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| Record Name(s) | Kenty #3 Shaft - 1994, Kenty #21 Vein - 1934 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1999-Nov-25 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Sep-27 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Swayze
Latitude: 47° 50' 15.26" Longitude: -82° 36' 4.08"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 380189.786 Northing: 5299488.359 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Timmins
NTS Grid: 41O15SE
Point Location Description: Head frame on an open cut that extends in both directions into a swamp.
Location Method: Field Visit with GPS
Access Description: Easy access is possible via th eKenty Mine access road from the Dore road. From the #2 shaft at the Kenty Mine, a series of trails lead to the various stripped areas and the stripped area on the northwest side of the pond. The #3 shaft can be accessed by a short traverse to the southeast part of the pond across the swamp.
1932-34: J. G. Kenty and J. L. Kenty - discovery. No other reported work on the vein.
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
Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - The mineralization, like the other Kenty veins, appears to be emplaced along a system of fractures.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Vein | 1 | Quartz | Host |
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| Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 2 | Medium Grained Flow | Adjacent |
Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - The mineralization is hosted in a medium- to fine-grained, dark green, massive mafic metavolcanic. This has been cut by a narrow, though intense, zone of alteration. The alteration is primarily characterized by a 2 m wide zone of replacement iron carbonated centred on a braided quartz vein system. Less extensive than the carbonate alteration, is a zone of disseminated pyrite which extends tens of centimetres from the veins. The quartz veining has a number of different habits. The larger veins, which are in excess of 30 cm, tend to be simple parallel veins. Smaller veins form a braided stockwork and fill conjugate fractures, local breccias and hydraulic stoping.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pyrite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 2 | Pyrrhotite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| Pyrite | Alteration | Pyritic | 1 | Strong | Disseminated |
Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - Very little sulphide mineralization occurs within the quartz veins. Rather, disseminated subhedral pyrite occus in the altered wallrock. Pyrite grains are up to 2 mm in size and forms up to 5% of the altered material. The trace amounts of pyrite within the quartz veins are concentrated in chloritic seams. Within the unaltered mafic volcanics, fine-grained, disseminated, pyrrhotite occurs concentrated in stringers and along fractures. Grab samples taken by the OGS in 1987 returned values of 4.92 g/t Au and 3.00g/t Ag. Grab and muck samples taken by the OGS in 1994 returned values of 4.24 g/t Au and 2.9 g/t Ag, 0.110 g/t Au and 0.1 g/t Ag, 6.93 g/t Au and 2.7 g/t Ag, and 0.17 g/t Au and 0.1 g/t Ag.
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Mesothermal |
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 1 | Vein |
| Shape | Length | Thickness | Depth | Strike | Dip | Plunge | Trend | Age | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tabular | 20 | 2 | 34 | 54 |
Part - Geology of the Swayze gold area
Publication Number: ARV43-03.001 Page: 21 Date: 1998
Author: Rickaby H.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
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:
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: 224-226 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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