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Record Name(s) | Three Ducks DDH B-1 - 1958, Siragusa #41 - 1993, Newcastle L072844 - 2011 |
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Related Record Type | Simple |
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Record Status | Occurrence |
Date Created | 2000-Feb-11 |
Date Last Modified | 2022-Jul-15 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold, Copper
Secondary Commodities: Graphite
Township or Area: Potier
Latitude: 47° 35' 30.36" Longitude: -81° 59' 26.37"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 425520.57 Northing: 5271403.82 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Timmins
NTS Grid: 41P12SW
Point Location Description: Drill collar transferred from claim sketch
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: Access is awkward, requiring a canoe to cross Schist Lake from a small landing on the south shore at the end of a trappers trail. This 4x4 track connects to a seondary forestry road branching off of the Chester Access road.
1958: Three Duck Lakes Syndicate: diamond drilling. 2011: Newcastle Minerals Ltd. – Assays, Pr, Samp.
Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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T-6404 / 2.51029 | 20000006781 | 20000006781 |
T-2035 / | 41P12SW0091 | 41P12SW0091 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Abitibi
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Swayze
Tectonic Assemblage: Halcrow-Swayze
Geological Age: Neoarchean
Metamorphism Type: Regional
Metamorphism Grade: Greenschist
Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Mudstone | 1 | Graphitic Argillite | Host |
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Intermediate lava flow-unsubdivided | 2 | Silicified | Host |
Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - Geology maps of the area indicate that the propsect is hosted in mafic metavolcanic rocks. The Three Duck drill hole indicates that the hole is dominantly argillite with local graphitic and brecciated phases. there are also some chlorite and biotite schists present and sections with silicification.
Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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1 | Pyrite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
2 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
3 | Galena | Economic | Gangue | ||||
4 | Graphite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
Silica | Alteration | Silicification | 1 | Weak | Replacement |
Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - Trace amounts of pyrite, plus lesser amounts of chalcopyrite and galena were reported. No assays have been reported from the diamond drilling.
Jun 10, 2013 (P Bousquet) - A sample of cherty intermediate metavolcanic rock (L072844) returned an assay of 3060ppm Cu (T-6404).
Map - Three Duck Lakes area, District of Sudbury, Ontario
Publication Number: ARM41D Scale: 1:47,520 Date: 1997
Author: Laird H.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Peat and peatland evaluation of the Parry Sound area, volumes 1 to 5
Publication Number: OFR5488 Page: 83 Date: 1984
Author: Monenco Ontario Ltd.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Precambrian Geology, Parts of Chester, Neville, Potier and Yeo Townships
Publication Number: OFM0214 Scale: 1:15,840 Date: 1993
Author: Siragusa G.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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: 485-486 Date: 1995
Author: Fumerton S.L., Houle K.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Geology, Swayze greenstone belt, Gogama, Ontario
Publication Number: OF3384G Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 1999
Author: Heather, K B; Shore, G T
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/210455
MonoMap - Geology of the Chapleau area, districts of Algoma, Sudbury, and Cochrane
Publication Number: R157 Date: 1977
Author: Thurston P.C., Siragusa G.M., Sage R.P.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines
Location:
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