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| Record Name(s) | Vimy Gold Mine Ltd. - North - 1934, Dowson - 1936, Vimy Prospect - 1971, Pamour Porcupine Mines Ltd. - 1983 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Developed Prospect With Reported Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1983-Dec-14 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Jan-24 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Secondary Commodities: Copper, Lead, Zinc
Township or Area: Hislop, Hislop, Hislop
Latitude: 48° 27' 50.59" Longitude: -80° 23' 21.89"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 545137 Northing: 5368060 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kirkland Lake
NTS Grid: 42A08NW
Point Location Description: shaft
Location Method: AMIS Site Visit
Access Description: Proceed 4.9km north on Highway 11 from the junction of Highways 11 and 572. Site is located on the west side of the highway, 2 km in on the mine access road.
1934-1936: Vimy Gold Mines Ltd. - prospecting, completed trenching, a 200 foot long narrow (locally as wide as 20 feet) open cut, and about 3,000 feet of diamond drilling; sank a 75 foot deep, 2 compartment shaft; completed limited lateral exploration at depth; and erected a 25 ton per day on site mill. 1936: Hollinger Consolidated Gold Mines Ltd.- diamond drilled on the Dowson claims (the south half of lot 11, concession 2, Hislop Township), on the Vimy Gold Mines claims and channel sampled at 4 foot intervals along the Vimy Gold Mines vein for 585 feet. 1937: Operations by Vimy Gold Mines were suspended due to lack of funds (The Northern Miner, March 14, 1946).1937: Broulan Porcupine Mines Ltd.- surface sampled the Vimy Gold Mines auriferous zone and confirmed the results of Hollinger Consolidated Gold Mines 1938: Erie Canadian Mines Ltd. - DD-11 along 550 feet on the A mineralized zone. 1945-1946: Vimy Gold Mines Ltd. - magnetic survey, DD-11. 1961-64: Vimy Gold Mines Ltd.: DD; acquired the mineral rights for the 4 claims comprising the north ½ of lot 12, concession I, Hislop Township.1973: Young Davidson Mines Ltd.: ground magnetic survey. 1980-1984: Pamour Porcupine Mines Ltd.: electromagnetic surveys, overburden sampling surveys, DD-2 at least 2 holes.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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| 63.3316 | 42A08NW0078 | 42A08NW0078 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Abitibi
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Abitibi
Geological Age: Archean
Metamorphism Grade: Greenschist
Apr 15, 2016 (C Salo) - Geological mapping indicates that bedrock in the deposit area consists mainly of weakly metamorphosed (greenschist or lower metamorphic facies except marginal to large felsic intrusive bodies, where amphibolite facies contact metamorphic aureoles may be developed) subaqueously deposited tholeiitic volcanic rocks of the (Archean) Kinojevis Group which strike northeast, dip steeply, face north, and occupy part of the north limb of the east striking and east plunging Blake River Synclinorium. Intrusive rocks near the occurrence include felsic stocks and dikes (one of which hosts gold mineralization at the Canadian Arrow mine which was commercially worked), narrow (tens of metres in width) generally north striking diabase dikes of the (Proterozoic) Matachewan swarm (Heaman 1989) and narrow (metre scale) lamprophyre dikes. A recent geophysical survey of Hislop Township failed to detect significant bedrock conductors in the deposit area. Baker et al. indicate that most basement in the area is mantled by variable thicknesses of (often complex Pleistocene age glaciolacustrine deposits.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Mafic pillowed flow | 1 | Tholeiitic Basalt | Pillowed | Near |
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| Syenite | 2 | Biotite-Syenite Dyke | Intrudes | |
| Vein | 3 | Quartz Stringers | Host | |
| Lamprophyre-Unsubdivided | 4 | Near |
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 6 | Galena | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 7 | Gold | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 1 | Carbonate | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 2 | Pyrite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 3 | Silica | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 4 | Quartz | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| Silica | Alteration | Silicification | 1 | Unknown | Disseminated | ||
| Cancrinite | Alteration | Carbonatization | 2 | Unknown | Disseminated |
Apr 15, 2016 (A Wilson) - A 28 inch wide sample of core from DD #5 assayed $21.78 Au and for 6 ft, 8 inches averaged $9.36 Au. A 1073 t bulk sample was collected via a shaft circa 1971. Estimated ore 20 000 tons at 0.21 opt.
Apr 15, 2016 (C Salo) - The best gold tenors within the main (A) zone are reported (assessment files) to occur where the fracture system and accompanying silicification and pyritic carbonate alteration is developed within or proximal to syenitic dike material. Gold is reported to occur within and associated with pyrite (assessment files, Canada Department of Mines 1936). The 200 foot long by 8 foot wide open cut from which selected material was bulk sampled and milled on site in 1935 is at the northeast end of the fracture/vein system where it was once exposed. Maps in the assessment files and a sketch map produced by Moore (1936) indicate that the open cut was blasted into the auriferous zone where it was hosted within and/or immediately marginal to syenitic dike material where intruded by a discontinuously developed lamprophyre dike. Visible gold is reported (Moore 1937) to occur rarely and chalcopyrite and galena are reported to accompany pyrite within the auriferous system. Diamond drilling by Vimy Gold Mines in 1961 which was designed to test the southwest extension of the A zone intersected quartz veins with associated hematite and specularite alteration. The A zone auriferous material has been interpreted to plunge southwest within the host fracture system. A hornblende syenite dike which was intersected during the diamond drilling of the A zone is reported (assessment files) to contain low (but significant) gold tenors as was a quartz-carbonate vein system which is oriented subparallel to the A zone and located about 45 feet west of it.An additional auriferous zone, the C zone, was discovered by diamond drilling in 1946 about 1,200 feet west of the main A zone gold mineralization. The C auriferous zone is reported (assessment files) to consist of pyrite, galena, and chalcopyrite associated with quartz veins hosted by sheared (of unspecified orientation) basalt and syenite.
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Vein |
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 1 | Vein |
| Zone | Year | Category | Tonnes | Reference | Comments | Commodities |
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| Vimy - Main | 1971 | Unclassified | 18144 | NMI 42A/08 AU2 | Gold 7.2 g/t | |
| Vimy - A | 1946 | Unclassified | 119748 | CMH 1946 | Gold 7.54 g/t |
File - Resident Geologist files KL-0725, KL-2786
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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:
MonoMap - Geological Synthesis of the Highway 101 Area, East of Matheson, Ontario
Publication Number: OFR6091 Date: 2003
Author: Berger B.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Geological series, Precambrian geology, Ramore area, northwestern part, District of Cochrane
Publication Number: P2860 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
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Part - Geology and ore deposits of the Ramore area
Publication Number: ARV45-06.001 Page: 29-31 Date: 1998
Author: Moore E.S.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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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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Part - Geology of Hislop Township
Publication Number: ARV65-05 Page: 32 Date: 1997
Author: Prest V.K.
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
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Mono - Gold deposits of Ontario, part 1, districts of Algoma, Cochrane, Kenora, Rainy River, and Thunder Bay
Publication Number: MDC013 Page: 77 Date: 1971
Author: Ferguson S.A., Groen H.A., Haynes R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs
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Map - Geophysical/geochemical series, Matheson-Black River area, Hislop Township, airborne electromagnetic survey, total intensity magnetic survey, District of Cochrane
Publication Number: M80595 Scale: 1:20,000 Date: 1984
Author: Questor Surveys Ltd.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Mono - Preliminary report on the Timmins-Kirkland Lake area, gold deposits file
Publication Number: OFR5467 Page: G0069 Date: 1983
Author: Hodgson C.J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Folio - Hislop Township, District of Cochrane
Publication Number: GDIF404 Date: 1997
Author: Kirkland Lake RGO
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Map - Geological Compilation of the Central Abitibi Greenstone Belt: Kapuskasing Structural Zone to the Quebec Border
Publication Number: P3565 Scale: 1:250,000 Date: 2005
Author: Ayer J.A., Berger B.R., Hall L.A.F., Houlé M.G., Johns G.W., Josey S.D., Madon Z.B., Rainsford D.R.B., Trowell N.F., Vaillancourt C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Map - Precambrian Geology of the Hislop Township Area
Publication Number: M2527 Scale: 1:20,000 Date: 2000
Author: Berger B.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Mono - Mineral occurrences, deposits, and mines of the Black River-Matheson area
Publication Number: OFR5735 Page: 1028-1034 Date: 1990
Author: Bath A.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Book - Gold Ore from the Vimy Gold Mines Ltd. Property; p. 71-80
Publication Number: Metallurgy 763 Date: 1936
Author: Canada Dept. of Mines
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Location: Kirkland Lake RGO
Map - Geological Compilation of the Lake Abitibi Area, Abitibi Greenstone Belt
Publication Number: P3398 Scale: 1:100,000 Date: 1999
Author: Ayer J.A., Berger B.R., Trowell N.F.
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 - Quaternary geology and geochemical exploration in the Matheson area
Publication Number: MP136.294 Date: 1997
Author: McClenaghan M.B., Lavin O.P., Nichol I., Shaw J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Article - Precambrian geology of the Black River-Matheson (BRIM) area, District of Cochrane
Publication Number: MP119.050S Page: 278-282 Date: 1997
Author: Johnstone R.M., Trowell N.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Part - Mines of Ontario in 1933
Publication Number: ARV43-01.002 Page: 165 Date: 1997
Author: Sinclair D.G., Cleland R.H., Cooper D.F., Keeley E.C., Webster A.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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Article - Geological investigations of the Destor-Porcupine deformation zone east of Matheson
Publication Number: MP146.023 Page: 290-294 Date: 1997
Author: Troop D.G.
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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