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Record: MDI41O15SE00053

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Olive Gold Float - 1994
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Discretionary Occurrence
Date Created 1999-Nov-25
Date Last Modified 2023-Mar-28
Created By
Revised By

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold



Location

Township or Area: Swayze

Latitude: 47° 45' 52.55"    Longitude: -82° 39' 43.16"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 375461.709   Northing: 5291474.276    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Timmins

NTS Grid: 41O15SE

Point Location Description: Large boulder broken by blasting near an old trench.

Location Method: Data Compilation

Access Description: Relatively easy access is possible via the Dore Road, which connects with the old wagon road from Sultan to the Kenty Mine. The old trenches are about 3 km south along the wagon road which is now an ATV trail to Cree Creek. The creek can be waded and the float is another 2 km down the road.



Exploration History

1939: Olive Gold Mines Ltd. - prospecting. 1984: Quinterra Resources - reconnaissance mapping, prospecting. 1990: Cree Lake Resources - data compilation, HLEM and magnetic ground surveys, prospecting.


Assessment Work on File

Assessment Work on File
Office File Number Online Assessment File Identifier Online Assessment File Directory
T-2469 42B01SE0055 42B01SE0055
T-3527, 63.6111 41O15SE0033 41O15SE0033
2.14787, T-3527 41O15SE9091 41O15SE9091
2.14947, T-3527 41O15SE9092 41O15SE9092

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Abitibi

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Swayze

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



Geology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - No description has been published on this occurrence.




Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Ironstone-unsubdivided 1 Banded Iron Formation Host

Lithology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - Quinterra Resources determined that the auriferous material originally reported by Olive Gold Mines Ltd. occurred in float. The source for the boulder has not been determined. Gold values from samples collected from the float returned values of 30.1 g/t Au. Other boulders in the area did not return such high gold values.




Mineralization Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - Gold values for samples taken from the boulder returned values of 30.1 g/t Au. Samples taken of the same boulder, in 1990, returned values of 0.28 and 0.30 g/t Au.



Mineral Record Details

Classification
RankClassification            
1 Sedimentary
Characteristics
Rank Characteristic            
1 Layered

Mineral Zones - Size and Shape

Rank: 1       Structure Type: None

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

References

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: 219-220  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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