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| Record Name(s) | Mickle - 9999, Amax of Canada Ltd. - 9999, Canadian Johns-Manville Co. Ltd. - 9999, International Nickel Co. Ltd. - 9999 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1997-Feb-04 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Sep-27 |
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Primary Commodities: Nickel
Secondary Commodities: Platinum, Palladium
Township or Area: Munro
Latitude: 48° 34' 39.31" Longitude: -80° 16' 29.52"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 553484.937 Northing: 5380753.576 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kirkland Lake
NTS Grid: 42A09SW
Point Location Description: Shaft
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: A point 5.28 km south of the northwest corner of Munro Township. The Mickle occurrence is in lot 12, concession III, Munro Township and in lot 1, concession III, Beatty Township. Best access is reported (Allen 1986) to be via the paved Canadian Johns-Manville Co. Ltd. Munro (asbestos) Mine access road to a northwest trending development road accessible north of the flooded open pit. From the development road terminus, the Beatty/Munro Township common boundary may be followed north to overgrown pits and trenches which have been excavated into massive sulfide mineralization.
1915: Hopkins (1915) reported that a grab sample from a 5 foot wide pyrrhotite 'vein' assayed 1% of nickel and nil amounts of gold and platinum. 1916: C. Mickle sank a shaft at about this time. 1919: Knight et al. (1919) reported that C. Mickle sank a 50 foot deep shaft on a 5 foot wide occurrence. 1920: a selected grab sample is reported by Knight (1920) to have assayed 0.83% of nickel, and no copper. 1950: Satterly (1952) sampled the occurrence; the sample is reported by him to have contained 1.61% of nickel and traces of gold. Circa 1970: International Nickel Co. Ltd. completed exploration for base metals. 1975: Arndt (1975) mapped the area. 1978-1980: Amax of Canada Ltd. and Canadian Johns-Manville Co. Ltd. performed base metals. 1982: Kretschmar and Kretschmar (1986) geologically mapped and sampled the area. 1985: Macdonald (1985) performed a petrological study of the area. 1986: Allen (1986) completed a petrological and geochemical study of the area. Allen reported that in 1986, the occurrence was held by Canadian Johns-Manville Co. Ltd.
Province: Superior
Geological Age: Archean
Metamorphism Grade: Greenschist
Dec 07, 2005 (C Salo) - Geological mapping (Satterly 1952; Satterly and Armstrong 1949; Johnstone and Trowell 1985, 1984; Jensen and Baker 1986; Johnstone 1987; Johnstone and Steele 1989; Vagners 1984; McClenaghan et al. 1988, 1987; Steele 1988) indicates that bedrock in the area is largely glacial drift covered and consists mainly of weakly metamorphosed (greenschist or lower metamorphic facies ) ultramafic to felsic volcanic rocks of the (Archean) Stoughton-Roquemaure Group. The volcanic stratigraphy is southeast striking, steeply dipping, north facing, and occupies part of the south limb of the southeast striking and northwest plunging McCool Hill Syncline. A regional scale southeast striking structure, the Munro Fault Zone, is a few hundred metres northeast of the occurrence. Jensen and Langford (1985) and Johnstone (1987) refer to the Munro Fault Zone in the regional context of the BRIM area as the Middle Branch of the Porcupine-Destor Fault Zone. Intrusive rocks in the area include north striking diabase dikes of the (Proterozoic) Matachewan swarm (Heaman 1989) and northeast striking olivine diabase dikes of the (Proterozoic) Preissac and/or Abitibi swarms, large (tens to hundreds of metres in size) mafic to ultramafic intrusive bodies, and small (metres in width) lamprophyre dikes.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Ultramafic-Unsubdivided | 1 | N/A |
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| Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 2 | N/A |
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Pyrrhotite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Pentlandite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 4 | Chromite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 5 | Magnetite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 6 | Violarite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 1 | Tremolite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 2 | Amphibole | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 3 | Talc | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 4 | Chlorite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 5 | Serpentine | Economic | Gangue |
Dec 07, 2005 (C Salo) - Allen (1986) rpted that sulfide min. at the occurrence consists of a 5 m long and less than 1 m thick lens shaped body of magnetic matrix-sulfide min. The sulfide minerals occur within what is interpreted to be a paleodepression devel. along the contact between underlying (to the south) komatiitic volcanic flow rocks and a thick (about 120 m, according to Johnstone 1987) body of ultramafic (at the base) to mafic (at the top) composition. Minor discont. developed occur. of sulfide min. are also rpted (Allen 1986) to occur elsewhere along this contact. Matrix-sulfide min. is rpted by Allen to consist of po with acces. amounts of pent, cp, vl, cr, and mag. which occur inters. to primary magmatic (now cr altered) silicate minerals, the most common of these being olivine and pyroxene. Some primary olivine and pyroxene minerals in which the sulfides are hosted display spinifex textures and represent the top of underlying komatiitic flow rocks. Secondary sulfide min. includes vl (after pent) and po; and pent and cp accompanied by lizardite within the cores of alt. olivine grains and in veinlets devel. within altered olivines. Mass. sulfides are rpted by Allen to be rare and to be confined to blebs which occur strat. beneath and along strike from the small lens of matrix sulfides which constitutes the main sulfide showing. Chemical anal. of heavy mineral separate of ore minerals are rpted by Allen to be essent. equiv. to po, with minor contents of nickel (1.24-1.74 weight %), cobalt (0.08-0.18 weight %), copper (less than 0.01-0.27 weight %) and Cr2O3 (0.06-1.98 weight %). Platinum assays as high as 700 ppb and palladium assays as high as 1700 ppb from pit grab samples are also rpted by Allen. The ratios of nickel/copper and platinum/palladium in sulfide are similar to other (Archean) komatiite hosted sulfide deposits although the total amounts of nickel and copper at the Mickle occur. is relat. low (Allen 1986).
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
Location:
Part - The Beatty-Munro gold area
Publication Number: ARV24-01.004 Date: 1998
Author: Hopkins P.E.
Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines
Location:
Map - Black River-Matheson Area
Publication Number: OFM0013 Scale: 1:15,840 Date: 1985
Author: Johnstone R.M., Trowell N.F.
Publisher Name:
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
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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
Location:
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:
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:
Part - Windy Lake and other nickel areas
Publication Number: ARV29-01.006 Date: 1998
Author: Knight C.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Part - Abitibi-Night Hawk gold area, District of Timiskaming
Publication Number: ARV28-02.001 Date: 1998
Author: Knight C.W., Burrows A.G., Hopkins P.E., Parsons A.L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines
Location:
Article - Quaternary geology and geochemical exploration in the Matheson area
Publication Number: MP136.294 Page: 112-123 Date: 1997
Author: McClenaghan M.B., Lavin O.P., Nichol I., Shaw J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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
Location:
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 Beatty Township
Publication Number: ARV56-07 Page: 7 Date: 1997
Author: Satterly J., Armstrong H.S.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Book - ADDITIONAL REFERENCES IN BATH 1990
Publication Number: REFERNCES Date:
Author:
Publisher Name:
Location:
Mono - Mineral occurrences, deposits, and mines of the Black River-Matheson area
Publication Number: OFR5735 Page: 1386-1391 Date: 1990
Author: Bath A.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Thesis - Petrology and Chemistry of a Komatiite Sill and Fe-Ni-Cu Sulfide Mineralization, Munro and Beatty townships, Ontario
Publication Number: MSc Thesis Date: 1986
Author: Allen, R.L.
Publisher Name: Queen's University
Location: Kirkland Lake RGP Office
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