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Record: MDI41P07NE00017

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Hains Shaft - 1920, Claim G.G.2606 - 1920
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Discretionary Occurrence
Date Created 1980-Aug-13
Date Last Modified 2023-Mar-27
Created By
Revised By

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Silver

Secondary Commodities: Nickel, Cobalt



Location

Township or Area: Donovan

Latitude: 47° 28' 32.22"    Longitude: -80° 43' 8.63"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 521168.004   Northing: 5258057.998    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Kirkland Lake

NTS Grid: 41P07NE

Point Location Description: shaft

Location Method: AMIS Site Visit





Lithology

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

Lithology Comments

Nov 16, 2009 (A Wilson) - The vein varies from 1 to 2.5 inches in width with a strike of N62°E. It is hosted by a coarse-grained diabase showing some reddish granophyric interstices of quartz and feldspar.


Mar 27, 2023 (Q Unknown) - Veins: calcite in diabase




Mineralization

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

Mineralization Comments

Nov 16, 2009 (A Wilson) - The vein carries disseminated smaltite, niccolite, chloanthite and some native silver.



Mineral Record Details

References

File - Resident Geologist file CO-0901

Publication Number: Date:

Author:

Publisher Name:

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

Location:


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

Publication Number: R106 Page: 78  Date: 1973

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

Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines

Location:


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

Location:


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

Publication Number: ARV35-03.001 Page: 57  Date: 1998

Author: Burrows A.G.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


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