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MDI32D04SW00057
| Record Name(s) | Upper Canada - 1929, Brock - 1938, Gauthier - 1984, Eastward - 1941, Ucm - 1984 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Past Producing Mine With Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1984-Feb-01 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Aug-17 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Secondary Commodities: Silver, Tungsten, Molybdenum, Kimberlite
Township or Area: Gauthier
Latitude: 48° 8' 30.43" Longitude: -79° 49' 23.88"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 587535.001 Northing: 5332728.996 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kirkland Lake
NTS Grid: 32D04SW
Point Location Description: No. 1 Shaft.
Location Method: Field Visit with GPS
Access Description: The #1 shaft area and associated buildings are the site of the Queenston exploration office. The office is accessible via Highway 66 east from Kirkland Lake, thence east-northeast towards the community of Dobie. Dobie originated as a residential development for mine employees. Highway 66 and the nearby Ontario Northland railway cut the southwest part of the claim group. A paved road to Dobie also provides access to the southwest part of the property. Minesite roads and bush trails create further access into the area.
From (Alexander 2007) 1920-28: East Main Gold Mines; prospecting and trenching; #1 shaft to 134 ft (41 m), M zone intersected on 125-ft level. 1929: Upper Canada Mines; acquire property. 1936: Upper Canada Mines; H zone discovered through surface drilling; #1 shaft deepened to 500 ft (152 m), lateral development on 125, 250, 375 and 500-ft levels. 1938-39: Upper Canada Mines; production commenced, mill on-line in 1939; #1 shaft to 1,000 ft (305 m). 1938-41: Brock Mines; 8 claims to north of Upper Canada; 17 surface drillholes (3,591 m); shaft to 630 ft (192 m), levels at 200, 325, 450 and 575 ft; 968 m lateral development on 325 and 575-ft levels; acquired by Upper Canada Mines in 1946. 1940-41: Upper Canada Mines; L zone discovered; #2 shaft started. 1941: Eastward Mines / Noranda Mines; 11 claims west; 12 drill holes; acquired by Upper Canada Mines in 1946. 1941-72: Upper Canada Mines; continuous production, mine closed in 1971, mill operated on Upper Beaver 'ore' until February, 1972; #1 shaft to 3,700 ft (1,128 m) with an internal winze from 3,625 to 6,325 ft (1,928 m); #2 shaft to 1,877 ft (572 m); levels at 125-ft intervals - lowest working level at 6,150 ft; 51,940 m drifts, 13,536 m crosscuts, 15,949 m raises, 10,305 underground drillholes (321,418 m). The mine closed in 1971 due to the need of a major cash infusion to expand operations, including shaft deepening and the convert from 25 cycle to 60 cycle power. 1977-87: Queenston Gold Mines; magnetic, VLF-EM and IP surveys; prospecting, mapping, mechanical stripping and trenching, compilation; mill rehabilitated by Canico in 1983 as part of McBean joint venture. 1988-90: Inco Gold (option); geological, magnetic and IP surveys; database partly digitized; 78 surface drillholes (15,818 m). 1990-96: Queenston Mining; 7 surface drillholes (384 m). 1996-2001: Queenston - Franco-Nevada joint venture; linecutting and magnetic survey. 2002-06: Queenston Mining; no new exploration undertaken; shafts and other hazards capped. 2009-2011: 216 diamond drill holes totaling over 68, 500 m were completed on 2 east-trending bands along the North and South branches of the Upper Canada fault. Drilling is mainly to the west of the No.1 shaft. Intersections are in the 1.5 to 2.5 g/t Au range over widths of up to 75 m.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| 2.270 | 32D04NE0068 | 32D04NE0068 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Abitibi
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Abitibi
Tectonic Assemblage: Timiskaming
Geological Age: Late Precambrian
Jun 04, 2010 (D Guidon) - From Alexander 2007 The Upper Canada deposit sits within a 300 to 400 m thick deformation corridor framed by the regional Upper Canada Break (north), and, the South Branch of the Upper Canada Break. The South Branch is interpreted to splay from the Cadillac-Larder Lake Break further west on the Munro property, near the Lebel / Gauthier township line. The deformation corridor strikes east-northeast and dips vertical to steeply north. It is characterized by a strong east-northeast fabric with several late mud gouges, and, variable ankerite, sericite, quartz, chlorite, and feldspar alteration, plus pyrite. The mineralized zones plunge 50 to 60 degrees east, unlike the Kirkland Lake Main Break and the 180 East Zone which plunge westerly. The historic ore zones were typically within intensely sericitic, silicified and ankeritic, linear shear zones. They are most often restricted to narrow blue quartz veins or 'leads' in the thicker flow units, although flows, silicified tuffs and, to a lesser extent, syenite are common hosts to the ore. Mineralization consists of fine pyrite and native gold plus some accessory sphalerite, galena, chalcopyrite and molybdenite. In a few of the thinner flows, en-echelon, higher grade lenses are present within an envelope of lower grade mineralization. Past production is principally recorded on the H, M, Q, Upper B, Lower B, C, Upper L and Lower L zones, with only minor production (approximately 12,000 t) recorded on various other lenses.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Felsic lava flow-unsubdivided | 1 | Intensely Sericitic, Silicified And Ankeritic | Trachyte Flows And Tuffs | Adjacent |
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| Syenite | 2 | Syenite | Adjacent | |
| Vein | 3 | Blue Quartz | Host | |
| Kimberlite-Unsubdivided | 4 | Contains |
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sericite | Economic And Alteration | Gangue | Sericitization | 1 | Strong | |
| 2 | Carbonate | Economic And Alteration | Gangue | Carbonization | 2 | Strong | |
| 1 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Sphalerite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 4 | Molybdenite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 5 | Galena | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 4 | Quartz | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 5 | Tennantite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 6 | Pyrope | Economic | Gangue |
| Zone | Year | Category | Tonnes | Reference | Comments | Commodities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upper Canada - UG | 2011 | Indicated Mineral Resource | 243000 | NI 43-101 June 2011 | uncapped | Gold 4.73 g/t |
| Upper Canada - UG | 2011 | Inferred Mineral Resource | 4075000 | NI 43-101 June 2011 | uncapped | Gold 5.38 g/t |
| Upper Canada - pit | 2011 | Indicated Mineral Resource | 1721000 | NI 43-101 June 2011 | uncapped | Gold 2.04 g/t |
| Upper Canada - pit | 2011 | Inferred Mineral Resource | 1308000 | NI 43-101 June 2011 | uncapped | Gold 1.95 g/t |
| Upper Canada | 2004 | Measured + Indicated Resource | 1899973 | Queenston Mining website 2004 | Gold 6.9 g/t |
| Year | Tonnes | Commodities | Reference | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | 4217487 |
Gold 1398291 Ounces |
OFR 6131 |
File - Resident Geologist files KL-2757, KL-2760, KL-3128
Publication Number: Date:
Author:
Publisher Name:
Location: Kirkland Lake RGP office
Map - Precambrian Geology of Gauthier Township Transect
Publication Number: P3546-REV Scale: 1:10,000 Date: 2005
Author: Ispolatov V.O., Lafrance B.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Part - Geology of Gauthier Township, east Kirkland Lake area
Publication Number: ARV50-08 Page: 23-26 Date: 1998
Author: Thomson J.E., Griffis A.T.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Mineral resources and mining properties in the Kirkland Lake-Larder Lake area
Publication Number: MDC003 Page: 18, 23, 70-71 Date: 1964
Author: Savage W.S.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Molybdenum deposits of Ontario
Publication Number: MDC007 Page: 81 Date: 1968
Author: Johnston F.J.
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: 135 Date: 1979
Author: Gordon J.B., Lovell H.L., de Grijs J.W., Davie R.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Preliminary report on the Timmins-Kirkland Lake area, gold deposits file
Publication Number: OFR5467 Page: G0174 Date: 1983
Author: Hodgson C.J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
File - Res/Reg Property Visit Report #62
Publication Number: PV-62 Date: 1901
Author:
Publisher Name:
Location: Kirkland Lake RGP office
Book - Technical report on the mineral properties of Queenston Mining Inc. in the Kirkland Lake Gold Camp; NI 43-101 report, 217p.
Publication Number: Date: 2007
Author: Alexander, D.,
Publisher Name: SEDAR
Location:
Book - Technical report and resource estimate for the Upper Canada gold deposit of the Kirkland Lake gold project, Gauthier Township, Kirkland Lake, north-eastern Ontario, Canada
Publication Number: Date: 2011
Author: Ewert, W., Puritch, E., Burga, D. and Armstrong, T.
Publisher Name: P&E Mining Consultants Inc.
Location: SEDAR
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