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| Record Name(s) | Destiny - North Zone - 1992, Wright-Hargreaves Mines Ltd. - 1992, Windjammer - 1992, Windjammer Power and Gas Ltd. - 9999, Noranda Expl Co. Ltd. - 9999 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Prospect |
| Date Created | 1992-Feb-12 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Jan-27 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Secondary Commodities: Copper, Silver
Township or Area: Michaud
Latitude: 48° 29' 30.55" Longitude: -80° 1' 17.23"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 572298.274 Northing: 5371428.683 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kirkland Lake
NTS Grid: 42A08NE
Point Location Description: DDH in Michaud Tp.
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: Point Located: A point 4.38 km north and 0.58 km west of the southeast corner of Michaud Township. For the purpose of this occurrence description, mineralization will be considered to be comprised solely by that anomalously auriferous material intersected by Windjammer Power and Gas Ltd./Noranda Exploration Co. Ltd./Destiny Resources Ltd. north of the Wright-Hargreaves Mines Ltd. diamond drilling in the auriferous zone termed the Fault Zone by Noranda/Destiny. An additional auriferous zone (the Caswell or Iron Formation Zone), delineated originally by Wright-Hargreaves Mines and later by Windjammer/Noranda/Destiny occurs about 2,800 feet south of the auriferous material forming the subject of this description, and is described under separate title (No.131, Caswell Occurrence).
1946-1948: D'Aragon Mines Ltd. completed a magnetic survey and Wright-Hargreaves Mines Ltd. diamond drilled three holes totalling 3,145'. 1958-1959: Wadge Mines Ltd. completed a magnetic survey. 1980: Windjammer Power and Gas Ltd. completed IP EM, and geological surveys of claims in Michaud and Garrison Twp (including claims formerly drilled by Wright-Hargreaves Mines as their Caswell Option) and diamond drilled 2 holes totalling 1,205 ft which were spotted near but not on the former Caswell claims. 1981: By this time, Windjammer Power and Gas had diamond drilled 9 holes and had established the presence of a shear extending at least 2,800' along strike. 1985: Noranda Exploration Co. Ltd. diamond drilled 2 holes on ground (formerly?) held by Windjammer Power and Gas which were spotted on claims formerly constituting the Caswell group north of the Wright-Hargreaves Mines drilling. 1987: Noranda Exploration Co. and Destiny Resources Ltd. completed diamond drilling targeted on at least 2 distinct auriferous zones. 1988: Destiny Resources earned a vested 50% interest in the property (with Noranda Exploration Co. maintaining a 50% interest) (The George Cross Newsletter, September 8,1988). By mid year, the joint venture partners had diamond drilled more than 30,000'. 1989: Destiny Resources/Noranda Exploration Co. are reported (The George Cross Newsletter, March 1, 1989) to have diamond drilled three holes.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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| KL-0116, 63.4165 | 42A08NE0121 | 42A08NE0121 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Abitibi
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Abitibi
Tectonic Assemblage: Kidd-Munro
Geological Age: Archean
Metamorphism Grade: Greenschist
Dec 07, 2005 (C Salo) - Geological mapping (Satterly 1949; Jensen 1989, 1985; Jensen and Langford 1985; Jensen and Baker 1986; Johnstone and Steele 1989; Troop 1989; Baker et al. 1980; Vagners 1984; McClenaghan et al. 1987, 1988; Steele 1988; ass. files, Res. Geol. Office, Kirkland Lake), recently completed geophy. surveys (OGS 1984, ass. files) and overburden and diamond drilling (Steele 1988, ass. files)indic. that bedrock in the area consists mainly of weakly metamorphosed (greenschist or lower metamorphic facies except marginal to large felsic intrusive bodies, where contact metamorphic aureoles of amphibolite grade may be developed) volcanic and sedimentary supracrustal rxs and mafic to felsic intrusive bodies near the northeast striking Porcupine-Destor Fault Zone (PDFZ). North of the PDFZ, bedrock consists of northeast striking, steeply dipping, north facing volcanic rxs of the (Archean) Stoughton-Roquemaure Group. South of the PDFZ, bedrock consists of east striking, steeply south dipping, south facing volcanic rxs and interflow sediments of the (Archean) Kinojevis Group. The PDFZ itself is a poorly exposed (hence poorly known) NE striking zone that elsewhere along its length is known to be lithologically heterogeneous and structurally complex. Diamond drilling in southern Michaud Twp indicates that here, the PDFZ is characterized by marginal northeast striking, steeply dipping shears, variably developed alter., and (often) an internal zone of clastic and chemical sed., within which are commonly developed conglomeratic and wacke horizons which may be jasper clast bearing (i.e. of the Timiskaming type). Diamond drilling also indicates that narrow mafic to felsic intrusive bodies (gener. of unknown geometry) ranging in compos. from syenite to lamprophyre are ubiquitous, and may intrude any of the rock types mentioned above. Narrow (generally tens of metres in width) north striking diabase dikes of the(Proterozoic) Matachewan swarm (Heaman 1989) also occur in the area.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Ultramafic Schist | 1 | Talc | N/A |
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| Schist-Unsubdivided | 2 | Chlorite | N/A | |
| Schist-Unsubdivided | 3 | Carbonate | Host | |
| Schist-Unsubdivided | 4 | Sericite | N/A | |
| Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 5 | Basalt | N/A | |
| Syenite | 6 | N/A | ||
| Lamprophyre-Unsubdivided | 7 | N/A | ||
| Ironstone-unsubdivided | 8 | Iron Formation | Host |
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Calcite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 2 | Carbonate | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 3 | Quartz | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 4 | Froodite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 5 | Pyrite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 6 | Hematite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 7 | Magnetite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 8 | Pyrrhotite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| Carbonate | Alteration | Carbonatization | 1 | ||||
| Sericite | Alteration | Sericitization | 2 | ||||
| Chlorite | Alteration | Chloritic | 3 |
Dec 07, 2005 (C Salo) - Diamond drilling by Noranda Exploration Co. and Destiny Resources has yielded numerous anomalously auriferous diamond drill core sections (i.e. 9.9 feet of core averaging 0.426 ounce of gold per ton, 64.3 feet of core averaging 0.156 ounce of gold per ton, 113.2 feet of core averaging 0.037 ounce of gold per ton, etc.) within variably sheared and carbonate bearing rocks interpreted (assessment files) to be within the Porcupine-Destor Fault Zone.
File - Resident Geologist files KL-1944, KL-2086
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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:
Book - Northern Miner Feb 16, 1988
Publication Number: NMINER Date: 1988
Author:
Publisher Name: Northern Miner
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
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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:
Part - Geology of Michaud Township
Publication Number: ARV57-04 Page: 24-25 Date: 1997
Author: Satterly J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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Map - Geological series, bedrock samples from the sonic drilling program 1987, Matheson area, District of Cochrane
Publication Number: P3114 Scale: 1:100,000 Date: 1989
Author: Johnstone R.M., Sutcliffe R.H., Steele K.G., Baker C.L., McClenaghan M.B.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Mineral occurrences, deposits, and mines of the Black River-Matheson area
Publication Number: OFR5735 Page: 1603-1608 Date: 1990
Author: Bath A.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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:
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
Location:
Map - Quaternary geology of Matheson area, Cochrane District
Publication Number: P2735 Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 1985
Author: Vagners U.J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Article - Quaternary geology and geochemical exploration in the Matheson area
Publication Number: MP140.294 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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