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| Record Name(s) | Noranda Occurrence - 1935, Temple Gold Mines Ltd. - 1945, Sherwin Mineral Ltd. - 1973, M. Charet - 1988, Northern Resources Inc. - 1996, Battle Mountain Canada - 2000 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1991-Mar-09 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Sep-27 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Secondary Commodities: Copper
Township or Area: Playfair
Latitude: 48° 24' 37.7" Longitude: -80° 24' 37.56"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 543629 Northing: 5362092 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kirkland Lake
NTS Grid: 42A08NW
Point Location Description: open pit
Location Method: Based on Assessment
Access Description: Proceed west on Playfair Concession 4/5 Road From Hwy 11 and turn south on Playfair Road 3, continuing for 0.6km west of Hwy 11. Travel 3km south on road 3 and at 2.5km mark, stay right. Take the right branch at 4.8km. at 7.1km an ATV trail leads north 2-3km to site.
Pre-1935: Noranda Mines Ltd. - 400 feet of trenching and diamond drilled veins which could have been those of this occurrence. 1945: Temple Gold Mines Ltd.- DD-15-2506 ft; trenching, sampling. 1973-1974: Sherwin Minerals Ltd. - magnetic and geological survey; DD-2-306 m, assays 1975: Spar Holdings and Exploration Ltd. - mapping. 1988-89: M. Charet: property staked; property visited by A. C. Bath 1990: W. Weisflock and L. Salo - ground magnetometer survey; sampling completed total field mag and sampling. Best assay of 5 g/t Au.1996-2000: S. Carmichael / M. Dyment - completed 11 km of gridding, total field mag, soil geochemistry, surface stripping, washing and chip sampling.Surface sampling (grab and chip). Best assays ranged from 1.42 g/t Au to 11.56 g/t Au.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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| KL-2488/ 12 | 42A08NW0228 | 42A08NW0228 |
| KL-2488/63.3070 | 42A08NW0233 | 42A08NW0233 |
| KL-2488/63.3154 | 42A08NW0227 | 42A08NW0227 |
| KL-3011/2.13734 | 42A08NW0203 | 42A08NW0203 |
| KL-3518/OP91-509 | 42A08NW0014 | 42A08NW0014 |
| KL-4025/2.17049 | 42A08NW0023 | 42A08NW0023 |
| KL-4270/ 2.18058 | 42A08NW2001 | 42A08NW2001 |
| KL-4871/ 2.20777 | 42A08NW2011 | 42A08NW2011 |
| KL-2548/2.1951 | 42A08NW8960 | 42A08NW8960 |
| KL-2488/2.1474 | 42A08NW0226 | 42A08NW0226 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Abitibi
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Abitibi
Geological Age: Archean
Metamorphism Grade: Greenschist
Apr 19, 2016 (C Salo) - Geological mapping indicates that the trenched area is underlain by weakly metamorphosed (greenschist or lower metamorphic grade) east southeast striking, steeply dipping, and south facing fine to medium grained massive, pillowed, and feldspar phyric tholeiitic basalt of the (Archean) Kinojevis Group. The occurrence is about 12.5 km southwest of the Porcupine-Destor Fault Zone and occupies part of the north limb of the east striking and east plunging Blake River Synclinorium. Intrusive rocks in the area include narrow (tens of metres in width) generally north striking diabase dikes of the (Proterozoic) Matachewan swarm and small (interpreted to be less than about 750 m in width) mafic and intermediate alkalic intrusive bodies and volumetrically minor felsic syenite (assessment files, Resident Geologist's Office, Kirkland Lake) dikes.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 1 | Silicified-Chloritic Basalt | Near |
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| Lamprophyre-Unsubdivided | 2 | Near | ||
| Granitoid-Unsubdivided | 3 | Felsic Dikes | Near | |
| Vein | 4 | Quartz-Feldspar-Chlorite-(Hematite)-Pyrite-Cp | Host |
Dec 07, 2005 (C Salo) - AB-88-10: Boulder chip from trench A. White quartz-calcite vein material. The sample contains parallel seams of chlorite and pyrite which give the vein a sheeted appearance. Silicified mafic xenoliths within the vein contain abundant less than 1 mm size pyrite cubes. Large (2-4 mm wide) pyrite cubes are also present in the vein. This sample contains 3-5% of pyrite. AB-88-11: Boulder chip of pyritic basalt marginal to the vein sampled by sample AB-88-10. 1 mm grained diabasic basalt or diabase containing 5-7% of 1 mm grained subidioblastic pyrite cubes. The pyrite is associated with variably developed silicification as quartz lenses, quartz-feldspar veinlets, and irregular zones of pervasively silicified mafic material. The sample is not sheared and does not contain carbonate minerals. AB-88-16: Muck grab from the bottom of trench B. Well mineralized sample consisting of sheeted white quartz vein material hosted by varicolored pervasively altered host rock. Vein material is composed of white quartz with numerous parallel seams which give the vein a sheeted appearance. Some of the seams are mauve colored, probably due to hematite. The material hosting the veins is light grey to mauve colored, pervasively silicified, nonmagnetic, and contains 7-10% of subidioblastic disseminated 1-2 mm size pyrite cubes, traces chalcopyrite, and 5-7% of irregular flecks of leucoxene. No carbonate minerals are present. AB-88-17: Chip from trench C. 8 cm wide quartz-chlorite vein material similar to previous samples. Note that one vein wall is sharp, with a narrow (1-2 cm wide) zone of pervasive silicification while the other wall is irregular with a larger (at least 8 cm wide) zone of pervasive silicification. The altered host rock marginal to the vein is light grey, nonmagnetic, pervasively silicified, and leucoxenitic. Pyrite is confined to the altered host rock marginal to the vein and constitutes less than 2% of the sample.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Pyrite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 2 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 3 | Hematite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 4 | Chlorite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 5 | Quartz | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| Silica | Alteration | Silicification | 1 | Unknown | Replacement | ||
| Chlorite | Alteration | Chloritic | 2 | Unknown | Replacement |
Apr 19, 2016 (A Wilson) - Sherwin Minerals Ltd. DDH B returned assays of trace Au and 0.08% Cu over 0.5 ft. Trench chip samples taken by Temple Gold Mines returned gold tenors as high as 0.22 ounce of gold per ton across 21 feet. The best assay from the Weisflock sampling returned an assay of 5186 ppb Au.
Apr 19, 2016 (C Salo) - Trench A is oriented at az. 115, is about 25 m long, 2-3 m wide, 1.5-2.0 m deep. Spotty fine-grained to medium-grained py occurs with occasional greater py contents, locally as much as 15%. It is likely that these are partly buried boulders. A 5' long (chip?) sample from the east part of this trench is reported by Temple (ass. files) to have assayed 0.36 oz./t Au. Averaging 0.156, 0.188, and 0.062 oz./t Aurespectively, and background levels of Ag, Cu, Pb, and Zn. Trench B is orientated. at az. 095, is about 15 m long, 2m wide, and 2-3 m deep. The Temple assessment. file indicated that (chip?) samples from this trench which were obtained prior to 1946 aver. 0.06 oz./ton Au across 16' within and marginal to the quartz vein. Samples averaged 0.055, 0.003, 0.045, 0.002 & 0.232 oz./t Au resp. with background levels of Ag, Cu, Pb, and Zn. Trench C is orientated at az. 120, is about 13 m long, about 1.5 m deep, and 1.5-2.0 m wide. Veins contain py at trench B. (Chip?) sampling from this trench prior to 1946 are reported by Temple to be anomalous gold content 0.01 oz. Au/ton along much of the trench's length, with 6' averaging 0.04 oz./t Au and 6' averaging 0.06 oz./t Au at the west and east ends resp. Samples assayed 0.038, 0.036, and 0.112 oz./t Au respectively with background levels of Ag, Cu, Pb, and Zn. Trench D is orientated at az. 095, is about 15 m long, 2m wide, and 1.5-2.5 m deep. (Chip?) sampling completed prior to 1946 indicated (Temple ass. file) that this trench aver. 0.15 oz./t Au over a 24' sample length. Sample assayed 0.431 oz./t Au ,0.025 oz. Ag/ ton, and background levels of base metals.Trench E is orientated at az. 106, is 10 m long, 2-3 m wide, 0-2 m deep. (Chip?) samples taken along the trench prior to 1946 indicate that the trench at one time exposed Au min. aver. 0.17 oz. Au/ton across a 27' sampling interval, including 0.22 oz./t Au across 21' (Temple ass. file). Trench F is orientated at az. 106, is 12 m long, 2-3 m wide, 2-3 m deep and was badly overgrown.
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Vein |
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| 1 | Vein |
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:
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Location:
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Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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Publication Number: P2860 Scale: 1:15,840 Date: 1985
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Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Geological series, Precambrian geology, Ramore area, districts of Cochrane and Timiskaming
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Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Location:
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Location:
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