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Record: MDI41O15SE00010

General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold

Location

Township or Area: Swayze

Latitude: 47° 50' 5.99"    Longitude: -82° 37' 52.42"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 377931.809   Northing: 5299249.354    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Timmins

NTS Grid: 41O15SE

Point Location Description: An old trench towards the eastern end of a series excavated in the thirties.

Location Method: Data Compilation

Access Description: Access is possible via a rough trail which extends from the old Kenty Mine Road to the former Swayze Townsite on the shore of Brett Lake. From a point near the lake, a skidder trail extends north and passes with a half kilometre of the prospect.

Exploration History

1932 Messrs McNeely and McCullough staked ground adjacent to the Kenty discovery and carried out a trenching and stripping program in the search for extensions to the Kenty gold mineralization. A number of narrow low grade showings were reported. 1976 Umex flew a regional magnetic survey and based on this work staked some claims which covered the prospect. No follow-up ground work is on file. 1982 The Canadian Nickel Company flew a regional electromagnetic, magnetic and radiometric survey which covered the prospect. As Caninco did not hold the ground, ground follow-up was directed else where. 1983 Swayze Resources carried out a geological mapping program and located the old trenches. In the following year a number of areas along the trend of the original trenches were stripped and some old trenches were resampled. Assays results varied from 0.1 g/t to 5.9 g/t Au (0.173 opt) and averaged 2.1 g/t. 1990 Messrs Troup and Otton re-evaluated the favourable rocks west of the Kenty Mine. Work consisted of rock, lake, stream, humus, and some till sampling. Except for two anomalous rock samples collected at the old trenches on the prospect (0.16 and 0.48 g/t Au), results for the other geochemical techniques were disappointing.

Assessment Work on File

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Abitibi

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Swayze

Tectonic Assemblage: Halcrow-Swayze

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

Metamorphism Type: Regional

Metamorphism Grade: Greenschist

Lithology

Lithology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (S Fumerton) - The mineralization occurs in a series of quartz veins / stockworks hosted in mafic metavolcanics. Other quartz veins and various trenches associated with the prospect generally follow a major contact between a felsic intrusive body to the south and the mafic volcanics but are slightly off-set to the north.

Mineralization

Mineralization Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (S Fumerton) - Pyrite is associated with the auriferous trenches and locally forms up to 20%.

Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - Assays from samples taken at the time of discovery returned low grade values. Swayze Resources resampled the trenches in 1983 and obtained values of 0.1 g/t Au to 5.9 g/t Au and averaged values of 2.1 g/t Au. Samples collected in 1990 from the same trenches returned values of 0.16 g/t Au and 0.48 g/t Au.

Mineral Record Details

Mineral Zones - Size and Shape

Rank: 1       Structure Type: Contact

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: 41O-121  Date: 1985

Author: Rose, D. G.

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

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

File - Resident Geologist file T-2784

Publication Number: Date:

Author:

Publisher Name:

Location: Timmins RGP office

Map - Swayze and Dore townships, Sudbury District

Publication Number: M2070 Scale: 1:31,680    Date: 1997

Author: Donovan J.F.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:

Part - Geology of the Swayze gold area

Publication Number: ARV43-03.001 Page: 25-26  Date: 1998

Author: Rickaby H.C.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:

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

Publication Number: R157 Page: 188  Date: 1977

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

Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines

Location:

File - Resident Geologist files 1980, air photos

Publication Number: Date: 1996

Author:

Publisher Name:

Location: Timmins RGP office

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: 86-87  Date: 1979

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

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: 215-216  Date: 1995

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

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

Book - Swayze Township - unpublished GDIF

Publication Number: GDIF Date: 1988

Author: Resident Geologist Staff

Publisher Name:

Location: Timmins RGP office

Map - Geology, Swayze greenstone belt, Rollo Lake, Ontario

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

Author: Heather, K B; Shore, G T

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/210450

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