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| Record Name(s) | Shore Acres Prospect - 1980, Sherwood Prospect - 1947 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Prospect |
| Date Created | 1984-Jan-31 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Feb-18 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold, Silver, Zinc
Secondary Commodities: Palladium
Township or Area: Sothman
Latitude: 47° 55' 8.32" Longitude: -81° 17' 15.11"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 478518.002 Northing: 5307335.002 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Timmins
NTS Grid: 41P14NW
Point Location Description: pit
Location Method: AMIS Site Visit
Access Description: Travel south of Timmins on the Papamika Road approximately 60 km to the Semple/Sothman township line. Follow the Sinclair Lake road 1.6 km intoSothman township and follow an ATV trail west to Smylie Lake. The site lies 200m east of the lake.
1945-48: Sherwood Gold Mines Ltd. - Geologic and magnetic surveys, trenching and stripping. 1954: Upper Canada Mines Ltd. - 16 ddh (3516 ft.) 1965- Consolidated Mining and Smelting Co. of Canada Ltd. - ground geophysics. 1966 - P.C.E. Explorations Ltd. - ground geophysics, DD - 4 and 3 additional holes may have been drilled near the occurrence. 1970-71: Canadian Aerial Exploration Ltd. - mapping, ground geophysics, 3 ddh (1454 ft.) on the southern part of the property. 1979: D.E. Sirola - stripping, trenching. 1980: Shore Acres Enterprises Ltd. - 2000 ton bulk sample that was milled at the Pamour Mine. 1995: Abitibi Mining - property optioned, ground geophysics, mapping, stripping, sampling, DD-14-1681 m.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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| T-2184 / 63.1699 | 41P14NW0044 | 41P14NW0044 |
| T-2292 / 63.3798 | 41P14SW0201 | 41P14SW0201 |
| T-2184 / 63.1774 | 41P14SW0010 | 41P14SW0010 |
| T-1497 / 63A.61 | 41P14NW0033 | 41P14NW0033 |
| T-2232 / 63.1994 | 41P14NW0022 | 41P14NW0022 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Abitibi
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Abitibi
Geological Age: Neoarchean
Aug 27, 2010 (G Seim) - In the vicinity of the main showing, sheared and folded mafic and felsic metavolcanics are intruded by dikes of diorite porphyry and quartz-feldspar porphyry. Mineralized shear zones are found close to and along the diorite-porphyry-andesite contact and along the andesite-acidic volcanic contact. The property is largely covered by overburden. The main showing is a shear zone, 1 foot to 4 feet wide, which has been exposed for a distance of 250 feet. The zone parallels the axial plane of an anticline and consists of rusty pyritized sericite schist from which gold has been panned.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Schist-Unsubdivided | 1 | Shear Zone | Contains |
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| Felsic lava flow-unsubdivided | 2 | Rhyolite | Adjacent | |
| Porphyry-unsubdivided | 3 | Diorite | Adjacent | |
| Quartz-Feldspar Porphyry | 4 | Quartz-Feldspar | Adjacent | |
| Ultramafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 5 | Spinifex Texture Noted In O/C | Adjacent |
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Gold | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 1 | Pyrite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 2 | Sphalerite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 3 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 4 | Pyrrhotite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 5 | Magnetite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| Sericite | Alteration | 1 |
Aug 27, 2010 (A Wilson) - A 2000 t bulk sample collected by Abitibi Mining yielded 220 ounces of gold. The average grade was reported as 0.0785 oz/t Au. The best intersections from Abitibi Mining's drilling returned 6.103 g/t Au over 0.67 m and 3.742 g/t Au over 2.5 m. The drill log for DDH S-1 indicates Palladium values up to 134 ppb over 3.0 ft. Several channel samples have assayed greater than 0.05 opt Au. The best assay from drill core was 0.22 opt Au. Grab samples collected from trenches have returned assays up to 1.0 oz/t Au, 4 oz/t Ag and 10% Zn
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 1 | Sheared |
Map - Gogama sheet, districts of Sudbury and Timiskaming
Publication Number: P0151 Scale: 1:126,720 Date: 1997
Author: Savage W.S., Fenwick K.G.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Township of Sothman, District of Sudbury, Ontario
Publication Number: M1953-03 Scale: 1:12,000 Date: 1997
Author: Abraham E.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Part - Geology of Sothman Township
Publication Number: ARV62-06 Scale: Date: 1997
Author: Abraham E.M.
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 Scale: Date: 1979
Author: Gordon J.B., Lovell H.L., de Grijs J.W., Davie R.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Map - Geological Compilation of the Matachewan Area, Abitibi Greenstone Belt
Publication Number: P3527 Scale: 1:100,000 Date: 2003
Author: Ayer J.A., Trowell N.F., Josey S.D., Nevills M., Valade L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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