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Record: MDI42A06NE00085

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Canadian Lencourt Mines Ltd. - 1967, Canadian Lencourt DDH L-1 - 1967, Allerston Claim Group - 1974
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Occurrence
Date Created 1981-Feb-23
Date Last Modified 2023-Mar-03
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Silver

Secondary Commodities: Gold



Location

Township or Area: Whitney

Latitude: 48° 28' 9.58"    Longitude: -81° 9' 25.38"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 488391.46   Northing: 5368478.17    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Timmins

NTS Grid: 42A06NE

Point Location Description: grab sample sites

Location Method: Based on Assessment

Access Description:



Exploration History

1967: Canadian Lencourt Mines Limited – IP survey, magnetic survey, EM survey, mapping, trenching, sampling, geochemistry DD-5-1002 ft, assays., 1973-76: R. Allerston – stripping, trenching, magnetometer survey 1976-82: Rosario Resources Ltd. - IP survey, airborne geophysics, mapping. 1976: Alamo Petroleum/Rosario Resources – mapping, sampling, magnetometer survey, EM survey, HLEM, IP, gravity.


Assessment Work on File

Assessment Work on File
Office File Number Online Assessment File Identifier Online Assessment File Directory
T-1052 / 2.2464 42A06NE0053 42A06NE0053
T-1025 / 2.2058 42A06NE0060 42A06NE0060
T-1052 / 2.2256 42A06NE0058 42A06NE0058
T-1052 / 2.2628 42A06NE0049 42A06NE0049
T-1052/ 2.2833 42A06NE0046 42A06NE0046
T-1052/ 2.4119 42A06NE8438 42A06NE8438
T-1392 42A06NE0076 42A06NE0076
T-1392/63.2218 42A06NE0067 42A06NE0067
T-1052/2.2257 42A06NE0059 42A06NE0059

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Abitibi

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Abitibi

Tectonic Assemblage: Deloro

Geological Age: Neoarchean  

Metamorphism Type: Regional

Metamorphism Grade: Greenschist



Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided 1 Basalt Chlorite Schist Near
Vein 2 Quartz Contains
Mylonite/Fault Gouge/Pseudotachylite 3 Sheared Adjacent

Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
2SphaleriteEconomicOre
1PyriteEconomicGangue
2SilverEconomicGangue
3GalenaEconomicGangue
4PyrrhotiteEconomicGangue
5ChalcopyriteEconomicGangue
6MagnetiteEconomicGangue
7ArsenopyriteEconomicGangue
SericiteAlterationSericitization1UnknownDisseminated

Mineralization Comments

Jan 16, 2015 (A Wilson) - Grab samples collected by Canadian Lencourt Mines Limited returned assays of 3.74oz/t Ag, 6.34 oz/t Ag, 9.78 oz/t Ag 1.80 oz/t Ag, 0.62 oz/t Ag and 1.46 oz/t Ag. Associated gold values werranged from 0.01 oz/t to 0.10 oz/t Au. The best assay from the property yielded 13 oz/t Ag. The best assays from the diamond drilling program were from DDH L-5 which returned 0.01 oz/t Au and 0.40 oz/t Ag over 9.4 ft.



Mineral Record Details

References

File - Resident Geologist file T-0718

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Author:

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Location: Timmins RGP office


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

Publication Number: P2123 Scale: 1:15,840    Date: 1981

Author: Hunt D.S., MacRae B.A., Maharaj D.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


Mono - Silver cobalt calcite vein deposits of Ontario

Publication Number: MDC010 Page: 23  Date: 1968

Author: Sergiades A.O.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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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

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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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