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| Record Name(s) | Hastings - 1992, Sylvanite Gold Mines Ltd. - 1992, Jonpol - T&H Resources - 1992, Wright-Hargreaves Mines Ltd. - 1992, Lac Minerals Ltd. - 1992, Brewis and White Ltd. - 1992 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1992-Jan-29 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Aug-03 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Secondary Commodities: Copper, Molybdenum, Lead
Township or Area: Garrison
Latitude: 48° 30' 37.12" Longitude: -79° 57' 54.88"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 576423.327 Northing: 5373538.778 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kirkland Lake
NTS Grid: 32D12SW
Point Location Description: Pit
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: A point 3.13 km south and 5.81 km west of the northeast corner of Garrison Twp. The Hastings group is several hundred metres south of Highway 101 in the north central Garrison Twp, about 36 km east Matheson. Access is from Highway 101 via 2 wheel drive vehicle passable dirt and sand drilling roads.
1944-1947:29 ddh - Sylvanite Gold Mines, Wright-Hargreaves Mines Ltd. And Brewis and White Ltd. 1989-1989: 136 ddh - T and H Resources Ltd., Jonpol Explorations Ltd., and Castoro Resources. 10,000 foot drill program (1989) Lac Minerals.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| KL-0362, 14 | 32D12SW0184 | 32D12SW0184 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Abitibi
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Abitibi
Geological Age: Archean
Dec 07, 2005 (C Salo) - The Hastings group straddle the Porcupine-Destor Fault Zone in the general area where it joins the west of west northwest striking Monro/Pipestone Fault Zone. The Porcupine- Destor/Monro/Pipestone Fault Zones is complex, consist of juxtaposed lithologically and structurally distinct fault/ear bounded blocks up to several hundred metres in size which in aggregate comprise a zone several kilometres in width. The regional metamorphic grade in the area is greenschist of lower metamorphic facies except marginal to felsic intrusions, where amphibolite grade contact metamorphic aureoles may be developed. North of the PDFZ, basement rock consist mainly of modernly north dipping and north facing volcanic, volcanoclastic, and sedimentary rocks, of the calc alkalic (Archean) Hunter Mine Group and younger, komatiitic and tholeiitic volcanic and intrusive rocks of the Archean Stoughton- Roquemaure Group. South of the PDFZ mainly northeast striking, steeply south dipping, and south facing tholeiitic basalt of the Archean Kinojevis Group occupies the north limb of the east striking and east plunging Blake River Synclinorium. The PDFZ is a regionally nonhomogeneous assemblage of juxtaposed fault/sheared bounded blocks, each of which may be distinct structurally and lithologically form the surrounding blocks. Mafic to ultramafic domains believed to represented faulted blocks of Stoughton-Roquemaure Group rocks as well as clastic, tuffaceous and chemical sediments and Interbedded alkalic volcanic rocks are also represented with the PDFZ. Intrusive rocks, including dikes of syenite, syenodiorite, granodiorite and monzonite, occur within the PDFZ and often are enclosed within extensive alkali, CO2, and H2O metasomatic aureoles. Garrison Stock which is a large (4 km wide) felsic monzonitic intrusion which is weakly metamorphosed (greenschist or lower metamorphic facies) subaqueously deposited massive and pillowed tholeiitic basalt and volumetrically minor intercalated interflow.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Sandstone | 1 | Syenitic | Near |
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| Syenite | 2 | Host | ||
| Terrigenous-Clastic-Unsubdivided | 3 | Greywacke | Near | |
| Claystone | 4 | Argillite | Near | |
| Vein | 5 | Quartz | Host | |
| Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 6 | Basalt | Host |
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pyrite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 2 | Carbonate | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 3 | Hematite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 4 | Magnetite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 5 | Sericite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 6 | Quartz | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| Carbonate | Alteration | Carbonatization | 1 |
Dec 07, 2005 (C Salo) - Anomalously gold tenors, some of which have been reported as high as 2-3 ounces Au per ton, were obtained from and/or near a northeast striking and subvertically dipping shear developed at the contact between clastic sediments and porphyritic intrusive body. The Shear is reported to be pyritic and carbonate bearing, with carbonatization and sulfidation of the sediments. Ddd indicates that the alteration zone is a least 150 feet wide and depth and that is bounded on both sides by porphyritic dikes. Lamprophyre dikes and aplitic dikes as well as quartz veins and stringer are reported to be developed with this carbonate zone. The porphyritic intrusive body with which the shear is associated is reported to have yielded a gold assay of 0.06 ounce of gold per ton. The southern part of Hastings group has anomalously elevated gold tenors reported to occur in the native state as tiny specks associate with pyrite cubes within hematitic and or specularitic syenite. Chalcopyrite, galena and free gold are also reported to have been yielded by ddh here and to occur infrequently within quartz-carbonate veins. This drilling also encountered anomalous quartz-carbonate veins hosted by basalt, syenite porphyry, sensitized greenstone, pyritic syenite, pyritic felsite, pyritic serpentine, sheared and carbonatized pyrite syenite and sensitized green carbonate.
File - Resident Geologist files KL-0276, KL-0297
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Location: Kirkland Lake RGP office
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:
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
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Part - Geology of Garrison Township
Publication Number: ARV58-04 Page: 26-27 Date: 1997
Author: Satterly J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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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
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Mono - Gold deposits of Ontario, part 1, districts of Algoma, Cochrane, Kenora, Rainy River, and Thunder Bay
Publication Number: MDC013 Page: 128 Date: 1971
Author: Ferguson S.A., Groen H.A., Haynes R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs
Location:
Folio - Garrison Township, District of Cochrane
Publication Number: GDIF360 Date: 1997
Author: Kirkland Lake RGO
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Map - Geological series, Precambrian geology, Ramore area, northeastern part, District of Cochrane
Publication Number: P2861 Scale: 1:15,840 Date: 1985
Author: Jensen L.S.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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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
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Mono - Mineral occurrences, deposits, and mines of the Black River-Matheson area
Publication Number: OFR5735 Page: 778-787 Date: 1990
Author: Bath A.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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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
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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
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Article - Quaternary geology and geochemical exploration in the Matheson area
Publication Number: MP136.294 Page: 200-214 Date: 1997
Author: McClenaghan M.B., Lavin O.P., Nichol I., Shaw J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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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
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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
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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
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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
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