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| Record Name(s) | Yellow Sands - 1990, Roford - 9999 |
|---|---|
| Related Record Type | Simple |
| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1990-Nov-11 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Jan-05 |
| Created By | Q Unknown |
| Revised By | C Salo |
Primary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Milligan
Latitude: 48° 38' 20.31" Longitude: -80° 7' 35.48"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 564348.5 Northing: 5387691.906 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kirkland Lake
NTS Grid: 42A09NE
Point Location Description: ESKER SANDS & GRAVEL
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: Point Located: A point 1.75 km north and 1.25 km east of the southwest corner of Milligan Township.
1953: Roford Mines Ltd. held claims in the area. 1966: Kennco Exploration (Canada) Ltd. completed magnetic and electromagnetic surveys and sand sampling. 1983: Yellow Sands Prospecting Syndicate completed a magnetic survey. 1984: Utex Gold completed geochemical (soil) and luminescence surveys. Samples from the area assayed as much as 65 ppb of gold. 1985: W.J. Ryan pitted, sampled, and panned sand. 1986: St. Genevieve Resources Ltd. completed magnetic and VLF electromagnetic surveys. 1986: W.J. Ryan diamond drilled 1 hole totalling 602 feet. 1986: Yellow Sands Prospecting Syndicate completed a Goldspear survey and prospected. Assays as high as 0.035 ounce of gold per ton were reported from auriferous esker sand samples.
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Abitibi
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Abitibi
Geological Age: Archean
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Sedimentary Unconsolidated-unsubdivided | 1 | Esker Sand & Gravel | Host |
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| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Magnetite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 2 | Mercury | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 3 | Pyrite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 4 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Gangue |
Dec 07, 2005 (C Salo) - Most assessment work filed for this area was performed to evaluate the potential of esker sands and gravels of the Munro Esker (Vagners 1984; McClenaghan et al. 1989, 1988, 1987; Steele 1988) to host auriferous placer or residual heavy mineral deposits. Lovell et al. (1983) discussed several potential placer gold deposits in the Kirkland Lake area. These authors indicated that gold placer deposits containing as little as 0.1 ppm of gold have been commercially worked. Gold concentrations considerably greater than this have been documented to occur in the area. The area might, therefore, be capable of hosting potentially economic placer gold deposits provided that sufficient tonnage of auriferous material is present to justify a large placer mining operation. The results of the Kennco Exploration (Canada) sampling indicates that mercury is associated with auriferous placer deposits in the area; the implications of this as far as developing placer mining operations are not known.
Folio - Milligan Township, District of Cochrane
Publication Number: GDIF370 Scale: Date: 1997
Author: Kirkland Lake RGO
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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
Map - Black River-Matheson Area
Publication Number: OFM0050 Scale: 1:15,840 Date: 1986
Author: Johnstone R.M.
Publisher Name:
Mono - Mineral occurrences, deposits, and mines of the Black River-Matheson area
Publication Number: OFR5735 Scale: Date: 1990
Author: Bath A.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Article - Precambrian geology of Coulson, Warden, and Milligan townships, Black River-Matheson (BRIM) area, District of Cochrane
Publication Number: MP132.079 Scale: Date: 1997
Author: Johnstone R.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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
Article - 1982 report of the Kirkland Lake Resident Geologist
Publication Number: MP107.006 Scale: Date: 1997
Author: Lovell H.L., Grabowski G.P.B., Guindon D.L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Map - Geophysical/geochemical series, Matheson-Black River area, Milligan Township, airborne electromagnetic survey, total intensity magnetic survey, District of Cochrane
Publication Number: M80577 Scale: 1:20,000 Date: 1984
Author: Questor Surveys Ltd.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Article - Quaternary geology and geochemical exploration in the Matheson area
Publication Number: MP136.294 Scale: Date: 1997
Author: McClenaghan M.B., Lavin O.P., Nichol I., Shaw J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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
Article - Quaternary geology and geochemical exploration in the Matheson area
Publication Number: MP140.294 Scale: Date: 1997
Author: McClenaghan M.B., Lavin O.P., Nichol I., Shaw J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Article - Reconnaissance till sampling program, Matheson-Lake Abitibi area, District of Cochrane
Publication Number: MP141.081 Scale: Date: 1997
Author: Steele K.G.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Article - Quaternary geology and geochemical exploration in the Matheson area
Publication Number: MP143.294 Scale: Date: 1997
Author: McClenaghan M.B., Lavin O.P., Nichol I., Shaw J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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