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Record: MDI41P07NE00016

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Gowganda-Duggan Mine - 1925, Duggain - 1907
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Prospect
Date Created 1980-Aug-13
Date Last Modified 2023-Mar-27
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Silver

Secondary Commodities: Nickel, Cobalt



Location

Township or Area: Donovan

Latitude: 47° 28' 7.96"    Longitude: -80° 43' 23.1"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 520867.997   Northing: 5257308.004    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Kirkland Lake

NTS Grid: 41P07NE

Point Location Description: Shaft

Location Method: AMIS Site Visit



Exploration History

1909-20: trenching and pitting 1925-28: Gowganda Duggan Silver Mines - shaft sinking and development 1936: Bachelor Duggan Mines Limited - property acquisition. 1963: Consolidated Red Poplar Minerals Limited - prospecting, DD-6-1097 feet




Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Vein 1 Quartz-Carbonate Host
Gabbro 2 Pyroxene Adjacent

Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
3SilverEconomicOre
4NiccoliteEconomicOre
5SmaltiteEconomicOre
1ChalcopyriteEconomicGangue

Mineralization Comments

Nov 16, 2009 (A Wilson) - An isolated assay in a drill hole returned 10.7 kg/t Ag over 0.6 m. An assay from Consolidated Red Poplar's drilling returned 0.22 g/t Ag over 2 feet. A sample from the 10 foot level in the shaft returned 311.9 oz/t Ag.


Mar 27, 2023 (Q Unknown) - Veins: carbonate in diabase. Isolated assay in drill hole 10.7 kg/t Ag/0.6m



Mineral Record Details

Classification
RankClassification            
1 Vein

References

File - Resident Geologist files CO-0901, CO-0902

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Location: Kirkland Lake RGP office


Map - Smoothwater Lake, Timiskaming District

Publication Number: M2256 Scale: 1:63,360    Date: 1973

Author: Card K.D., McIlwaine W.H.

Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines

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Part - Mines of Ontario in 1925

Publication Number: ARV35-01.004 Page: 147  Date: 1997

Author: Sutherland T.F., McMillan J.G., Sinclair D.G., Cole G.E., Webster A.R.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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Part - Mines of Ontario in 1924

Publication Number: ARV34-01.003 Page: 156  Date: 1997

Author: Sutherland T.F., McMillan J.G., Bartlett J., Cole G.E., Webster A.R.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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Part - Mines of Ontario in 1927

Publication Number: ARV37-01.003 Page: 168-169  Date: 1998

Author: Sutherland T.F., McMillan J.G., Sinclair D.G., Cole G.E., Webster A.R.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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Part - Gowganda silver area (4th report, revised)

Publication Number: ARV35-03.001 Page: 58  Date: 1998

Author: Burrows A.G.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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MonoMap - Geology of the Maple Mountain area, districts of Timiskaming, Nipissing and Sudbury

Publication Number: R106 Page: 74-75  Date: 1973

Author: Card K.D., McIlwaine W.H., Meyn H.D.

Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines

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Mono - Silver cobalt calcite vein deposits of Ontario

Publication Number: MDC010 Page: 415  Date: 1968

Author: Sergiades A.O.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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