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Record: MDI42A06NE00017

General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold

Location

Township or Area: Shaw

Latitude: 48° 26' 23.69"    Longitude: -81° 9' 17.46"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 488547.445   Northing: 5365208.149    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Timmins

NTS Grid: 42A06NE

Point Location Description: Centre of old trench on former claim HR 807

Location Method: Based on Assessment

Access Description: Access to the property is via the Carshaw Road south from South Porcupine. Turn east along the Goose Lake access road to reach the property.

Exploration History

1918-51: Porcupine and Hudson Bay and Bay Lake Gold Mines Syndicate - trenching, sampling, pitting, test shaft to 40 ft, stripping. 1940-41: Sylvanite Gold Mines - optioned property, property examinations, bulk sampling. 1971-72: Flint Rock Mines - 11 ddh (3384 ft). 1981: Lacana Mining Corporation - ground geophysics, 6 ddh (2312 ft). 1987: Findore Minerals Inc. - ground geophysics. 1990-95: H. Hutteri/E. Korba - ground geophysics, geochemical survey, mapping, trenching. 2001-02: B. Cole - ground geophysics, geology.

Assessment Work on File

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Abitibi

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Abitibi

Tectonic Assemblage: Deloro

Geological Age: Neoarchean  

Lithology

Lithology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - The occurrence consists of an extensive network on quartz veinlets and stringers heavily mineralized with pyrite. The veins vary in thickness for 0.25 in. to 4 in. The claims are underlain by intermediate to mafic metavolcanic flows with narrow banded iron formation and interflow pyroclastic zones. The volcanics and iron formations strike roughly NW-SE and dip gently to the NE. There are a number of zones of intense carbonate alteration on the property, some of which are closely associated with the iron formation, while other wider zones have a more easterly trend and steep dips and seem to cross cut the stratigraphy.

Mineralization

Mineralization Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - Samples collected by Bay Lake Gold Mines from trench 3 in 1929 returned values of 6.7 oz/t Au and 22.35 oz/t Au. Assays from diamond drilling reportedly returned averages of $8.70 Au. Composite samples collected by J. Cole (Erie Canadian Gold Mines ?) in 1934 returned values of 4.40 oz/t Au, 1.04 oz/t Au and 1.26 oz/t Au. Samples from drill holes completed by Flint Rock returned values of 0.36 oz/t Au over 6 ft in intermediate metavolcanics and 0.25 oz/t Au over 4.5 ft in quartz stringers. Grab samples from a 4 ft wide vein in a shaft returned 0.128 oz/t Au and a grab sample from a 4.5 ft wide vein in a pit returned 0.169 oz/t Au. Diamond drilling by Lacana returned assays of 0.02 oz/t Au in the iron formation. The best sample collected by Hutteri and Korba returned 0.35 oz/t Au from iron formation. Sylvanite Gold Mines completed bulk sampling in 1940/41, the best assays of which returned a grade of 0.05 oz/ton Au.

Mineral Record Details

Mineral Zones - Size and Shape

Rank: 1       Structure Type: Vein

References

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-98  Date: 1985

Author: Rose, D. G.

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

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

File - Resident Geologist files T-211, T-511, T-3615

Publication Number: Date:

Author:

Publisher Name:

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

Location:

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

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.

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

Publication Number: OFR5012 Page: 107A-109  Date: 1997

Author: Carlson H.D.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:

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

Location:

Book - Canadian Mines Handbook 1950

Publication Number: CMH 1950 Page: 26  Date: 1950

Author:

Publisher Name:

Location: Timmins RGP office

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