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| Record Name(s) | McBine-Porcupine - 1938, Labine - McMahon - 1913, Hennessy - 1909, Labine - 1909, Choi Property - 1981 |
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| Related Record Type | Compound |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1981-Jan-12 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Mar-03 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Deloro
Latitude: 48° 25' 49.09" Longitude: -81° 18' 25.55"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 477283 Northing: 5364174 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Timmins
NTS Grid: 42A06NW
Point Location Description: Filled in shaft in S central part of Patent ME 41 as described in AMIS Database
Location Method: Field Visit with GPS
Access Description: Travel south from the Delnite Townsite 0.5 km along a bush road to an ATV trail that leads 500 m west to the shaft area.
1909: Mr. Hennessey stakes claims ME 41,ME 42 and ME 43. Mr. LaBine stakes claims HR 800, HR 801 and HR 802. 1913: Some exploration work completed on the LaBine claims by LaBine/McMahon Gold Mining Syndicate. 1917: Porcupine Crown Gold Mines Ltd. sunk a 125 ft. shaft on ME 41 and drilled 7 ddh on claims ME 41, HR 800 and HR 801. 1938: McBine Gold Mines Ltd. options the Hennessy claims and completed geological mapping, trenching, and sampling. McBine drilled 8 ddh on the Labine zone through claims HR 800, HR 801, HR 802. No activity from 1942 to 1980 when Pamour Porcupine Mines Ltd. optioned the Choi property which incudes the Labine and Hennessey claims. Through 1980 and 81, Pamour completed 11708 ft. of diamond drilling on the North Zone, the South Zone and the South Shaft zone. The North and South zones are found on Claims HR 941 and ME 43. The South Shaft Zone is located in the southeastern corner of claim ME 41 and in southern HR 802. Pamour completed stripping and percussion drilling in the South Shaft Zone area. 1982: Pamour completed line cutting, magnetometer and VLF-EM surveys. 1983 Pamour conducted an IP survey, geological mapping and diamond drilling. Much of this work concentrated on the Choi North and South Zones. 1986 Pamour completed 8 additional holes on the Choi Zones.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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| T-2544, 63.4921 | 42A11SE8407 | 42A11SE8407 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Abitibi
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Abitibi
Tectonic Assemblage: Tisdale
Geological Age: Neoarchean
Dec 07, 2005 (G Seim) - The general geology of the Choi property is described in assessment file T-2544. The property is underlain by massive and pillowed, predominantly iron-rich tholeiitic flows in the northern portion and massive, polysutured, peridotitic komatiite to basaltic komatiite flows in the southern portion. Graphitic pyroclastic to graphitic argillaceous fragmental units occur as interflow metasediments and host gold mineralization of the Choi North and South Zones. The prominent structural feature consists of an E- to ENE-trending, north dipping, overturned, westerly plunging anticline. Other north-trending faults are indicated on the property. A 1939 report by B.S.W. Buffam (assessment file T-419) indicates that the rocks exposed on the property are a series of interbedded andesitic flows, often strongly sheared along their contacts. Some of the sheared material may be made of tuffaceous debris. The flows have been intruded by two irregular bodies of quartz porphyry near the eastern boundary of claim HR 801. A narrow basic, coarse-grained dyke cuts the lavas just east of the Hennessey shaft. Buffan identified 4 stongly altered zones, 3 consisting mainly of the introduction of carbonate and quartz and the 4th of talc-chlorite schist. The southern zone is reported to be exposed along the edge of a large outcrop near the southern boundary of the claims, just north of the Destor-Porcupine Fault zone. The Hennessey zone (southern shaft area) is a band of carbonate alteration that has been traced in surface exposure and by diamond drilling over a length of 1200 ft. This zone varies in width from 50 to 100 ft. Many irregular quartz veins are present in the carbonate zone and some scattered values are reported from them. The Northern zone (Choi south) is exposed on claim ME 43. The 4th zone, a zone of talc-chlorite schist, was intersected in holes 5 and 6 (1939) drilled on claim HR 801.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 1 | Basalt, Iron-Rich Tholeiite | Massive And Pillowed Flows | Host |
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| Mylonite/Fault Gouge/Pseudotachylite | 2 | Shear Zone | Near | |
| Vein | 3 | Host | ||
| Ultramafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 4 | Komatiite, Basaltic Komatiite | Near | |
| Quartz Porphyry | 5 | Quartz | Near |
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Pyrite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 2 | Tourmaline | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| Carbonate | Alteration | Carbonatization | 1 | Strong | Replacement |
Dec 07, 2005 (G Seim) - A Sketch showing the approx. loactions of pits and DD holes on the Labine McMahon claims dated April 16, 1938 indicates Sylvanite sampling of a trench near the NE corner of HR 800 returned values of $ 5.60 over 3 ft, $7.70 over 3 ft, $1.40 over 3 ft, and $3.50 over 3 ft, with two 3 ft samples yielding only trace. Hole 2 collared on HR-802 returned an average of $3.50 over 4.8 ft from a vein containing 70% white quartz, black tourmaline, light brown carbonate and sulphides. Hole 3 collared on claim HR 801 returned 4 ft at $2.45. Hole 4 collared on HR 802 retruned $10.15 over 4.4 ft from a sheared, carbonated andesite containing some quartz and carbonate, and 1 ft at $1.45 from an interval containing 70% quartz and carbonate. Gold was quoted at $35.00 per ounce. These values all report to the original Labine Zone. The only available values for the Henessy Zone are from a 1913 report by W.S. Dobbs. He indicated that the vein system on ME 41 ranged from $1.60 to $15.00 over widths averaging 4 ft. To the north and west of the shaft area some 700 ft., 5 samples from a quartz vein were reported to have yielded the following results over widths averaging 5 ft. $80.00, $20.00, $22.00, $12.00 and $4.00. This vein was reportedly high-graded. Gold in 1913 averaged $20.60 per ounce. Ferguson et al. (1971) report two assays obtained from underground over a width of 53 inches were $9.80 (0.28 opt Au) and $11.75 ( 0.33 opt Au).
Book - Survey of Mines 1959
Publication Number: Page: 176 Date: 1959
Author:
Publisher Name: Financial Post
Location:
File - Resident Geologist file T-419
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Location: Timmins RGP office
Map - Deloro Township, District of Cochrane
Publication Number: P0342 Scale: 1:15,840 Date: 1997
Author: Carlson H.D.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Timmins data series, Deloro Township, District of Thunder Bay
Publication Number: P2079 Scale: 1:15,840 Date: 1981
Author: Sangster P.J., Maharaj D.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Publication - Sudbury Timmins Algoma Mineral Program, Project 1: mineral inventory of the Sudbury-Timmins-Sault Ste. Marie region, Ontario
Publication Number: GSC OF 1087 Page: 42A-158 Date: 1985
Author: Rose, D.G.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/129999
MonoMap - Geology of Ogden, Deloro and Shaw townships, District of Cochrane
Publication Number: OFR5012 Page: 97 Date: 1997
Author: Carlson H.D.
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: 65-66 Date: 1971
Author: Ferguson S.A., Groen H.A., Haynes R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs
Location:
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:
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