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Record: MDI41O10NE00026

General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold, Iron

Location

Township or Area: Cunningham

Latitude: 47° 44' 52.13"    Longitude: -82° 37' 34.83"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 378093.63   Northing: 5289552.23    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Timmins

NTS Grid: 41O10NE

Point Location Description: Vertical 2 x 2.5m shaft. The shaft, which is open, timber lined and flooded to within 2m of surface

Location Method: Field Visit with GPS

Access Description: Travel 65 Km South Of Highway 101 On The Foleyette Timber Road To Garnet Township And Just Past The Wakami River Bridge, Turn West On Garnet Road And Travel 13 Km Into Cunningham Township To Allen Lake. East Shore Of Alian Lake, Northwest Corner Of Township

Exploration History

1934: Swayze Huycke GML started sinking a shaft in the spring but was suspended in the fall after reaching 50m and 40m of horizontal development at the 38m level. 1962: Flint Rock Mines staked the ground, evaluated the old workings and attempted to compile previous information. 1973: George Huycke carried out a stripping and trenching program to the south of the old shaft. 1976: Union Miniere Exploration and Mining Corporation Ltd. carried out an airborne magnetometer survey. 1981: Ingamar Exploration carried out a VLF electromagnetic and magnetic surveys and geological mapping. 1988: Ingamar Explorations Ltd. carried out an airborne VLF electromagnetic and magnetic survey was flown over the claim group. 2016: Robert Sutherland carried out prospecting and overburden stripping.

Assessment Work on File

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Abitibi

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Swayze

Tectonic Assemblage: Garnet-Tooms

Geological Age: Neoarchean   Geochronological Age: 2700 MA   Geochron. Age Ref.: GOO VOL 1

Metamorphism Grade: Amphibolite

Geology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (S Fumerton) - Some comments on file suggest that the abundance of quartz veins tends to increase in proximity to a north south fault. Foliation tends to be developed only in the coarser grained rock types.

Lithology

Lithology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (S Fumerton) - The rocks near the shaft and on the rock spit are variable with the hand specimen scale though two rock types are dominant. The first is a cryptocrystalline dark green and locally slightly translucent brownish green mafic - intermediate volcanic. This rock type appears to have recrystallized or have been intruded by a fine to medium grained amphibole diorite. In the muck pile there are some pieces of a fine recrystallized tectonic breccia probably derived from the above fine and medium volcanic rocks. There are also rare pieces of a black chert. The dominant alteration minerals present in the mafic rocks are epidote feldspar and carbonate which occur in irregular veins up to 3cm thick. However, the abundance of these veins is minor. Hematite and magnetic specularite occur disseminated in the mafic rocks locally. The hematite occurs as a fine grained dusting where as the magnetic specularite occurs as grains < 1mm preferentially located in joint planes.

Mar 24, 2020 (Sheree Hinz) - The area is occupied by an east-trending belt of Early Precambrian mafic metavolcanics and clastic metasediments. Within the claim area, metasediments, terminated by a north-trending fault (the Allen Lake Fault), impinge against mafic metavolcanics in which the shaft is collared. On the west side of Allen Lake, the bedrock consists of Timiskaming-type metasediments (greywackes and quartzites). On the east side of the lake the rocks are Keewatin-type andesites.

Mineralization

Mineralization Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (S Fumerton) - In the last sixty years since before the underground exploration started there is no description of the geology or mineralization. Though by hearsay, the favourable gold values found associated with a north south fault were not encountered underground. Pyrite is uncommon and where it does occur it is associated with quartz stringer veins. The quartz, quartz-carbonate, brown carbonate veins vary in size up to 60cm but are typically < 5cm and form a negligible amount of the muck pile.

Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - Grab samples collected from the muck pile by the OGS in 1994 returned values of 0.02 g/t Au and 0.1 g/t Ag; 0.02 g/t Au and 0.1 g/t Ag. A grab sample collected by the OGS in 1980 returned a value of 8.63% Fe and 0.34 g/t Au.

Assay Samples

Mineral Record Details

Mineral Zones - Size and Shape

Rank: 2       Structure Type: Breccia

Rank: 1       Structure Type: Fault

References

Book - Canadian Mines Handbook 1935

Publication Number: CMH 1935 Page: 239  Date: 1935

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Publisher Name:

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Map - Geological series, Cunningham Township, District of Sudbury

Publication Number: P2339 Scale: 1:15,840    Date: 1980

Author: Siragusa G.M.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

Map - Cunningham and Garnet townships, Sudbury District

Publication Number: M2503 Scale: 1:31,680    Date: 1987

Author: Siragusa G.M.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

Map - Geology, Swayze greenstone belt, Sultan, Ontario

Publication Number: OF 3384E Scale: 1:50,000    Date: 1999

Author: Heather, K B; Shore, G T

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/210453

MonoMap - Geology of the Chapleau area, districts of Algoma, Sudbury, and Cochrane

Publication Number: R157 Page: 224-228  Date: 1977

Author: Thurston P.C., Siragusa G.M., Sage R.P.

Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines

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Part - Mines of Ontario in 1934

Publication Number: ARV44-01.003 Page: 142  Date: 1997

Author: Sinclair D.G., Keeley E.C., Cooper D.F., Weir E.B., Webster A.R.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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MonoMap - Geology of the Garnet Lake area, District of Sudbury

Publication Number: R248 Page: 66  Date: 1987

Author: Siragusa G.M.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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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: 56  Date: 1979

Author: Gordon J.B., Lovell H.L., de Grijs J.W., Davie R.F.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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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: 113-115  Date: 1995

Author: Fumerton S.L., Houle K.A.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Book - Cunningham Township - Unpublished GDIF

Publication Number: GDIF Date: 1986

Author: Resident Geologist Staff

Publisher Name:

Location: Timmins RGP

Part - Geology of the Cunningham-Garnet area

Publication Number: ARV51-07 Page: 22-23  Date: 1997

Author: Meen V.B.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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