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| Record Name(s) | Watabeag Occurrence - 1951, Hollinger Consolidated Gold Mines Ltd. - 1945, Jeffris Showing - 1935 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1992-Mar-06 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Jan-12 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Carr, Taylor
Latitude: 48° 34' 3.63" Longitude: -80° 32' 57.17"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 533256 Northing: 5379496 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kirkland Lake
NTS Grid: 42A10SE
Point Location Description: Pit in SW corner of Lot 12, Con 3, Carr Tp.
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: Overgrown pits reported to contain significant amounts of gold associated with quartz stringers were oncelocated in the southwest quarter of the south half of lot 12, concession 3, Carr Township. Access to the occurrence areais provided via Highway 626 from Matheson to the Carr/Taylor Township common boundary. The occurrence area is indicated by Prest to be on the north side of a subdued rise a few tens of metres east of the Carr/Taylor Township common boundary gravel road, north of Ontario Northland Railway tracks, and south of a natural gas pipeline, about 250 m north of Highway 626.
1945: Hollinger Consolidated Gold Mines Ltd. - DD, pitting. 1998: St Andrew Goldfields Ltd.: DD-3-967 m, assays.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| KL-4763/2.20205 | 42A10SE2014 | 42A10SE2014 |
| KL-4758/2.20202 | 42A10SE2011 | 42A10SE2011 |
| KL-4761/2.20204 | 42A10SE2013 | 42A10SE2013 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Abitibi
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Abitibi
Geological Age: Mesoarchean
Metamorphism Grade: Greenschist
Dec 04, 2015 (R Degagne) - Bedrock exposure in central and southern Carr and Taylor Townships is scarce. Most bedrock here is mantled by complex and, as shown by diamond and rotasonic drilling programs, locally thick, accumulations of Quaternary deposits of till, glaciofluvial and glaciolacustrine material. Exposed bedrock, bedrock intersected in various drilling programs and data derived from geophysical surveys reveal that the (locally) east striking and variably (generally south) dipping Porcupine-Destor Fault Zone (PDFZ) subcrops in the central Carr and Taylor Townships. In the Carr/Taylor Township area, the PDFZ is spatially associated with the Stoughton-Roquemaure/Porcupine Group contact. Elsewhere along its strike, however, the PDFZ is known to stray from the contact area; where it does so it is developed entirely within rocks of the Stoughton-Roquemaure Group. The local bedrock metamorphic assemblage is greenschist or lower metamorphic facies.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Ultramafic Schist | 1 | Talc-Chlorite-Sericite-Serpentinized | Near |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Siltstone | 2 | Tuffaceous | Near | |
| Granitoid-Unsubdivided | 3 | Near | ||
| Diabase | 4 | Diabase | Host | |
| Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 5 | Tholeiitic/Komatiitic Basalt | Fine Grained | Host |
| Vein | 6 | Quartz-Carbonate | Host |
Dec 04, 2015 (R Degagne) - South of the PDFZ, east striking, south facing, and south dipping subaqueously deposited tholeiitic and komatiitic volcanic rocks of the (Archean) Stoughton-Roquemaure Group occupy part of the north limb of the east plunging Blake River Synclinorium. North of the PDFZ, deep water facies turbiditic sediments and tuffaceous rocks of the (Archean) Porcupine Group are reported to dip steeply and face south. Diamond drilling has revealed that in the occurrence area, the PDFZ is wide (up to several hundred feet in width) and both structurally and lithologically complex, consisting of various talc-, chlorite-, sericite- and carbonate-schists which may or may not be intruded by felsic dikes, sills and stocks. These schists often host quartz-(carbonate) stringer systems and are often associated domains of metasomatism. Igneous rocks known to intrude the supracrustal bedrock assemblage in the area include felsic bodies, narrow (generally tens of metres in thickness), generally north striking diabase dikes of the (Proterozoic) Matachewan swarm; and narrow (generally several tens of metres in width) northeast striking diabase dikes of the (Archean) Abitibi swarm. Diamond drilling along the PDFZ has shown that a variety of felsic intrusive and/or metasomatic domains may occur within and closely associated with the PDFZ.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Quartz | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 2 | Carbonate | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 3 | Pyrite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 4 | Dolomite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 5 | Leucoxene | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 6 | Epidote | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| Carbonate | Alteration | Carbonatization | 1 | Strong | Veins | ||
| Dolomite | Alteration | Carbonatization | 2 | Weak | Replacement | ||
| Epidote | Alteration | Saussuritization | 3 | Unknown | Replacement | ||
| Leucoxene | Alteration | Unknown | 4 | Weak | Replacement |
Dec 04, 2015 (A Wilson) - A 1 m section of drill core (T98-6) from a section of green carbonate and quartz breccia assayed 1.9 g/t Au. Two other carbonate altered zones in the same drill hole returned assays of 0.630 oz./t Au over 0.90 m and 0.89 oz.t Au over 0.89 m. A grey carbonate altered section between 56.7 and 60.6 m assayed up to 0.610 oz./t Au over 1.00m. Assays from DDH (T98-7) returned best assays of 0.550 oz./t Au over 1.5m in grey carbonate; 4.380 oz/t Au over 1.5 m in grey-green carbonate
Dec 04, 2015 (R Degagne) - The pits which are reported by Prest to have once exposed the auriferous stringer system which constitutes this occurrence are indicated by him to have been within variably carbonatized volcanic rocks a few tens of metres south of the subcropping (but drill-defined) trace of the PDFZ. Pits in the southwest quarter of the south half of lot 12, concession 3, Carr Township are '...reported to have revealed bedrock containing quartz-carbonate stringers carrying sulfides and significant values in gold' in 1986. Prest also documented the existence of a pit exposing sparsely mineralized (pyritic?) quartz stockworks developed in carbonatized volcanic rocks near the southeast corner of lot 1 concession 3, Taylor Township (a few tens of metres west of the Carr Township pits). This pit was located about 30 m from the road in a cleared field and consisted in 1986 of a caved 7x3x2 m deep hollow with no bedrock exposed within it, although a large angular boulder of fine grained weakly magnetic leucoxenitic basalt containing white quartz/epidote stringers is immediately north of the caved pit. The Watabeag occurrence is spatially associated with the PDFZ and is reported to consist of a pyritic quartz stringer system carrying 'significant' gold values which is hosted by variably carbonatized mafic volcanic rocks.
Dec 07, 2005 (R Degagne) - The Watabeag occurrence is spatially associated with the PDFZ and is reported to consist of a pyritic quartz stringer system carrying 'significant' (in 1945) gold values which is hosted by variably carbonatized mafic volcanic rocks. Samples: AB-86-95: Boulder chip sample. Grey/green, fine grained, weakly magnetic and weakly pervasively Fe-dolomitized basalt containing 3-5% of less than 1 mm size feathery disseminated leucoxene replacing primary mafic minerals. The basalt is cut by white quartz-epidote stringers with which are associated trace amounts of 1 mm grained pyrite cubes.
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Hydrothermal |
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 1 | Vein |
| Shape | Length | Thickness | Depth | Strike | Dip | Plunge | Trend | Age | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown |
Date: Jan 17, 1997
Geologist: R Degagne
Notes: Visited in 1986, by A. C. Bath. Although significant gold values almost certainly occur at the sites of the overgrown pits described by Prest (that theoccurrence was diamond drilled in 1945 probably attests to this), lack of further support documentation precludes anyfurther comment by the present writer on the type and extent of mineralization present. The significance of this occurrence is its type of mineralization (an auriferous stringer system hosted by carbonatized volcanic rocks) and its spatial association with a major (regional scale) structural and stratigraphic discontinuity (the PDFZ), attributes which are shared by many gold deposits in the area.
File - Resident Geologist file KL-1170
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Location: Kirkland Lake RGP office
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 - Geophysical/geochemical series, Matheson-Black River area, Carr Township, airborne electromagnetic survey, total intensity magnetic survey, District of Cochrane
Publication Number: M80584 Scale: 1:20,000 Date: 1984
Author: Questor Surveys Ltd.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Map - Geophysical/geochemical series, Matheson-Black River area, Taylor Township, airborne electromagnetic survey, total intensity magnetic survey, District of Cochrane
Publication Number: M80583 Scale: 1:20,000 Date: 1984
Author: Questor Surveys Ltd.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Part - Geology of the Carr Township area
Publication Number: ARV60-04 Page: 20 Date: 1997
Author: Prest V.K.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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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
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Mono - Gold deposits of Ontario, part 1, districts of Algoma, Cochrane, Kenora, Rainy River, and Thunder Bay
Publication Number: MDC013 Page: 125 Date: 1971
Author: Ferguson S.A., Groen H.A., Haynes R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs
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Map - Geophysical/geochemical series, sonic drillhole 84-23, Carr Township, District of Cochrane
Publication Number: M80779 Date: 1986
Author: Steele K.G., McClenaghan M.B., Baker C.L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Mono - Preliminary report on the Timmins-Kirkland Lake area, gold deposits file
Publication Number: OFR5467 Date: 1983
Author: Hodgson C.J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Folio - Carr Township, District of Cochrane
Publication Number: GDIF265 Date: 1997
Author: Kirkland Lake RGO
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Map - Geophysical/geochemical series, sonic drillholes 84-20 and 84-21, Bowman and Carr townships, District of Cochrane
Publication Number: M80777 Date: 1986
Author: Steele K.G., McClenaghan M.B., Baker C.L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Map - Geophysical/geochemical series, sonic drillhole 84-07, Carr Township, District of Cochrane
Publication Number: M80767 Date: 1986
Author: Steele K.G., McClenaghan M.B., Baker C.L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Mono - Mineral occurrences, deposits, and mines of the Black River-Matheson area
Publication Number: OFR5735 Date: 1990
Author: Bath A.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Map - Township of Carr, District of Cochrane, Ontario
Publication Number: M1951-01 Scale: 1:12,000 Date: 1997
Author: Prest V.K.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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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
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Map - Taylor Township
Publication Number: P0039 Scale: 1:15,840 Date: 1997
Author: Satterly J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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Article - Black River-Matheson economic geologist program
Publication Number: MP126.058S Date: 1997
Author: Bath A.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Map - Precambrian Geology, Monteith Area
Publication Number: P3367 Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 1997
Author: Berger B.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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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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MonoMap - Geology of the Monteith Area
Publication Number: OFR6024 Page: 45 Date: 2000
Author: Berger B.R.
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
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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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