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| Record Name(s) | Baden Creek Vein - 1924, J. Nelson Claims - 1917, Thesaurus - 1923, Forest Claim - 1923 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1984-Apr-17 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Mar-09 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Secondary Commodities: Copper, Molybdenum
Township or Area: Baden
Latitude: 48° 5' 33.29" Longitude: -80° 44' 32.58"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 519182.544 Northing: 5326622.296 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kirkland Lake
NTS Grid: 42A02SE
Point Location Description: Approximate location of Outcrop
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: The property can be accessed from Kirkland Lake by Highway 66 west, toward Matachewan for 30 miles to the Matachewan Native Reserve road, then north along the reserve road to the village, a distance of 8 miles. From the Reserve village, the property is located 5 miles northwest along the Radisson Lake road, then 2 miles west along a newer tertiary road. Access can also be achieved by boat from Matachewan north along the Montreal River or by float plane.
1959: Don Hurd and others: two diamond drill holes were completed 1917: James Nelson: staking of the claim
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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| KL-2565 | 42A02SE0120 | 42A02SE0120 |
| KL-0348 | 42A02NE0024 | 42A02NE0024 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Abitibi
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Abitibi
Geological Age: Archean
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Granite | 1 | Massive, Medium-Grained; Pink Hornblende Granite | Host |
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| Vein | 2 | Quartz | White To Grey-Coloured; Coarse-Grained | Contains |
| Diabase | 3 | Diabase | Intrudes | |
| Intermediate Tuff | 4 | Mainly Calc-Alkaline Andesite | Agglomerates, Tuff And Fragmentals |
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Molybdenite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 4 | Garnet | Economic | Gangue |
Jun 09, 2010 (J Suma-Momoh) - The two diamond drill holes completed by Don Hurd and others in 1959 intersected some quartz veining with molybdenite-chalcopyrite mineralization and peripheral stringers with disseminated pyrite mineralization. Assays returned values ranging to 0.03 to 0.06 oz/t of gold REF: Report by W.J. McGuinty (dated January 1991), pages viii - x, in KL 2565. 'A quartz vein which crosses…near the mouth of Baden Creek was assayed at 0.04 oz to 0.08 oz of gold per ton'. REF: Baden Creek Property, in KL 2675. These were grab samples collected in 1963. REF: OGS 1967, GR 51, Page 26.
File - Resident Geologist file KL-2675
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Location: Kirkland Lake RGP office
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: 188 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 - Baden Township, District of Timiskaming
Publication Number: P0195 Scale: 1:15,840 Date: 1997
Author: Lovell H.L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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MonoMap - Geology of the Matachewan area, District of Timiskaming
Publication Number: R051 Page: 25-26 Date: 1967
Author: Lovell H.L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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Mono - Preliminary report on the Timmins-Kirkland Lake area, gold deposits file
Publication Number: OFR5467 Page: G0659 Date: 1983
Author: Hodgson C.J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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