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| Record Name(s) | Caputo-Just - 1969, Tilley Lakes Copper Property - 1968 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1991-Sep-01 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Sep-15 |
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Primary Commodities: Copper
Township or Area: Wishart
Latitude: 47° 0' 32.8" Longitude: -84° 21' 27.71"
UTM Zone: 16 Easting: 700843.543 Northing: 5209565.374 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Sault Ste. Marie
NTS Grid: 41N01SW
Point Location Description: Adit, open cut, trenching
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: The property is located in Wishart township, 2 km north east of Lower Tilley Lake. Access is by travelling along a 15 km gravel road off the TransCanada Highway just north of the Chippewa Falls Bridge.
There have been 3 veins identified on the property. Considerable stripping and trenching has been done as well as 40 feet of lateral development by menas of an adit driven on the No. 1 vein. Roughly 150 feet of trenching was done along the No. 1 vein four feet wide and averaging 3 feet deep. A stockpile of 150 tons of the material was sampled in 1968 and found to average 2.75% copper. Drifting of 40 feet continued in the adit averaging 1.53% copper across 2.8 feet of vein breccia. On the No. 2 vein another adit was developed below the No. 1 adit and has a length of about fifty feet. The No. 2 vein at the end of this adit has a width of approximately 10 feet and 9 feet of highly brecciated and oxidized material averaging 1.50% copper. In 1968, 2 diamond drill holes totalling 338.50 feet were drilled and intersected all 3 vceins. The first adit and the No. 2 vein were intersected. The No. 2 vein collared 18.2 feet averaging 0.78% copper and a 3.6 foot section averaging 1.25% copper. The second hole intersected all 3 veins. The No.1 vein intersected 5.8 feet of 0.59% copper, the No. 2 vein intersected 17.7 feet of 0.57% copper. The No. 3 vein intersected 11 feet of 1.51% copper and a 2. foot section assaying 2.60% copper. In 1968 500 tons of material from the No. 1 vein and No. 2 vein were bulk sampled and transported to the Coppercorp Mill. Average grade of the shipment was 1.18% copper and the mill recovery was 79.14%. In 1971, a total of 6 diamond drill holes totalling 2019 feet were drilled. The first 3 holes suggested a length of 180 feet of No. 3 vein grading 1.5% copper over a width of 9 feet. Holes 4 and 5 were drilled to test the north-westerly extension of this zone. Hole 6 under the No. 1 hole was to test the depth extension of a good intersection in the No. 3 vein of 2.4% copper over 14 feet. In 1994 prospecting and samploing was conducted with grab samples assaying as high as 41.85% copper.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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| SSMP Wishart-08 | 41N01SW0002 | 41N01SW0002 |
| Wishart-0011-A1 | 41N01SE0105 | 41N01SE0105 |
| Wishart-0010 | 41N01SW0098 | 41N01SW0098 |
| Wishart-0011-E1 | 20000018527 | 20000018527 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Abitibi
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Geological Age: Archean
Mar 23, 2012 (A Pace) - The deposit consists of quartz-carbonate vein carrying chalcocite, bornite, chalcopyrite and pyrite. The vein strikes N70W and appears from limited exposures, to dip vertically. It has an explosed length of 250 feet and an average width of about 3 feet. The wallrocks consist of diabase in contact with granite.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Chalcocite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Bornite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 4 | Covellite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 1 | Pyrite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 2 | Quartz | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 3 | Carbonate | Economic | Gangue |
Mar 23, 2012 (A Pace) - Mineraliztion consisting of chalcocite, bornite, chalcopyrite, covellite and pyrite with quartz occurring in brecciated and sheared diabase. Vein No. 1: 2.2% copper over 3.64 feet Vein No. 2: 1.50% copper across 9 feet Vein No. 3: intersected 11 feet of the 14 feet vein breccia averaged 1.51% copper.
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Hydrothermal |
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 2 | Breccia |
| 3 | Sheared |
| 1 | Vein |
File - Resident Geologist files SSMP Wishart 09
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Location: SSM RGP office
Map - Geological series, Precambrian geology, Batchawana synoptic project, Batchawana-Searchmont sheet, District of Algoma
Publication Number: P3063 Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 1987
Author: Grunsky E.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Article - Sault Ste. Marie District
Publication Number: MP024.001 Page: 5, 7 Date: 1997
Author: Giblin P.E.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Batchawana, Algoma District
Publication Number: M2251 Scale: 1:63,360 Date: 1974
Author: Giblin P.E., Armburst G.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines
Location:
Map - Geological compilation series, Batchawana sheet, districts of Algoma and Sudbury, Sault Ste. Marie Mining Division
Publication Number: P0302 Scale: 1:126,720 Date: 1997
Author: Giblin P.E., Leahy E.J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Copper, nickel, lead and zinc deposits of Ontario
Publication Number: MDC012 Page: 78 Date: 1969
Author: Shklanka R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Folio - Wishart Township, District of Algoma
Publication Number: GDIF304 Date: 1997
Author: Sault Ste Marie RGO
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Sault Ste. Marie-Elliot Lake, geological compilation series, Algoma, Manitoulin and Sudbury districts
Publication Number: M2419 Scale: 1:253,440 Date: 1979
Author: Giblin P.E., Leahy E.J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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