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| Record Name(s) | Michelle Zone - 2010, Dome West Extension - 1984, West Zone Extension - 2002, SaraCourt Property - 2009, Abitibi-West Property - 2009, Greenshield Resources L23 Area - 2003 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Prospect |
| Date Created | 1999-Nov-10 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Mar-27 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Newton
Latitude: 47° 52' 55.98" Longitude: -82° 24' 5.19"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 395222.001 Northing: 5304159.999 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Timmins
NTS Grid: 41O16NW
Point Location Description: Stripped outcrop on south side of hill
Location Method: Field Visit with GPS
Access Description: Access to the general area of the occurrence is easy via the Dore main haul road and the Orofino Mine/Rundle Mine access road. Several kilometers south of the Swayze River, a good drill road branches off of the Rundle road and goes south before turning west and running to Newton Creek. At Newton Creek, the road becomes a winter drill trail extending south and east to the mineral occurrence in a stripped outcrop.
1930's: Hollinger Consolidated Gold Mines Ltd. - exploration. 1966: Hanna Mining Company - airborne mag and EM, reconnaissance and detailed mapping. 1982-87: Dome Exploration - reconnaissance mapping and lithogeochemistry; stripping, diamond drilling (23 ddh), detailed mapping, ground geophysics, prospecting. 1996-1997: Echo Bay Mines Ltd. - prospecting, trenching. 2002-2004: Greenshield Resources Ltd. - ground geophysics, sampling, 6 ddh (1041 m). 2009-2011: Red Pine Exploration Inc. - airborne geophysics, ground geophysics, mapping, stripping, sampling, DD-14-2023m, till sampling
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| T-6248 | 20000007636 | 20000007636 |
| T-6230 | 20000006503 | 20000006503 |
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
Mar 28, 2011 (A Wilson) - The shearing and foliation parallel to the porphyry dike contacts does not extend any distance from the porphyry dikes. However, the quartz vein stockwork in the porphyries are parallel to different joint sets which extend some distance from the stripped area. The rectangular veins are oriented 180/80W, 280/65N (parallel to the contact). The late en-echelon veins are oriented 155/80W.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Quartz-Feldspar Porphyry | 1 | Quartz Feldspar | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mafic pillowed flow | 2 | Fe Tholeiitic Basalt | Pillowed | Host |
| Alkali-Feldspar Syenite | 3 | Brecciated Albitite Dike | Intrudes |
Dec 05, 2011 (A Wilson) - The stripped area has exposed a series of quartz porphyry dikes intruding a pillowed basalt. In the area exposed, this basalt is strongly altered to iron carbonate and chlorite and is sheared adjacent to the porphyry contacts. Otherwise, the porphyry is strongly foliated. Away from the stripped area, the basaltic rocks form massive coarse and fine-grained or variolitic flows with no significant alteration. There are two types of quartz porphyry dikes; an early phase of quartz porphyry which is a pink colour, massive, with trace amounts of pyrite. These early dikes are 2 - 5 m thick and trend 280. Only one of the second phase of porphyry dikes have been exposed and has intruded along the axis of an early phase porphyry. This dike is about 5 m thick, white and is marked by an absence or weak carbonate alteration, and minor amounts of pyrite. Both dikes have an aphanitic matrix and contain 10-20% quartz phenocrysts. Both phases of porphyry are pervaded by an extensive stockwork of thin quartz veinlets (<5mm). These veins also occur in two stages. The earlier veins form an extensive rectangular pattern of veins every 5 - 50 mm. In the white propphyry, these veins are almost exclusively formed of quartz, but in the pink porphyry the veins are composed of chlorite and quartz. The later veinlets are composed of quartz and carbonate, occur in widespread en-echelon arrays in both porphyries and locally are associated with some shear breccia. Drilling to date has indicated numerous extensive shear vein systems that are open along strike and at depth. Mineralization is hosted in local brittle shears in crystal tuff, altered basalts and porphyry dikes within carbonatized, silicified and pyritized shear envelopes
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pyrite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| Carbonate | Alteration | Carbonatization | 1 | Medium | Replacement | ||
| Chlorite | Alteration | Chloritic | 2 | Weak | Replacement | ||
| Quartz | Alteration | Silicification | 3 | Medium | Veins |
Dec 05, 2011 (A Wilson) - Chip samples taken by the OGS in 1992 returned values of 0.27 g/t Au, 6.2 g/t Au, 0.14 g/t Au and 0.30 g/t Au. The best assay reported by Dome Exploration was 6.00 g/t Au. Best intersections from the 2002 drilling returned values of 8.18g/t Au over 5.05 m. Significant assays from the Red Pine drilling include: 4.05 g/t Au over 35 m including 7.76 g/t Au over 15.42 m in RPX10-2 and 2.65 g/t Au over 40 m in RPX-10-08. Resampling of Greenshield historic drill core yielded the following results 2.35 g/t Au over 52.4m, including 5.07 g/t Au over 3.0 m and 5.45 g/t Au over 17.00 m in G02-01 and 1.44 g/t Au over 20 m in G-02-02.
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Mesothermal |
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 2 | Breccia |
| 3 | Sheared |
| 1 | Stockwork |
| Shape | Length | Thickness | Depth | Strike | Dip | Plunge | Trend | Age | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Irregular | 1400 | 280 | 65 |
Date: Nov 01, 2010
Geologist: B Atkinson
Notes: The Michelle gold occurrence is overlain by 1 to 2 m of glacial deposits, which had been recently excavated to expose the bedrock. An east-trending 0.5 m wide albitite dike occurs at the contact between iron-carbonate-altered and deformed mafic flows and feldspar porphyry intrusions. At the west end of the trench, a fault breccia contains large rotated blocks of porphyry, aplite and contorted mafic volcanic rocks. Variolitic mafic flows outcrop on the west end of the trenched area. Roadside outcrops 3 km east of the Michelle occurrence (UTM Zone 17, NAD 83, 398132E, 5304613N) have been stripped, sampled and mapped by Red Pine. Referred to as the DZ3 Zone, the rocks are mylonitized mafic flows cut by foliation-parallel mafic dikes and boudinaged quartz veins. Several episodes of deformation have affected the rocks and the transposed foliations trend 090/65N.
File - Resident Geologist file T-2041
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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
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: 295-297 Date: 1995
Author: Fumerton S.L., Houle K.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Geological Compilation of the Swayze Area, Abitibi Greenstone Belt
Publication Number: P3511 Scale: 1:100,000 Date: 2002
Author: Ayer J.A., Trowell N.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Report of Activities 2010, Resident Geologist Program, Timmins Regional Resident Geologist Report: Timmins and Sault Ste. Marie Districts
Publication Number: OFR6264 Page: 77-79 Date: 2011
Author: Atkinson B.T., Bousquet P., Pace A., Burnett S., Butorac S., Draper D.M., Metsaranta D.-A., Wilson A.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Publication - Red Pine Exploration Inc. - press releases
Publication Number: clippings Date: 2009
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Location: Timmins RGO
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