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| Record Name(s) | Lobanor Gold Mines Ltd. - 1946, Dickenson-New Cinch Uranium Ltd. - 1985, H.E. Neal - 1982, Revere Mining Company - 1960 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1986-Sep-10 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Aug-08 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Holloway
Latitude: 48° 31' 22.39" Longitude: -79° 40' 35.53"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 597721.57 Northing: 5375265.04 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kirkland Lake
NTS Grid: 32D12SE
Point Location Description: Point
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: A point 2.26 km south and 6.50 km east of the northwest corner of Holloway Township. The Lobanor occurrence is in north central Holloway Township within or near what is currently (1989) staked as claim no. 598645.
1944-1946: 36 contiguous claims in north central Holloway Township were staked in 1944 by J.S. Crosscombe. By 1946, these claims had been acquired by Lobanor Gold Mines Ltd. 1949: By this time, the Lobanor Gold Mines holdings in Holloway Township had increased to 42 contiguous claims and Lobanor Gold Mines diamond drilled 5 holes totalling 5,174 feet. 1960-1961: Revere Mining Corp. Ltd. completed electrical resistivity and magnetic surveys and diamond drilled 12 holes totalling 5,966 feet on ground much of which was (formerly?) held by Lobanor Gold Mines.1981: Canadian Nickel Co. Ltd. completed airborne geophysical surveys of much of Harker and Holloway Townships, including the Lobanor occurrence area. 1982: By this time, H.E. Neal (of Toronto):H.E. Neal completed VLF, electromagnetic, magnetic, and geological surveys of his claims. 1985: Dickenson Mines Ltd. and New Cinch Uranium Ltd. optioned the Neal claims (The Northern Miner, September 30, 1985; January 13, 1986) and diamond drilled 2 holes totalling at least 308.7 m on them.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| 2.5208 | 32D12SE0037 | 32D12SE0037 |
| 2.5284 | 32D12SE9347 | 32D12SE9347 |
| 2.4951 | 32D12SE0040 | 32D12SE0040 |
| 63.1064 | 32D12SE0048 | 32D12SE0048 |
| 18 | 32D12SE0030 | 32D12SE0030 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Abitibi
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Abitibi
Geological Age: Archean
Metamorphism Grade: Greenschist
Aug 02, 2016 (C Salo) - Geological mapping indicates that bedrock underlying the occurrence is largely glacial drift covered. Exposed bedrock in the area consists mainly of weakly metamorphosed (greenschist or lower metamorphic facies) east northeast striking, steeply south dipping, and south facing subaqueously deposited tholeiitic volcanic rocks (most commonly basalt). If the occurrence is south of the Porcupine-Destor Fault Zone (PDFZ) (as suggested by Satterly 1954), the host basalt belongs to the (Archean) Kinojevis Group. If the occurrence is instead within the (east striking) PDFZ (as suggested by Sutcliffe and Steele 1989; Johnstone and Steele 1989, and Jensen 1982), the basement host rocks belong to a structurally and lithologically heterogeneous supracrustal and intrusive rock basement assemblage which is termed by Jensen and Langford (1985) the Porcupine-Destor Complex. The notable paucity of exposed bedrock in the occurrence area and the results of exploration and government sponsored drilling in the area suggest that the occurrence is within the PDFZ. Intrusive rocks known to occur in the area include felsic and lamprophyre dikes. Although a recent geophysical survey of Holloway Township (OGS 1984) failed to detect any significantly anomalous bedrock conductors which coincide with the location of the known auriferous zone, ground surveys completed as part of various exploration programs have delineated numerous anomalous bedrock conductors in the area; drilling has established that many of these are due to the presence of graphitic (meta)sediments and schists and that they may contain anomalously elevated gold tenors.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 1 | Basalt | Near |
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| Schist-Unsubdivided | 2 | Graphitic Schist | Near | |
| Vein | 3 | Quartz-Tourmaline | Host | |
| Schist-Unsubdivided | 4 | Pyritic Schist | Host | |
| Breccia-unsubdivided | 5 | Pyritic Flow Breccia | Near |
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Molybdenite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 1 | Quartz | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 2 | Carbonate | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 3 | Sericite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 4 | Calcite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 5 | Tourmaline | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 6 | Graphite | Economic | Gangue |
Dec 07, 2005 (C Salo) - Szetu (1960) indicates that Lobanor Gold Mines diamond drill hole no. 2A constituted a (gold occurrence) discovery hole but provides no assay data to substantiate this. Gold assay data similarly does not accompany the drill log for this hole that Lobanor Gold Mines filed for assessment purposes. Revere Mining Corp. reported (assessment files) that: a) their hole no. 2 (collared near Lobanor Gold Mines drill hole no. 2A) intersected a 2.5 foot long section of vein quartz within graphitic schist which averaged 0.03 ounce of gold per ton; b) their hole no. 3B (collared near Lobanor Gold Mines hole no. 2A) intersected 1.5 and 3.5 foot sections of quartz vein material in pyritic schist which assayed 0.05 and 0.01 ounce of gold per ton, respectively; and c) their hole no. 4A (also collared near the Lobanor Gold Mines discovery hole) yielded 2.0, 1.2, and 2.8 foot long core sections of pyritic quartz- feldspar, pyritic flow breccia, and pyritic quartz-tourmaline vein material which assayed 0.03, 0.03, and 0.01 ounce of gold per ton, respectively.
File - Resident Geologist files KL-1638, KL-1960, KL-2358
Publication Number: Date:
Author:
Publisher Name:
Location: Kirkland Lake RGP office
Part - Geology of the north half of Holloway Township
Publication Number: ARV62-07 Page: 29 Date: 1997
Author: Satterly J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Folio - Holloway Township, District of Cochrane
Publication Number: GDIF272 Date: 1997
Author: Kirkland Lake RGO
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location: Kirkland Lake RGP office
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:
Article - Quaternary geology and geochemical exploration in the Matheson area
Publication Number: MP143.294 Page: 112-123 Date: 1997
Author: McClenaghan M.B., Lavin O.P., Nichol I., Shaw J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Gold deposits of Ontario, part 1, districts of Algoma, Cochrane, Kenora, Rainy River, and Thunder Bay
Publication Number: MDC013 Page: 131 Date: 1971
Author: Ferguson S.A., Groen H.A., Haynes R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs
Location:
Book - Northern Miner 85-09-30, Dickenson, p. 3
Publication Number: NMINER Date: 1985
Author:
Publisher Name: Northern Miner
Location: Kirkland Lake RGP office
Article - Reconnaissance till sampling program, Matheson-Lake Abitibi area, District of Cochrane
Publication Number: MP141.081 Page: 472-477 Date: 1997
Author: Steele K.G.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Preliminary report on the Timmins-Kirkland Lake area, gold deposits file
Publication Number: OFR5467 Date: 1983
Author: Hodgson C.J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Mineral occurrences, deposits, and mines of the Black River-Matheson area
Publication Number: OFR5735 Page: 1286-1291 Date: 1990
Author: Bath A.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Geophysical/geochemical series, Matheson-Black River area, Holloway Township, airborne electromagnetic survey, total intensity magnetic survey, District of Cochrane
Publication Number: M80600 Scale: 1:20,000 Date: 1984
Author: Questor Surveys Ltd.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Article - Quaternary geology and geochemical exploration in the Matheson area
Publication Number: MP136.294 Date: 1997
Author: McClenaghan M.B., Lavin O.P., Nichol I., Shaw J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Geological series, Quaternary geology, Lightning River area, District of Cochrane
Publication Number: P2734 Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 1985
Author: Vagners U.J., Courtney S.J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Geological series, bedrock samples from the sonic drilling program 1988, Lake Abitibi-Matheson area, District of Cochrane
Publication Number: P3136 Scale: 1:100,000 Date: 1989
Author: Sutcliffe R.H., Steele K.G., Hart B.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
MonoMap - Geological Synthesis of the Highway 101 Area, East of Matheson, Ontario
Publication Number: OFR6091 Date: 2003
Author: Berger B.R.
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:
Article - Quaternary geology and geochemical exploration in the Matheson area
Publication Number: MP140.294 Page: 112-123 Date: 1997
Author: McClenaghan M.B., Lavin O.P., Nichol I., Shaw J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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