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Record: MDI41O10NE00066

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s)	Consolidated Shunsby #4 - 1970
Related Record Type	Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status	Occurrence
Date Created	1996-Jan-26
Date Last Modified	2022-Sep-27
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Zinc, Silver, Lead, Copper

Location

Township or Area: Cunningham

Latitude: 47° 43' 9.25" Longitude: -82° 40' 30.29"

UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 374371.67 Northing: 5286454.25 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: Easy access is possible via a series of secondary roads extending north from the main Sultan Access Road. See the main Shunsby deposit for details.

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	Brecciated	Host

Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank	Mineral Name	Class	Economic Mineral Type
1	Galena	Economic	Ore
2	Chalcopyrite	Economic	Ore
3	Sphalerite	Economic	Ore
1	Pyrite	Economic	Gangue
2	Pyrrhotite	Economic	Gangue

Mineralization Comments

Feb 03, 2016 (A Wilson) - Grab samples collected by the OGS in 1970 returned values of 7.1 g/t Ag, 0.10% Cu, 2.1% Zn; 15.4 g/t Ag, 0.14% Cu, 5.05% Pb, 15.7% Zn; 7.5 g/t Ag, 0.12% Cu, 2.2% Pb, 11.1% Zn.

Mineral Record Details

Classification
Rank	Classification
2	Exhalative
1	Sedimentary

Characteristics
Rank	Characteristic
1	Disseminated
3	Massive
2	Vein

Mineral Zones - Size and Shape

Rank: 1 Structure Type: Breccia

Zone Name: Detour Lake - Rank 1
Shape	Length	Thickness	Depth	Strike	Dip	Plunge	Trend	Age	Reference
Unknown

References

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:

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:

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:

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: 129-130 Date: 1995

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

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

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