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| Record Name(s) | Miller - 1 - 1992, Moneta Porcupine - 1982, Nahanni - 1982 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1992-Feb-13 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Jan-30 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Michaud
Latitude: 48° 29' 12.75" Longitude: -80° 2' 55.75"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 570283.263 Northing: 5370853.678 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kirkland Lake
NTS Grid: 42A08NE
Point Location Description: Trenches.
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: Point Located: A point 3.84 km north and 2.20 km west of the southeast corner of Michaud Township. Moneta Porcupine Mines controls many contiguous patented and unpatented mining claims in southeast Michaud Township. Best access to these claims is via sand roads (as indicated by Satterly 1949 and Jensen 1985) which may be reached east of Matheson from the north via Highway 101.
1945- 1947: Moneta Porcupine Mines Ltd. optioned claims in the area, completed magnetic and geological surveys, and diamond drilled 15 holes totalling 11,402 feet along a strike length of about 800 feet. 1986- 1987: Moneta Porcupine Mines was reorganized as Moneta Porcupine Mines Inc. Completed IP electric and magnetic surveys, reverse circulation drilling, and more than 14,000 feet of diamond drilling. 1988: Further diamond drilling was planned by Moneta Porcupine Mines (The Timmins Daily Press, April 30, 1988). In May, Unocal Canada optioned claims in Michaud Township from Moneta Porcupine Mines (The Northern Miner, May 8, May 23, May 30, 1988).
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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| 2.11335 | 42A08NE0081 | 42A08NE0081 |
| 63.5144 | 42A08NE0073 | 42A08NE0073 |
| 2.10568 | 42A09SE0318 | 42A09SE0318 |
| 63.4164 | 42A08NE0099 | 42A08NE0099 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Abitibi
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Abitibi
Tectonic Assemblage: Kidd-Munro
Geological Age: Archean
Dec 07, 2005 (C Salo) - Geological mapping (Satterly 1949; Baker et al. 1980; Jensen 1985, 1989; Jensen and Langford 1985; Jensen and Baker 1986; Johnstone and Steele 1989; Troop 1989) indicates that bedrock in the occurrence area is largely glacial drift covered (Baker et al. 1980; McClenaghan et al. 1988, 1987; Steele 1988) and only rarely exposed. The occurrence is indicated by these workers to be near the northeast striking Porcupine-Destor Fault Zone (PDFZ). North of the PDFZ, bedrock consists mainly of weakly metamorphosed (greenschist or lower metamorphic facies) northeast striking, steeply dipping, and generally north facing subaqueously deposited komatiitic and tholeiitic extrusive rock and intercalated interflow sediment of the (Archean) Stoughton-Roquemaure Group and clastic sediments of the (Archean) Porcupine Group. South of the PDFZ, (weakly metamorphosed) northeast striking, steeply dipping, and south facing subaqueously deposited tholeiitic volcanic rock and intercalated sediment of the (Archean) Kinojevis Group occupy part of the homoclinal north limb of the east striking and east plunging Blake River Synclinorium. Rocks within the PDFZ consist of a complex heterogeneous assemblage of fault and/or shear bounded blocks, each of which may be composed of Stoughton-Roquemaure Group rocks, Kinojevis Group rocks, or a suite of volcanic or intrusive or sedimentary rocks which together form what is termed by Jensen and Langford (1985) the (Archean) Porcupine-Destor Complex. Rocks of the Porcupine- Destor Complex are believed by Jensen and Langford (1985) to have been deposited and/or intruded within or marginal to the developing PDFZ. Intrusive rocks in the area include a large and irregularly shaped granitoid (locally syenitic) intrusive body, felsic dikes and/or sills, and biotite lamprophyre dikes.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Oxide Ironstone | 1 | Oxided Hem-Mag Iron Formation | Near |
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| Granitoid-Unsubdivided | 2 | Host | ||
| Vein | 3 | Quartz | Host | |
| Terrigenous-Clastic-Unsubdivided | 4 | Dolomitic Sediments | N/A |
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Carbonate | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 2 | Fuchsite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 3 | Tourmaline | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 4 | Garnet | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 5 | Pyrite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 6 | Quartz | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 7 | Magnetite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 8 | Specularite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 9 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 10 | Hematite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 11 | Molybdenite | Economic | Gangue |
Dec 07, 2005 (C Salo) - The auriferous North Zone is reported (assessment files, Resident Geologist's Office, Kirkland Lake; Satterly 1949) to occur within a stratiform, 070 (according to Satterly 1949) striking and steeply (70 degrees, according to Satterly 1949) north dipping, fault bounded, and approximately conformable carbonate horizon. Diamond drilling by Moneta Porcupine Mines in the late 1940's revealed that within and closely associated with this carbonate are felsic dikes and/or sills; domains of incipient and pervasive granitization, porphyrization and albitization; and dikes of mica lamprophyre. The best gold tenors appear (according to Moneta Porcupine Mines drill logs, assessment files) to be associated with: a) variably sheared and/or brecciated pyritic, bleached, and silicified rock; b) within pyritic albitized material cut by quartz-carbonate veinlets; c) within silicified rock containing 50% quartz- carbonate and abundant fine grained pyrite; and d) with ...light grey talc-serpentine material...[containing] some disseminated fine grained pyrite and specularite. The auriferous South Zone is reported (Moneta Porcupine Mines Inc. press release dated November 12, 1987; assessment files) to consist of free gold bearing quartz veins hosted by variably altered (pyritic, hematitic, specularitic, feldspathized, carbonatized, and sericitized) clastic sediment located about 1,000 m south of the original Miller occurrence discovery outcrop. Bedrock near the South Zone is glacial drift covered and all information is derived from diamond drill core. The South Zone is reported (assessment files) to be spatially associated with oxide facies (hematite-magnetite) iron formation.
File - Resident Geologist file KL-1909
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Author:
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Location: Kirkland Lake RGP office
Map - Geological series, Quaternary geology of the Ramore area, districts of Cochrane and Timiskaming
Publication Number: P2381 Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 1980
Author: Baker C.L., Seaman A.A., Steele K.G.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Geological series, Precambrian geology, Ramore area, northeastern part, District of Cochrane
Publication Number: P2861 Scale: 1:15,840 Date: 1985
Author: Jensen L.S.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Part - Geology of Michaud Township
Publication Number: ARV57-04 Page: 23 Date: 1997
Author: Satterly J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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Map - Geological series, Precambrian geology, Ramore area, districts of Cochrane and Timiskaming
Publication Number: P3131 Scale: 1:63,360 Date: 1989
Author: Jensen L.S.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Preliminary report on the Timmins-Kirkland Lake area, gold deposits file
Publication Number: OFR5467 Page: G0051 Date: 1983
Author: Hodgson C.J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Folio - Michaud Township, District of Cochrane
Publication Number: GDIF382 Date: 1997
Author: Kirkland Lake RGO
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Geological series, preliminary results of bedrock samples from the sonic drilling, 1985, Lake Abitibi-Matheson area, District of Cochrane
Publication Number: P2986 Scale: 1:100,000 Date: 1986
Author: Jensen L.S., Steele K.G., McClenaghan M.B., Baker C.L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Map - Geophysical/geochemical series, Matheson-Black River area, Michaud Township, airborne electromagnetic survey, total intensity magnetic survey, District of Cochrane
Publication Number: M80597 Scale: 1:20,000 Date: 1984
Author: Questor Surveys Ltd.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Mineral occurrences, deposits, and mines of the Black River-Matheson area
Publication Number: OFR5735 Page: 859-867 Date: 1990
Author: Bath A.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
MonoMap - Geology and petrogenesis of the Archean Abitibi belt in the Kirkland Lake area, Ontario
Publication Number: MP123 Date: 1985
Author: Jensen L.S., Langford F.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Article - Quaternary geology and geochemical exploration in the Matheson area
Publication Number: MP136.294 Page: 200-214 Date: 1997
Author: McClenaghan M.B., Lavin O.P., Nichol I., Shaw J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Article - Quaternary geology and geochemical exploration in the Matheson area
Publication Number: MP140.294 Page: 112-123 Date: 1997
Author: McClenaghan M.B., Lavin O.P., Nichol I., Shaw J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Article - Reconnaissance till sampling program, Matheson-Lake Abitibi area, District of Cochrane
Publication Number: MP141.081 Page: 472-477 Date: 1997
Author: Steele K.G.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Article - Geological investigations of the Destor-Porcupine deformation zone east of Matheson
Publication Number: MP146.023 Date: 1997
Author: Troop D.G.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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