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| Record Name(s) | Campbell - Moore Property - 1910, Golden Goose Mines Ltd. - 1946, Geo-Technical Development Co. Ltd. - 1946 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Discretionary Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1992-Mar-04 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Dec-05 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Bowman
Latitude: 48° 27' 59.46" Longitude: -80° 26' 25.58"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 541363 Northing: 5368305 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kirkland Lake
NTS Grid: 42A08NW
Point Location Description: A pit 1.30 km north and 1.41 km west of the southeast corner of Bowman Township.
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: Proceed on Bowman Road 2 km south from Matheson (4th Ave.) 6.2 km and then east on trail. Take the trail 2.7km and then turn east again, after 200 m turn left and travel to fence line. The site is 1.2km east northeast.
1919: A 1-4 foot wide, east striking and 60 degree north dipping quartz vein with low concentrations of gold was reported to occur on the Campbell-Moore claim, in the south part of lot 2, concession 2, Bowman Township. 1946: Golden Goose Mines Ltd. controlled 12 claims in the south-east part of Bowman Township, including the north half of lot 2 concession 1, in which an outcrop containing the pits which constitute this showing are located. Geo-Technical Development Co. Ltd. - ground magnetometer survey. 1962-1963: At least 5 prospect pits and numerous quartz-epidote veins devoid of sulfide minerals were described to occur in the area. A small gossanous pyritic zone in the lavas was reported to have yielded no anomalously elevated gold values
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Abitibi
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Abitibi
Geological Age: Mesoarchean
Metamorphism Grade: Greenschist
Dec 15, 2015 (R Degagne) - Bedrock near the pits consists mainly of sparsely exposed subgreenschist grade tholeiitic basalt and narrow sedimentary interflow material of the (Archean) Kinojevis Group which strike slightly south of east and face south. The supracrustal rocks are intruded by narrow (tens of metres in width) north striking diabase dikes of the (Proterozoic) Matachewan swarm. A felsic batholith intrudes Kinojevis Group rocks in southwest Bowman Township about 3.2 km southwest of the occurrence. A (smaller) felsic stock (that at the Canadian Arrow Mine, in Hislop Township) intrudes basalt in southwestern Hislop Township, about 1.6 km southeast of the occurrence. A few hundred metres east of the occurrence, a several kilometre long, north striking crossfault is interpreted to occur. A recent geophysical survey of Bowman Township failed to detect any significant bedrock conductors in the occurrence area, although this survey clearly delineated a prominent north striking magnetic discontinuity which coincides with the location of the north striking fault.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Mafic flow breccia | 1 | Tholeiitic Basalt | Locally Brecciated, Pillowed | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diabase | 2 | Diabase | Near | |
| Terrigenous-Clastic-Unsubdivided | 3 | Silicified Siltstone | Fine Grained | Near |
| Vein | 4 | Quartz-Calcite | Brecciated | Contains |
Dec 15, 2015 (R Degagne) - Bedrock near the pits consists mainly of sparsely exposed subgreenschist grade tholeiitic basalt and narrow sedimentary interflow material of the (Archean) Kinojevis Group which strike slightly south of east and face south. The supracrustal rocks are intruded by narrow (tens of metres in width) north striking diabase dikes of the (Proterozoic) Matachewan swarm. Narrow and sporadically distributed quartz-calcite-epidote veins are exposed in small (2x3x2 m deep) pits blasted into Fe-tholeiitic basaltic flow and related rocks. Although one quartz-carbonate-feldspar-epidote vein (sample AB-87-25, taken from the northeastern pit west of the Matachewan dike, as indicated by Jensen) was oriented with strike 325, dipping steeply east (transverse to the local volcanic stratigraphy), most veins in the area which were observed by the present writer are oriented parallel to local stratigraphy and are hosted by mafic breccia or interflow sediments.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Gold | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 1 | Quartz | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 2 | Calcite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 3 | Epidote | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 4 | Feldspar | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 5 | Dolomite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 6 | Hornblende | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 7 | Leucoxene | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| Quartz | Alteration | Deuteric | 1 | Medium | Veins | ||
| Calcite | Alteration | Carbonatization | 2 | Unknown | Veins | ||
| Epidote | Alteration | Propylitic | 3 | Medium | Veins | ||
| Feldspar | Alteration | Deuteric | 4 | Medium | Veins | ||
| Dolomite | Alteration | Carbonatization | 5 | Weak | Disseminated | ||
| Chlorite | Alteration | Propylitic | 6 | Unknown | Disseminated |
Dec 15, 2015 (A Wilson) - A vein up to 4 feet wide strikes east, dips 60N and contains low values in gold. Sampling by the OGS in 1987 returned a best assay of 80-100 ppb Au and 130 ppm As.
Dec 07, 2005 (R Degagne) - Local development in basalt of hornblende may be due to the proximity north striking Matachewan diabase dikes. Quartz-calcite-epidote veins occur as both subconformable veins (striking 085 with steep dips to the north) localized by interflow and/or breccia horizons in the volcanic stratigraphy and as nonconformable veins developed at high angles to local stratigraphy. Pyrite is associated with both types of veins. Samples from both vein types yielded uniformly low gold and arsenic concentrations; the highest gold assay obtained by the present writer was from sample AB-87-31 (90 ppb Au) which also yielded the highest arsenic concentration of all samples analyzed (130 ppm). Nonconformable veins contain salmon colored feldspar and alteration of the host basalts and mafic xenoliths within the veins includes development of salmon colored feldspar. Formation of nonconformable veins may be associated with emplacement of the Matachewan dikes and amphibole formation. Conformable veins do not contain salmon colored feldspar nor have it developed marginally; they may be of different origin. Analyses*: Sample AB-87-24: nil Au ppb, 7 As ppm. Sample AB-87-25: nil Au ppb, -- As ppm. Sample AB-87-26: nil Au ppb, -- As ppm. Sample AB-87-27: 10 Au ppb, <1 As ppm. Sample AB-87-28: 20 Au ppb, 12 As ppm. Sample AB-87-31: 80/100 Au ppb, 130 As ppm. Sample AB-87-32: 10 Au ppb, <1 As ppm. Sample AB-87-33: nil Au ppb, 5 As ppm. Sample AB-87-35: nil Au ppb, 2 As ppm. Sample AB-87-39: nil Au ppb, <1 As ppm. Sample AB-87-40: nil Au ppb, 7 As ppm. Sample AB-87-41: nil Au ppb, 75 As ppm. Sample AB-87-42: 30/30 Au ppb, 12 As ppm. * Assays performed by Swastika Laboratories Ltd., Swastika.
Dec 07, 2005 (R Degagne) - Alteration minerals associated with the veins include calcite, Fe-dolomite, epidote, and salmon colored potassium feldspar. Bleached, asymmetric alteration halos associated with quartz- calcite veins may be developed locally. Sulfide minerals observed by the present writer in the area include pyrite (both as interfragment idioblasts in basalt breccia (not associated with veins) and as medium grained idioblastic cubes within and as poikilitic idioblasts marginal to the quartz-calcite-epidote veins) and chalcopyrite (rare chalcopyrite blebs occur in sample AB-87-26).
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Hydrothermal |
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 1 | Vein |
| Shape | Length | Thickness | Depth | Strike | Dip | Plunge | Trend | Age | Reference |
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| Irregular |
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Location:
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