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| Record Name(s) | McLaren-Porcupine Claim HR 1080 - 1933, McLaren Porcupine Glory Hole - 1933, D.H. Duval Property - 1963 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
| Related Record(s) | |
| Record Status | Developed Prospect Without Reported Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1981-Jan-12 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Apr-14 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Secondary Commodities: Silver
Township or Area: Deloro
Latitude: 48° 25' 23.6" Longitude: -81° 15' 52.07"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 480434.003 Northing: 5363375.001 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Timmins
NTS Grid: 42A06NW
Point Location Description: Small open pit located on claim HR 1080
Location Method: AMIS Site Visit
Access Description: Follow the Mckay Lake Road south of the Buffalo Ankerite tailings pile for about 1.4 km. A bush road branches of the main road to the left. A few hundred meters along the branch road, a lessor travelled road leads south to the McLaren Porcupine open pit.
1909 - O'Gorman stakes claims and sells to Gavin and Hamilton. 1933-37: McLaren Porcupine Gold Mines, Limited operated a small open pit; DD-10-4500 ft, 125 ft. of drifting from bottom of pit towards old shaft, mapping
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Abitibi
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Abitibi
Tectonic Assemblage: Deloro
Geological Age: Neoarchean
Mar 22, 2011 (G Seim) - From Carlson (1967) .......Quartz veinlets, stringers, and stockworks in porphyry dikes along their contacts; commonly the gold values are too erratic and the veinlets too narrow to make these of commercial interest; however, in the northwestern part of claim H.R. 1080, an open cut roughly 50 feet by 50 feet by 60 feet deep was developed on a small, pipe-like stockwork of quartz stringers in a porphyry “nose”, and is reported to have produced 9000 tons of material grading 0.16 ounces of gold per ton; from the bottom of the open cut some 125 feet of drifting and cross cutting were done on the 60-foot level; the area surrounding the open cut is criss-crossed by 10 diamond drill holes totalling 4500 feet in length; one of these cut a 28-foot section directly under the pit and 100feet below its bottom, which is reported to have returned an assay of 0.39 ounces of gold per ton...... From assessment fileT-49, William T. May in 1940. 1) Open cut or Glory hole. This is a showing in the northwest corner of Claim H.R. 1080. The geology shows a waxy porphyry intrusive into the greenstone. In the porphyry, veins of quartz, carrying galena, chalcopyrite, pyrite, tourmaline and gold are found in the form of stringers, stockworks and irregular veinlets. In the immediate vicinity of these veins the porphyry is silicified, well mineralized with sulphides and tourmaline and carries gold values. The latter seem to be distinctly associated with the tourmaline and sulphides. No definite information as to strike, dip, length, width or depth are available except from the glory hole and the diamond drill hole No. 1.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 1 | Basalt | Near |
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| Quartz Porphyry | 2 | Quartz | Host | |
| Vein | 3 | Contains |
Mar 22, 2011 (A Wilson) - The open pit is described as being developed within a waxy porphyry intrusive within mafic metavolcanic rocks. The open pit was sunk in an area with quartz stringers within a quartz porphyry nose. The mafic metavolcanics show a steep northerly dip. Lying within the greenstones and conformable with them are two zones of ankerite. These zones were interpreted as sill-like intrusions of porphyry. Both zones are cut by a closely spaced pattern of quartz stringers and veinlets which are well mineralized with pyrite.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Gold | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 1 | Galena | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 2 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 3 | Pyrite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 4 | Tourmaline | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| Silica | Alteration | Silicification | 1 | Strong | Replacement | ||
| Sulphides | Alteration | Sulphidation | 2 | Medium | Disseminated |
Mar 22, 2011 (A Wilson) - The veins reportedly carry galena, chalcopyrite, pyrite, tourmaline and gold. The veins comprise stringers, stockworks and irregular veinlets. The porphyry is reportedly silicified in the vicinity of the veins. Diamond drill hole No. 1 returned an assay of 0.70 oz/t Au over 22 feet in quartz veins.
| Rank | Classification |
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| 2 | Porphyry |
| 1 | Vein |
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 1 | Vein |
| Year | Tonnes | Commodities | Reference | Comment |
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| 1937 | 795 |
Silver 1151 Gold 6252 |
MRC 13, GOLD DEPOSITS OF ONTARIO, PT 1, PAGE 66 | |
| 1937 | 181 | MINES OF ONTARIO IN 1937, AR 47 PT 1, PAGE 166, facing p. 14 | gold produced valued at $2314.00 | |
| 1936 | 454 | MINES OF ONTARIO IN 1936, AR46 PT 1, facing p. 20, p. 174 | $5000.00 worth of gold produced | |
| 1935 | 272 | MINES OF ONTARIO IN 1935, AR45 PT 1 PAGES 9 | 600 tons 108.79 oz Au, 18 oz Ag | |
| 1934 | 90 | MINES OF ONTARIO IN 1934, AR44 PT 1 PAGE 122 | 50 tons yielding 9.86 ounces Au, 2 ounces Ag |
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: 162 Date: 1985
Author: Rose, D.G.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/129999
File - Resident Geologist file T-49
Publication Number: Date:
Author:
Publisher Name:
Location: Timmins RGP office
Map - Shaw Township, District of Cochrane
Publication Number: P0343 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:
Part - Mines of Ontario in 1934
Publication Number: ARV44-01.003 Page: 122 Date: 1997
Author: Sinclair D.G., Keeley E.C., Cooper D.F., Weir E.B., Webster A.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Part - Mines of Ontario in 1935
Publication Number: ARV45-01.003 Page: 136-137 Date: 1997
Author: Sinclair D.G., Keeley E.C., Cooper D.F., Weir E.B., Webster A.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Part - Mines of Ontario in 1936
Publication Number: ARV46-01.003 Page: 174 Date: 1997
Author: Sinclair D.G., Tower W.O., Bayne A.S., Cooper D.F., Weir E.B., Webster A.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - Geology of Ogden, Deloro and Shaw townships, District of Cochrane
Publication Number: OFR5012 Page: 95-86 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: 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:
Part - Mines of Ontario in 1937
Publication Number: ARV47-01.003 Page: facing p. 14 Date: 1997
Author: Sinclair D.G., Tower W.O., Taylor J.B., Douglass D.P., Bayne A.S., Cave A.E., Cooper D.F., Weir E.B., Webster A.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Precambrian Geology, Deloro Township
Publication Number: P3528 Scale: 1:20,000 Date: 2003
Author: Hall L.A.F., MacDonald C.A., Dinel E.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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