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| Record Name(s) | Bambi Occurrence - 1983, Bambi Mines Ltd. - 1946, Potter - 1918, Garrison Development Syndicate - 1937, Kerr Addison Mines Ltd. - 1983, H. L. Mineral Holdings Ltd. - 1987 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1983-Dec-14 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Aug-14 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Garrison
Latitude: 48° 27' 46.39" Longitude: -79° 54' 46.57"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 580361.434 Northing: 5368320.75 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kirkland Lake
NTS Grid: 32D05NW
Point Location Description: A point 1.35 km north and 1.80 km west of the southeast corner of Garrison Township.
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: The Bambi occurrence is within patented claim no. 12739 in southeast central Garrison Township. Claim no. 12739 is part of a contiguous 16 claim block (10 claims of which are patented (as indicated by Satterly 1949)) which were once controlled by Bambi Mines Ltd. Outcrop in the area is accessible via a 2 wheel drive vehicle passable dirt road which leads eastward from the Buffonta mine open pit area, as indicated by Satterly (1949). The Buffonta mine open pit may be reached by a dirt road which joins Highway 101 about 1.5 km east of the Michaud/Garrison Township boundary, east of Twin Lakes.
1918-1922: R.S. Potter and H.V. Cartwright acquired claim nos. 12638-40 and 12862 and excavated a 32 foot deep shaft on claim no. 12739 (Sutherland et al. 1925). 1925: Gledhill (1925) described the claims as the Potter claims and reported that by this time a 2 inch wide east striking and north 75 degrees dipping vein characterized by ill defined margins had been followed for several hundred feet. Pyritized and pink feldspar altered basalt is reported by Gledhill to contain coarse grained (as large as 1/8 inch in size) native gold within quartz vein material; this description presumably refers to the vein system explored by the 32 foot deep shaft. 1937: Garrison Development Syndicate diamond drilled 8 X-ray holes totalling 1,050 feet on the western extension of the vein explored by the shaft (Satterly 1949). 1945: Garrison Development Syndicate: 5 DDH's (785 ft) west of the shaft (Satterly 1949). Bambi Mines Ltd. was incorp. to develop claims in Garrison Township (Satterly 1949). 1946-1947: Bambi Mines Ltd. diamond drilled 5 holes totalling 3,527 feet. 1983-1985: Kerr Addison Mines Ltd. acquired the Bambi Mines patented claims and additional claims in the area and compl. geol., VLF EM, and mag. surveys, at least 2 basal till sampling surveys (one which included the reverse circulation drilling of 109 holes totalling 2,839 m), and a soil geochemical survey. One reverse circulation drill hole (no. BG-85-2) on patented claim no. 12738 intersected bedrock which contained 630 ppb of gold. A single Kerr Addison Mines diamond drill hole which was targeted on a 2780 ppb of gold bedrock anomaly located several hundred metres southwest of the patented Bambi claims (drill hole no. KG-85-1) intersected a 3 foot core length which averaged 0.01 ounce of gold per ton. 1987: H.L. Mineral Holdings Ltd. for Meridor Resources Ltd. diamond drilled hole no. MRG-87-1 987 feet. This hole intersected numerous core lengths of material which averaged 345-12,000 ppb of gold.
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Abitibi
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Abitibi
Geological Age: Mesoarchean
Metamorphism Grade: Greenschist
Dec 07, 2005 (R Degagne) - Geological mapping (Satterly 1949; Jensen 1982; Jensen and Langford 1985; Jensen and Baker 1986; Johnstone and Steele 1989; Baker et al. 1982; McClenaghan et al. 1988, 1987; Steele 1988) indicates that bedrock underlying the Bambi claims consists mainly of weakly metamorphosed (greenschist or lower metamorphic facies except marginal to the Garrison Stock, where a contact metamorphic aureole of amphibolite grade is developed) subaqueously deposited tholeiitic basalt and intercalated interflow sediment of the (Archean) Kinojevis Group. Local bedrock stratigraphy strikes east northeast, dips steeply south, faces south, and occupies part of the north limb of the east striking and east plunging Blake River Synclinorium. A recent geophysical survey of Garrison Township (OGS 1984) did not detect any significant bedrock conductors to be associated with the prospect shaft.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 1 | Basalt; Py | Xenoliths | Host |
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| Vein | 2 | Qtz - (Fel); Py, Cp, Au | Vein Breccia | Contains |
| Syenite | 3 | Biotite Syenite | Near | |
| Quartz Porphyry | 4 | Qtz | Near | |
| Terrigenous-Clastic-Unsubdivided | 5 | Wackes; Ch, Qtz-Cal Veins | Variably Tuffaceous | Near |
Dec 07, 2005 (R Degagne) - The Bambi occurrence is reported (Satterly 1949) to consist of a narrow (4-6 inches wide) quartz vein breccia which, where exposed by a prospecting shaft sunk by R.S. Potter and H.V. Cartwright, dips from north 60 degrees to south 80 degrees. The vein breccia is further reported to be hosted by greenish black basalt and is reported to consist of quartz vein breccias with ill defined margins (Gledhill 1925) and pyritic and red altered basalt xenoliths. Scanty chalcopyrite and coarse grained native gold (Gledhill 1925) are reported to occur in quartz-(feldspar) vein material. Satterly (1949) observed that: '... A grab sample of well-mineralized vein material found on the dump was taken by the writer and was found to assay 0.08 ounces of gold per ton. The X-ray drilling has indicated that a mineralized zone averaging about 4 feet in width extends west for 300 feet and carries persistent but low gold values (approximately 0.06 ounces of gold per ton).' (p.18) Information in the assessment and exploration files (Resident Geologist's Office, Kirkland Lake) indicates that in addition to basalt, diamond drilling by Bambi Mines along the vein intersected amphibolitic basalt, spherulitic (variolitic?) basalt, biotite syenite, quartz porphyry, slate, pyritic quartz-feldspar stringers, epidote-feldspar-carbonate stringers, epidote-garnet-pyrite, rock feldspathized basalt, and carbonatized basalt.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Pyrite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 2 | Hematite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 3 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 4 | Quartz | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 5 | Calcite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 6 | Sericite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 7 | Goethite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| Sericite | Alteration | Saussuritization | 1 | ||||
| Amphibole | Alteration | Amphibolitization | 2 | ||||
| Calcite | Alteration | Carbonatization | 3 | Veins | |||
| Epidote | Alteration | Saussuritization | 4 | ||||
| Chlorite | Alteration | Saussuritization | 5 |
Dec 07, 2005 (R Degagne) - Sulfide mineralization associated with the vein consists of scant fine grained to very fine grained pyrite. The pyrite occurs as irregularly developed seams and pods within the quartz vein and as fracture controlled mineralization within shattered cherty sedimentary rocks. Pyrite mineralization appears to be preferentially associated with an early quartz-calcite depositing hydrothermal system which affected brittly fractured fine grained interflow sedimentary rocks. Subsequent to this mineralizing event, the sediments were again brittly shattered and the resulting hairline fractures were calcite-filled; pyrite was apparently not deposited by this later hydrothermal system. The epiclastic rocks hosting the veins and veinlets are sericitized and variably amphibolitized. Pervasive carbonatization is conspicuously absent. Gold, base metal, and arsenic assays from samples collected by the writer (A. C. Bath) were uniformly low. Quartz-calcite and calcite veins and veinlets in claim no. 28669 are exposed at the base of a small cliff in a 2x2x2m deep pit and by a 12m long (now detritus filled) trench. Exposed on the cliff wall (vertical, azimuth 136, oriented approx. orthogonal to local stratigraphic strike) are bedded feldspathic wackes cherty chemical sediment, and tuffaceous rocks. Analyses*: AB-85-133: 96 Au ppb, 96 Cu ppm, 45 Pb ppm, 141 Zn ppm, 35 As ppm. AB-85-134: 60 Au ppb, 154 Cu ppm, 33 Pb ppm, 60 Zn ppm, 27 As ppm. AB-85-135: 10 Au ppb, 224 Cu ppm, 43 Pb ppm, 377 Zn ppm, 19 As ppm. AB-85-137: nil Au ppb, 120 Cu ppm, 3 Pb ppm, 79 Zn ppm, <1 As ppm. AB-85-138: 30 Au ppb, 150 Cu ppm, 9 Pb ppm, 123 Zn ppm, <1 As ppm. AB-85-139: nil Au ppb, 92 Cu ppm, 17 Pb ppm, 139 Zn ppm, <1 As ppm. AB-85-140: nil Au ppb, 24 Cu ppm, 3 Pb ppm, 41 Zn ppm, 13 As ppm. AB-85-141: 50 Au ppb, 71 Cu ppm, 5 Pb ppm, 32 Zn ppm, 21 As ppm. AB-85-142: 10 Au ppb, 78 Cu ppm, 4 Pb ppm, 123 Zn ppm, 6 As ppm. *All assays performed by Swastika Labs, Swastika.
Dec 07, 2005 (R Degagne) - The epiclastic rocks hosting the veins and veinlets are sericitized and variably amphibolitized. Pervasive carbonatization is conspicuously absent. Gold, base metal, and arsenic assays from samples collected by the present writer (A. C. Bath) were uniformly low.
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Hydrothermal |
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 1 | Vein |
| Shape | Length | Thickness | Depth | Strike | Dip | Plunge | Trend | Age | Reference |
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| Unknown | 91 | .13 |
Date: Feb 17, 1997
Geologist: R Degagne
Notes: When visited by A. C. Bath (OFR 5735, V.1, p.703), in 1985, neither the prospect shaft nor outcrop into which the shaft was excavatedcould be examined due to the presence of deadfall and several feet of slash (resulting from logging operations) which blanketed the area. Pitted and trenched quartz-calcite veins in patented claim no. 28669 (as indicated by Satterly 1949) were, however, located and examined.
File - Resident Geologist files KL-0180, KL-0907
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Location: Kirkland Lake RGP office
Map - Township of Garrison, District of Cochrane, Ontario
Publication Number: M1949-01 Scale: 1:12,000 Date: 1997
Author: Satterly J., Hogg N.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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, 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:
Part - Geology of Garrison Township
Publication Number: ARV58-04 Page: 17-18 Date: 1997
Author: Satterly J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Gold deposits of Ontario, part 1, districts of Algoma, Cochrane, Kenora, Rainy River, and Thunder Bay
Publication Number: MDC013 Page: 127 Date: 1971
Author: Ferguson S.A., Groen H.A., Haynes R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs
Location:
Map - Part of the Lightning River area, District of Cochrane, Ontario
Publication Number: ARM34A Scale: 1:63,360 Date: 1998
Author: Gledhill T.L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Preliminary report on the Timmins-Kirkland Lake area, gold deposits file
Publication Number: OFR5467 Page: G0040 Date: 1983
Author: Hodgson C.J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Folio - Garrison Township, District of Cochrane
Publication Number: GDIF360 Date: 1997
Author: Kirkland Lake RGO
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 - Geophysical/geochemical series, Matheson-Black River area, Garrison Township, airborne electromagnetic survey, total intensity magnetic survey, District of Cochrane
Publication Number: M80598 Scale: 1:20,000 Date: 1984
Author: Questor Surveys Ltd.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Mineral occurrences, deposits, and mines of the Black River-Matheson area
Publication Number: OFR5735 Page: 700-708 Date: 1990
Author: Bath A.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Article - Quaternary geology and geochemical exploration in the Matheson area
Publication Number: MP140.294 Date: 1997
Author: McClenaghan M.B., Lavin O.P., Nichol I., Shaw J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Book - 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:
Part - Lightning River gold area (District of Cochrane)
Publication Number: ARV34-06.004 Page: 86-98 Date: 1998
Author: Gledhill T.L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Part - Mines of Ontario
Publication Number: ARV33-07.002 Date: 1998
Author: Sutherland T.F., McMillan J.G., Bartlett J., Cole G.E., Webster A.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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