprophyre. The regional strike is northwest with steep dips to the northeast. The fragmental volcanics of the Skead assemblage vary considerably in nature, ranging from porphyritic to non-porphyritic over short distances and the percentage of fragments from abundant to very few. They may exhibit preferred or random orientation.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pyrite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 2 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 3 | Sphalerite | Economic | Gangue |
Apr 09, 2014 (J Suma-Momoh) - There are two significant mineralised zones on the Properties, both on the Mirado Property. These zones were first discovered when the property was owned by Yama and therefore older references are to the Cathroy Larder Mine. The underground development work and all of the ore mined by Yama was accessed by means of the shaft on the North Zone. Yama discovered the South Zone in the 1940s and drove crosscuts on the 250 foot and 500 foot levels to the South Zone as well as drilling it. Almost all the work on the Mirado Property since the 1960s has been focussed on the South Zone. In the North Zone, gold occurs in a number of sub-parallel quartz-calcite-sulphide and massive sulphide seams, which range in width from a fraction of an inch to 6 inches. Gold values values are erratic in the seams but up to 2 oz/ton Au were encountered in grab samples. Gold values up to 0.093 oz/t over 103.3 ft were encountered in the South Zone by Amax Minerals Exploration. All the samples taken from the property by Orefinders Resources Inc. during the site visit returned silver values ranging from 5.9 to 39.7g/t Ag, which is unusually high for Archean mesothermal lode gold deposits. Orefinders Resources conducted diamond drilling in 2013 and reported Au assay values including 2.4g/t Au over 26.7m and 5.5g/t Au over 8.75m from the South Zone; 17.5g/t Au over 91.4m and 6.0g/t Au over 54m from the North Zone.
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Lode (Gold) |
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 1 | Stratiform |
| Zone | Year | Category | Tonnes | Reference | Comments | Commodities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mirado Gold Project | 2013 | Inferred Mineral Resource | 442000 | NI43-101, 13/12/2013, p57 | Gold 1.29 g/t | |
| Cathroy-Larder | 1987 | Unclassified | 453592 | Gold 11.3 g/t | ||
| Cathroy-Larder | 1972 | Unclassified | 660430 | MDC018, p148-149 | Gold 0.204 oz/T | |
| Cathroy-Larder | 1964 | Unclassified | 441980 | NI43-101, 2012, p16 | Gold 0.233 oz/T |
| Year | Tonnes | Commodities | Reference | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 91158 |
Gold 10231 Ounces |
OFR6287 | Produced 1941-44, 1957, 1987; grade 0.114 oz/t |
Book - Property Visits 241
Publication Number: PV 241 Date: 1990
Author: Lovell, H.L.
Publisher Name:
Location: Kirkland Lake RGP office
File - Resident Geologist file KL-0472
Publication Number: Date:
Author:
Publisher Name:
Location: Kirkland Lake RGP office
MonoMap - Geology of Catharine and Marter townships, District of Timiskaming
Publication Number: R018 Page: 15 Date: 1997
Author: Grant J.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Catharine and Marter townships, Timiskaming District
Publication Number: M2043 Scale: 1:31,680 Date: 1997
Author: Grant J.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Geological Compilation of the Kirkland Lake Area, Abitibi Greenstone Belt
Publication Number: P3425 Scale: 1:100,000 Date: 2000
Author: Ayer J.A., Trowell N.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Part - Geology of McElroy and part of Boston townships
Publication Number: ARV59-06 Page: 39-44 Date: 1997
Author: Abraham E.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Township of McElroy and portion of Township of Boston, District of Timiskaming, Ontario
Publication Number: M1950-03 Scale: 1:12,000 Date: 1997
Author: Abraham E.M., Thomson J.E.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
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: 148-149 Date: 1979
Author: Gordon J.B., Lovell H.L., de Grijs J.W., Davie R.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Publication - Yama Gold Mines Limited, Clippings
Publication Number: Date: 1939
Author:
Publisher Name: NMINER
Location: Kirkland Lake RGP office
Publication - Mirado Nickel Mines Limited, Clippings
Publication Number: Date: 1974
Author:
Publisher Name: NMINER
Location: Kirkland Lake RGP office
Mono - Preliminary report on the Timmins-Kirkland Lake area, gold deposits file
Publication Number: OFR5467 Page: G0253 Date: 1983
Author: Hodgson C.J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Publication - Technical Report on the Mirado and MZ Properties, Ontario, Orefinders Resources Inc., 65p.
Publication Number: NI43-101 Date: 2012
Author: J. Reddick, J. Lavigne
Publisher Name:
Location: Kirkland Lake RGP office
Publication - Mineral Resources Evaluation Technical Report for the Mirado Gold Project, Ontario; Orefinders Resources Inc., 111p.
Publication Number: NI43-101 Date: 2012
Author: L. Weiershäuser and D. El-Rassi
Publisher Name:
Location: Kirkland Lake RGP office
Publication - Mirado Gold Mine Project, Technical and Financial Evaluation, Vol. 1 and 2 (Feasibility Study)
Publication Number: Date: 1986
Author: Bullock Engineering Corporation
Publisher Name: Golden Shield Resources Ltd.
Location: Kirkland Lake RGP office
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