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| Record Name(s) | Fallduck Lakes Prospect - 1908, Biederman Property - 1920, Kafka Granite - 1988 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Prospect |
| Date Created | 1981-Apr-15 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Aug-03 |
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Primary Commodities: Silica, Gold, Silver
Secondary Commodities: Molybdenum
Township or Area: Terry
Latitude: 48° 11' 28.14" Longitude: -80° 26' 48.45"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 541114 Northing: 5337694 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kirkland Lake
NTS Grid: 42A01NW
Point Location Description: Pit
Location Method: AMIS Site Visit
Access Description: Proceed from the junction of Hwy 66 west and Swastika tree nursery road, travelling 26.2km north on Watabeag Road. Turn right and travel 2.4km, turn right, travel 3.2km stay right at junction, travel 1.5km to next junction. Stay right for 2.7km, turn left, travel 1.45km and turn left into the open cut.
1908 - 1914: W. Biederman - A large quartz vein was discovered ; 20 ft. deep pit sunk on vein; DD-4-1014 ft.; assays from the vein returned values between 0.04 and 0.68 oz/t Au. 1982 - Terry Gold Explorations Inc. : completed geological, magnetic, electromagnetic and radiometric surveys over the property; DD-2-560 ft.. Two diamond drill holes totalling 560 feet were cored. The best assays was 0.018 ounce Au per ton over 10 feet. 1986: H. Ferdeber Geophysics - airborne geophysics. 1987-1988 - D. Hurd completed 10 backhoe trenches on the property; The vein was bulk sampled by Kafka Granite and Decor as a source of opaque white quartz for decorative stone. A 900-ton bulk sample was collected and sent to Wisconsin for processing and testing. Product was tested for decorative crushed aggregate. 1995: J. Forbes and Y. Gagne staked the property and a portion of Dunmore Township.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| KL-1126/2.9554 | 32D12SE0097 | 32D12SE0097 |
| KL-4675/2.19590 | 42A01NW2003 | 42A01NW2003 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Abitibi
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Abitibi
Geological Age: Archean
Jan 25, 2016 (D Guidon) - The vein is located within pink hornblende-biotite granite of the Watabeag Batholith. The vein strikes about 125 º and dips about 65 º to the west.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Granite | 1 | Horneblende-Biotite Granite | Adjacent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vein | 2 | Quartz Pegmatite | Host | |
| Lamprophyre-Unsubdivided | 3 | Lamprophyre | Footwall |
Jan 25, 2016 (D Guidon) - The quartz vein is approximately 10 m wide, ranging between 5 and 15 m. It is exposed over a length of about 150 m, as 2 outcrops, separated by an overburden covered area. It appears that there is a small offset of the vein between the 2 stripped areas. The pit is at the northern end of the outcrop and is developed on a narrow stained area in the quartz. The quartz contains pyrite and minor molybdenite. The quartz is bright white and opaque. Minor amounts of pale pink feldspar inclusions are found within the quartz, as well as, oxidized sulphide inclusions and mafic xenoliths. At the north end of the outcrop, a metre wide lamprophyre dike is injected at the contact of the granite and quartz vein, over a 10 m length.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Quartz | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Molybdenite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 1 | Pyrite | Economic | Gangue |
Dec 07, 2005 (D Guidon) - Narrow zone in the quartz vein contains minor pyrite, hematite and molybdenite. During the collection of the bulk sample for silica testing, a 1.5 m wide zone was discovered that assayed 2-3% Mo.
Jan 25, 2016 (A Wilson) - A picked sample yielded $0.90 to $14.00 Au with 2-3 oz/t Ag. Assays of diamond drill core samples ranged from 0.04 to 0.68 oz./t Au and from 2-3 oz./t Ag
| Rank | Characteristic |
|---|---|
| 1 | Vein |
| Shape | Length | Thickness | Depth | Strike | Dip | Plunge | Trend | Age | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Irregular | 200 | 10 | 125 | 65 |
Date: Jul 26, 2000
Geologist: D Guidon
Notes: Property visited on July 29, 1997. I accompanied Glenn Kafka, Terry Boerboom and Mark Jirsa. The two latter were consulting geologists for Glenn Kafka. The purpose of the trip was to collect a few hundred pounds of quartz for test crushing for use a decorative stone. Fresh quartz was blasted for sampling.
Map - Terry and Lee townships, Timiskaming District
Publication Number: M2214 Scale: 1:31,680 Date: 1971
Author: Lovell H.L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs
Location:
Publication - Gold Occurrences of Ontario East of Lake Superior; Geological Survey of Canada, Memoir 192
Publication Number: GSC Mem 192 Page: 147 Date: 1936
Author: Kindle, E.D.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/100824
Map - Terry Township, District of Timiskaming
Publication Number: P0365 Scale: 1:15,840 Date: 1997
Author: Lovell H.L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Molybdenum deposits of Ontario
Publication Number: MDC007 Page: 80 Date: 1968
Author: Johnston F.J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - Geology of the Bourkes area, District of Timiskaming
Publication Number: R092 Page: 32 Date: 1971
Author: Lovell H.L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs
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: 226 Date: 1979
Author: Gordon J.B., Lovell H.L., de Grijs J.W., Davie R.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Report of Activities 1997, Resident Geologists Program, Kirkland Lake Regional Resident Geologist's Report: Kirkland Lake-Sudbury Districts
Publication Number: OFR5973 Page: 13 Date: 1998
Author: Meyer G., Cosec M., Grabowski G.P.B., Guindon D.L., Buckley S., Messier C.L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - An Evaluation of Potential High-Purity Silica Sources: Preliminary Site Investigation, Volumes 1 and 2
Publication Number: OFR5948 Page: 68-73 Date: 1996
Author: McAuley J.B.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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