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Record: MDI42A03NE00023

General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold, Copper

Location

Township or Area: McArthur

Latitude: 48° 11' 42.85"    Longitude: -81° 13' 2.6"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 483845   Northing: 5338023    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Timmins

NTS Grid: 42A03NE

Point Location Description: Approximate location of trench on vein

Location Method: Based on Assessment

Exploration History

1911: property staked by J. Chouinard and D. Morrison. 1920's: Held by Clear Lake Porcupine Syndicate - drilling, no records on file. 1936-47: Alcide Porcupine Mines Limited: stripping, sampling, drilling (2 holes), mapping, property examinations by various companies. 1957: Acquired by A. Theriault. (T-139; R161, p. 62) 1966: Acme Oil and Gas - airborne geophysics. (T-1273) 1981: Amax Minerals Exploration - airborne geophysics (T-2416) 1982-83: Noranda Exploration Co. Ltd. - ground geophysics to the southwest, drilling (T-2492; Timmins DCL files TI0102, TI0103) 1988: Norwin Resources Limited: airborne geophysics (T-3198) 2008: Fletcher Nickel Inc - LIDAR imagery (T-6167)

Assessment Work on File

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Abitibi

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Abitibi

Geological Age: Archean  

Lithology

Lithology Comments

Aug 23, 2012 (A Wilson) - The vein has been exposed over a strike length of 69 m in three large rock cuts. The quartz does not form a continuous vein but consists of a series of lenses up to 60 cm wide along the northwest wall of a feldspar porphyry dike up to 2.4 m wide. Vein strikes N50E. (R161, p.63)

Mineralization

Mineralization Comments

Aug 23, 2012 (D Draper) - Grab sample values obtained by Aunor 1944 included 0.62 and 0.46 opt Au from the West Extension Cut. (T-139) Noranda drillhole MCA-83-1 was collared approximately 225m northwest of this location in Claim TRP 2985 and returned 318 ppb Au over 1.9 ft within quartz-feldspar porphyry. Hole MCA-83-2, collared 25m NW of Cut, returned Au assays of 0.01 opt. (T-2492)

Aug 23, 2012 (A Wilson) - Gold values up to 12 g/t and copper values ranging from 1.65% to 2.26% (copper values from grab samples). Minor pyrite, and traces of chalcopyrite and galena occur as fine disseminations and fracture fillings both in the quartz and the enclosing trondhjemite. The best channel samples returned 0.37 oz/t Au over 98 cm, 0.24 oz/t Au over 122 cm and 0.14 oz/t Au over 122 cm. One drill intersection returned 0.06 oz/t Au over 1.5 m. (T-139 ; R161, p.63)

Mineral Record Details

References

File - Resident Geologist files T-139, T-2492, T-6167 (2.44285)

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Location: Timmins RGP office

Map - Redstone River area, District of Timiskaming, Ontario

Publication Number: ARM35H Scale: 1:47,520    Date: 1997

Author: Bruce E.L., Hopkins P.E., Rogers W.R.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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Part - Notes on McArthur Township

Publication Number: ARV21-01.010 Page: 279-280  Date: 1998

Author: Hopkins P.E.

Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines

Location:

Map - Geological series, McArthur Township, District of Timiskaming

Publication Number: P0631 Scale: 1:15,840    Date: 1997

Author: Pyke D.R.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs

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Part - Geology of McArthur, Bartlett, Douglas and Geikie townships (Redstone River area), District of Timiskaming

Publication Number: ARV35-06.002 Page: 52  Date: 1998

Author: Bruce E.L.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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Map - McArthur and Douglas townships, Timiskaming District

Publication Number: M2363 Scale: 1:31,680    Date: 1976

Author: Pyke D.R.

Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines

Location:

MonoMap - Geology of the Redstone River area, District of Timiskaming

Publication Number: R161 Page: 62-65  Date: 1978

Author: Pyke D.R.

Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines

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Map - Peterlong Lake

Publication Number: M2345 Scale: 1:50,000    Date: 1978

Author: Pyke D.R.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

MonoMap - Geology of the Peterlong Lake area, districts of Timiskaming and Sudbury

Publication Number: R171 Page: 41  Date: 1978

Author: Pyke D.R.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

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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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: 210  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 - Precambrian Geology of McArthur Township

Publication Number: P3583 Scale: 1:20,000    Date: 2007

Author: Houlé M.G.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Publication - Sudbury Timmins Algoma Mineral Program, Project 1: mineral inventory of the Sudbury-Timmins-Sault Ste. Marie region, Ontario

Publication Number: GSC OF 1087 Date: 1985

Author: Rose, D.G.

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/129999

Article - Geological and Mineral Potential of McArthur Township in the Bartlett Dome, Abitibi Greenstone Belt

Publication Number: OFR6192.006 Page: 6.1-6.14  Date: 2006

Author: Houlé M.G.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

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