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MDI42A02SE00028
| Record Name(s) | Thesaurus - 1923, J. Nelson Claims - 1917, Baden Creek - 1983, P.A. Rosko - 1999 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Developed Prospect Without Reported Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1983-Dec-13 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Mar-09 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Secondary Commodities: Copper, Molybdenum, Silver
Township or Area: Baden
Latitude: 48° 6' 2.83" Longitude: -80° 44' 36.14"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 519106.002 Northing: 5327534.005 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kirkland Lake
NTS Grid: 42A02SE
Point Location Description: GPS location of Shaft
Location Method: AMIS Site Visit
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.
1999: Rosko, P.A: trenching sampling 1989: Queenston Mining Inc: exploration and follow-up diamond drilling 1988: Strike Minerals Inc: surface stripping, trenching, mapping and sampling 1986: Premier Explorations Inc: airborne magnetic and VLF-EM surveys 1975: Canadian Johns-Manville Co. Ltd: re-staking and exploration for gold 1972: Canadian Johns-Manville Co. Ltd: line cutting, geological mapping, biogeochemical and basal till geochemical surveying; magnetic and electromagnetic surveying to test for Cu-Mo mineralization in the granites within the shaft area. The results were poor; claims allowed to lapse. 1936: Thesaurus Gold Mines Ltd: dewatering, 202 ft of diamond drilling on the 300 ft shaft level 1920-24: Thesaurus Gold Mines Ltd: sinking of a 308 foot shaft. Free gold was found in the No. 1 Vein while sinking the Thesaurus shaft. 1917: James Nelson: staking of the claim
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| KL-4807 | 42A02SE2022 | 42A02SE2022 |
| KL-0348 | 42A02NE0024 | 42A02NE0024 |
| KL-2565 | 42A02SE0120 | 42A02SE0120 |
| 2.9522 | 42A02SE0142 | 42A02SE0142 |
| 53H12SW0002 | 20000005317 | 20000005317 |
| 20 | 42A02SE0139 | 42A02SE0139 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Abitibi
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Abitibi
Geological Age: Archean
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Granite | 1 | Granite, Late Cross-Cutting Aplites Also Occur | Massive, Medium-Grained Granite | Host |
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| Vein | 2 | Quartz | 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 | Pyritic | |||
| 2 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Sphalerite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 4 | Gold | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 5 | Molybdenite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 1 | Tourmaline | Economic | Gangue |
Jun 08, 2010 (J Suma-Momoh) - Grab samples collected in 1963 by Lovell (1967) from the waste dump near the shaft (hence presumably from Vein No.1) assayed as high as 0.14 oz Au/ton. MacMichael (1981) reports assays of Vein No.1 material of up to 0.23 oz Au/ton. Newsome (1987) collected 5 samples of dominantly vein material from the dump which returned values ranging from 0.035 to 0.153 oz Au/ton. REF: KL 2565, page 8. Grab samples taken by Strike Minerals from the No.1 Vein during the 1988 stripping returned values as high as 0.545 oz/t Au. REF: Assessment Work Report by W.J. McGuinty, page 2, in KL 2565. Rosko, P.A. collected 3 grab samples from the property in 1999. The best assay was 9920 ppm Cu, 164 (average) ppb Au and 12 ppm Ag. REF: KL 4807 The Thesaurus Mine has not been evaluated in detail to date but evidence at surface and from rock in the waste dump suggests stockwork developed about a strong altered quartz porphyry oriented between N30E and N61E. Quartz veins are found in fissures in the granite near the granite-tuff contact. There are three principal veins on the property. The No.1 Vein on which the shaft was sunk is made up mainly of quartz mineralized with pyrite, some chalcopyrite, sphalerite, native gold, chlorite, calcite and molybdenite. The quartz lenses are from 10 to 30 inches in width and the adjoining granite is highly altered, brecciated and silicified. REF: KL 2675.
Jun 08, 2010 (J Suma-Momoh) - From the stripping program conducted by Strike Minerals, considerable alteration was revealed in the area around the shaft. Heavy Silicification, carbonatization, and pyritization are present around the shaft veins. REF: KL 2565, page 8. The granite is partly altered along the veins to a greenish colour, while unaltered granite is grey or pink. REF: ODM 1967, GR 51, page 25.
File - Resident Geologist files KL 2292, KL-2675
Publication Number: Date:
Author:
Publisher Name:
Location: Kirkland Lake RGP office
Map - Baden and Alma townships, Timiskaming District
Publication Number: M2109 Scale: 1:31,680 Date: 1997
Author: Lovell H.L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Part - Geology and ore deposits of the Matachewan-Kenogami area
Publication Number: ARV44-02.001 Page: 46-47 Date: 1998
Author: Dyer W.S.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
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
Location:
Mono - Molybdenum deposits of Ontario
Publication Number: MDC007 Page: 80 Date: 1968
Author: Johnston F.J.
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 Page: 125 Date: 1979
Author: Gordon J.B., Lovell H.L., de Grijs J.W., Davie R.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Preliminary report on the Timmins-Kirkland Lake area, gold deposits file
Publication Number: OFR5467 Page: G0658 Date: 1983
Author: Hodgson C.J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
File - Res/Reg Property Visit Report 1989 Baden #264
Publication Number: PV 264 Date: 1996
Author: Lovell, H.L.
Publisher Name:
Location: Kirkland Lake RGP office
Part - Notes on gold in McNeil and other townships
Publication Number: ARV33-03.003 Page: 40 Date: 1998
Author: Hopkins P.E.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
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