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| Record Name(s) | Brown McDade DH XR-1-79 - 1979, Warne Option - 1970, Goose Lake Sample #10 - 1957, Warren Prospect - 1975 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1981-Feb-23 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Mar-03 |
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Primary Commodities: Iron, Gold, Zinc, Silver, Copper
Secondary Commodities: Silica
Township or Area: Whitney
Latitude: 48° 27' 28.02" Longitude: -81° 11' 35.62"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 485714 Northing: 5367201 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Timmins
NTS Grid: 42A06NE
Point Location Description: collar of DH XR-1-79
Location Method: Based on Assessment
Access Description: The claim can be reached by driving 4.8 km south-eastward from the Highway 101-Bruce Street junction in South Porcupine via the Langmuir Mine Road (Tisdale St. South) to a point 0.9 km south of the recently constructed Porcupine Joint Venture haul road overpass. From there, a somewhat overgrown 475 meter long side road running in a north-northeast direction leads to a large old blasted pit in the extreme northwest corner of claim 3005396 [NW ¼, S ½, Lot 11, Conc. I]. (T-5055)
1936-1938: Virita Porcupine Gold Mines Limited - geological reports. 1957:Goose Lake Iron Mines Limited - geological report, sampling 1968: Texas Gulf Sulphur Company -ground geophysical surveys. 1970: Consolidated Morrison Explorations Limited (Warne Option) - geology, sampling and 4 drillholes. 1975: Texas Gulf Sulphur Company - geology, sampling, assays, geophysical survey. 1979: Brown - McDade Mines (Scott Option) - drilling . 2004: J.E. Croxall - prospecting, mapping to delineate siliceous sediments . 2005-2006: J. E. Croxall / Great White Minerals Ltd. - stripping, sampling, assays . 2006: Property transferred to Great White Minerals Ltd.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| T-1420/ 23 | 42A06NE0079 | 42A06NE0079 |
| T-1483 / 63.2402 | 42A06NE0211 | 42A06NE0211 |
| T-5055 / 2.28720 | 42A06NE2039 | 42A06NE2039 |
| T-5293 / 2.31151 | 20000001062 | 20000001062 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Abitibi
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Abitibi
Tectonic Assemblage: Deloro
Geological Age: Archean
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Oxide Ironstone | 1 | Oxide-Facies | Contains |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intermediate Tuff | 2 | Rhyodacite | Tufffaceous | Adjacent |
| Intermediate lava flow-unsubdivided | 3 | Andesite | Fragmental | Near |
| Ironstone-unsubdivided | 4 | Carbonate-Facies | Contains |
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Magnetite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 4 | Sphalerite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 8 | Bornite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Hematite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 5 | Pyrite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 6 | Graphite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 7 | Pyrrhotite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| Sericite | Alteration | Sericitization | 1 | Unknown | Disseminated |
Jan 09, 2015 (D Draper) - Sample of iron formation taken near SE corner of the SE ¼, N ½, Lot 12, Conc. I by Goose Lake Iron Mines returned 36.76% acid soluble Fe. Core samples from Consolidated Morrison's drilling in vicinity of later Brown-McDade work returned only sub-occurrence values. However, on file is a reference to a grab sample (Whit 1) which assayed 11.7% Cu and 5.56 oz/t Ag, but there is no indication of where on the property this sample was taken. Texas Gulf's 1975 work indicated the zone of massive sulphides (py, cpy, sph) was exposed along a 30ft strike length with a true thickness of 10ft at surface. A surface sample was reported to have assayed 2.80% Cu, 1.46 oz/t Ag and 0.56% Zn over 10ft. This mineralized zone occurs at the nose of a fold which plunges northeast at about 30 degrees Brown-McDade drilling: --Hole XR-1 assayed an average of 1.35% Cu, 0.59% Zn, 1.38 oz/t Ag and 0.04 opt Au over the uppermost 11.5ft in a zone of chert and carbonate mineralized with cpy and bornite. Included in this unit was a 3-foot sample that returned 1.66% Cu, 0.72% Zn, 1.89 oz/t Ag and 0.13 oz/t Au. --Hole WH-4-79, collared 30m SE of XR-1, returned 3250ppm Cu over 2 ft at 47ft in cherty I.F. --Hole WH-5-79, collared 30m NE of XR-1, averaged 4660 ppm Cu over 21ft of dacitic tuffs and cherty I.F. mineralized with py and cpy The most recent work on the property has been to evaluate it as a source of siliceous material that may have potential as smelter flux. Two grab samples of the chert horizon taken by Croxall in the vicinity of the discovery pit returned 99.18% and 89.52% SiO2.
Jan 09, 2015 (A Wilson) - Samples collected from the site in 1975 returned an assay of 0.344 oz/t Au, 5.1 oz/t Ag and 8.42% Cu.
File - Resident Geologist files T-0329, T-0769, T-0776, T-1420, T-3623
Publication Number: Date:
Author:
Publisher Name:
Location: Timmins RGP office
Journal - Northern Miner 79-08-02, Brown-McDade, p. 3,
Publication Number: NMINER Date: 1979
Author: Northern Miner Press
Publisher Name: Northern Miner
Location: Timmins RGO
Map - Timmins, Precambrian geology
Publication Number: M2455 Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 1982
Author: Pyke D.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
MonoMap - Geology of the Timmins area, District of Cochrane
Publication Number: R219 Page: 41-42 Date: 1982
Author: Pyke D.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Geological series, Timmins area
Publication Number: P0941 Scale: 1:63,360 Date: 1974
Author: Pyke D.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines
Location:
Mono - Iron deposits of Ontario
Publication Number: MDC011 Page: 130-131 Date: 1968
Author: Shklanka R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Part - The Porcupine gold area, second report
Publication Number: ARV21-01.005 Page: 213 Date: 1998
Author: Burrows A.G.
Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines
Location:
Map - Structural geology, Whitney Township
Publication Number: P3172 Scale: 1:10,000 Date: 1991
Author: Piroshco D.W., Kettles K.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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:
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