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Record: MDI42A06NE00014

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Kensull Gold Mines DDH 3 - 1946, Trend Exploration - 1962, Kensull Occurrence - 1971
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Occurrence
Date Created 1981-Jan-14
Date Last Modified 2023-Mar-06
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold



Location

Township or Area: Shaw

Latitude: 48° 24' 31.59"    Longitude: -81° 4' 33.27"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 494382.464   Northing: 5361738.21    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Timmins

NTS Grid: 42A06NE

Point Location Description: Drill collar for Kensull Gold Mines DDH 3

Location Method: Based on Assessment

Access Description: The property is accessible via the Langmuir/Redstone Road, which extends southward from Tisdale Street in South Porcupine.



Exploration History

1946-1950: Kensull Gold Mines Ltd. - ground geophysics, trenching, stripping, 5 ddh (3478 ft). 1962-63: Trend Exploration and Development: ground geophysics, 3 ddh (1021 ft). 1980-82: Hollinger Mines Limited - ground geophysics. 1988-89: Total Energold Corp. - mapping, geochemical survey, ground geophysics.


Assessment Work on File

Assessment Work on File
Office File Number Online Assessment File Identifier Online Assessment File Directory
T-715, 13 42A06NE0341 42A06NE0341
63.1217, T-0715 42A06NE0331 42A06NE0331
63.154 42A06NE8437 42A06NE8437

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Abitibi

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Abitibi

Tectonic Assemblage: Deloro

Geological Age: Neoarchean  



Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Intermediate lava flow-unsubdivided 1 Andesite Host
Ironstone-unsubdivided 2 Near

Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
1PyriteEconomicGangue
CarbonateAlterationCarbonatization1

Mineralization Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - The best assay recovered from the drill hole was 0.04 oz/t Au over 5 ft at 130 ft. Gold values ranging form $0.35 to $1.49 were recovered between 162 to 323 foot. These assays were recovered from hematized intermediate metavolcanics.



Mineral Record Details

References

File - Resident Geologist files T-149, T-1999, T-3268

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Location: Timmins RGP office


Map - Timmins data series, Shaw Township, District of Cochrane

Publication Number: P2091 Scale: 1:15,840    Date: 1980

Author: Hunt D.S., Maharaj D.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Book - Sudbury Timmins Algoma Mineral Program, Project 1: mineral inventory of the Sudbury-Timmins-Sault Ste. Marie region, Ontario

Publication Number: GSC OF 1087 Page: 42A-205  Date: 1985

Author: Rose, D. G.

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/129999


Map - Shaw Township, District of Cochrane

Publication Number: P0343 Scale: 1:15,840    Date: 1997

Author: Carlson H.D.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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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.

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MonoMap - Geology of Ogden, Deloro and Shaw townships, District of Cochrane

Publication Number: OFR5012 Page: 111, 114  Date: 1997

Author: Carlson H.D.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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Map - Timmins, Precambrian geology

Publication Number: M2455 Scale: 1:50,000    Date: 1982

Author: Pyke D.R.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Mono - Gold deposits of Ontario, part 1, districts of Algoma, Cochrane, Kenora, Rainy River, and Thunder Bay

Publication Number: MDC013 Page: 136  Date: 1971

Author: Ferguson S.A., Groen H.A., Haynes R.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs

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