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| Record Name(s) | Silver Foam Mining Company - 1918, Silver Foam Occurrence - 1918 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Developed Prospect Without Reported Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1992-Mar-14 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Sep-27 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Secondary Commodities: Copper
Township or Area: Walker
Latitude: 48° 38' 47.29" Longitude: -80° 39' 20.26"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 525366 Northing: 5388214 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kirkland Lake
NTS Grid: 42A10NE
Point Location Description: pits, shafts
Location Method: AMIS Site Visit
Access Description: Proceed on highway 11 north of Matheson for 20.6km to highway 577. Continue north 1km to Monteith. Travel south on road parallel to railway tracks 1.8km to Clark Road. Turn left (north) on Clark Road for 1.6km, turn right (east) for 500m. S-1 is 400m south of this point.
Circa 1919: Silver Foam Mining Co. sunk a shaft in the north half of lot 10, concession 2, Walker Township on quartz veins a 60 feet deep inclined shaft and a 60 foot deep vertical shaft. 1938-1986: Following the exposure by a landslide in 1938 of auriferous quartz veins along the shore of the Driftwood River in concession 1, Clergue Township, exploration by many companies was concentrated along the Pipestone Fault Zone in and near concession I of Clergue and Walker Townships, about 1 mile (1.6 km) south of the area explored by Silver Foam Mining Co. No work is reported to have been performed on or near the (former) Silver Foam Mining Co. claims. 1996-97: Moneta Porcupine Mines Inc. carried out ground magnetometer, IP survey.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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| 2.16573 | 42A10NE0038 | 42A10NE0038 |
| 2.17370 | 42A10NE0053 | 42A10NE0053 |
| T-0813 / 63.1328 | 42A10NE0076 | 42A10NE0076 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Abitibi
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Abitibi
Tectonic Assemblage: Stoughton-Roquemaure
Geological Age: Archean
Metamorphism Grade: Greenschist
Apr 21, 2016 (C Salo) - Mapping of what little basement outcrop exists in the southern Walker and northern Taylor Township area and compilation of data in the assessment files at the Resident Geologist's Office indicates that an east striking lithologic contact occurs in southern Walker Township. South of this contact, poorly exposed east striking, steeply dipping, and north facing (where intersected by diamond drilling along strike in Carr Township) metamorphosed (greenschist or lower metamorphic facies) sediment of the (Archean) Porcupine Group are present. In the Beatty/Munro Township area (20-30 km along strike to the east) where these metasediments are exposed, they consist of deep water turbiditic and intercalated tuffaceous material. North of the contact, east striking and steeply dipping subaqueously deposited metamorphosed (greenschist or lower metamorphic facies) tholeiitic to komatiitic flow and (volumetrically less) intercalated calc alkalic felsic and intermediate volcanic and pyroclastic rock of the (Archean) Stoughton-Roquemaure Group occur.The Porcupine Group metasediments are north dipping and north facing where they have been intersected by diamond drilling in Carr Township, about 20 km east of the showing area. The Stoughton-Roquemaure Group volcanic rocks north of the sediments in the Clergue/Walker/Coulson/Carr Township area are steeply north dipping and north facing but reversals in facing direction indicate that a (regional scale) east strikinganticline/syncline pair is developed in the volcanic rocks within a few kilometres of the contact. The Pipestone Fault Zone is a complex, regional scale fault/shear zone characterized by the presence of various talc, chlorite, sericite, and carbonate schists which locally may attain thicknesses greater than 100 m.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Vein | 1 | Calcite-Epidote Veinlets | Contains |
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| Vein | 2 | Quartz | Contains | |
| Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 3 | Basalt | Massive,Anygdaloidal, Pillowed | Host |
| Schist-Unsubdivided | 4 | Leucoxenitic-Chlorite Schist | Host | |
| Intermediate massive flow | 5 | Massive To Agglomeratic | Near |
Dec 07, 2005 (C Salo) - Samples: AB-86-96: Dump grab from near the south shaft. Olive green massive medium grained nonmagnetic basalt. Weakly pervasively Fe-dolomitized with hairline calcite filled fractures and white quartz-calcite filled 2 mm size ovoid (stretched) amygdules. Note presence of abundant 0.1 mm size leucoxene specks. No sulfides are present. AB-86-97: Dump grab from near the south shaft. Olive green weakly magnetic weakly sheared and chloritic basalt breccia. Stretched 2-3 cm size angular fragments are amygdaloidal, with 2-3 mm size ovoid (stretched) amygdules. Note presence of 0.1 mm size leucoxene specks as for sample AB-86-96. The sheared basalt has been weakly pervasively Fe-dolomitized and the amygdules are white quartz filled. Folded 1-2 mm wide grey quartz stringers are present, as are late stage quartz-calcite-epidote-white feldspar veinlets which are oriented subparallel to the chloritic foliation. No sulfides are present. AB-86-98: Bedrock chip from carbonatized basalt south of the shaft. Light grey green nonmagnetic and weakly bleached fine grained basalt. Rare 1 mm size spherical white quartz-calcite amygdules occur. The sample has been penetratively calcite altered and contains abundant 0.1 mm size leucoxene specks. No sulfides are present. AB-86-99: Dump grab from near the south shaft. Fine grained grey/green nonmagnetic basalt. Amygdaloidal with spherical 1-3 mm size amygdules which are quartz-chlorite-calcite filled and have developed around them buff colored 0.5 mm wide haloes. The sample consists of 1 mm size chlorite spots within a light green fine grained matrix, and is not carbonate altered. Traces of very fine grained disseminated sulfides are present. The sample is cut by less than 1 mm wide epidote-calcite filled fractures which display crystal development oriented obliquely to veinlet walls.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Pyrrhotite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 1 | Leucoxene | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 2 | Epidote | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 3 | Quartz | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 4 | Carbonate | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 5 | Dolomite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 6 | Chlorite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 7 | Axinite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 8 | Calcite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| Epidote | Alteration | Epidotization | 1 | Weak | Disseminated | ||
| Chlorite | Alteration | Chloritic | 2 | Weak | Network |
Apr 21, 2016 (C Salo) - An uncapped and unfenced vertical shaft reported (Knight et al.1919) to be 60 feet deep is in the southwest part of lot 10, concession 2, Walker Township (as indicated by Ginn and Leahy 1961). This shaft is sunk at the stratigraphic top of massive light green medium grained nonmagnetic basalt. The flow is underlain and overlain by pillowed and variably calcite altered light green nonmagnetic basalt which faces south and has a subvertical to slightly overturned dip. Waste samples scattered around the shaft consist of massive to (quartz-calcite-chlorite-axinite) amygdaloidal fine grained basalt which is weakly carbonatized, leucoxenitic, and variably weakly foliated and chloritic. Some dump samples contain quartz-calcite-epidote veinlets. Rarely, pervasive epidote alteration extending outward a few centimetres from the veinlets may bedeveloped within the host basalt. Sulfide mineralization disseminated within the basalt host and associated with vein material is poorly developed, with disseminated pyrite and veinlet controlled chalcopyrite developed only rarely in dump samples. Pervasive epidote development marginal to north striking white quartz veins occurs a few tens of metres west of the vertical shaft site. The shaft appears to have been sunk on a narrow (less than 0.3 m wide) steeply dipping east northeast striking quartz vein that is exposed immediately west of the shaft. A small (2 by 4 by 3 m deep) pit located a few tens of metres south of a geodetic station (as indicated by Ginn and Leahy 1961) has been blasted into massive aphanitic to fine grained light green nonmagnetic basalt. Exposed in the pit is a 10-30 cm wide coarse grained quartz-epidote-calcite vein with sharp well defined margins. The vein strikes 075, subparallel to the strike of the host volcanic rocks. No megascopic alteration occurs marginal to the vein, and only rarely were traces of disseminated pyrite observed by Bath 1990 in the host basalt.
Part - Abitibi-Night Hawk gold area, District of Timiskaming
Publication Number: ARV28-02.001 Page: 63 Date: 1998
Author: Knight C.W., Burrows A.G., Hopkins P.E., Parsons A.L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines
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Part - Geology of the Carr Township area
Publication Number: ARV60-04 Date: 1997
Author: Prest V.K.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Gold deposits of Ontario, part 1, districts of Algoma, Cochrane, Kenora, Rainy River, and Thunder Bay
Publication Number: MDC013 Page: 138 Date: 1971
Author: Ferguson S.A., Groen H.A., Haynes R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs
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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 - Reconnaissance till sampling program, Matheson-Lake Abitibi area, District of Cochrane
Publication Number: MP132.080 Page: 398-403 Date: 1997
Author: Steele K.G., Baker C.L., McClenaghan M.B.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Article - Precambrian geology of Coulson, Warden, and Milligan townships, Black River-Matheson (BRIM) area, District of Cochrane
Publication Number: MP132.079 Page: 392-397 Date: 1997
Author: Johnstone R.M.
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:
Mono - Lake Timiskaming rift valley
Publication Number: MP039 Date: 1970
Author: Lovell H.L., Caine T.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Rotasonic drilling operations (1984) and overburden heavy mineral studies, Matheson area, District of Cochrane
Publication Number: OFR5569 Date: 1986
Author: Averill S.A., MacNeill K.A., Huneault R.G., Baker C.L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Mineral occurrences, deposits, and mines of the Black River-Matheson area
Publication Number: OFR5735 Page: 1226-1237 Date: 1990
Author: Bath A.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Geophysical/geochemical series, Matheson-Black River area, Walker Township, airborne electromagnetic survey, total intensity magnetic survey, District of Cochrane
Publication Number: M80573 Scale: 1:20,000 Date: 1984
Author: Questor Surveys Ltd.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Geophysical/geochemical series, backhoe till samples, Clergue, Walker and Wilkie townships, District of Cochrane
Publication Number: M80795 Date: 1986
Author: Steele K.G., McClenaghan M.B., Baker C.L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Walker Township, District of Cochrane
Publication Number: P0103 Scale: 1:15,840 Date: 1997
Author: Ginn R.M., Leahy E.J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Geological series, Quaternary geology, Porquis Junction area, District of Cochrane
Publication Number: P2949 Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 1985
Author: Richard J.A., McClenaghan M.B.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Taylor Township
Publication Number: P0039 Scale: 1:15,840 Date: 1997
Author: Satterly J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
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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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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Map - Precambrian Geology of Clergue and Walker Townships Area
Publication Number: P3616 Scale: 1:20,000 Date: 2010
Author: Dinel E.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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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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
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
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Article - A gravity survey in the Iroquois Falls-Lake Abitibi area, District of Cochrane
Publication Number: MP137.074 Date: 1997
Author: Gupta V.K., Johnstone R.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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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