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Record: MDI41N02SE00010

General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Copper, Silver

Secondary Commodities: Gold

Location

Township or Area: Kincaid

Latitude: 47° 4' 37.48"    Longitude: -84° 43' 29.81"

UTM Zone: 16    Easting: 672710   Northing: 5216241    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Sault Ste. Marie

NTS Grid: 41N02SE

Point Location Description: Trenches, showing 7A on map in KINCAID 0016-B1

Location Method: Based on Assessment

Access Description: The property is accessible via Highway 17, about 100 kilometres north from Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, and then by a short .5km gravel access road from Highway 17.

Exploration History

1962-63: C.C. Huston & Associates - prospecting, mapping, ground geophysics, geochemical survey, stripping, DD-7-1500 ft. 1963: Coppercorp Mines Limited - DD-8. 1990-91: L. Palumbo - mapping, stripping, sampling. 1990-1992: D. McDougall - sampling, pitting. 2003: D Tortosa - mapping, sampling; 2005: D. Tortosa-MMI Geochemical Survey

Assessment Work on File

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Abitibi

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Batchawana

Geological Age: Late Precambrian  

Lithology

Lithology Comments

Mar 14, 2013 (A Wilson) - Two parallel N 20º W trending siliceous copper veins were well exposed by trenching and bulldozer stripping for a length of 300 feet north of the south boundary line of Location 7. To the south on the Coppercorp holdings the zone is exposed only partially by a limited amount of stripping for a length of 500 feet. Both veins dip to the east at 45º to 70 º. Widths vary from one foot to seven feet, the average on surface being about four feet. At the north and south extremities, the veins extend into generally barren felsite -breccia dykes which presumably follow the same structural features influencing deposition of the veins. The felsite of the Kincaid Project Area is generally slightly to greatly brecciated, the interstices of the breccia being filled with milky white vein quartz and in some instances, crystalline white calcite. Fragments of volcanic rocks and some granite are common within the felsites. The copper bearing veins are convergent with felsite dykes on the northern and southern extremities. The veins follow the same fractures that contain the felsite dikes. The Boundary Vein has been traced for over 200 m and has a measured width of 3 to 7 m. The K-8 vein has been traced for 160 m and has a width of approximately 4 m.

Mineralization

Mineralization Comments

Mar 14, 2013 (A Wilson) - Multiple veins are found on the Baseline property. They include the Palumbo Property, Boundary Vein and the K-8 Vein. The highest copper values obtained by Huston Associates was 1.8% Cu over 5 ft and the lowest value was 0.39% Cu over 3 ft. Huston DDH 6 intersected 2.4% Cu over 6.5 ft and Huston DDH 5 intersected only trace Cu over 14 ft down dip of the same vein. Assays from the Coppercorp drilling returned variable results up to 2.14% Cu and 1.1 oz/t Ag over 1.5 m. Grab samples collected from the Boundary Vein in 1990 returned assays of 3.8% Cu over 22 ft. Several mineralized zones on the MacDougall Property were identified which were considered to be extensions of the Boundary Vein and the K-8 Vein. Chip sampling across mineralized zones returned grades of up to T.07% Cu, 0.24 oz/ton Ag, and 0.55 gm/ton Au over 1.2 metres Grab samples collected in 2003 from a series of veins on the property returned values from 0.56% Cu to 15.14% Cu from grab and chip samples

Mineral Record Details

Mineral Zones - Size and Shape

Rank: 1       Structure Type: Vein

Site Visit Information

Date: Jun 15, 2010

Geologist: A Pace

Notes: There were 2 areas of the baseline property examined. These include the North Baseline and the South Baseline. The north baseline consists of the Boundary and the Laumontite Vein. The Boundary vein is a quartz carbonate breccia vein with disseminated sulphides of chalcopyrite and pyrite that was traced approximately 30 m. The vein strikes 320 and dips 70 degrees to the east. There were 2 grab samples taken in a trenched area where teh breccia vein cuts through a felsite rock. Assays from the 2 grab samples porduced 0.29% Cu and 1 g/t Au. The Laumontite vein is composed of the zeolite laumontite. The vein is orange in colour and contains calcite and quartz. The vein is approximately 10-15 cn thick and extends for 10 m with a strike of 340 and a dip of 50 degrees to the east. The vein is in contact with the felsite/felsite breccia unit and basalt. Sulphides of chalcopyrite, pyrite and malachite are present. Assay results from 3 samples returned 0.29% Cu. The south baseline vein was the main vein observed in the South Baseline area of the property. It is a 10 cm thick quartz-carbonate vein that was traced for 10-15 m and has a strike of 350 and a dip of 55 degrees to the east. The vein is in contaact with a felsite unit and basalt. The felsite unit is fratured with silicification and hematite alteration in close contact to the quartz-carbonate veining. The contact between the basalt and adjacent quartz carbonate veining trends 330 degrees and dips 70 degrees to the east. Intense quartz carbonate veining along with reddish and green alteration of hematite and malachite is visible at the contact of the basalt.

References

File - Resident Geologist files SSMP Kincaid-21

Publication Number: Date:

Author:

Publisher Name:

Location: SSM RGP office

Mono - Copper, nickel, lead and zinc deposits of Ontario

Publication Number: MDC012 Page: 36-37  Date: 1969

Author: Shklanka R.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:

Publication - Sudbury Timmins Algoma Mineral Program, Project 1: mineral inventory of the Sudbury-Timmins-Sault Ste. Marie region, Ontario

Publication Number: GSC OF 1087 Page: 137  Date: 1985

Author: Rose, D.G.

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/129999

MonoMap - Geology of the Batchawana area, District of Algoma

Publication Number: OFR5791 Date: 1991

Author: Grunsky E.C.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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 - 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:

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:

Map - Geological series, Precambrian geology, Batchawana synoptic project, Mamainse Point-Pancake Bay sheet, District of Algoma

Publication Number: P3062 Scale: 1:50,000    Date: 1987

Author: Grunsky E.C.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

Map - Kincaid Township, District of Algoma

Publication Number: P0553 Scale: 1:15,840    Date: 1997

Author: Giblin P.E.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:

Map - Precambrian Geology Compilation Series - Michipicoten Sheet

Publication Number: M2669 Scale: 1:250,000    Date: 2002

Author: Johns G.W., McIlraith S.J.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

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