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| Record Name(s) | Landers - 1982, Wdowczyk-Landers - 1982 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Discretionary Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1992-Aug-20 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Mar-28 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Horwood
Latitude: 47° 57' 4.16" Longitude: -82° 23' 22.39"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 396248.809 Northing: 5311805.625 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Timmins
NTS Grid: 41O16NW
Point Location Description: Small pop hole some twenty metres north of road.
Location Method: Field Visit with GPS
Access Description: A secondary road which leads to Horwood Lake passes a small outcrop beside the road some 180m east of a small quarry which in turn is 1.5 km east of the Orofino Mine site. The reported occurrence is some 20m north of this outcrop. The road leading to the Orofino Mine, the Rundle Mine, and Newton township branches off the Dore Main Haul road.
1982 J. Landers together with R Wdowczyk carried out a little bit of stripping and blew a small pop hole in an outcrop.
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Abitibi
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Swayze
Geological Age: Neoarchean Geochronological Age: 2700 MA Geochron. Age Ref.: GOO VOL 1
Metamorphism Type: Regional
Metamorphism Grade: Greenschist
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 1 | Basalt | Host |
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Dec 07, 2005 (S Fumerton) - The outcrop consists of a greyish olive green, foliated amygdaloidal basalt. There is some week chlorite alteration in the rock and the amygdules are filled with calcite. Calcite also occurs in a few thin stringers subparallel to the foliation.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pyrite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| Chlorite | Alteration | Chloritic | 1 | Weak | Replacement | ||
| Calcite | Alteration | Carbonatization | 2 | Weak | Veins |
Dec 07, 2005 (S Fumerton) - Pyrite is erratically disseminated and forms up to 2% of the rock in small patches.
Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - The best assay from a grab sample collected by the OGS in 1986 was 0.1 g/t Au.
| Commodity | Analytical Method | Digestion Method | Result | Unit | Limit | Qualifier |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gold | Unknown | .1 | ||||
| Gold | Unknown | ppm | BDL | |||
| Silver | Unknown | ppm | BDL |
| Rank | Classification |
|---|---|
| 5 | Magmatic |
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 5 | Disseminated |
| Shape | Length | Thickness | Depth | Strike | Dip | Plunge | Trend | Age | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | N/A | N/A |
Date: Aug 20, 1992
Geologist: S Fumerton
Notes: The work in this area simply consists of a limited amount of stripping on the side of an outcrop and one very small pop hole.
File - Resident Geologist file T-2424
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Location: Timmins RGP office
Map - Geology, Swayze greenstone belt, Rush Lake, Ontario
Publication Number: OF3384c Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 1999
Author: Heather, K B; Shore, G T
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/210451
File - Resident Geologist files 1946, air photo
Publication Number: Date: 1996
Author:
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Map - Geology, Swayze Greenstone Belt, Ontario [legend and figures]
Publication Number: OF 3384A Date: 1999
Author: Heather, K B; Shore, G T
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/210446
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: 293-284 Date: 1995
Author: Fumerton S.L., Houle K.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Book - Horwood Township - unpublished GDIF
Publication Number: GDIF Date: 1990
Author: Resident Geologist Staff
Publisher Name:
Location: Timmins RGP
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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