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Permanent Link to this Record: MDI41O10NE00031

Record: MDI41O10NE00031

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) D. Tuttle - 1980, Tuttle West - 1991, Tuttle #2 - 1980, Peter Lake - 1984, Siragusa #01 - 1987
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Occurrence
Date Created 1980-Sep-18
Date Last Modified 2022-Apr-26
Created By
Revised By

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Zinc, Lead



Location

Township or Area: Cunningham

Latitude: 47° 42' 53.56"    Longitude: -82° 42' 29.88"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 371869.75   Northing: 5286024.28    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Timmins

NTS Grid: 41O10NE

Point Location Description: File opened from the MDI, GR157, GSC OFR 1087 but not researched.

Location Method: Data Compilation

Access Description: Site not visited by the OGS.



Exploration History

1958: Geoscientific Prospectors Ltd. carried out ground geophysical survey (self-potential), compilation and interpretation. 1977-78: Granges Exploration carried out diamond drilling. 1983-84: Kidd Creek Mines Ltd. carried out diamond drilling, ground magnetometer, HLEM and VLF surveys, geological mapping. 1990: B. Otten and W.R. Troup completed geological mapping, geochemical analyses, and prospecting. 1991: Falconbridge Ltd. carried out HLEM survey, max-min survey, diamond drilling, geological mapping. 2007-2008: R.A. MacGregor and Skead Holdings Ltd. carried out assaying and analyses on drill core. 2012-2014: F.A. Broomhead and K.W. Broomhead carried out overburden stripping, manual labour, prospecting, assaying and analyses. 2016-2017: F.A. Broomhead and K.W. Broomhead carried out prospecting, manual labour, assaying and analyses.


Assessment Work on File

Assessment Work on File
Office File Number Online Assessment File Identifier Online Assessment File Directory
T-5714 / 2.38764 20000003426 20000003426
2.5403 41O10NE0034 41O10NE0034
2.54461 20000009065 20000009065
2.55012 20000008208 20000008208
T-7004 / 2.57814 20000015593 20000015593
T-3452 / 2.14596 41O10NE0089 41O10NE0089
T-2052 / 63.936 41O10NE0064 41O10NE0064
T-3497 / 63.5864 41O09NW0076 41O09NW0076

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Abitibi

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Swayze

Tectonic Assemblage: Hong Kong

Geological Age: Neoarchean   Geochronological Age: 2729 MA   Geochron. Age Ref.: GOO VOL 1



Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Ironstone-unsubdivided 1 Banded Iron Formation Contains
Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided 2 Tholeiitic Basalt Adjacent
Vein 3 Quartz Host

Lithology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - Mineralization is hosted in a 2 - 7 cm wide quartz vein within a tholeiitic basalt.




Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
1SphaleriteEconomicOre
2GalenaEconomicOre

Mineralization Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - Disseminated sphalerite and galena and rare galena crystals, up to 3 mm, in a quartz vein. A grab sample returned 2.4% Zn, 0.61% Pb, negiligible Cu and precious metals.



Mineral Record Details

Mineral Zones - Size and Shape

Rank: 1       Structure Type: Vein

Zone Name: Detour Lake - Rank 1
Shape Length Thickness Depth Strike Dip Plunge Trend Age Reference
Unknown 1.4 .01 54 40 N/A N/A

References

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: 68  Date: 1985

Author: Rose, D. G.

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

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


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


Mono - Garnet Lake area, Sudbury District

Publication Number: OFR5438 Page: 46  Date: 1983

Author: Siragusa G.M.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


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

Publication Number: R248 Page: 61  Date: 1987

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: 116-117  Date: 1995

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

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


Book - Cunningham Township - Unpublished GDIF

Publication Number: GDIF Date: 1986

Author: Resident Geologist Staff

Publisher Name:

Location: Timmins RGP


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