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| Record Name(s) | West Abex Showing - 1950, New Athona Mines Property - 1955 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1992-Mar-12 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-May-12 |
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Primary Commodities: Zinc
Secondary Commodities: Copper, Lead
Township or Area: Scholes, Afton
Latitude: 46° 56' 3.43" Longitude: -80° 16' 59.7"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 554558 Northing: 5198111 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Sudbury
NTS Grid: 41I16NW
Point Location Description: Silicified breccia in claim TRT 6918 on map in assessment report 41I16NW0028
Location Method: Data Compilation
1950: Mining Geophysics Corporation Limited – ground magnetometer survey and preliminary geological work. 1951: Mining Geophysics Corporation Limited – self potential survey, resistivity survey was performed on the property; DD-2-196 ft. 1955-56: New Athona Mines Limited – ground magnetometer and geological survey; trenching done on the southern part of the property.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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| 0020A1 | 41I16NW0028 | 41I16NW0028 |
Province: Southern
Subprovince: Cobalt Basin
Supergroup: Huronian Supergroup
Formation Group: Cobalt Group
Geological Age: Paleoproterozoic
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Breccia-unsubdivided | 1 | Host |
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| Terrigenous-Clastic-Unsubdivided | 2 | Adjacent |
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Pyrrhotite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Galena | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 4 | Sphalerite | Economic | Ore |
Nov 29, 2017 (A Wilson) - Assays of four samples from the report written by Mining Geophsysics Corporation Limited. The gold assays returned nil to trace; the lead assays returned 0.01% to 0.80% Pb; the zinc assays returned values between 0.16% and 1.28% Zn; the copper assays returned values from nil to 0.11%. Pyrrhotite in silicified Pre-Cobalt metasediments.
Book - AFRO 1951, AFTON 0020-A1
Publication Number: N/A Date: 1996
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Book - Sudbury Resident Geologist mineral file 600 Scholes
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