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MDI41P10NW00020
| Record Name(s) | Big Four - 1926, Banker Bay - 1968, R.D. MacDougald - 1984 |
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| Related Record Type | Compound |
| Related Record(s) | |
| Record Status | Prospect |
| Date Created | 1984-Apr-25 |
| Date Last Modified | 2024-Jul-05 |
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Primary Commodities: Silver, Cobalt, Gold, Copper, Nickel, Iron
Township or Area: Nicol
Latitude: 47° 39' 18.78" Longitude: -80° 45' 37.86"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 517983 Northing: 5278008 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kirkland Lake
NTS Grid: 41P10NW
Point Location Description: AMIS Shaft location
Location Method: AMIS Site Visit
1920s-1930s: Capitol Silver Mines, Trethewey Silver and Cobalt Mines Limited, later consolidated under Castle Trethewey Mines Ltd. stripping, shafts sinking, production activities of the mine ceased around 1931. 1947 – 1950: Quebec Yellowknife Gold Mines Ltd.- geological survey and mapping, trenching and drilling. 1951 – 1953: Indore Gold Mines Ltd.- drilling, trenching. 1951 – 1966: Indore Gold Mines Ltd. silver mining activities. 1961: Caesar Minerals Ltd.- drilling (7 DDH, 214 m), ground geophysics (MAG), trenching, sampling and assaying. 1967 - 1972: Siscoe Mines- soil sampling and assaying. 2008: Norcanex Resources Ltd. airborne geophysics (AMG). 2010-2018: Transition Metals Corp.- ground geophysics (IP), stripping, rock sampling and assaying. 2020-2021: Battery Mineral Resources Ltd.- data compilation, drilling (19 DDH, 2022 m), rock and channel sampling and assaying.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| 41P10NE0021 | 41P10NE0021 | |
| 20000003298 | 20000003298 | |
| 20000017153 | 20000017153 | |
| 20000018422 | 20000018422 | |
| 20000020042 | 20000020042 | |
| 20000019504 | 20000019504 | |
| 20000019552 | 20000019552 | |
| 20000020361 | 20000020361 |
Province: Southern
Subprovince: Cobalt Basin
Supergroup: Huronian Supergroup
Metamorphism Type: Regional
Metamorphism Grade: Greenschist
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Vein | 1 | Quartz, calcite | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Felsic lava flow-unsubdivided | 2 | Dacite, felsic tuff | Porphyritic | Contains |
| Intermediate Tuff | 3 | Near | ||
| Diabase | 4 | Sudbury Dyke/ Matachewan Dyke | Contains | |
| Feldspathic Wacke | 6 | Gowganda Formation | Adjacent | |
| Conglomerate | 7 | Gowganda Formation | Adjacent | |
| Sandstone | 8 | Feldspathic | Lorrain Formation | Adjacent |
| Ironstone-unsubdivided | 9 | Pyrite-sulphide Archean iron formation | Contains | |
| Ultramafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 10 | Host | ||
| Quartz Porphyry | 11 | Footwall | ||
| Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 12 | Near | ||
| Intermediate lava flow-unsubdivided | 13 | Near |
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | Calcite | Economic And Alteration | Gangue | ||||
| 1 | Pyrite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 2 | Pyrrhotite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 3 | Arsenopyrite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 4 | Cobaltite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 5 | Galena | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 7 | Erythrite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 8 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 10 | Sphalerite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 9 | Chlorite | Alteration | |||||
| 11 | Silica | Alteration |
Jul 05, 2024 (Nazha Sabiri) - Grab sample from a sulphide rich oxidized zone assayed 1.15 ppm gold while the best gold value intersected in hole BF20009 (mistakenly listed as GML20009 in file 20000019504) was 0.378 ppm over 10.0 m. Hole GBF20002 has the highest cobalt assay of 9270 ppm over 0.22 m, it also assayed 5490 ppm copper and 15.6 ppm silver over same mineralized interval that consists of a cobalt-arsenides vein in a mineralized and altered ultramafic rocks. Hole GBF20012 (listed as GML20012 ) intersected highest cobalt values of 1020 ppm over 1 .0 m (12 m to 13 m), 942 ppm over 0.5 m (13 m to 13.5 m) form a cobalt-rich quartz carbonate vein hosted in a chlorite and carbonate altered mafic to ultramafic intrusive unit, and 678 ppm cobalt over 0.5 m (20 m to 20.5 m) in a massive felsic to intermediate intrusive unit altered with chlorite, hematite and silica. Hole GBF20012A (listed as GML20012A) intersected a 1.0 m interval (30.0 m to 31.0 m) assaying 1.12% zinc, 133.5 ppm cobalt, 10.4 ppm silver and 0.086 ppm gold from a massive to semi-massive sulphide (pyrite, pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite and sphalerite) rich zone with lithologies that vary from the porphyritic unit to aphanitic diabase dyke. Hole BF20015 (listed as GML20015) intersected best cobalt value of 3640 ppm over 0.17 m (76.48 m to 76.65 m) from a silica altered massive felsic volcanic unit, 305 ppm over 2.0 m (134.5 m to 136.5 m) and 304 ppm over 1.0 m (165.0 m to 166.0 m). Other best assays include 2.21% cobalt, 1.68% copper, 4.79% nickel and 32.5% iron (File 20000019504). Hole GBF21019 intersected 0.04% cobalt over 1.0 m and hole GBF21021 intersected 0.20% cobalt and 0.445 copper over 0.8 m (File 20000020361).
File - Resident Geologist files CO-1662, CO-1665
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Author:
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Location: Kirkland Lake RGP office
Map - Haultain and Nicol townships, Timiskaming District
Publication Number: M2349 Scale: 1:31,680 Date: 1976
Author: McIlwaine W.H.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines
Location:
Part - Gowganda silver area (4th report, revised)
Publication Number: ARV35-03.001 Page: 40 Date: 1998
Author: Burrows A.G.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Silver cobalt calcite vein deposits of Ontario
Publication Number: MDC010 Page: 411 Date: 1968
Author: Sergiades A.O.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - Geology of the Gowganda Lake-Miller Lake silver area, District of Timiskaming
Publication Number: R175 Page: 124-126 Date: 1978
Author: McIlwaine W.H.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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