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Record: MDI42A05SE00040

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Jowsey Vein - 1946
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Discretionary Occurrence
Date Created 2002-Feb-11
Date Last Modified 2022-Mar-03
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold



Location

Township or Area: Denton

Latitude: 48° 21' 46.78"    Longitude: -81° 39' 10.54"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 451637.2   Northing: 5356852.71    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Timmins

NTS Grid: 42A05SE

Point Location Description: Shear zone in o/c of 8b, 150 m S of N Denton Tp. line about 470 M W of Mahoney Lake.

Location Method: Based on Assessment

Access Description: This occurrence is located about 30 km W of Timmins. Take Hwy 101 about to a secondary logging road 6.6 km west of the intersection with Hwy 144. The logging road leads N. The o/c containing the Jowsey Vein is just W of the secondary road about 750 N of Hwy 101 .



Exploration History

Little is known about the Jowsey Vein. Discovered before 1946, on the Jowsey Denton Gold Mines property, this discretionary occurrence consists of a vein contained in a north-trending shear in quartz diorite. A 1 inch to 20 ft. trench plan in Timmins assessment file T-10 indicates that the vein yielded gold values up to 0.08 (units unknown) gold in a chip.


Assessment Work on File

Assessment Work on File
Office File Number Online Assessment File Identifier Online Assessment File Directory
T-3000 / 42A05SE0122 42A05SE0122
T-0010 / 63.5483 42A05SE0102 42A05SE0102

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Abitibi

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Abitibi

Geological Age: Archean  



Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Tonalite 1 Tonalite - Quartz Diorite Host

Mineral Record Details

References

Part - Geology of Ogden, Bristol, and Carscallen townships, Cochrane District

Publication Number: ARV35-06.001 Scale:     Date: 1998

Author: Hawley J.E.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


Map - Geological series, Precambrian geology of Denton Township, Cochrane District

Publication Number: P2501 Scale: 1:15,840    Date: 1982

Author: Choudhry A.G.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


MonoMap - The geology of Keefer, Denton and Thorneloe townships, District of Cochrane

Publication Number: OFR5699 Scale:     Date: 1989

Author: Choudhry A.G.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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