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Record: MDI42A04NW00025

General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Copper, Nickel

Secondary Commodities: Gold, Platinum, Zinc

Location

Township or Area: Kenogaming

Latitude: 48° 9' 5.48"    Longitude: -81° 56' 5.13"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 430476.06   Northing: 5333563.81    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Timmins

NTS Grid: 42A04NW

Point Location Description: Centre of a stripped outcrop next to a small lake.

Location Method: Field Visit with GPS

Access Description: Access to the occurrence is easy by taking the Kenogaming Main Haul Road south from Highway 101 to the centre of Kenogaming Twp. From this point there are a series of secondary and tertiary logging roads that come to within a couple of hundred metres of the occurrence.

Exploration History

1947: prospecting. 1951: Dunvegan Mines - reconnaissance mapping, sampling. 1952: Norduna Mines - ground mag survey, 30 ddh. 1966: Hanna Mining - regional reconnaissance, sampling. 1983: HWS Syndicate - geological mapping, airborne mag and EM. 1984: golden Range Resources - geological mapping, mag, HLEM and IP surveys, soil geochemistry, ddh and overburden stripping. 1990: Falconbridge Ltd. - ground mag and HLEM survey, stripping and mapping, sampling.

Assessment Work on File

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Abitibi

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Swayze

Geological Age: Neoarchean  

Metamorphism Type: Regional

Metamorphism Grade: Greenschist

Geology Comments

Sep 08, 2017 (S Fumerton) - Close to the ultramafic - intermediate contact there is an increase in the density of a flaser texture defined by magnetite - quartz veins. Locally this flaser texture is folded which may represent differential movement between the ultramafic and felsic units.

Sep 08, 2017 (A Wilson) - The occurrence is located within a cumulate-textured ultramafic body within the Hanrahan Assemblage. The mineralization consists of up to 5% disseminated sulphides in serpentinized ultramafic rocks that are in close proximity to the sheared contacted with intermediate fragmental rocks to the south.

Lithology

Lithology Comments

Sep 08, 2017 (S Fumerton) - The underlying rocks in the area consist of a suite of mafic to intermediate tuffaceous metavolcanic rocks as well as mafic pillowed and massive lava flows. The tuffaceous rocks range between lapilli tuffs and tuff breccias. Within this sequence there are a number of large folded ultramafic bodies with associated amphibolites that in some cases have been interpreted as sills but may also be thick flows. At the showing there is a hornblende porphyritic fine grained felsic unit at the south end cut by strongly altered chloritic veins - joints. Between this felsic unit and the ultramafics to the north there is a very coarse (<50x20cm) polymictic fragmental unit. Though the fragments are extensively re-absorbed, there are a number that appear to have been derived from the adjacent felsic unit. To the north there is a serpentinized and steatitized ultramafic body. This unit tends to be massive with local elephant skin weathering. Locally the unit is cut by a number of long quartz magnetite veins typically a few millimetres thick but up to 20cm thick. Also there are locally abundant, thin, short veinlets of chrysotile. Mafic dykes that cut the ultramafic occur as short en-echelon faulted boudins that are intensely chloritized. The fragmental unit is interpreted to be some kind of primary unit and hence this suggests that the ultramafic unit may be a flow.

Mineralization

Mineralization Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (S Fumerton) - Within the serpentinized ultramafic there are fine disseminated grains or small blebs of pyrite - pentlandite, or pyrite - pyrrhotite, or pyrrhotite - pentlandite.

Sep 08, 2017 (A Wilson) - The best mineralization from a vertical drill hole (N-10) between 35 and 40 feet assayed 1.25% Ni and 0.24% Cu in a 5 foot section. The same hole from a depth of 15-40 feet averaged 0.88% Ni and 0.14% Cu (T-527).

Assay Samples

Mineral Record Details

Mineral Zones - Size and Shape

Rank: 5       Structure Type: Contact

Site Visit Information

Date: Oct 09, 1951

Geologist: S Fumerton

Notes: Original Comments are more than 2000 characters. The data cannot be converted, however the data will still be available in Digitial Prospector Database

Date: Jul 22, 1954

Geologist: Sarah Ferguson

Notes: I was present at this property from the middle of the afternoon on July 22 until noon on July 25, 1954. Mr John Gauvreau, geologist for the company showed me the geological and geophysical plans and we visited points of geological interest. I logged the drill core from the eight drill holes that had been finished at the time of my visit. During the winter a geochemical survey was made of the surface area of the peridotite bodies. Samples were taken of the past year's growth of spruce needles and the nickel content determined at the Falconbridge laboratory. The areas of anomalous geochemical highs are being tested as a part of the present drill program. [ PRECIS ]

References

Map - Kenogaming Township, District of Sudbury

Publication Number: P0465 Scale: 1:15,840    Date: 1997

Author: Milne V.G.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:

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

Map - Penhorwood and Kenogaming townships, Sudbury District

Publication Number: M2231 Scale: 1:31,680    Date: 1972

Author: Milne V.G.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs

Location:

Book - Northern Miner 56-08-02

Publication Number: NMINER Date: 1996

Author:

Publisher Name: Northern Miner

Location:

Map - Precambrian Geology, Northern Swayze Greenstone Belt

Publication Number: M2627 Scale: 1:50,000    Date: 1995

Author: Ayer J.A.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

File - Resident Geologist files 1980, air photos

Publication Number: Date: 1996

Author:

Publisher Name:

Location:

MonoMap - Geology of the Kukatush-Sewell Lake area, District of Sudbury

Publication Number: R097 Page: 80-83, 86-87  Date: 1972

Author: Milne V.G.

Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines

Location:

Mono - Copper, nickel, lead, and zinc deposits in Ontario

Publication Number: MDC001 Page: 56-57  Date: 1954

Author: Thomson J.E., Carlson H.D., Ferguson S.A., Pye E.G., Savage W.S.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:

Mono - Copper, nickel, lead and zinc deposits in Ontario (revised to February, 1957)

Publication Number: MDC002 Page: 98  Date: 1957

Author: Thomson J.E., Ferguson S.A., Johnston W.G.Q., Pye E.G., Savage W.S., Thomson R.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:

Mono - Copper, nickel, lead and zinc deposits of Ontario

Publication Number: MDC012 Page: 253  Date: 1969

Author: Shklanka R.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:

MonoMap - Mineral Prospects of the Swayze Greenstone Belt (Volume 1, Parts of NTS 41 O and Volume 2, Parts of NTS 41 P, 42 A and 42 B)

Publication Number: OFR5912 Page: 505-508  Date: 1995

Author: Fumerton S.L., Houle K.A.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

MonoMap - Precambrian Geology, Northern Swayze Greenstone Belt

Publication Number: R297 Page: 52  Date: 1995

Author: Ayer J.A.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

Book - Kenogaming Township - unpublished GDIF

Publication Number: GDIF Date: 1991

Author: Resident Geologist Staff

Publisher Name:

Location: Timmins RGP

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