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| Record Name(s) | Argyll Gold Mines Ltd. - 1946, Maude Lake Gold Mines Ltd. - 1981, Gold Anchor Mining Co. Ltd. - 1915, Hill Gold Mining Co. Ltd. - 1917, Premier Gold Mining & Exploration Co. Ltd. - 1919, Lake Osu Mines Ltd. - 1964, Ornum Copper Mines Ltd. - 1952, Boxada Mines Ltd. - 1946, Maude Ramp Project - 1996 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Developed Prospect With Reported Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1988-Jul-29 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Aug-16 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Beatty, Beatty
Latitude: 48° 36' 28.85" Longitude: -80° 23' 45.92"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 544517 Northing: 5384058 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kirkland Lake
NTS Grid: 42A09SW
Point Location Description: Shaft 1.82 km south and 1.97 km east of the northwest corner of Beatty Township.
Location Method: AMIS Site Visit
Access Description: Proceed on highway 101, 3.3km east of Matheson to Carr/Beatty Township Line Road. Continue 4.3km north on Beatty/Carr Township Line Road to Beatty Concession 3/4 road. Follow the road east for 1.5km to a road heading north and take that road north.
1915-17: W.H.G. Parsons Gold Anchor Mining Co. Ltd.- auriferous quartz veins discovered; mapping. 1917: Hill Gold Mining Co. Ltd. - sank 125 ft inclined shaft; erected 70 ton/day ball mill; processed 25 ton bulk sample (30.23 oz. Au); 180 ft. lateral exploration (100 ft. level).1919-20: Premier Gold Mining and Exploration Co.- sank 200 ft. inclined shaft (levels at 100 and 200 ft.); 150 and 300 ft. of lateral work completed respectively; operations suspended during summer 1920. 1946: Boxada Mines Ltd/Stonada Mines Ltd.- dewatered and re-timbered shaft;; sampled (to 114 ft depth); DD-9903 ft.. 1946-47: Argyll Gold Mines Ltd.: DD-21570 ft.; 1947: Sylvanite Gold Mines Ltd: property optioned; DD-4,878 ft. 1952-55: Ornum Copper Mine Ltd.-: geophysical surveys, diamond drilling. 1960: Rio Rupinini Mines Ltd.- optioned property: DD-6-1439 ft.; intersected # 5 Zone (0.21 oz. Au/ton over 23 ft.). 1964-65: Lake Osu Mines Ltd. - magnetic survey; DD-17-6762 ft., extending to 34600 ft. by end of 1965. 1981-85: Maude Lake Gold Mines Ltd: VLF, EM, DD-134-40667 ft.; dewatered old workings; underground sampling (100 ft., 200 ft. levels); stripped 34000 cu ft. of overburden; 79 percussion DHs (4715 ft.).; stripping, trenching, channel sampling,,IP survey; sampling of stripped area; 16800 ton bulk sample. 1987-88: Equinox Resources Ltd/Technigen Corp: EM; diamond drilling; u/g exploration of # 5 Zone via decline ramp; underground and surface exploration, 833 m decline ramp to 465 ft.; 661 m drifting, 200 m. raising, 5300 m u/g diamond drilling; 453 m of work on 60m, 100m, and 140m levels. 1996-99: McWatters Mines Ltd. - DD-33-7490 m. 2001: Globex Mining Enterprises Inc. - property purchased. 2004-05: Vedron Gold Inc. - property optioned; IP and 11-DD-1986.3 m.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| KL-5582/2.31732 | 20000001197 | 20000001197 |
| W9680-00439 | 42A09SW0101 | 42A09SW0101 |
| 2.17836 | 42A09SW0178 | 42A09SW0178 |
| 2.20133 | 42A09SW2012 | 42A09SW2012 |
| 2.31732 | 20000001197 | 20000001197 |
| KL-4811/2.20133 | 42A09SW2012 | 42A09SW2012 |
| KL-4237/2.17836 | 42A09SW0178 | 42A09SW0178 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Abitibi
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Abitibi
Tectonic Assemblage: Kidd-Munro
Geological Age: Mesoarchean
Metamorphism Grade: Greenschist
Feb 09, 2016 (R Degagne) - Bedrock in northwestern Beatty Township has been subjected to regional scale isoclinal folding (periodicities are on the order of a few kilometres) which resulted in the development of southeast striking and subvertically dipping D1 folds. A later, milder event resulted in gentle folding and the development of northeast striking and southwest plunging D2 folds. What is believed to be the southeastern extension of a regional scale, east striking (bedding parallel) structural feature, the Pipestone Fault Zone, has been interpreted on the basis of geophysical data to coincide with the (variably sheared) conformable peridotite body in the deposit area. The Pipestone Fault Zone is subparallel to other regional scale bedding parallel structures in the area, including the Porcupine-Destor Fault Zone (located about 6 km southwest of the deposit area). Southeast of the deposit, the Pipestone Fault zone has been interpreted to merge with the (locally east striking) Munro Fault Zone and, further east, to merge with the Main Branch of the Porcupine-Destor Fault Zone. Jensen and Langford and Johnstone have interpreted the area's regional geology in terms of what may be thought of as the Porcupine-Destor Fault System, consisting of a Southern (or Main) Branch, a Middle Branch and a Northern Branch (or branches) in the western and central BRIM area. The Pipestone Fault/Munro Fault Zone would be synonymous with the Middle Branch of the Porcupine Destor Fault System using this terminology. Bedrock near the deposit is poorly exposed, the majority being covered by variable thicknesses of Pleistocene age glaciolacustrine deposits of clay, varved clay and silt.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 1 | Iron Tholeiitc Basalt | Pillowed, Brecciated, Amygdaloidal | Adjacent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diabase | 2 | Diabase | Adjacent | |
| Vein | 3 | Quartz-Ankerite | Host | |
| Granitoid-Unsubdivided | 4 | Near | ||
| Peridotite | 5 | Peridotite | Near |
Feb 09, 2016 (R Degagne) - The bedrock volcanic stratigraphy near the mines is southeast striking, steeply dipping and north facing. The (stratigraphically) lowest volcanic unit consists of pillowed, flow brecciated and variably amygdaloidal dark green, magnetic Fe-tholeiitic basalt which is at least 300 m thick. Near the top of this basalt unit, pillow selvages are sulphidic. Where exposed in the No.5 Zone pit, the basalt is conformably overlain by a thin (3-8 foot wide) and irregular but laterally continuous composite sedimentary horizon consisting of massive pyrite (with accessory amounts of sphalerite and galena) and pyritic and cherty tuff. Flow tops in the pit area are reported (assessment files) to be marked often by sulphide enrichments of from 5-7%. Where intersected by diamond drilling, this sulphide horizon is reported (assessment files) to have assayed as much as 0.18 ounce of gold per ton over 3 feet and 3.6 ounce of silver per ton over 7 feet. The sulphidic horizon is in tectonic (but probably also conformable stratigraphic) contact with a 60-75 m thick conformably overlying horizon of (variably sheared) peridotite which, near its top, is sheared. The peridotite is in turn in fault contact with an upper volcanic horizon of southeast striking, steeply dipping and north facing pillowed Fe-tholeiitic basalt which is similar to the lower basalt package. These essentially undeformed supracrustal rocks are intruded by felsic sills, mafic bodies and dikes, and narrow (generally less than about 30 m in width) north striking and subvertically dipping diabase dikes of the (Proterozoic) Matachewan swarm. Igneous rocks reported (assessment files) to intrude the supracrustal succession in the deposit area include felsic and mafic dikes, irregularly shaped mafic bodies, north striking diabase dikes of the (Proterozoic) Matachewan swarm, and lamprophyre dikes.
| 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 | Galena | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 4 | Sphalerite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 5 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 6 | Arsenopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 7 | Telluride | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 1 | Quartz | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 2 | Calcite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 3 | Sericite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 4 | Fuchsite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 5 | Carbonate | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 6 | Tourmaline | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 7 | Ankerite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 8 | Chlorite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 9 | Dolomite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| Carbonate | Alteration | Carbonatization | 1 | Unknown | Replacement | ||
| Chlorite | Alteration | Chloritic | 2 | Unknown | Veins | ||
| Ankerite | Alteration | Carbonatization | 3 | Strong | Replacement | ||
| Sericite | Alteration | Chloritic | 4 | Strong | Replacement | ||
| Dolomite | Alteration | Carbonatization | 5 | Unknown | Replacement | ||
| Fuchsite | Alteration | Carbonatization | 6 | Weak | Replacement |
Feb 09, 2016 (A Wilson) - The second phase of drilling permitted to better define the Ramp Vein and Zone 4 gold structures, adding significant extensions and economic gold sections to it. In addition, important geological information was glanced in the course of core description. The Ramp Vein is a rather continuous mineralized structure trending NE-SW and dipping at 70º toward the SE. It is characterized by one to three parallel sheeted and ribbons quartz veins with lG-25% pyrite with lesser pyrrhotite, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, arsenopyrite and free gold. The host basalt appears only weakly bleached at the immediate margins of the structure. Closer to the diabase which limits the vein to the west, the Ramp Vein becomes almost E-W and seems to be displaced by N-S faulting toward the north. The dyke also had a metamorphic effect on the veins and the host rock and both the sulphides and gold content appears to decrease significantly within at least 10m of the diabase (97-18, 23). The deepest hole (97-20) in the structure reveals that the host rock is rather a massive basalt that the pillowed sulphidic basalt in the upper section. This could influence the vein orientation (due to refraction) and its gold content. Zone 4 is rather a swarm of irregular veins and trends E-W with a sub-vertical dip, hosted in strongly altered basalts (Fe carbonates and lesser sericite). It contains significant amount of pyrite and lesser sphalerite, either related to the quartz±carbonates injections and to primary inter-pillow mineralization. Assays from the No. 4 Zone returned values ranging from 2.1 g/t Au over 4.1 m in DDH 97-7 to 22.2 g/t Au over 1 m in DDH 97-24. Assays from the Ramp Vein returned gold values ranging from 3.18 g/t Au over 2.4 m to 35.0 g/t Au over 1 m. The No. 2 Vein returned gold values of 2.24 g/t Au over 1.5 m. Drill holes from other zones returned gold values of 23.8 g/t Au over 0.2 m to 4.68 g/t Au over 1.5 m. Vedron’s drilling was primarily directed at a potential new zone discovered by McWatters in their final drill programme in drill holes 99-03 - 15.36 gpt Au / l.4m and 99-04 - 55.5 gpt Au / l.4m.
Feb 09, 2016 (R Degagne) - All known gold mineralization in the No.5 Zone Mine area is associated with one of two sets of quartz veins which are hosted exclusively by the stratigraphically lower pillowed basalt horizon. The conformable peridotite body marks the eastern extent of the auriferous vein systems. It is not known by the present writer whether the confinement of gold mineralization to the lower basalt unit is real, or whether this is only apparent due to a lack of detailed exploration work up stratigraphy northeast of the peridotite. The auriferous vein system predates intrusion of the Matachewan diabase dikes. he vein system in the Hill Gold Mining Co./Premier Gold Mining and Exploration Co. Mine shaft area (on which all pre-1960 exploration and development work was performed) is reported (assessment files) to consist of a series of narrow (less than 6 cm wide (Knight et al. 1919)) and/or sheeted (forming a zone up to 2 feet wide (Satterly and Armstrong 1949)), widely spaced northeast striking and subvertically dipping dark grey/blue to translucent grey/white quartz-(ankerite)-(chlorite)-(sericite)- (green mica)-(tourmaline?) veins which contain typically from 2-15% of pyrite and accessory amounts of pyrrhotite, sphalerite, galena, arsenopyrite, chalcopyrite and (free) gold. Native gold is reported (assessment files) to occur predominantly as very fine grained free particles adjacent to and within pyrite and, rarely, as coarse grained nuggets within the veins. Telluride minerals are also reported to occur in the northeast striking vein system.
Feb 09, 2016 (R Degagne) - The east striking veins and shear systems which comprise the No.5 Zone differ from the northeast striking veins: rather than occurring in discrete, locally developed mineralized shears, the No.5 Zone vein system occupies a relatively wide zone of brittle deformation. This deformation zone is characterized by development of crackle breccias, subparallel and anastomosing vein systems, and pervasive and penetrative ankerite and sericite alteration. Recrystallization of wall rock is absent except proximal to the main veins. The veins also appear to be larger (up to metres in width) than those constituting the northeast striking shaft area veins. The No.5 Zone veins are reported to be in general similar in appearance to the northeast striking veins, being composed of blue/grey quartz and minor rusty weathering carbonate and containing about 5% of fine grained disseminated pyrite with minor pyrrhotite, sphalerite, arsenopyrite, chalcopyrite and visible gold. Malczak reported that in addition to native gold in the veins, gold may occur within fine grained disseminated pyrite marginal to the veins in altered (sericitic, Fe- dolomitic and locally green mica-bearing) volcanic host rocks. Telluride minerals have not been documented to occur in the No.5 Zone. The major veins which form the No.5 Zone are associated with faults/shears across which some (on the order of metres) apparent sinestral displacement has occurred. As with the northeast striking veins, the east striking No.5 Zone pinches out to the east at the conformable peridotite body contact.
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Hydrothermal |
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 2 | Disseminated |
| 1 | Vein |
| Shape | Length | Thickness | Depth | Strike | Dip | Plunge | Trend | Age | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Irregular | 70 |
| Shape | Length | Thickness | Depth | Strike | Dip | Plunge | Trend | Age | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Irregular |
| Zone | Year | Category | Tonnes | Reference | Comments | Commodities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ramp Zone | 2005 | Unclassified | 813414 | OFR 6204, p35 | 813 414 t @ 8.2 g/t Au | Gold 8.2 g/t |
| Argyll | 1997 | Unclassified | 730900 | CMH 1997-98, p.291 | 2004 - property under option by Vedron from Globex | Gold 8.06 g/t |
| Open Pit | 1988 | Probable | 40824 | reported by Equinox Res./Technigen Corp. in George Cross Newsletter, Dec. 30/88 | source referred to in: OFR5735, V.1, p.121 | Gold 3.8 g/t |
| No. 5 Zone Mine | 1988 | Proven | 117936 | reported by Equinox Res./Technigen Corp. in George Cross Newsletter, Dec. 30/88 | source referred to in: OFR5735, V.1, p.121 | Gold 5.4 g/t |
| Year | Tonnes | Commodities | Reference | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1918 | 11299 |
Gold 851 Ounces |
OFR5991, p.39 | mill gone - 851 oz. from 12455 ton; gold valued at $635.00 |
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
Location:
Map - Township of Beatty, District of Cochrane, Ontario
Publication Number: M1947-02 Scale: 1:12,000 Date: 1997
Author: Satterly J., Armstrong H.S.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Part - Abitibi-Night Hawk gold area, District of Timiskaming
Publication Number: ARV28-02.001 Page: 59 Date: 1998
Author: Knight C.W., Burrows A.G., Hopkins P.E., Parsons A.L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines
Location:
Map - Geophysical/geochemical series, Matheson-Black River area, Beatty Township, airborne electromagnetic survey, total intensity magnetic survey, District of Cochrane
Publication Number: M80585 Scale: 1:20,000 Date: 1984
Author: Questor Surveys Ltd.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Part - Geology of Beatty Township
Publication Number: ARV56-07 Page: 25-26 Date: 1997
Author: Satterly J., Armstrong H.S.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Gold area between lakes Abitibi and Night Hawk, District of Timiskaming
Publication Number: ARM28B Scale: 1:126,720 Date: 1998
Author: Knight C.W., Burrows A.G., Hopkins P.E., Parsons A.L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines
Location:
Mono - Gold deposits of Ontario, part 1, districts of Algoma, Cochrane, Kenora, Rainy River, and Thunder Bay
Publication Number: MDC013 Page: 47 Date: 1971
Author: Ferguson S.A., Groen H.A., Haynes R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs
Location:
Map - Gold area between lakes Abitibi and Night Hawk, District of Timiskaming
Publication Number: ARM28B Scale: 1:126,720 Date: 1998
Author: Knight C.W., Burrows A.G., Hopkins P.E., Parsons A.L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines
Location:
Mono - Preliminary report on the Timmins-Kirkland Lake area, gold deposits file
Publication Number: OFR5467 Page: G0017 Date: 1983
Author: Hodgson C.J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Folio - Beatty Township, District of Cochrane
Publication Number: GDIF266 Date: 1997
Author: Kirkland Lake RGO
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Mineral occurrences, deposits, and mines of the Black River-Matheson area
Publication Number: OFR5735 Page: 117-128 Date: 1990
Author: Bath A.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
File - Res/Reg Property Visit Report 82
Publication Number: PV 82 Date: 1996
Author: Lovell, H.L.
Publisher Name:
Location: Kirkland Lake RGP
Map - Geological series, Precambrian geology of the Magusi River area, Cochrane and Timiskaming districts
Publication Number: P2434 Scale: 1:63,360 Date: 1982
Author: Jensen L.S.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Article - Black River-Matheson area, District of Cochrane
Publication Number: MP116.013S Page: 59-62 Date: 1997
Author: Trowell N.F., Johnstone R.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Report of Activities 2006, Resident Geologist Program, Kirkland Lake Regional Resident Geologist Report: Kirkland Lake District
Publication Number: OFR6204 Date: 2007
Author: Guindon D.L., Grabowski G.P.B., Meyer G., Picotte M.C.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Part - Mines of Ontario
Publication Number: ARV30-01.003 Page: 82 Date: 1997
Author: Sutherland T.F., McMillan J.G., Bartlett J., Webster A.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Article - Industrial mineral potential of the Black River-Matheson (BRIM) area, District of Cochrane
Publication Number: MP126.062S Date: 1997
Author: Malczak J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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
Location:
Map - Geology of Beatty Township
Publication Number: OFM0158 Scale: 1:15,840 Date: 1991
Author: Johnstone R.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
MonoMap - Geology and petrogenesis of the Archean Abitibi belt in the Kirkland Lake area, Ontario
Publication Number: MP123 Date: 1985
Author: Jensen L.S., Langford F.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
File - Res/Reg Property Visit Report 83
Publication Number: PV 83 Date: 1996
Author: Lovell, H.L.
Publisher Name:
Location: Kirkland Lake RGP office
Map - Geological Compilation: Beatty and Munro Townships
Publication Number: P3395 Scale: 1:20,000 Date: 1999
Author: Barrie C.T.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
File - Res/Reg Property Visit Report 85
Publication Number: PV 85 Date: 1996
Author: Lovell, H.L.
Publisher Name:
Location: Kirkland Lake RGP office
File - Res/Reg Property Visit Report 92
Publication Number: PV 92 Date: 1996
Author: Lovell, H.L.
Publisher Name:
Location: Kirkland Lake RGP office
Mono - Report of Activities 1998, Resident Geologist Program, Kirkland Lake Regional Resident Geologist Report: Kirkland Lake and Sudbury Districts
Publication Number: OFR5991 Date: 1999
Author: Meyer G., Cosec M., Grabowski G.P.B., Guindon D.L., Gosselin S.D.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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