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Record: MDI41O15SE00012

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Swayze Lake - 1991, Denyes Exploration Claims - 1934
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Discretionary Occurrence
Date Created 1991-Jan-30
Date Last Modified 2023-Mar-28
Created By
Revised By

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold



Location

Township or Area: Swayze

Latitude: 47° 49' 4.27"    Longitude: -82° 43' 36.74"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 370732.174   Northing: 5297499.47    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Timmins

NTS Grid: 41O15SE

Point Location Description: Trenches of Denyes Exploration Syndicate in AR 43 pt 3

Location Method: Conversion from MDI

Access Description: An easy, though long, trip (12 km) with all terrrain vehicles is required west along the Middleton Road and then north along a branch road. The Middleton Road connects with the main Dore Road at the eastern boundary of Swayze Township.



Exploration History

1932: J. E. Derraugh - staking, trenching,sampling. 1932: Dome Mines - trenching and stripping. 1932-34: Kirkland Hudson Bay Gold Mines - 11 ddh. 1969: A. Brown - trenching. 1971: E. Brown - trenching. 1983: Norminex Ltd. - geological mapping, soil geochemistry, mag survey. 1986-88: Glen Auden Resources - geological mapping, ground magnetometer survey, IP survey, lithogeochemistry, stripping.


Assessment Work on File

Assessment Work on File
Office File Number Online Assessment File Identifier Online Assessment File Directory
T-2796 41O15SE0083 41O15SE0083
T-3036, 2.11002 41O15SE0048 41O15SE0048
2.10509, T-3036 41O15SE0053 41O15SE0053
2.9965, T-3036 41O15SE9093 41O15SE9093
2.10272, T-3036 41O15SE0056 41O15SE0056
63.5205, T-3036 41O15SE0039 41O15SE0039
2.11548, T-3036 41O15SE0041 41O15SE0041
23, T-3036 41O15SE0045 41O15SE0045
63.5420, T-3036 41O15SE0574 41O15SE0574
21, T-3036 41O15SW0039 41O15SW0039

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 Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Felsic lava flow-unsubdivided 1 Rhyolite Adjacent
Schist-Unsubdivided 2 Adjacent
Vein 3 Quartz Contains
Porphyry-unsubdivided 4 Adjacent

Lithology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - The country rock consists of arkose, greywacke, trachyte tuffs and flows cut by dikes of quartz porphyry. Some small quartz veins carrying values in gold have been uncovered.




Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
1PyriteEconomicGangue

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

References

File - Resident Geologist file T-2065

Publication Number: Date:

Author:

Publisher Name:

Location: Timmins RGP office


Map - Swayze gold area, District of Sudbury, Ontario

Publication Number: ARM43B Scale: 1:63,360    Date: 1997

Author: Rickaby H.C.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


Part - Geology of the Swayze gold area

Publication Number: ARV43-03.001 Page: 29  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:


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: 121  Date: 1979

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

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


File - Resident Geologist files 1980, air photos

Publication Number: Date: 1996

Author:

Publisher Name:

Location: Timmins RGP office


Book - Swayze Township - unpublished GDIF

Publication Number: GDIF Date: 1988

Author: Resident Geologist Staff

Publisher Name:

Location: Timmins RGP office


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: 206-208  Date: 1995

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

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


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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