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| Record Name(s) | MacPherson Porphyry - 2002 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 2002-Oct-30 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Mar-03 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Deloro
Latitude: 48° 25' 24.92" Longitude: -81° 13' 54.65"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 482847.383 Northing: 5363408.07 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Timmins
NTS Grid: 42A06NE
Point Location Description: Collar of DDH X1 on Claim ME-30
Location Method: Based on Assessment
Access Description: A network of bush roads lead south from the Buffalo Ankerite Mine to the area of the occurrence.
1938: Erie Canadian Mines Ltd. correspondence indicated that a Mr. John MacPherson located gold in a quartz porphyry some time between 1919 and 1925. 1939: Irvin Porcupine Gold Mines Ltd. drilled 9 diamond drill holes on a quartz porphyry located on patented claim ME30. 1984: Puissance Mining Corp. drilled a single diamond drill hole on the quartz porphyry.
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Abitibi
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Abitibi
Tectonic Assemblage: Deloro
Geological Age: Archean
Dec 07, 2005 (G Seim) - Irvin Porpcupine DDH X-1 was drilled at -30 from north to south underneath a porphyry outcrop. The hole collared in mafic metavolcanic rock and intersected a porphyry mineralized with quartz stringers from 42 to 46 ft. down the hole. The hole continued in porphyry to a depth of 50 ft. The hole then passed into carbonate rock mineralized with quartz stringers until 68 feet where the hole once again cut mafic metavolcanic rock. The outcrop trace of the porphyry trends NE. Puissance Mining Corp. drilled hole P-12-84 in the vicinity of the porphyry and hole X-1 but did not intersect porphyry.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 1 | Near |
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| Quartz Porphyry | 2 | Quartz | Host | |
| Carbonate-Unsubdivided | 3 | Carbonate Rock | Near |
Dec 07, 2005 (G Seim) - Diamond drill hole X-1 intersected 4 ft. of porphyry mineralized with quartz stingers that returned $19.60 per ton.
File - Resident Geologist files T-67, T-2839
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