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| Record Name(s) | Three Star Deposit - 1981, O'Neill Occurrence - 1923, A. W. Hennessy Property - 1942, Holt-McDermott Mine - 1986, Bailey - 1947, American Barrick Resources Corp. - 1981 |
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| Related Record Type | Partial |
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| Record Status | Developed Prospect With Reported Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1991-Mar-16 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Sep-27 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Secondary Commodities: Copper, Lead, Zinc
Township or Area: Holloway
Latitude: 48° 30' 33.27" Longitude: -79° 45' 9.68"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 592123.48 Northing: 5373654.03 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kirkland Lake
NTS Grid: 32D12SE
Point Location Description: Point
Location Method: Data Compilation
1923-1937: C.H. Jacobs and T. O'Neill staked 5 contiguous claims in west central Holloway Township immediately west of the McDermott Gold Mines Ltd. claims. During this period, about 500 feet of overburden stripping was completed and a 5 by 7 by 22 foot deep shaft was excavated. The claims were brought to patent and were known as the O'Neill claims. The shaft was reported to be sunk on or near a pyritic felsic dike hosted by pyritic schist. Gold is reported to have been panned from rusty dike material and pyritic schist marginal to it. 1942: The O'Neill claims were acquired by A.W. Hennessey, J.T. Jaeger, and M. Kingston. 1947: By this time, F. Bailey (of Timmins) is thought to have purchased the Kingston interest in the claims. 1952: Satterly (1954) examined the property and recently stripped bedrock and sampled weakly pyritic dike material; this assayed 0.04 ounce of gold per ton. 1979: By this time, G. Hays (of Thornehill, Ontario) had inherited F. Bailey's interest in the claims, L.J. Hennessey (of Burlington, Ontario) had acquired the A.W. Hennessey interest, and the remaining interest had been purchased by J.E. Skene (of Mishawaka, Indiana). The property was sampled geochemically during the year. 1981-1987: Camflo Mines Ltd. (now American Barrick Resources Corp.) optioned the property (henceforth to be known by American Barrick Resources as the Hennessey Option and, subsequently as the Three Star claims) and completed magnetic, VLF electromagnetic, geochemical (humus) surveys, geological mapping and sampling, and DD-22 diamond drilling as part of exploration along the extension of the McDermott Deformation Zone. 1988-89: American Barrick Resources Corp.: 300 m level drift driven from Holt-McDermott Mine to Three Star and Worvest claim groups; drifts from 150 and 250 m levels driven to access ore on Three Star and Worvest claim groups; production from claim groups commenced late in the year. .
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| KL-0321/63.4297/OM-83-6-C-34 | 32D12SE0044 | 32D12SE0044 |
| KL-0321/010 | 32D12SW0303 | 32D12SW0303 |
| KL-0321/2.6826 | 32D12SW0307 | 32D12SW0307 |
| KL-0321/OMEP-81-6-C-64/63.4007 | 32D12SW0309 | 32D12SW0309 |
| KL-0321/2.6368 | 32D12SW9335 | 32D12SW9335 |
| KL-1125/63.3804 | 32D12SW0312 | 32D12SW0312 |
| KL-0321/2.4808 | 32D12SE0039 | 32D12SE0039 |
| KL-0102/63.4992 | 32D12SW0301 | 32D12SW0301 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Abitibi
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Abitibi
Geological Age: Mesoarchean
Metamorphism Grade: Greenschist
Dec 07, 2005 (R Degagne) - Within claim no. 11009 and (contiguous to the west) claim no. 11312 (of the American Barrick Resources Worvest claim group) spatially associated with the Consular-Ben-Arch-McDermott Fault of Satterly (1952) and within the McDermott Deformation Zone of Workman (1986), the Holt-McDermott Mine auriferous zone constitutes ore on which production via the Holt-McDermott Mine shaft began in late 1989. Holt-McDermott type gold mineralization is described elsewhere in this compendium under the description of the Holt-McDermott Mine. Information in the exploration files, Resident Geologist's Office, Kirkland Lake, indicates that as for ore shoots in the Holt-McDermott Mine shaft area (within claim nos.11382 and 11383), high grade auriferous shoots which constitute the Three Star/Worvest deposit plunge to the southwest within the east northeast striking and steeply south dipping McDermott Deformation Zone. It is noteworthy in addition that gold mineralization of the Three Star/Worvest deposit is relatively more distal to the axis of the Porcupine-Destor Fault Zone (PDFZ) than is ore in the Holt-McDermott Mine shaft area. It is likely, therefore, that the country rock hosting the Three Star/Worvest deposit belongs to the (Archean) Kinojevis Group rather than to the (Archean) Porcupine-Destor Complex of Jensen and Langford (1985). If this is so, it would appear that the McDermott Deformation Zone of Workman (1986) represents a splay or similar structure radiating obliquely away from the PDFZ.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Terrigenous-Clastic-Unsubdivided | 1 | Interflow Sediments | Adjacent |
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| Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 2 | Basalt | Adjacent | |
| Granitoid-Unsubdivided | 3 | Near | ||
| Lamprophyre-Unsubdivided | 4 | Host |
Aug 02, 2016 (R Degagne) - Geological mapping iindicates that bedrock in the area is largely glacial drift covered. Exposed bedrock consists mainly of weakly metamorphosed (greenschist or lower metamorphic facies) east northeast striking, steeply south dipping, and south facing subaqueously deposited tholeiitic basalt and interflow sedimentary rocks. Intrusive rocks known to occur in the area include felsic and lamprophyre dikes. A recent geophysical survey of Holloway Township failed to detect any anomalous bedrock conductors in the area.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Galena | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 4 | Sphalerite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 5 | Arsenopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 6 | Covellite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 7 | Hematite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 1 | Quartz | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 2 | Carbonate | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 3 | Sericite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 4 | Dolomite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 5 | Calcite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 6 | Feldspar | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 7 | Chlorite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 8 | Albite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| Carbonate | Alteration | Carbonatization | 1 | Unknown | Veins | ||
| Dolomite | Alteration | Carbonatization | 2 | Weak | Disseminated | ||
| Sericite | Alteration | Sericitization | 3 | Medium | Replacement |
Aug 02, 2016 (A Wilson) - Assays returned from samples collected by A.W. Hennessey in 1979, from claim 12314 returned values of 0.002 oz/t Au to 0.005 oz/t Au from chip samples of the walls of the shaft. The southwest corner of the shaft returned an assay of 0.04 oz/t Au. Assays from an adjacent trench returned 0.05 oz/t Au and 0.01 oz/t Au. The best assays from the 1984 diamond drilling returned values ranging from 0.04 oz/t Au to 0.29 oz/t Au. DDH Mc-84-59 returned a best assay of 0.058 oz/t Au over 9.82m.
| Shape | Length | Thickness | Depth | Strike | Dip | Plunge | Trend | Age | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown |
Date: Feb 10, 1997
Geologist: R Degagne
Notes: N/A
| Zone | Year | Category | Tonnes | Reference | Comments | Commodities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Three Star/Worvest | 1988 | Recoverable | 6804000 | The Northern Miner, October 3, 1988 , in OFR5735, V.1, p.519 | reserves are drill defined | Gold 5.14 Grams per Tonne |
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 - Lightning River gold area
Publication Number: ARV33-03.004 Page: 41-49 Date: 1998
Author: Knight C.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Part - Geology of Harker Township
Publication Number: ARV60-07 Date: 1997
Author: Satterly J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Part - Geology of the north half of Holloway Township
Publication Number: ARV62-07 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:
Publication - Gold Occurrences of Ontario East of Lake Superior; Geological Survey of Canada, Memoir 192
Publication Number: GSC Mem 192 Date: 1936
Author: Kindle, E.D.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/100824
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 - 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:
Mono - Mineral occurrences, deposits, and mines of the Black River-Matheson area
Publication Number: OFR5735 Page: 518-522 Date: 1990
Author: Bath A.C.
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:
Map - North part of the Township of Holloway, District of Cochrane, Ontario
Publication Number: M1953-04 Date: 1997
Author: Satterly J., Hogg N.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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 - 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:
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:
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, Precambrian geology of the Lightning River area, Cochrane District
Publication Number: P2433 Scale: 1:63,360 Date: 1982
Author: Jensen L.S.
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 - 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:
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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