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| Record Name(s) | Burton Property - 1981, Northern Aerial - 1928, Siragusa #01 - 1993, Siragusa Shaft Zone - 1993 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Prospect |
| Date Created | 1992-Sep-07 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Apr-26 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold, Silver
Township or Area: Esther
Latitude: 47° 39' 37.22" Longitude: -82° 21' 54.05"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 397510.38 Northing: 5279452.02 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Timmins
NTS Grid: 41O09NW
Point Location Description: Old 10m deep water filled shaft on the eastern bank of a small river
Location Method: Field Visit with GPS
Access Description: Access is very easy via the Sultan then Mallard access roads 48km from Highway 144. Branching off the Mallard road in Osway Township 17km from the Sultan Road is a good 4X4 road extending 4km northwest to the showing.
1928: Northern Aerial Minerals Exploration carried out trenching, pitting, and a 10 m shaft sunk on vein. 1938-40: Hollinger Consolidated Gold Mines Limited completed 56 diamond drill holes, trenching, and sampling. 1945: Burscott Mines Limited completed 10 diamond drill holes. 1981-83: Burton brothers cleaned out the trenches, dug more trenches, sunk 1 diamond drill hole, VLF survey, and geological survey. 1983: Canadian Gold and Metals Inc carried out an airborne geophysical survey. 1982-85: Canadian Nickel Company completed geological mapping, prospecting, sampling, ground mag and VLFEM, IP survey, 29 diamond drill holes totaling 2096 m, humus survey. 1987-88: Grandad Resources Limited diamond drill hole 31 totaling 3077 m, humus geochemical survey. 1989: Northern Mining Properties completed a property review 1996-97: Rainbow Petroleum Corp. - 33-3387 m. 2010: Apex Royalty Corporation - property acquired. 2011: Falcon Gold Corp. - property acquired, DD-3000 m
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| T-1920 / 13 | 41O09NW0125 | 41O09NW0125 |
| T-1920 / 15 | 41O09NW0122 | 41O09NW0122 |
| T-1920 / 2.17845 | 41O09NW0048 | 41O09NW0048 |
| T-1920 / 14 | 41O09NW0124 | 41O09NW0124 |
| T-1920 / 10 | 41O09NW0129 | 41O09NW0129 |
| T-1920 / OP91-125 | 41O09NW0013 | 41O09NW0013 |
| T-1920 / OP92-023 | 41O09NW0014 | 41O09NW0014 |
| T-1920 / OP93-007 | 41O09NW0039 | 41O09NW0039 |
| T-1920 / W9006-60494 | 41O09NW5015 | 41O09NW5015 |
| T-1920 / 63.4142 | 41O09NW0127 | 41O09NW0127 |
| T-1920 / 12 | 41O09NW0123 | 41O09NW0123 |
| T-3269 / 2.12291 | 41O09NW0112 | 41O09NW0112 |
| T-1920 / W9460-00174 | 41O09NW0011 | 41O09NW0011 |
| T-1920 / 63.5993 | 41O09NW0051 | 41O09NW0051 |
| T-2595 / 63.4493 | 41O15SE0064 | 41O15SE0064 |
| T-2595 / 2.7004 | 41O09NW0057 | 41O09NW0057 |
| T-3020 / 63.4895 | 32D05NW0010 | 32D05NW0010 |
| T-2595 / 11 | 41O09NW0128 | 41O09NW0128 |
| T-2581 / 2.4261 | 41O16SW0012 | 41O16SW0012 |
| T-2357 / 2.3559 | 41O09NW9161 | 41O09NW9161 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Abitibi
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Swayze
Tectonic Assemblage: Halcrow-Swayze
Geological Age: Neoarchean
Metamorphism Type: Regional
Metamorphism Grade: Greenschist
Dec 07, 2005 (S Fumerton) - The mineralization is located near the upper contact of a gabbroic unit. The outcrop near the shaft contains a number of irregular poorly developed shears though the carbonate alteration is extensive and is not confined to the shear zones. No evidence for a proposed fold which allegedly controls the mineralization was found.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Gabbro | 1 | Gabbro | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 2 | Basalt | Near | |
| Claystone | 3 | Argillite | Near | |
| Quartz Porphyry | 4 | Adjacent | ||
| Mylonite/Fault Gouge/Pseudotachylite | 5 | Shear Zone | Contains | |
| Vein | 6 | Quartz | Contains |
Dec 07, 2005 (S Fumerton) - The mineralization is hosted in a highly altered gabbroic flow within in a south facing homoclinal sequence. Other units in the sequence include massive and pillowed flows, thick wedges of conglomerate below the mineralized gabbro and some argillaceous wacke horizons above mineralized gabbro. Locally on the upper contact of the mineralized gabbro there are thin horizons of interflow siltstone. Iron carbonate alteration together with a quartz stockwork is extensive and tends to be confined to the upper part of the mineralized gabbro unit. A number of thin felsic intrusions occur within the vicinity of the main mineralization at the original discovery. The mineralized gabbro may represent a subvolcanic sill or a 200m thick flow and has been traced 2.7km and corresponds to a magnetic high.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Arsenopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Gold | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 1 | Pyrite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 2 | Pyrrhotite | Economic | Gangue |
Dec 07, 2005 (S Fumerton) - Mineralization is confined to a narrow zone near the upper margin of a folded gabbro where arsenopyrite and pyrite are disseminated in high concentrations. This mineralization occurs within a strongly carbonatized and sheared phase of the gabbro and is associated with a number of small quartz veins which parallel the stratigraphy. Discordant folded quartz veins with extensive iron carbonate alteration occur near the shaft. These veins have acted as channel ways for the injection of quartz and carbonate alteration along veins and fractures parallel to the shear foliation. Typically the mineralization is disseminated as trails along late shear planes or along the contact of veins. However, arsenopyrite locally forms massive and disseminated sulphide in elliptical pods with lesser amounts of pyrite, pyrrhotite, and chalcopyrite together with erratic visible gold. The gold values is roughly proportional to the arsenopyrite concentration, or more locally the total sulphide concentration. The best mineralization is associated with areas of strong silicification, however, some of the this felsic intrusions are strongly mineralized with coarse euhedral arsenopyrite which is confined to the late intrusion. There is also a late quartz vein which contains zoned iron carbonate fragments and which cuts across the foliation at a shallow angle. This vein is between 10 and 100cm thick and has arsenopyrite disseminated in the matrix and pyrite located along sealed fractures.
Nov 16, 2011 (A Wilson) - Grab samples collected by the OGS in 1979 yielded values from 0.63 oz/t Au to 3.46 oz/t Au. Assay values from the original trenches reportedly returned values as high as 26 oz/t Au (1981). Muck samples taken by the OGS in 1992 returned values of 5.9 g/t Au, 3.46 g/t Au, 47.8 g/t Au. A grab sample taken from a quartz breccia dike in 1992 by the OGS ran 2.57 g/t Au. Assays from the 2011 diamond drilling program completed by Falcon Gold Corp. included: 4.78 g/t Au over 2.5 m in FG-11-021, 10.30 g/t Au over 1.90 m from FG-11-022 and 3.25 g/t Au over 10.35, including 5.65 g/t Au over 2.85 m in FG-11-024. All holes were drilled in the Shaft Zone.
| Commodity | Analytical Method | Digestion Method | Result | Unit | Limit | Qualifier |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gold | Unknown | 3.46 | ppm | |||
| Gold | Unknown | 47.8 | ppm | |||
| Gold | Unknown | 2.57 | ppm | |||
| Gold | Unknown | 5.9 | ppm | |||
| Silver | Unknown | ppm | BDL | |||
| Silver | Unknown | ppm | BDL | |||
| Silver | Unknown | ppm | BDL | |||
| Silver | Unknown | ppm | BDL |
| Rank | Classification |
|---|---|
| 1 | Mesothermal |
| Rank | Characteristic |
|---|---|
| 1 | Vein |
| Shape | Length | Thickness | Depth | Strike | Dip | Plunge | Trend | Age | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Irregular | 70 | 40 | 110 | 90 | 35 | 270 | N/A | N/A |
Date: Sep 10, 1992
Geologist: S Fumerton
Notes: A visit was made to examine the shaft area recently stripped by Canadian Nickel in order to field check the description reported by CANICO in the assessment files that the mineralization is stratiform and thickened by folding. At the same time grab samples were collected.
| Zone | Year | Category | Tonnes | Reference | Comments | Commodities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shaft Zone | 2011 | Unclassified | 30000 | NI 43-101 report, 2011 p. 12 | Historic resource | Gold 10.55 Grams per Tonne |
| NORTHERN AERIAL | 1984 | Possible | 17460 | ASSESSMENT FILE T-2595 | TONNAGE BASED ON 20 DDH AND CHANNEL SAMPLING; TONNAGE TO 40M DEPTH | Gold 10.09 Grams per Tonne |
| Main or Shaft Zone | 1945 | Possible | 31273 | NI 43-101 report, 2011 p. 10 | Gold 11.83 Grams per Tonne |
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:
Map - Precambrian Geology, Esther Township
Publication Number: OFM0210 Scale: 1:15,840 Date: 1993
Author: Siragusa G.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Part - Geology of the Opeepeesway Lake area
Publication Number: ARV44-07.001 Page: 23 Date: 1997
Author: Laird H.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Geology, Swayze greenstone belt, Opeepeesway Lake, Ontario
Publication Number: OF3384f 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
Map - Geological series, Operation Chapleau, Opeepeesway-Rocky Island lakes sheet, districts of Algoma and Sudbury
Publication Number: P0675 Scale: 1:126,720 Date: 1997
Author: Thurston P.C., Siragusa G.M., Sage R.P.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs
Location:
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:
Book - Sudbury Timmins Algoma Mineral Program, Project 1: mineral inventory of the Sudbury-Timmins-Sault Ste. Marie region, Ontario
Publication Number: GSC OF 1087 Date: 1985
Author: Rose, D. G.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/129999
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: 100 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 Date: 1993
Author: Siragusa G.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Lithogeochemistry of Three Gold Settings in the Southern Swayze Belt
Publication Number: OFR5858 Date: 1993
Author: Siragusa G.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Publication - Technical report on the Burton Property, Esther Township for Apex Royalty Corporation and Chesstown Capital Incorporated, 51p.
Publication Number: Date: 2011
Author: K. Kettles
Publisher Name:
Location: Timmins RGO
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: 52-54 Date: 1995
Author: Fumerton S.L., Houle K.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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