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| Record Name(s) | Steep Vein - 1914, Vintage - 1973, Tom Mullan - 1995, P.J. Hawley - 1995 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1982-Dec-20 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-May-09 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Secondary Commodities: Zinc, Lead
Township or Area: Asquith
Latitude: 47° 34' 23.79" Longitude: -81° 16' 45.63"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 478991 Northing: 5268911 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kirkland Lake
NTS Grid: 41P11SW
Point Location Description: Shaft location on map in Assessment report 41P11SW0218
Location Method: Data Compilation
1914: Steep Vein was discovered and a 100-foot inclined shaft was sunk. 1973-74: Vintage Mines conducted a magnetometer and EM-16 survey, and drilled 5 DDH near the old shaft. 1978-81: A. Jutras drille 5 shallow holes on two small islands east of McRae Island and 1 DDH on the Steep vein. 1983: Southgate Resources optioned the property and drilled 5 DDH. 1985: Southgate conducted VLF-EM and magnetic surveys, and carried out geological mapping. 1988: Teck Explorations, on behalf of Top Gun Exploration Inc., carried out line cutting, VLF-EM and magnetometer surveys, and drilled 1 DDH totalling 40.6 m. 2021: IAMGOLD Corp. carried out mapping and prospecting.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| CO-0016 / 2.16292 | 41P11SW0014 | 41P11SW0014 |
| 2.1412 | 41P11SW0275 | 41P11SW0275 |
| 63.3220 | 41P11SW0269 | 41P11SW0269 |
| 63.3105 | 41P11SW0274 | 41P11SW0274 |
| 2.12726 | 41P11SW0218 | 41P11SW0218 |
| 24 | 41P11SW0243 | 41P11SW0243 |
| 29 | 41P11SW0235 | 41P11SW0235 |
| 15 | 41P11SW8443 | 41P11SW8443 |
| 38 | 41P11SW0221 | 41P11SW0221 |
| 72920 | 20000019663 | 20000019663 |
| 2.8089 | 41P11SW0289 | 41P11SW0289 |
| 63.5234 | 41P11SW0227 | 41P11SW0227 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Abitibi
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Abitibi
Geological Age: Archean
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Intermediate lava flow-unsubdivided | 1 | Andesite | Adjacent |
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| Schist-Unsubdivided | 2 | Adjacent | ||
| Mylonite/Fault Gouge/Pseudotachylite | 3 | Shear Zone | Contains | |
| Vein | 4 | blue-grey quartz | Contains |
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Gold | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 5 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 10 | Galena | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 25 | Sphalerite | Economic | Ore |
May 06, 2022 (Therese Pettigrew) - The ‘Steep’ Occurrence consists of a narrow shear zone hosted boudinaged blue-grey quartz vein with fine grained visible gold and pyrite. The Steep vein samples collected during the 2021 were especially encouraging and comparable to historic values. Highlights from the program include 34.4 g/t Au & 41.5 g/t Au from grab samples taken from a pile of grey quartz fly rock with fine grained visible gold just 5 meters north of the historical Steep shaft. Another grab sample taken from loose grey quartz vein material in the Penny Lane trench 15 meters west of the shaft area retrieved 36 g/t Au. The chip channel samples were anomalous as well with the vein samples assaying at 13.7 g/t Au over 0.12 m, 4.49 g/t Au over 0.1 m and 4.31 g/t Au over 0.1 m. The chip channel samples from the wall rock were inconsistently anomalous with values up to 0.419 g/t Au over 0.4m. An outcrop 13 meters northwest of the shaft returned 3.44 g/t Au in a grab sample hosting 1-2% fine grained pyrite suggests the mineralization may be wider than the Steep Occurrence trench exposures and suggestions mineralization may continue to the north of the Steep vein (Assessment report 20000019663).
May 06, 2022 (Q Unknown) - DIAMOND DRILLING: REF. 2 OR 10, ADJACENT OCCURRENCE: REF. (13) TECK; 1.5G/T AU IN DH 600M SOUTH AND 260M WEST OF STEEP SHAFT; REF. 14: ZN ASSAY OF 1.5% IN GRAB SAMPLE BY FORT KNOX; Samples collected from this location in 1995 yielded one significant Au value of 0.30 ounces per ton.
| Year | Tonnes | Commodities | Reference | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 0 | MDI |
File - Resident Geologist files 1937, Steep, E.
Publication Number: AFCO 1937 Date: 1937
Author:
Publisher Name:
Location:
Map - Geological series, Asquith Township, District of Sudbury
Publication Number: P2312 Scale: 1:15,840 Date: 1979
Author: Carter M.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Precambrian geology, Shining Tree area, districts of Sudbury and Timiskaming
Publication Number: M2510 Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 1989
Author: Carter M.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Part - West Shiningtree gold area
Publication Number: ARV29-03.002 Page: 52 Date: 1998
Author: Hopkins P.E.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Gold deposits of Ontario, part 2, part of District of Cochrane, districts of Muskoka, Nipissing, Parry Sound, Sudbury, Timiskaming, and counties of southern Ontario
Publication Number: MDC018 Page: 89 Date: 1979
Author: Gordon J.B., Lovell H.L., de Grijs J.W., Davie R.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Article - Cobalt Resident Geologist's District - 1990
Publication Number: MP152.013 Page: 273 Date: 1997
Author: Basa E.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
MonoMap - Geology of the Shining Tree area, districts of Sudbury and Timiskaming
Publication Number: R240 Date: 1989
Author: Carter M.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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