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| Record Name(s) | Mary Ellen Occurrence - 1985, INCO-Holloway Joint Venture - 1985, Cryderman Extension - 1923 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1991-Mar-16 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Aug-14 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Holloway
Latitude: 48° 29' 30.35" Longitude: -79° 45' 10.74"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 592133.49 Northing: 5371710.98 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kirkland Lake
NTS Grid: 32D05NE
Point Location Description: Point in Holloway tp.
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: A point 4.65 km north and 0.22 km east of the southwest corner of Holloway Township. The Mary Ellen Resources Ltd. claims straddle the common boundary between Harker and Holloway Townships immediately south of ground held by American Barrick Resources Corp. in Holloway Township, and immediately south of ground held jointly by American Barrick Resources and Greater Lenora Resources Corp. in Harker Township.
1981: Canadian Nickel Company Ltd. - airborne geophysics, mapping, sampling. 1985-87: Mary Ellen Resources Ltd.- magnetometer survey, VLF survey, DD-7-5000 ft. 1986: Leonora Explorations - progress report
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| KL-1761/ 63.5149/ OM85-6-C-018 | 32D12SW0314 | 32D12SW0314 |
| 63.4985 /OM85-6-C-119 | 32D12SE0012 | 32D12SE0012 |
| KL-1761/ OM86-6-C-78 | 32D12SW0301 | 32D12SW0301 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Abitibi
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Abitibi
Geological Age: Archean
Metamorphism Grade: Greenschist
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 1 | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terrigenous-Clastic-Unsubdivided | 2 | Interflow Sediment | Adjacent |
Jun 24, 2015 (C Salo) - Geological mapping indicates that bedrock in the area consists mainly of largely glacial drift covered weakly metamorphosed (greenschist or lower metamorphic facies) tholeiitic basalt, volumetrically minor interflow sediment, and narrow rhyolitic horizons of the (Archean) Kinojevis Group. Volcanic stratigraphy strikes northeast, dips steeply south, faces south, and occupies part of the north limb of the east striking and east plunging Blake River Synclinorium. The Porcupine-Destor Fault Zone is a complex regional scale structure which, in the Harker-Holloway area, strikes east. The occurrence is several hundred metres south of the Porcupine-Destor Fault Zone. Intrusive rocks in the area include narrow syenitic dikes and narrow (tens of metres in width) north striking diabase dikes of the (Proterozoic) Matachewan swarm.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Quartz | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 5 | Hematite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 6 | Pyrite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| Sericite | Alteration | Sericitization | 1 | Unknown | Disseminated | ||
| Carbonate | Alteration | Carbonatization | 2 | Unknown | Veins | ||
| Epidote | Alteration | Saussuritization | 3 | Unknown | Disseminated |
Jun 24, 2015 (A Wilson) - Diamond drilling of the Southwest Zone has shown the zone to be gold-hearing. Although values are not economic, the width and the widespread gold mineralization intersected are considered highly significant. Assays from the 1985 Mary Ellen Resources drilling returned 0.030 oz/t Au over 2.23 m (DDH M-85-1) and 0.021 oz/t Au over 1.0 m (DDH M-85-2).
Jun 24, 2015 (C Salo) - Compilation by the Kasner group of companies (of which Mary Ellen Resources was one) suggests that the Cryderman and Ghostmount auriferous zones may extend on to the Mary Ellen Resources property. In Harker Township, the Cryderman zone is known to be auriferous several hundred metres southwest of the Mary Ellen Resources claims where it has been sampled on surface and at depth (by diamond drilling) by Newmont Exploration of Canada Ltd. The Ghostmount zone is a stratigraphically concordant feature within which anomalously elevated gold tenors are known to exist (i.e. at the Mattawasaga deposit, located in north central Holloway Township). The locations of the Mary Ellen Resources diamond drill holes which are reported to have intersected anomalous gold tenors are not known by the present writer. Information in the The Northern Miner (November 11, 1985) indicates that at least some anomalously elevated gold tenors are interpreted to have been obtained from the strike extension of the Cryderman zone. From a planned 7 hole- 5,000 foot diamond drill program, 4 holes intersected anomalously elevated gold tenors (these ranged from 0.02 to 0.04 ounce of gold per ton) across core lengths ranging from 10 to 12 feet in three zones. The highest reported assay was 0.10 ounce of gold per ton across a 'narrow' core length from the interpreted extension of the (Harker Township) Cryderman auriferous zone.
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 1 | Disseminated |
Folio - Harker Township, District of Cochrane
Publication Number: GDIF358 Date: 1997
Author: Kirkland Lake RGO
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
MonoMap - Geology and petrogenesis of the Archean Abitibi belt in the Kirkland Lake area, Ontario
Publication Number: MP123 Date: 1985
Author: Jensen L.S., Langford F.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Mineral occurrences, deposits, and mines of the Black River-Matheson area
Publication Number: OFR5735 Page: 1496-1500 Date: 1990
Author: Bath A.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Geological series, Precambrian geology of the Ghost Range area, Lightning River area, Cochrane District
Publication Number: P2431 Scale: 1:15,840 Date: 1982
Author: Jensen L.S.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Geological series, Precambrian geology of the Lightning Mountain area, Lightning River area, Cochrane District
Publication Number: P2432 Scale: 1:15,840 Date: 1982
Author: Jensen L.S.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Geological series, Precambrian geology of the Magusi River area, Cochrane and Timiskaming districts
Publication Number: P2434 Scale: 1:63,360 Date: 1982
Author: Jensen L.S.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Geological series, preliminary results of bedrock samples from the sonic drilling, 1985, Lake Abitibi-Matheson area, District of Cochrane
Publication Number: P2986 Scale: 1:100,000 Date: 1986
Author: Jensen L.S., Steele K.G., McClenaghan M.B., Baker C.L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Geological series, bedrock samples from the sonic drilling program 1987, Matheson area, District of Cochrane
Publication Number: P3114 Scale: 1:100,000 Date: 1989
Author: Johnstone R.M., Sutcliffe R.H., Steele K.G., Baker C.L., McClenaghan M.B.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Precambrian Geology of the Highway 101 Area, East of Matheson, Ontario
Publication Number: M2676 Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 2003
Author: Berger B.R., Luinstra B., Ropchan J.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Precambrian Geology of Parts of Lamplugh, Frecheville, Stoughton, Harker, Holloway and Marriott Townships, Ghost Range Area
Publication Number: P3615 Scale: 1:20,000 Date: 2010
Author: Dinel E.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Township of Harker, District of Cochrane, Ontario
Publication Number: M1951-04 Date: 1997
Author: Satterly J., Hogg N.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
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