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Record: MDI41N15NW00084

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Algoma Steel Anomaly #34 - 1980, Trembley Prospect - 1980
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Occurrence
Date Created 2001-Feb-13
Date Last Modified 2022-Sep-12
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold



Location

Township or Area: Lendrum

Latitude: 47° 58' 43.52"    Longitude: -84° 49' 37.6"

UTM Zone: 16    Easting: 662150.26   Northing: 5316223.67    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Sault Ste. Marie

NTS Grid: 41N15NW

Point Location Description: Tremblay Fault Scarp

Location Method: Data Compilation

Access Description: From Wawa travel north on Highway 17 for 1.5 mi, turn west on the Tremblay Flats road and follow the road to the ACR tracks. From this point traverse south approximately 500 m to the fault scarp.



Exploration History

1979-82: Algoma Steel Company - airborne geophysical survey, mapping, ground geophysical survey, magnetometer survey.


Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Wawa

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Michipicoten

Tectonic Assemblage: Catfish

Geological Age: Neoarchean   Geochronological Age: 2.7 MA   Geochron. Age Ref.: GOO VOL 1

Metamorphism Type: Regional

Metamorphism Grade: Greenschist



Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Intermediate lava flow-unsubdivided 1 Andesite To Rhyolite Host

Lithology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - The occurrence lies at the top of a sequence of pillowed to brecciated intermediate metavolcanic rocks where these rocks are interbedded with interflow sediments and tuffaceous flows.




Mineralization Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - Grab samples collected by Algoma Steel in 1980 returned values of 0.084 oz/t Au and 0.02 oz/t Au. Follow up sampling in 1981 returned values of 0.011 oz/t Au.



Mineral Record Details

References

File - Resident Geologist files WP Lendrum.9

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Location: SSM RGP office


Map - Geological series, Precambrian geology, Lendrum Township and parts of Gros Cap I.R. 49, Algoma District

Publication Number: P2681 Scale: 1:15,840    Date: 1983

Author: Massey N.W.D., Jennings E.A.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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