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| Record Name(s) | Graham-Bellingham Property - 1944, Bellingham Property - 1944, Anatole Resources Ltd. - 1972, Sciminex Ltd. - 1972, Amax Minerals Exploration - 1981, G. Adams - 1937, Sims Property - 1984 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1991-Mar-23 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Sep-27 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Harker
Latitude: 48° 31' 6.6" Longitude: -79° 50' 22.51"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 585690 Northing: 5374582 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kirkland Lake
NTS Grid: 32D12SW
Point Location Description: A point 2.10 km south and 4.06 km east of the northwest corner of Harker Township.
Location Method: Data Compilation
1937-1938: G. Adams - trenching, sampling. 1944-46: A.R. Graham and H.P. Bellingham - ground magnetic survey. 1946-47: Dale Mines - DD-6. 1972: Scimex Ltd. - Anatole Resources Ltd. completed a biogeochemical survey and DD - 3 - 2347 ft. 1981-82: Amax Minerals Exploration Ltd.: diamond drilled several holes on what once constituted the Graham-Bellingham claim group; no assay results from this drilling are reported.1984: Kerr Addison Mines Limited - EM Survey, mapping, magnetometer survey.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| KL-0054/12 | 32D12SW0094 | 32D12SW0094 |
| 63.85 | 32D05NW0434 | 32D05NW0434 |
| 63.44 | 32D12SW0114 | 32D12SW0114 |
| 2.7232 | 32D12SW0072 | 32D12SW0072 |
| KL-0054/24 | 32D12SW0094 | 32D12SW0094 |
| KL-0108/17 | 32D12SW9338 | 32D12SW9338 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Abitibi
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Abitibi
Tectonic Assemblage: Porcupine
Geological Age: Mesoarchean
Metamorphism Grade: Greenschist
Jun 25, 2015 (R Degagne) - Bedrock in the area is poorly exposed; most is covered by extensive Pleistocene glacial and glaciolacustrine and Recent organic deposits. Geological mapping regional bedrock compilation studies and recent geophysical surveys of Harker Township indicate that the occurrence area straddles the east striking Porcupine-Destor Fault Zone. Intrusive rocks in the area include a small peanut shaped felsic stock (and sill like and dike like masses radiating from it) which is locally termed the 'Dale Intrusive'. Volcanic rocks of the (Archean) Kinojevis Group occur south of the Porcupine-Destor Fault Zone; these are uniformly east northeast striking, steeply dipping, and south facing, except marginal to the Dale Intrusive, where they may be deformed. The metamorphic grade of the Archean basement is greenschist or lower except marginal to the Dale Intrusive, where a contact metamorphic aureole of amphibolite grade is developed.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Syenite | 1 | Adjacent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sandstone | 2 | Greywacke | Sheared | Host |
| Vein | 3 | Quartz | Contains |
Jun 25, 2015 (R Degagne) - Information concerning bedrock in the occurrence area is limited due to poor bedrock exposure. Satterly (1952) reported that old (circa 1940) trenches in the central part of the Graham-Bellingham claim group exposed fine grained mauve colored white weathering fractured and brecciated greywacke in which a vertical shearing at azimuth 145 is developed. Quartz-carbonate stringers are reported to crosscut the shearing. Well mineralized (pyritic) samples from the trenches are reported by Satterly to assay as much as 0.01 ounce of gold per ton. The sediments are within or marginal to the interpreted trace of the Porcupine-Destor Fault Zone and are part of the Porcupine-Destor Complex of Jensen and Langford. Diamond drilling near the trenches by Anatole Resources and Amax Minerals Exploration intersected (metamorphosed) mafic to felsic volcanic rocks, tuffs, and both clastic and chemical sediments, providing further evidence suggesting that the local (lithologically nonhomogeneous) bedrock assemblage is within the Porcupine-Destor Fault Zone and that it is part of the Porcupine-Destor Complex rather than the (characteristically lithologically homogeneous) Kinojevis Group volcanic assemblage south of the Porcupine-Destor Fault Zone.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Gold | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Specularite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 1 | Quartz | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| Carbonate | Alteration | Propylitic | 1 | Unknown | Stockwork |
Jun 25, 2015 (A Wilson) - Sludge samples from the drilling assayed as much as 0.23 ounce of gold per ton. The drilling also intersected a single 3 inch wide visible gold bearing quartz vein near a syenite stock.
Jun 25, 2015 (R Degagne) - Well mineralized (pyritic) samples from the trenches are reported by Satterly to assay as much as 0.01 ounce of gold per ton. Diamond drilling by Anatole Resources on or near the Graham-Bellingham claims intersected visible gold within a narrow (3 inches wide) quartz vein near the contact of the Dale Intrusive. A drill hole completed by Anatole Resources in 1973 returned an assay of 0.23 oz/t over 2 ft. This diamond drilling and that of Kerr Addison Mines Ltd. on the Sims Option (immediately south of the Graham-Bellingham group) establishes that significant anomalously elevated (greater than 0.01 ounce of gold per ton) gold tenors may be associated with pyrite and/or quartz veins within the lithologically complex intrusive contact zone of the Dale Intrusive. Extensively developed orange feldspar (interpreted by Kerr Addison Mines geologists to be potassium feldspar) alteration may be (but is not always) developed near the intrusive contact within both the felsic Dale Intrusive and the (amphibolite grade) volcanic rocks marginal to it.
Jun 25, 2015 (R Degagne) - Satterly (1952) reported that old (circa 1940) trenches in the central part of the Graham-Bellingham claim group exposed fine grained mauve colored white weathering fractured and brecciated greywacke in which a vertical shearing at azimuth 145º is developed. Quartz-carbonate stringers are reported to crosscut the shearing. Satterly also reported that petrographic work revealed the metasediments to be recrystallized, silicified, carbonatized, and chloritized; and that abundant fine grained hematite and (rarely) cubic pyrite are present. Extensively developed orange feldspar (interpreted by Kerr Addison Mines geologists to be potassium feldspar) alteration may be (but is not always) developed near the intrusive contact within both the felsic Dale Intrusive and the (amphibolite grade) volcanic rocks marginal to it.
| Rank | Classification |
|---|---|
| 1 | Hydrothermal |
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 1 | Vein |
| Shape | Length | Thickness | Depth | Strike | Dip | Plunge | Trend | Age | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Irregular | .03 |
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:
Part - Geology of Harker Township
Publication Number: ARV60-07 Page: 25-26 Date: 1997
Author: Satterly J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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:
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:
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:
Mono - Gold deposits of Ontario, part 1, districts of Algoma, Cochrane, Kenora, Rainy River, and Thunder Bay
Publication Number: MDC013 Page: 130 Date: 1971
Author: Ferguson S.A., Groen H.A., Haynes R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs
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:
Mono - Mineral occurrences, deposits, and mines of the Black River-Matheson area
Publication Number: OFR5735 Page: 595-599 Date: 1990
Author: Bath A.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:
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:
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