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| Record Name(s) | Crown Mine - 1911, Porcupine Crown - 1915, Northcrown Porcupine Mines Ltd. - 1920, McEnaney Mine - 1911 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1981-Mar-16 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Mar-03 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Secondary Commodities: Silver
Township or Area: Tisdale
Latitude: 48° 28' 5.49" Longitude: -81° 18' 54.43"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 476707 Northing: 5368388 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Timmins
NTS Grid: 42A06NW
Point Location Description: Shaft
Location Method: AMIS Site Visit
Access Description: The Crown Shaft is now part of the Hollinger property and the shaft is situated near Fairway Village.
1911: Crown Reserve Mining Company Limited - No.1 shaft sunk to 60 ft, No. 2 (Crown) shaft sunk to 300 ft with underground development, No. 3 shaft sunk to 100 ft, No. 4 shaft to 100 ft with underground development. 1913-19: Porcupine Crown Mines Limited - main shaft to 400 ft., DD-2739 ft 1920: property transferred to Northcrown Porcupine Mines Ltd. 1922 - Porcupine Crown Mines Limited - exploration work, winze sunk west of main shaft, underground development, mine closed in 1922. 1947: Hollinger Consolidated Gold Mines Ltd. - property acquired
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Abitibi
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Abitibi
Geological Age: Neoarchean
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 1 | Basalt | Adjacent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vein | 2 | Quartz | Contains | |
| Quartz Porphyry | 3 | Quartz | Contains |
Mar 10, 2014 (A Wilson) - The vein was 4-7 ft wide and having a northerly strike along the hanging-wall side of a porphyry mass which dips easterly. The vein was partly in mafic metavolcanic rocks and partly in porphyry.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gold | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Pyrite | Economic | Gangue |
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Lode (Gold) |
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 1 | Vein |
| Year | Tonnes | Commodities | Reference | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1921 | 1 |
Silver 2146 Grams Gold 11880 Grams |
ARV31-1, p. 5 | 382 oz Au 69 oz Ag |
| 1920 | 6842 |
Silver 159736 Grams Gold 106808 Grams |
ARV30 -1, p. 6 | 3434.346 oz Au, 513.62 oz Ag from 6,220 tons milled |
| 1918 | 11998 |
Silver 3843 Grams Gold 185944 Grams |
ARV28 -1, p. 9 | 5978.91 oz Au, 123.563 oz Ag from 10907 tons milled |
| 1917 | 43022 |
Silver 82011 Grams Gold 565398 Grams |
ARV27 -1, p. 7 | 18,180 oz Au, 2,637 oz Ag from 39,111 tons milled |
| 1916 | 56400 |
Silver 122099 Grams per Tonne Gold 866944 Grams |
ARV26 -1, p. 11 | 51,273 tons yielded 27,876.6 oz Au, 3926 oz Ag |
| 1915 | 44943 |
Gold 902895 Grams |
ARV24 -1, p. 7 | 29,032 oz Au from 41,326 tons milled |
| 1914 | 21686 |
Gold 263689 Grams |
ARV23 -1, p. 8 | 19,715 tons at average grade of $20.30, yielded $325,542.50 |
File - Resident Geologist files T-0061
Publication Number: Date:
Author:
Publisher Name:
Location: Timmins RGP office
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:
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: 117 Date: 1985
Author: Rose, D.G.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/129999
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:
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:
Part - Mines of Ontario
Publication Number: ARV21-01.003 Page: 156 Date: 1998
Author: Corkill E.T.
Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines
Location:
Part - Mines of Ontario
Publication Number: ARV22-01.003 Page: 130-131 Date: 1998
Author: Corkill E.T.
Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines
Location:
Part - Mines of Ontario
Publication Number: ARV24-01.003 Page: 44-47 Date: 1998
Author: Sutherland T.F., Collins E.A., McMillan J.G., Bartlett J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines
Location:
Part - Mines of Ontario
Publication Number: ARV30-01.003 Page: 102 Date: 1997
Author: Sutherland T.F., McMillan J.G., Bartlett J., Webster A.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Part - Mines of Ontario
Publication Number: ARV31-10.002 Page: 38 Date: 1997
Author: Sutherland T.F., McMillan J.G., Bartlett J., Webster A.R., Cole G.E.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Part - The Porcupine gold area
Publication Number: ARV33-02.001 Page: 67-69 Date: 1998
Author: Burrows A.G.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - Geology and ore deposits of Tisdale Township, District of Cochrane
Publication Number: R058 Page: 115-118 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 - Gold deposits of Ontario, part 1, districts of Algoma, Cochrane, Kenora, Rainy River, and Thunder Bay
Publication Number: MDC013 Page: 93-94 Date: 1971
Author: Ferguson S.A., Groen H.A., Haynes R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs
Location:
Part - Mines of Ontario
Publication Number: ARV23-01.003 Page: 8, 164 Date: 1998
Author: Sutherland T.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines
Location:
Part - Mines of Ontario
Publication Number: ARV25-01.003 Page: 100 Date: 1998
Author: Sutherland T.F., Collins E.A., McMillan J.G., Bartlett J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines
Location:
Part - Mines of Ontario
Publication Number: ARV26.003 Page: 11, 105 Date: 1998
Author: Sutherland T.F., Collins E.A., Stovel J.H., Bartlett J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines
Location:
Part - Mines of Ontario
Publication Number: ARV27-01.003 Page: 7, 112 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: ARV28-01.003 Page: 9, 127 Date: 1998
Author: Sutherland T.F., Collins E.A., Stovel J.H., Webster A.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines
Location:
Part - Mines of Ontario
Publication Number: ARV29-01.003 Page: 88 Date: 1998
Author: Sutherland T.F., McMillan J.G., Bartlett J., Webster A.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Part - Mines of Ontario
Publication Number: ARV33-07.002 Page: 62 Date: 1998
Author: Sutherland T.F., McMillan J.G., Bartlett J., Cole G.E., Webster A.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
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