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| Record Name(s) | Colossus - 1985, Malouf - 1985 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1985-Nov-20 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Sep-27 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Secondary Commodities: Zinc, Lead
Township or Area: Munro
Latitude: 48° 32' 54.17" Longitude: -80° 15' 56.38"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 554195.174 Northing: 5377513.721 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kirkland Lake
NTS Grid: 42A09SW
Point Location Description: Shaft in Lot 12, Con 1.
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: Point Located: A point 0.68 km north and 1.03 km east of the southwest corner of Munro Township. The Colossus occurrence is believed by the present writer to consist of patented claims in lots 11 and 12, concession I, Munro Township. The point located is the easternmost shaft symbol in the south half of lot 11, concession I, Munro Township, as indicated by Satterly (1952). This location and the presence of trenches in this area are broadly consistent with the old Northern Miner reports. No assessment or exploration work is on file for this area because the claims have been patented for decades. Access to the shaft area is by an overgrown trail from the Canadian Johns-Manville Co. Ltd. Munro (asbestos) Mine access road, as indicated by Satterly (1952).
1915: N.N. Malouf controlled claims in lot 11, concession I, Munro Township and prospected here. 1916: A Toronto syndicate joined Mr. Malouf to work his claims, known at the time as the Dinnick claims. 1917: Colossus Gold Mines Ltd. was incorporated (Gibson 1918) and acquired the Malouf claims and additional claims in southwest Munro Township. Shaft sinking commenced on an auriferous quartz vein system that was reported to be 200 feet wide. The veins were described to be strongly defined, persistent, and with spectacular gold assays from surface sampling reported to be associated with blue/white quartz vein material containing very fine grained disseminated gold. Exploration planned for the property included the sinking of a 50 foot exploration shaft followed by lateral underground exploration work and diamond drilling, but whether or not this was completed is not known. 1935: By this time, the Colossus Gold Syndicate still held 7 claims in Munro Township. 1960: Colossus Gold Mines Ltd. was presumed defunct. 1962: The Ontario charter of Colossus Gold Mines was cancelled. 1978: Mid-East Developments Ltd. optioned ground which was formerly held by Colossus Gold Syndicate and planned to spend $50,000 in exploration on it. Old reports are reported to have indicated that 3 shafts (one 30 feet, one 40 feet and one at least 80 feet deep) occur on the property and that at a depth of 80 feet, a 7 foot section of material averaged 0.51 ounce of gold per ton. 1980: Mid-East Developments was reported to have diamond drilled 30 holes. The results of this drilling are not known. 1981: Mid-East Developments changed its name to Promed Technology Inc. and all mining assets were to be placed in a subsidiary company.
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Abitibi
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Abitibi
Geological Age: Archean
Metamorphism Grade: Greenschist
Dec 07, 2005 (C Salo) - The area is underlain mainly by largely glacial drift covered southeast striking and steeply dipping weakly metamorphosed (greenschist or lower metamorphic facies) turbiditic sediments of the (Archean) Porcupine Groupand southeast striking, steeply dipping, and north facing tholeiitic volcanic and volcaniclastic rocks of the (Archean) Stoughton-Roquemaure Group. The contact between the metasediments (to the south) and the metavolcanic rocks (to the north) is a steeply dipping fault, the Contact Fault, which has been interpreted to be characterized by both dominantly dextral horizontal senses of motion (Satterly and Armstrong 1949) and dominantly vertical (dip slip) senses of motion (Johnstone 1987) at different locations along its exposed length in Beatty and Munro Townships. At various places along its exposed length, the Contact Fault:...is characterized by a lens of intense carbonatization containing quartz-carbonate veins and small patches of relatively unaltered sedimentary rock. The green, fuchsite-rich carbonate has replaced some of the volcanic rocks, but it appears to have been largely the result of carbonatization of sediments. Narrow zones of carbonatization also extend into the sediments along cross faults. The sediments have been altered in places by sericitization. Intrusive rocks in the area include narrow (tens of metres in width) north striking diabase dikes of the (Proterozoic) Matachewan swarm (Heaman 1989) and narrow (generally less than a few metres in width) lamprophyre dikes. Several north striking faults have been interpreted to displace the interp. trace of the Contact Fault in the occurrence area; these faults generally display only limited (on the order of tens of metres) of apparent lateral offset, an unknown amount of vertical relative motion, and are generally considered to be relatively late stage.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Vein | 1 | Quartz-Carbonate | Host |
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| Terrigenous-Clastic-Unsubdivided | 2 | Turbiditic Sediments | Near | |
| Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 3 | Fu-Cb Rich Replacement Of Vol. | Near |
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Quartz | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| Sericite | Alteration | Sericitization | 1 | ||||
| Cancrinite | Alteration | Carbonatization | 2 |
Dec 07, 2005 (C Salo) - Anom. elevated gold tenors are reported to be assoc. with narrow white/blue quartz veins and vein systems of unspecified geometry which are developed in a 200 foot wide zone. The qv are reported to contain fine grained dissem. gold. Satterly (1952) indicated that a shaft and numerous trenches which are believed by Bath (1990) to mark the loc. of this occurr. are excavated in Porcupine Group (meta)sediments several hundred metres south of the Contact Fault. Another shaft and add. trenches are near the Contact Fault northwest of the shaft in the northeast quarter of the north half of lot 12, concession I, Munro Township, and these may also represent additional workings of Colossus Gold Mines.Colossus Gold Mines veins may repres. extensions of aurif. veins on the Burton-Munro Gold Mines Ltd.(subsequently acquired by Brown-Munro Gold Mines Ltd.) property and inform. in a more recent article (The Northern Miner, November 23, 1978) indicating that the Colossus Gold Mines workings are east of the White-Guyatt Gold Mines Ltd. property suggest that the southeast shaft marks the loc. of the signif. Colossus Gold Mines discoveries. Spectacular gold assays are reported from the Colossus occurrence in Northern Miner articles. A more recent article (The Northern Miner, November 23, 1978) reported that at a depth of 80 feet, a 7 foot sampled section (of auriferous vein material?) from a shaft averaged 0.51 ounce of gold per ton while a dump grab sample averaged 0.32 ounce of gold per ton.
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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Book - Northern Miner 78-11-23, Mid-East Expl., p. 21
Publication Number: NMINER Date: 1978
Author:
Publisher Name: Northern Miner
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Map - Black River-Matheson Area
Publication Number: OFM0013 Scale: 1:15,840 Date: 1985
Author: Johnstone R.M., Trowell N.F.
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Book - Northern Miner 80-09-25, Mid-East Drill.,p. 25
Publication Number: NMINER Date: 1980
Author:
Publisher Name: Northern Miner
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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
Location:
Folio - Munro Township, District of Cochrane
Publication Number: GDIF361 Date: 1997
Author: Kirkland Lake RGO
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Map - Geophysical/geochemical series, Matheson-Black River area, Munro Township, airborne electromagnetic survey, total intensity magnetic survey, District of Cochrane
Publication Number: M80586 Scale: 1:20,000 Date: 1984
Author: Questor Surveys Ltd.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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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
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Mono - Mineral occurrences, deposits, and mines of the Black River-Matheson area
Publication Number: OFR5735 Page: 1470-1475 Date: 1990
Author: Bath A.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Part - Statistical review of the mineral industry of Ontario for 1917
Publication Number: ARV27-01.001 Date: 1998
Author: Gibson T.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines
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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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Article - Precambrian geology of the Black River-Matheson (BRIM) area, District of Cochrane
Publication Number: MP126.056S Page: 291-296 Date: 1997
Author: Johnstone R.M., Trowell N.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Article - Quaternary geology and geochemical exploration in the Matheson area
Publication Number: MP136.294 Page: 200-214 Date: 1997
Author: McClenaghan M.B., Lavin O.P., Nichol I., Shaw J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Article - Quaternary geology and geochemical exploration in the Matheson area
Publication Number: MP140.294 Date: 1997
Author: McClenaghan M.B., Lavin O.P., Nichol I., Shaw J.
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
Location:
Part - Geology of Munro Township
Publication Number: ARV60-08 Date: 1997
Author: Satterly J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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