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| Record Name(s) | Argentex Resources Exploration Corp. - 1984, Revere Mining Corp. Ltd - 1960, Lobanor Gold Mines Ltd. - 1949, Canadian Nickel/Argentex Property - 1961, Canadian Nickel Co. Ltd. - 1981, Greater Lenora Resources Corp. - 1989 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1986-Sep-09 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Aug-16 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Secondary Commodities: Copper
Township or Area: Holloway
Latitude: 48° 30' 56.47" Longitude: -79° 40' 29.7"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 597855 Northing: 5374467 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kirkland Lake
NTS Grid: 32D12SE
Point Location Description: Diamond drill hole 59.
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: A point 2.49 km south and 3.23 km east of the northwest corner of Holloway Township.
1949: Lobanor Gold Mines Ltd.- completed diamond drilling (DD-5-5129 ft). Of these, 2 DD-1847 ft were spotted on ground which was later to become part of the Canadian Nickel/Argentex property. 1960-1961: Revere Mining Corp. Ltd. - magnetometer; resistivity EM and DD-12-5966 ft. 1981: Canadian Nickel Co. Ltd. staked hundreds of claims in the Holloway Township area and completed magnetometer and EM surveys. 1984-85: The R.J. Kasner Co. Ltd. optioned 50 contiguous claims from Canadian Nickel. Argentex Resource Exploration Corp. commissioned an appraisal of the Kasner/Canadian Nickel Co. claims to be made and, on the basis of this appraisal, acquired the Kasner interest in the Canadian Nickel property. Argentex Resource Exploration completed mag, VLF and HLEM, a geological survey, a geochemical (humus) survey, trenching, outcrop stripping, 26-RCDD, and collected basal till samples via backhoe. Argentex Resource Exporation also completed DD-11-4337 ft.: Argentex Resource Exploration diamond drilled 2 deep holes (and one wedged holes) for a total of 6,740.5ft. 1984-86: Canadian Nickel Co. and Argentex Resource Exploration - DD-6-2796 ft., sampling (no assays) 1988: Argentex Resource Exploration and Sholia Resources Ltd.merged to form AXR Resources Ltd. 1989: AXR Resources, Mary Ellen Resources Ltd., and Lenora Expl. Ltd. merged to form Greater Lenora Resources Corp.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| KL-0132/ 63.4545 | 32D12SE0018 | 32D12SE0018 |
| KL-0132/ 2.7793 | 32D12SE0693 | 32D12SE0693 |
| KL-0132/28 | 32D15SE0019 | 32D15SE0019 |
| KL-2358/63.1064 | 32D12SE0048 | 32D12SE0048 |
| 22 | 32D12SE0027 | 32D12SE0027 |
| KL-2358/ 18 | 32D12SE0030 | 32D12SE0030 |
| KL-0132/ 31 | 32D12SE0016 | 32D12SE0016 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Abitibi
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Abitibi
Geological Age: Archean
Metamorphism Grade: Greenschist
Jul 28, 2016 (C Salo) - The northern part of the property is largely drift covered and tholeiitic basalt bedrock here is marginal to or within the Porcupine-Destor Fault Zone. The Porcupine-Destor Fault Zone in the Harker-Holloway Township area is structurally and lithologically complex, consisting of juxtaposed fault and/or shear bounded blocks up to many hundreds of metres in size, each of which may be lithologically and structurally distinct from bounding fault blocks.Metamorphosed ultramafic to felsic volcanic rocks, tuffaceous rocks, clastic and chemical sedimentary rocks and (usually felsic) intrusive rocks are all characteristic of the Porcupine-Destor Fault Zone.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Mafic pillowed flow | 1 | Mg-Tholeiitic Basalt | Pillowed | Footwall |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 2 | Fe-Tholeiitic Basalt | Hanging Wall | |
| Terrigenous-Clastic-Unsubdivided | 3 | Graphitic And Sericitic Sediment | Host | |
| Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 4 | Brecciated | Near |
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hematite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 1 | Graphite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 2 | Quartz | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 3 | Sericite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 4 | Tourmaline | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 5 | Cancrinite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 6 | Chlorite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 7 | Epidote | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| Silica | Alteration | Silicification | 1 | Medium | Network | ||
| Carbonate | Alteration | Carbonatization | 2 | Unknown | Disseminated |
Jul 28, 2016 (A Wilson) - Assays from the Revere diamond drilling returned values ranging from 0.01 to 0.02 oz/t Au across core lengths ranging from 0.5 to 5.0 ft.
Jul 28, 2016 (C Salo) - Diamond drilling in the NE pt. of the prop. by Argentex in 1984 is reported to have intervals of anomalous gold. Graphitic, sericitic fine-grained interflow sediments between footwall (northern) silicified Mg-tholeiitic basalt and hanging wall (southern) Fe-tholeiitic basalt. The highest Au tenor reported from this interflow material is from a 4.7' core section which averaged 0.055 oz Au/ton. Diamond drilling in the western part of the property by Argentex in 1984 is reported to have interval of 4.2 ft length of brecciated mafic flow material which averaged 0.01 oz Au/ton. Diamond drilling by Argentex in the NW part of the prop. (on claim 599053) in 1985 was designed to establish whether the auriferous Mattawasaga deposit mineralized zones extend at depth onto the Canadian Nickel/Argentex property. The most Mattawasaga auriferous zone (averaging 0.144 oz Au/ton along a core length of 20.2' where intersected by the Argentex diamond drilling) was interpreted to have been intersected at a down hole depth of 2,431'; the central Mattawasaga auriferous zone (averaging 0.056 ounce of Au per ton along a core length of 30.7' where intersected by the Argentex diamond drilling) was interpreted to have been intersected at a down hole depth of 2,482'; and the southernmost Mattawasaga auriferous zone (averaging 0.039 oz Au/ton along a core length of 67' where intersected by the Argentex diamond drilling) was interpreted to have been intersected at a down hole depth of 2,577'. Diamond drilling by both Revere Mining Corp. and Argentex in the eastern part of the property encountered anomalous Au tenors near or within the PDFZ in rocks variably described as varieties of brecciated clastic or chemical sediments, schists, or mafic volcanic rocks. Minerals in the drill logs to be associated with anomalous Au tenors include various developed quartz-carbpmate veins, vein tourmaline, graphite, pink feldspar, epidote, sericite, pervasive(?) silicification, pervasive carbonatization, chlorite, hematite, pyrite, and chalcopyrite. Deep diamond drilling in the west part of the property is interpreted to have intersected at depth the down dip extension of the auriferous Mattawasaga Deposit. Here, Au is associated with pyrite+chalcopyrite within varicoloured brecciated siliceous (cherty) carbonate-bearing and hematitic.
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 1 | Sheared |
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:
Book - Northern Miner 85-07-25, Kasner Group, p. 18
Publication Number: NMINER Date: 1985
Author:
Publisher Name: Northern Miner
Location: Kirkland Lake RGO
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:
Article - Kirkland Lake Resident Geologist area, Northern Region
Publication Number: MP122.006 Page: 170 Date: 1997
Author: Lovell H.L., Grabowski G.P.B., Guindon D.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:
Article - Kirkland Lake Resident Geologist area, Northern Region
Publication Number: MP128.007 Page: 179, 184 Date: 1997
Author: Lovell H.L., Grabowski G.P.B., Guindon D.L., 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:
Folio - Holloway Township, District of Cochrane
Publication Number: GDIF272 Date: 1997
Author: Kirkland Lake RGO
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:
Mono - Mineral occurrences, deposits, and mines of the Black River-Matheson area
Publication Number: OFR5735 Page: 1476-1481 Date: 1990
Author: Bath A.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
File - Res/Reg Property Visit KL #210
Publication Number: PV-210 Date: 1901
Author:
Publisher Name:
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 - 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:
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:
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:
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:
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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