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Record: MDI41I06NW00070

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Dwyer Prospect - 1897, C.G. Hyatt Property - 1929
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Occurrence
Date Created 1979-Nov-27
Date Last Modified 2023-Mar-30
Created By
Revised By

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold, Copper

Secondary Commodities: Silver



Location

Township or Area: Drury

Latitude: 46° 25' 2.27"    Longitude: -81° 29' 58.92"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 461599   Northing: 5140535    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Sudbury

NTS Grid: 41I06NW

Point Location Description: shaft

Location Method: Data Compilation

Access Description: Proceed north 4.8km on Regional Road #4 from its intersection with the Spanish River Road. Follow the powerline right-of-way 2.2km west either on foot or by ATV. Bush crash 1.3km south.



Exploration History

1898: John Dwyer Gold Mining Co. - stripping, 2 shallow shafts. 1967: Acme Gas and Oil Company - EM survey. 1999: Wallbridge Mining Company Ltd. - airborne geophysics. 2000-2001: Mustang Minerals Corp. - ground magnetometer survey, mapping, sampling.


Assessment Work on File

Assessment Work on File
Office File Number Online Assessment File Identifier Online Assessment File Directory
Drury-SP008/ 2.22852 41I06NW2006 41I06NW2006
Drury-0021C1/63.2155 41I05NE0026 41I05NE0026
2.20809 41I06NW2003 41I06NW2003

Geology

Province: Southern

Subprovince: Sudbury Structure

Supergroup: Sudbury Igneous Complex, Main Mass

Geological Age: Paleoproterozoic  



Geology Comments

Mar 16, 2016 (L Hall) - Drury Gabbro with 5 parallel, E-W trending quartz veins up to 40’ wide and traced for 1500’ spaced between approximately 100’ to 1500’ apart.




Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Gabbro 1 Gabbro Adjacent
Conglomerate 2 Conglomerate Host
Terrigenous-Clastic-Unsubdivided 3 Quartzite, Greywacke, Argillite Contains
Vein 4 Quartz Contains

Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
1GalenaEconomicOre
2ChalcopyriteEconomicOre
3GoldEconomicOre

Mineralization Comments

Jun 27, 2016 (A Wilson) - Assays up to 1.41 oz/t Au were reported for the No. 1 vein. Quartz samples taken at 15 ft. from surface assayed $4.60 and at the bottom of the shaft it returned $24.00. The best assays from the veins returned an average of $14.45 and $14.42.



Mineral Record Details

Classification
RankClassification            
1 Vein

References

File - Resident Geologist file Drury-0022-A1

Publication Number: Date:

Author:

Publisher Name:

Location: Sudbury RGP office


Part - Mines of eastern Ontario

Publication Number: ARV07-01.004 Page: 87  Date: 1998

Author: Slaght A.

Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines

Location:


Part - Ore deposits near the north shore of Lake Huron

Publication Number: ARV38-07.001 Page: 34, 36-37  Date: 1998

Author: Moore E.S.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


Folio - Drury Township, District of Sudbury

Publication Number: GDIF285 Date: 1997

Author: Sudbury RGO

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


MonoMap - Geology of Hyman and Drury townships, District of Sudbury

Publication Number: R034 Page: 34  Date: 1997

Author: Card K.D.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


Mono - Gold deposits of Ontario, part 2, part of District of Cochrane, districts of Muskoka, Nipissing, Parry Sound, Sudbury, Timiskaming, and counties of southern Ontario

Publication Number: MDC018 Page: 99  Date: 1979

Author: Gordon J.B., Lovell H.L., de Grijs J.W., Davie R.F.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


Map - Hyman and Drury townships, Sudbury District

Publication Number: M2055 Scale: 1:31,680    Date: 1997

Author: Card K.D.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


Map - Geology, Sudbury bedrock compilation, Ontario

Publication Number: OF 4570 Scale: 1:50,000    Date: 2005

Author: Ames, D E; Davidson, A; Buckle, J L; Card, K D

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/221501


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