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| Record Name(s) | D. Smith - 1908, O.M. Lee - 1911, Bradford Syndicate Claims - 1946, Claim HR 580 - 1908, Duff/Miller Patents - 1993, Canuc Project - 1993 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1981-Apr-15 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Jan-09 |
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Primary Commodities: Zinc, Lead
Secondary Commodities: Silver, Gold
Township or Area: Maisonville
Latitude: 48° 14' 49.16" Longitude: -80° 12' 13.28"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 559117 Northing: 5344059 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kirkland Lake
NTS Grid: 42A01NE
Point Location Description: pit
Location Method: AMIS Site Visit
Access Description: Proceed from hwy 11 at Bourkes, turn east for 3.8km to the community hall and turn south onto Wolf Lake road to culverts and power line on east shore of Wolf Lake. Travel south on Wolf Lake to south end of lake. Travel south 150m to a trail and go west south west 500m to pit on west side of trail. Pit is on southwest end of outcrop on edge of low ground. Alternate access by land not mapped. ATV trails east of site are through deep black muck and swamp.
1908: Staking of the claims which were patented in 1911. Trenching and 2 shallow pits were developed to explore 2 narrow quartz-carbonate veins with semi-massive sphalerite and galena mineralization; 13 m deep shaft sunk circa 1911. 1947: Bradford Syndicate - property acquired, surface work. 1947: property optioned by Geometal Mines Limited (no work completed). 1991-93: Joutel Resources Ltd. - airborne geophysics, completed prospecting and sampling of the old pits. 1998: Opawica Explorations Inc. - DD-6-1167 m
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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| KL-3249/2.15290 | 42A08SE9901 | 42A08SE9901 |
| OM91-019 | 42A08SE0126 | 42A08SE0126 |
| 2.19344 | 42A01NE2016 | 42A01NE2016 |
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Vein | 1 | Quartz Carbonate Veinlets | Host |
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| Intermediate Tuff | 2 | Andesite | Tuffaceous, Agglomerate | Contains |
| Intermediate lava flow-unsubdivided | 3 | Dacite, Rhyodacite | Contains |
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Sphalerite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Galena | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 4 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 5 | Calcite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 6 | Quartz | Economic | Ore |
Jan 25, 2016 (A Wilson) - Grab samples collected from the shaft and pits returned values of 31% Zn, 34.2% Pb and 0.84 oz/t Ag. Grab samples collected in 1946 returned gold values ranging from trace to $0.35; silver values ranging from 0.12 oz to 0.84 oz; zinc values ranging from 3.2% to 31.0% and lead values ranging from 3.8% to 34.2%. Grab samples collected in 1993 returned assays of ranging from 21.15-30.35% Zn and 3.73-3.84% Pb. The old pits and trenches on the previously reported mineralized quartz and calcite veins were located. The southern vein is less than 2' wide, strikes N20ºE and dips 70ºW. It contains very coarse grained blebs and irregular veins of sphalerite cut by later veins of galena. Selected grab samples from the dump assayed 21.15 - 30.35% Zn and 3.73 - 3.84% Pb. The northern vein strikes N65ºE and dips 70 N. It is similar to the southern vein but contains more galena. Selected grab samples from the dump assayed 7.53 -7.98% Zn and 9.54 - 21.65 % Pb. The samples from both veins assayed only trace Au and 7.7 - 32.9 ppm Ag. Assays from the Opawica drilling returned values ranging up to 4.41% Zn and 5480 ppm Pb.
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Vein (Polymetallic) |
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 1 | Vein |
File - Resident Geologist file KL-0272
Publication Number: Date:
Author:
Publisher Name:
Location: Kirkland Lake RGP office
Map - Benoit and Maisonville townships, Timiskaming District
Publication Number: M2215 Scale: 1:31,680 Date: 1971
Author: Lovell H.L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs
Location:
Mono - Copper, nickel, lead and zinc deposits of Ontario
Publication Number: MDC012 Page: 379 Date: 1969
Author: Shklanka R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - Geology of the Bourkes area, District of Timiskaming
Publication Number: R092 Page: 29 Date: 1971
Author: Lovell H.L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs
Location:
Part - The Kirkland Lake and Swastika gold areas, and Maisonville, Grenfell and Eby townships
Publication Number: ARV23-02 Page: 34 Date: 1998
Author: Burrows A.G., Hopkins P.E.
Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines
Location:
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