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| Record Name(s) | Union Shaft - 1913, Union Occurrence - 1971 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 2004-Dec-03 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Mar-06 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Whitesides
Latitude: 48° 23' 53.58" Longitude: -81° 48' 12.91"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 440519.169 Northing: 5360873.834 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Timmins
NTS Grid: 42A05NW
Point Location Description: Shaft surrounded by fence
Location Method: Field Visit with GPS
Access Description: Travel north from highway 101, 10 km on the Dana Lake road to a bush road that leads to Bean Lake. Travel west 1.5 km and then 400 m north on a trail that leads to the site.
1913: 75 ft prospecting shaft. 1921: Union Mining Corporation Limited - shaft sinking (shaft to 275 ft); 460 ft drifting and crosscutting. 1980: A. Janiuk - stripping 1989: G. Prior - sampling. 1994-96: Pyke, Cunnison and Collings - ground geophysics. 1996-2000: Prospectors Alliance Ltd./Explorers Alliance Corporation - ground geophysics, mapping, sampling stripping, 5 ddh (733 m).
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| T-3319 | 42A05NW0115 | 42A05NW0115 |
| T-1992 | 42A05NE5054 | 42A05NE5054 |
| T-3909, 2.17924 | 42A05NW2001 | 42A05NW2001 |
| T-3950 | 42A05NW2006 | 42A05NW2006 |
| T-3995 | 42A05NW2007 | 42A05NW2007 |
| T-4551 | 42A05NW2009 | 42A05NW2009 |
| 2.18130, T-3909 | 42A05NW2002 | 42A05NW2002 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Abitibi
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Abitibi
Geological Age: Neoarchean
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Schist-Unsubdivided | 1 | Chlorite-Carbonate | Silicified | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 2 | Basalt | Tuffs, Flows | Near |
Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - The shaft was put down on a chlorite carbonate schist zone which is 60 ft wide and outcrops over a length of 300 feet. The zones is filled with stringers and irregular masses of quartz. The shist enclosing the quartz is well mineralized with sulphides.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pyrite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 2 | Pyrrhotite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 3 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 4 | Tourmaline | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 5 | Arsenopyrite | Economic | Gangue |
Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - Grab samples collected by Prior in 1989 returned values up to 0.176 oz/t Au from a sample of mineralized quartz vein. Grab samples from trenches approximately 50 m to the east reutned values up to 0.075 oz/t Au. Four samples collected by Pyke in 1994 returned values between 1 and 2 g/t Au. A chip sample collected by Prospector's Alliance returned 1 g/t Au over 0.5 m.
Date: Dec 03, 2004
Geologist: A Wilson
Notes: Mineralization is largely confined to three easterly trending vein systems within a highly deforrmed fault bounded zone about 25 m wide. The northern and largest system is up to 8 m wide and although individual veins attain widths up to 4 m, they show little lateral continuity. The central quartz vein system is approximately 4 m wide with individual veins less than 0.5 m wide. The sout vein system consists of a boudined quartz-tourmaline vein which contains only traces of pyrite mineralization
Map - Groundhog-Kamiskotia area, District of Cochrane, Ontario
Publication Number: ARM40C Scale: 1:126,720 Date: 1997
Author: Graham A.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Part - Mines of Ontario
Publication Number: ARV30-01.003 Page: 103 Date: 1997
Author: Sutherland T.F., McMillan J.G., Bartlett J., Webster A.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Whitesides Township, District of Cochrane, Timmins data series
Publication Number: P0488 Scale: 1:15,840 Date: 1997
Author: Leahy E.J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Part - Ontario gold deposits, their character, distribution and productiveness
Publication Number: ARV30-02 Page: 13, 35 Date: 1998
Author: Hopkins P.E.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Geological series, Kamiskotia-Whitesides area, District of Cochrane
Publication Number: P0633 Scale: 1:31,680 Date: 1997
Author: Wolfe W.J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs
Location:
Part - Groundhog-Kamiskotia area, District of Cochrane
Publication Number: ARV40-03.002 Date: 1998
Author: Graham A.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Geological Compilation of the Timmins Area, Abitibi Greenstone Belt
Publication Number: P3379 Scale: 1:100,000 Date: 1998
Author: Ayer J.A., Trowell N.F.
Publisher Name:
Location:
Mono - Gold deposits of Ontario, part 1, districts of Algoma, Cochrane, Kenora, Rainy River, and Thunder Bay
Publication Number: MDC013 Page: 138 Date: 1971
Author: Ferguson S.A., Groen H.A., Haynes R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs
Location:
Map - Geology of the Kamiskotia Area
Publication Number: P3396 Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 2000
Author: Barrie C.T.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
MonoMap - Geology of the Kamiskotia Area
Publication Number: S059 Date: 2000
Author: Barrie C.T.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Part - Mines of Ontario
Publication Number: ARV31-10.002 Page: 40 Date: 1997
Author: Sutherland T.F., McMillan J.G., Bartlett J., Webster A.R., Cole G.E.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
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