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Record: MDI42A05SE00045

General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold

Location

Township or Area: Denton

Latitude: 48° 21' 48.49"    Longitude: -81° 38' 53.8"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 451982.21   Northing: 5356902.7    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Timmins

NTS Grid: 42A05SE

Point Location Description: Outcrop marked shear 125 m W of Mahoney Lake on Denton/Carscallen Tp. line on Map 2501.

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. About 800 m north on the logging road is the Denton/Carcallen Tp. line. Traverse E along the line about 225 m to the occurrence area.

Exploration History

This vein was discovered around 1911. In 1925, claims covering the occurrence were held by Hazelton Porcupine Gold Mines Ltd. who completed trenching diamond drilling and shaft sinking. One shaft was put down near the location of Vein No.1. Aumo Porcupine Gold Mines Ltd. acquired the claims in 1944 and by 1946 had completed 4 diamond drill holes on this vein. 1985, Peter John Colbert completed stripping in Carscallen Tp on the northern extension of the vein. In 1987, a drill hole tested under the surface stripping.

Assessment Work on File

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Abitibi

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Abitibi

Geological Age: Archean  

Lithology

Lithology Comments

Jun 16, 2020 (G Seim) - Hawley, J.E. (1926) wrote Vein No. 1, situated six chains west of Mahoney Lake on claim P. 8751, strikes approximately N20E and dips steeply east. No definite vein can be traced through this zone of schist, but small stringers of bluish quartz and rusty to reddish carbonate are abundant. Thin sections of specimens taken along a similar shear zone to the west show a complete gradation from altered massive biotite granite to sericite schist with eyes of blue quartz.

Mineralization

Mineralization Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (G Seim) - The vein or shear zone has a length of 150 feet, pinching out to the north and south and extending a short distance into Carscallen, Claim P.10988. Diamond drilling under the outcrop of this vein for 300 feet at an angle of 57 degrees, is reported to have cut mineralized sections of quartz and tourmaline which yielded some gold on assay. The width of the zone on the surface ranges from one to five feet. An undated, anonymous, map in assessment file T-10 indicates that several assays on this vein range from 0.02 over 11 inches to 0.52 over 12 inches. Unfortunately it is not known if these values are in OPT, DWTs or dollar values.

Mineral Record Details

References

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:

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

Publication Number: ARV35-06.001 Page: 33  Date: 1998

Author: Hawley J.E.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:

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

Publication Number: OFR5699 Date: 1989

Author: Choudhry A.G.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

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