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| Record Name(s) | Cipway - 1949, Osway Gold Mines - 1949, Siragusa #03 - 1993 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1994-Aug-03 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Sep-27 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Osway
Latitude: 47° 38' 45.7" Longitude: -82° 17' 49.74"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 402579.194 Northing: 5277773.988 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Timmins
NTS Grid: 41O09NW
Point Location Description: Trenching to the northwest of Cipway Point on east side of Northwest Arm of Opeepeesway Lake.
Location Method: Field Visit with GPS
Access Description: Access into Osway Township and the Opeepeesway Lake area is by the main haul road between the town of Sultan and Highway 144. The showing is located east of the Northwest Arm of Opeepeesway Lake which can be accessed via a N/S logging road which comes within about 100 m of the lake.
1947: Cipway Gold Mines Limited held roughly 87 claims in the central and western parts of Osway Township and conducted an exploration program that included trenching, stripping, and diamond drilling. Several areas of anomalous gold mineralization were uncovered, including the subject of this file to the northeast of Cipway Point, east of the Northwest Arm of Opeepeesway Lake. 1980: Canadian Gold and Metals / Hargor Resources conducted an airborne electromagnetic survey over the Opeepeesway Lake area which included the majority of Osway Township. 1981: Canadian Gold and Metals Inc. conducted an airborne electromagnetic survey over a group of townships which included the northwest corner of Osway Township. 1984: Blue Falcon Mines Ltd. conducted geological mapping on a 133 contiguous claim group that covered the northern portion of Osway Township east of the Northwest Arm of Opeepeesway Lake. The area of Cipway point was covered and the trenches that expose the Cipway showing were located. 1985: Blue Falcon Mines conducted an airborne magnetic and VLF electromagnetic survey over a number of townships including Osway Township. 1988: Central Crude Limited conducted an airborne magnetic, electromagnetic, and VLF survey over an area that extended from the west side of the Northwest Arm of Opeepeesway Lake northwest into the west central portion of Benton Township. Central Crude also performed a geochemical survey over a group of 49 claims to the south of Cipway Point in the west central portion of Osway Township. 2007: Augen Gold Corp. performed aerial electromagnetic, aerial magnetic and aerial radiometric surveys (T-5671 / 2.37373). 2008: Augen Gold Corp. performed prospecting and assays (T-5852 / 2.40516)
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| T-5671 / 2.37373 | 20000002805 | 20000002805 |
| T-5852 / 2.40516 | 20000003874 | 20000003874 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Abitibi
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Swayze
Tectonic Assemblage: Ridout
Geological Age: Neoarchean Geochronological Age: 2724 +/- 4 MA Geochron. Age Ref.: GSC OF 3384 F
Metamorphism Type: Regional
Metamorphism Grade: Greenschist
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Quartz-Feldspar Porphyry | 1 | Brecciated | Host |
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Dec 07, 2005 (K Houle) - A highly carbonatized felsic porphyry dike is said to be exposed in a series of trenches over a length of about 46 m. The porphyry is described as pink, highly carbonatized rock with a brecciated and mineralized zone containing quartz, carbonate, chalcopyrite, and pyrite. The width of the porphyry dike as exposed in trenches is a least 25' (7.6 m). The width of the brecciated zone varies from 15 inches (0.38 m) in the western most trench to 3' (0.91 m) in the east.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 1 | Pyrite | Economic | Gangue |
Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - A character sample of mineralfized material reportedly assayed 0.07 oz/t Au. Grab samples collected by the OGS in 1994 returned values of 0.09 g/t Au and 0.4 g/t Ag; 0.01 g/t Au and 0.1 g/t Ag; and 0.32 g/t Au and 0.5 g/t Ag.
Nov 16, 2011 (P Bousquet) - Augen Gold Corp. sampled the altered feldspar porphyry in 2008 and no positive assays for gold were returned (T-5852).
| Commodity | Analytical Method | Digestion Method | Result | Unit | Limit | Qualifier |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Copper | Unknown | .0145 | % | |||
| Copper | Unknown | .0017 | % | |||
| Copper | Unknown | .0245 | % | |||
| Gold | Unknown | .01 | ppm | |||
| Gold | Unknown | .09 | ppm | |||
| Gold | Unknown | .32 | ppm | |||
| Lead | Unknown | .0001 | % | |||
| Lead | Unknown | .0002 | % | |||
| Lead | Unknown | .0001 | % | |||
| Molybdenum | Unknown | .0001 | % | |||
| Molybdenum | Unknown | .0005 | % | |||
| Molybdenum | Unknown | .0002 | % | |||
| Nickel | Unknown | .0027 | % | |||
| Nickel | Unknown | .0031 | % | |||
| Nickel | Unknown | .0037 | % | |||
| Silver | Unknown | .4 | ppm | |||
| Silver | Unknown | .1 | ppm | |||
| Silver | Unknown | .5 | ppm | |||
| Zinc | Unknown | .0051 | % | |||
| Zinc | Unknown | .0034 | % | |||
| Zinc | Unknown | .0029 | % |
| Shape | Length | Thickness | Depth | Strike | Dip | Plunge | Trend | Age | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | N/A | N/A |
Date: Aug 09, 1994
Geologist: K Houle
Notes: A series of four trenches occurring in an east/west direction were uncovered to the east of the Northwest Arm of Opeepeesway Lake in area said to host the Cipway showing. The most easterly trench hosts an exposure of highly sericitic intermediate to mafic tuffs which are well foliated to sheared striking in an approximate E/W direction. Tuffs contain small 2-5 cm. rusty shear zones containing some pyrite mineralization. Pyrite crystals < 2 mm are found scattered throughout the rock in concentrations up to about 2-3%. The next trench about 20 m to the immediate west hosts medium to fine grained felsic intrusives with east/west trending irregular quartz veins seen in widths up to about 15 cm. Quartz veins were seen to host blebs and coarse grained crystals of pyrite and trace specks of chalcopyrite. Finer disseminated pyrite is observed within the felsic intrusive. The next pit, about 20 to the west, shows a coarser grained felsic intrusive with lesser white quartz veining.
Book - Canadian Mines Handbook 1950
Publication Number: CMH 1950 Page: 305 Date: 1950
Author:
Publisher Name:
Location:
Map - Geological series, Jerome area (west), District of Sudbury
Publication Number: P2369 Scale: 1:15,840 Date: 1980
Author: Siragusa G.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Book - Sudbury Timmins Algoma Mineral Program, Project 1: mineral inventory of the Sudbury-Timmins-Sault Ste. Marie region, Ontario
Publication Number: GSC OF 1087 Page: 41O-36 Date: 1985
Author: Rose, D. G.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/129999
Map - Precambrian Geology, Osway Township and Part of Fingal Township
Publication Number: OFM0211 Scale: 1:15,840 Date: 1993
Author: Siragusa G.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Township of Osway, District of Sudbury, Ontario
Publication Number: M1949-02 Scale: 1:12,000 Date: 1997
Author: Moorhouse W.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Part - Horwood Lake area
Publication Number: ARV44-07.002 Date: 1997
Author: Laird H.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Geology, Swayze greenstone belt, Opeepeesway Lake, Ontario
Publication Number: OF 3384f Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 1999
Author: Heather, K B; Shore, G T
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/210454
Part - Geology of Osway Township
Publication Number: ARV58-05 Page: 17-18 Date: 1997
Author: Moorhouse W.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Book - Canadian mines handbook 1950
Publication Number: CMH 1950 Date: 1950
Author: Northern Miner Press
Publisher Name:
Location: CMH-50
MonoMap - Geology of the Chapleau area, districts of Algoma, Sudbury, and Cochrane
Publication Number: R157 Date: 1977
Author: Thurston P.C., Siragusa G.M., Sage R.P.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division 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: 113 Date: 1979
Author: Gordon J.B., Lovell H.L., de Grijs J.W., Davie R.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
MonoMap - Geology, Geochemistry and Mineralization of the Southern Margin of the Swayze Belt
Publication Number: OFR5844 Page: 62-63 Date: 1993
Author: Siragusa G.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
MonoMap - Mineral Prospects of the Swayze Greenstone Belt (Volume 1, Parts of NTS 41 O and Volume 2, Parts of NTS 41 P, 42 A and 42 B)
Publication Number: OFR5912 Page: 78-80 Date: 1995
Author: Fumerton S.L., Houle K.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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