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| Record Name(s) | Twin Creek Zone - 1994, Miller Occurrence - 1939, Moneta Porcupine Mines Ltd. - 1945, Moneta Porcuine Mines Inc. - 1986, Albany Oil and Gas - 1987, Unocal Canada - 1988 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Prospect |
| Date Created | 1997-Mar-04 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Jan-09 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Michaud
Latitude: 48° 29' 6.24" Longitude: -80° 2' 34.64"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 570719.001 Northing: 5370657.999 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kirkland Lake
NTS Grid: 42A08NE
Point Location Description: Point located 3.84 km north and 2.2 km west of the southeast corner of Michaud Township.
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: Best access to the property 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.
1939: Claims in the area were staked by H. Dewhirst, F. Miller, C. Bartlett, and G. Whiteduck (Satterly 1949). 1945-47: Moneta Porcupine Mines Ltd. optioned claims in the area, completed magnetic and geological surveys, and diamond drilled 15 holes totalling 121,402 feet along a strike length of about 800 feet. 1986-87: Moneta Porcupine Mines was reorganized as Moneta Porcupine Mines Inc. (Moneta Porcupine Mines Inc., 1986 Annual Report). Moneta Porcupine Mines continued to explore its patented claims in Michaud Township, on additional contiguous unpatented claims, and on contiguous ground to the south and west which was optioned from Nahanni Mines Ltd. Moneta Porcupine Mines completed IP electric and magnetic surveys, reverse circulation drilling, and more than 14,000 feet of diamond drilling. In September 1987, Moneta Porcupine Mines was acquired by Albany Oil and Gas Ltd. (The Timmins Daily Press, September 20, 1987). 1988: Further diamond drilling was planned by Moneta Porcupine Mines (The Timmins Daily Press, April 20, 1988). In May, Unocal Canada optioned claims in Michaud Township from Moneta Porcupine Mines (The Northern Miner, May 8, May 23, May 20, 1988). 1989: Diamond drilling is reported (The Northern Miner, October 2, 1989) to have intersected erratically distributed anomalously elated gold tenors along 4,000 feet of strike. 1994-1995: Lac Minerals Ltd. completed line cutting and diamond drilling over the Twin Creek Zone. The best assay was 2.64 g/t Au over 1.45 m in hole 95-132X. 2001: Moneta Porcupine Mines Inc. diamond drilled a 211 m hole. The best assay was 16.153 ppm gold over 0.80 m in a vein alteration zone.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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| KL-3914, W9680.00306 | 42A08NE0061 | 42A08NE0061 |
| KL4947 | 42A08NE2016 | 42A08NE2016 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Abitibi
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Abitibi
Geological Age: Archean
Metamorphism Type: Regional
Metamorphism Grade: Greenschist
Dec 07, 2005 (A Mitchell) - Geological mapping (Satterly 1949; Baker et al. 1980; Jensen 1985, 1989; Jensen and Langford 1985; Jensen and Baker 1986; Jonstone and Steel 1989; Troop 1989) indicates that bedrock in the occurrence area is largely glacial drift covered (Baker et al. 1980; McClenagham 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, bedrockconsists mainly of weakly metamorphosed (greenschist or lower metamorphic facies) northeast striking, steepy dipping, and generally north facing subaqueously deposited komatiitic and tholeaiitic 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 heterogenous 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.
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