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| Record Name(s) | Vipond & Heard - 1985 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1985-Jun-28 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Mar-08 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Zavitz
Latitude: 48° 1' 43.36" Longitude: -81° 9' 23.37"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 488332.851 Northing: 5319503.023 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Timmins
NTS Grid: 42A03SE
Point Location Description: Trench indicated near property loaction 18 on Map 2290 by E.G. Bright.
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: Zavitz Township is crossed by a secondary road that leads south from Pine Street in Timmins. This road crosses Zavitz Creek about 68 km south along the raod from Timmins. The occurrence outcrops about 2 km to the north on the West side of Zavitz Creek.
1925 - James Luke prospected in the area discovering a mineralized aplite dike 1925 - Gledhill visited Luke's property and reported minor gold assays from a pyritized greenstone 1938 - T.S. Vipond and C. Heard who completed stripping, trenching and sampling. They later reported that chip sampled from a sheared and carbonitized metavolcanic tuff in the area of the old workings assayed 0.11 optA Au 1947 - property visited by W.S. Savage, Resident Geologist, Swastika, who made geological examinations and reports assays between $3.00 and $4.00. 1973 R.Rousseay and R. Rochon completed trenching and sampling of the occurrence. 1974 - 1975 Vantage Mining Co., Ltd. completed geological mapping, magnetometer and VLF surveys over the occurrence. Sampling yielded values to 0.05 opt gold. Report of historic value of 0.11 opt from a 20 foot chip sample. A single diamond drill hole tested a mag and VLF anomaly a short distance to the NE of the occurrence without encountering economic mineralization 1990 - Newmont Exploration completed a magnetometer survey over the occurrence. 1997 - Inmet Mining Corp. completed magnetometer and IP surveys as well as geological mapping and sampling. Values of 648 ppb Au and 570 ppb Au reported from this occurrence. Surveys indicate coincident IP and magnetic anomalies associated with the occurrence. A diamond drill hole tested this anomaly several hundred meters to the east where it cuts a syenite dike.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| T-3965 | 42A03SE2004 | 42A03SE2004 |
| T-3857, 2.17456 | 42A03SE0027 | 42A03SE0027 |
| T-292, 2.1675 | 42A03SE0183 | 42A03SE0183 |
| T-292, 12 | 42A03SE0184 | 42A03SE0184 |
| 2.18141, T-3857 | 42A03SE2003 | 42A03SE2003 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Abitibi
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Abitibi
Geological Age: Archean
Dec 07, 2005 (G Seim) - This occurrence is found in the andesite tuffs and agglomerate of Mg tholleiite affinity. The schistosity of the host rocks and shear apparently strike WNW and dip 60 N. The occurrence outcrop is cut by an aplite or albitite dike. The shear zone which is up to 7.5 m wide is choritized, fe-mg carbonate altered, (possibly silicified) and mieralized with disseminated pyrite.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Intermediate lava flow-unsubdivided | 1 | Andesite | Near |
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| Mylonite/Fault Gouge/Pseudotachylite | 2 | Shear | Host | |
| Vein | 3 | Host | ||
| Granite | 4 | Aplite / Albitite | Near |
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pyrite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| Carbonate | Alteration | Carbonatization | 1 | Replacement | |||
| Chlorite | Alteration | Chloritic | 2 | Replacement | |||
| Quartz | Alteration | Silicification | 3 | Veins | |||
| Albite | Alteration | Albitization | 4 | Replacement |
Dec 07, 2005 (G Seim) - Hitorical assay of 0.11 opt Au over 20 feet. See Explotation history for further details
File - Resident Geologist files T-291, T-306
Publication Number: Date:
Author:
Publisher Name:
Location: Timmins RGP office
Map - English and Zavitz townships, Sudbury District
Publication Number: M2290 Scale: 1:31,680 Date: 1974
Author: Bright E.G.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines
Location:
Part - Notes on the south part of the Grassy River area
Publication Number: ARV35-06.004 Page: 74 Date: 1998
Author: Gledhill T.L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Zavitz Township, District of Sudbury
Publication Number: P0455 Scale: 1:15,840 Date: 1997
Author: Bright E.G.
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: 123-124 Date: 1979
Author: Gordon J.B., Lovell H.L., de Grijs J.W., Davie R.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
MonoMap - Geology of the Ferrier Lake-Canoeshed Lake area, District of Sudbury
Publication Number: R231 Page: 52 Date: 1984
Author: Bright E.G.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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