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| Record Name(s) | McLaren Porcupine Claim HR828 - 1940, Pike Lake Gold Mines - 1915, South Vein - 1948, M. Duval Property - 1963 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 2003-Apr-10 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Feb-28 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Deloro
Latitude: 48° 25' 23.69" Longitude: -81° 15' 52.42"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 480427 Northing: 5363378.004 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Timmins
NTS Grid: 42A06NW
Point Location Description: 60 ft. deep capped shaft on Claim HR828.
Location Method: AMIS Site Visit
Access Description: Take the McKay Lake Road south of the Buffalo Ankerite Mine about 3 km. Then traverse E through the wood to the shaft location.
1909: O'Gorman - staking 1915: Pike Lake Gold Mines Ltd. sunk a 40 ft. shaft . 1922: McLaren et al. - trenching, DD-1-250 ft. additional claims staked. 1940: reports by Milton Hersey Company Limited and Sylvanite Gold Mines Limited. 1940: Sylvanite Gold Mines Ltd - compilation, mapping.
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Abitibi
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Abitibi
Tectonic Assemblage: Deloro
Geological Age: Neoarchean
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Porphyry-unsubdivided | 1 | Contains |
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| Vein | 2 | Quartz | Host |
Mar 22, 2011 (A Wilson) - The occurrence is described as a quartz vein in a steeply dipping felsic porphyry intrusive. The vein varies in width from 8 inches to 24 inches. The vein reportedly widens to 5 feet in the shaft. The vein strikes N20W and has been traced for 300 ft on surface. Other narrow quartz veins on the claim are found within serpentinized ultramafic metavolcanics.
Mar 22, 2011 (A Wilson) - Five foot grab samples from the vein reportedly returned values of 0.905 oz. Au ($31.62), 0.54 oz. Au ($18.97), 0.955 oz. Au ($33.32).
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Vein |
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 1 | Vein |
File - Resident Geologist file T-49
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Location: Timmins RGP office
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
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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
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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
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