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Record: MDI42A06NW00007

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Hollinger Mine - 1909
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Past Producing Mine With Reserves or Resources
Date Created 1984-Oct-31
Date Last Modified 2023-Apr-12
Created By
Revised By

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold, Silver

Secondary Commodities: Tungsten



Location

Township or Area: Tisdale

Latitude: 48° 28' 24.11"    Longitude: -81° 18' 55.13"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 476695   Northing: 5368963    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Timmins

NTS Grid: 42A06NW

Point Location Description: Main Shaft on M2075

Location Method: Data Compilation

Access Description:



Exploration History

1910-1968: Hollinger Gold Mines Limited – in production, 32 shafts and winzes sunk to a maximum depth of 1615 m. 1976-88 – Pamour Porcupine Mines Limited – property acquisition, in production. 1988-99: Royal Oak Mines Ltd. – property acquisition. 1999: property acquired by Kinross Gold. 2010: Goldcorp Canada Inc. – DD-2-401m, assays


Assessment Work on File

Assessment Work on File
Office File Number Online Assessment File Identifier Online Assessment File Directory
T-6185 / 2.46088 20000005630 20000005630

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Abitibi

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Abitibi

Tectonic Assemblage: Tisdale

Geological Age: Neoarchean  



Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided 1 Tholeiitic Basalt Adjacent
Vein 2 Quartz Contains
Porphyry-unsubdivided 3 Adjacent
Terrigenous-Clastic-Unsubdivided 4 Host

Lithology Comments

Mar 07, 2014 (A Wilson) - Elevated gold values were returned from metasedimentary rocks with quartz-calcite veining. Mineralized structures were located at porphyry/volcanic contacts, along flow top contacts and interflow sedimentary units, within thin massive tholeiitic units and volcanic breccia units (mainly of the Central Formation of the Tisdale Assemblage).




Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
1PyrrhotiteEconomicOre
2ChalcopyriteEconomicOre
3SilverEconomicOre
4ScheeliteEconomicOre
5PyriteEconomicOre

Mineralization Comments

Mar 07, 2014 (A Wilson) - Gold mineralization at Hollinger was associated with pyrite at the margins of quartz veins, in a wide zone of sericite-ankerite/ferroan dolomite alteration around the western edges of the Pearl Lake Porphyry. Assays from the 2010 technical drilling project returned assays ranging from 0.0025 g/t Au over 1 m to 15 g/t Au over 1 m in quartz ankeritic veins. Scheelite was mined from the Hollinger Mine from 1940 to 1943. Ore was shipped to Bureau of Mines in Ottawa between 1940 and 1941, but was produced on site at the Hollinger from 1942-1953. The mine produced 454,866 pounds of scheelite, valued at $756,955.00.



Mineral Record Details

Classification
RankClassification            
1 Lode (Gold)
Characteristics
Rank Characteristic            
1 Vein
Reserves or Resources Data
Zone Year Category Tonnes Reference Comments Commodities
Hollinger 1989 Unclassified 234913 MDI 259000 tons at average grade 0.069 oz/ton Au
Central Shaft 1989 Unclassified 154190 MDI 170000 tons at average grade 0.08 oz/ton Au
Production Data
Year Tonnes Commodities Reference Comment
1988 2373073 Gold 5662636 Grams
OFR6427, Fig 4 years 1976-88; 182058 oz Au, 2615866 tons @ 0.07 oz/ton Au
1968 59673010 Gold 601158388 Grams
OFR6427, Fig 4 1910-68; 19327691 oz Au, 65778234 tons @ 0.29 oz/ton Au

References

Book - The anatomy of an Archean Gold system – The McIntyre-Hollinger complex at Timmins, Ontario, Canada p.40-80

Publication Number: Gold ‘86, Date: 1986

Author: R. Mason and N. Melnik

Publisher Name:

Location: Timmins RGO


File - Resident Geologist file T-0061

Publication Number: Date:

Author:

Publisher Name:

Location: Timmins RGP office


Mono - Preliminary report on the Timmins-Kirkland Lake area, gold deposits file

Publication Number: OFR5467 Date: 1983

Author: Hodgson C.J.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


Part - The Porcupine gold area

Publication Number: ARV33-02.001 Page: 54-60  Date: 1998

Author: Burrows A.G.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


Part - Mines of Ontario

Publication Number: ARV32-06.002 Page: 51-56  Date: 1998

Author: Sutherland T.F., McMillan J.G., Bartlett J., Cole G.E., Webster A.R.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


Part - Mines of Ontario

Publication Number: ARV27-01.003 Page: 108-109  Date: 1998

Author: Sutherland T.F., Collins E.A., Stovel J.H.

Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines

Location:


Part - Mines of Ontario

Publication Number: ARV25-01.003 Page: 90-97  Date: 1998

Author: Sutherland T.F., Collins E.A., McMillan J.G., Bartlett J.

Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines

Location:


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: 141  Date: 1985

Author: Rose, D.G.

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

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


Book - Gold 86, Excursion Guide, p. 40-43

Publication Number: Date: 1986

Author: R. Mason

Publisher Name:

Location: Timmins RGO


Mono - Report of Activities 2009, Resident Geologist Program, Timmins Regional Resident Geologist Report: Timmins and Sault Ste. Marie Districts

Publication Number: OFR6247 Page: Figure 4  Date: 2010

Author: Atkinson B.T., Pace A., Beauchamp S.A., Bousquet P., Butorac S., Draper D.M., Wilson A.C.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


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

Publication Number: MDC013 Page: 99-100  Date: 1971

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

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs

Location:


MonoMap - Geology and ore deposits of Tisdale Township, District of Cochrane

Publication Number: R058 Page: 102-115, 160  Date: 1968

Author: Ferguson S.A., Buffam B.S.W., Carter O.F., Griffis A.T., Holmes T.C., Hurst M.E., Jones W.A., Lane H.C., Longley C.S.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


Mono - Annual report for the year 1967, statistics of the mineral industry and mining operations in Ontario for 1967

Publication Number: ARV77 Page: 33-34  Date: 1998

Author: Riddell G.S.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


Mono - Annual report for the year 1965, statistics of the mineral industry and mining operations in Ontario for 1965

Publication Number: ARV75 Page: 28-30  Date: 1997

Author: Riddell G.S.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


Mono - Geology of mining properties in Tisdale Township, Porcupine area

Publication Number: PR1964-05 Page: 57-74  Date: 1998

Author: Ferguson S.A., Buffam B.S.W., Carter O.F., Griffis A.T., Holmes T.C., Hurst M.E., Jones W.A., Lane H.C., Longley C.S.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


Map - Tisdale Township, Cochrane District

Publication Number: M2075 Scale: 1:12,000    Date: 1998

Author: Ferguson S.A.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


Publication - Hollinger Mine; In: Structural Geology of Canadian Ore Deposits, CIM Jubilee Volume

Publication Number: Page: 464-481  Date: 1948

Author: Jones, W.A.

Publisher Name: Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy

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:


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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Location:


Map - Structural geology, Tisdale Township

Publication Number: P3173 Scale: 1:10,000    Date: 1991

Author: Piroshco D.W., Kettles K.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


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

Publication Number: P2122 Scale: 1:15,840    Date: 1981

Author: MacRae B.A., Maharaj D.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


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