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Record: MDI42A10SW00078

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Dominion Gulf DDH 177-55-1 - 1955, Kangas Option - 1955
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Discretionary Occurrence
Date Created 2002-Jul-30
Date Last Modified 2023-Jan-12
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold



Location

Township or Area: German

Latitude: 48° 37' 16.03"    Longitude: -80° 51' 24.75"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 510547.653   Northing: 5385348.624    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Timmins

NTS Grid: 42A10SW

Point Location Description: Drill collar on peninsula in McIntosh Lake

Location Method: Based on Assessment

Access Description: The site is accessible by driving north from highway 101 along highway 67 for appsoximatley 9.5 km to the McIntosh Lake access road. Drive east along this road to a series of abandoned forestry access roads.



Exploration History

1955: Dominion Gulf Company: 1 ddh (1455 ft). 1988: McKinnon Prospecting - airborne geophysics.


Assessment Work on File

Assessment Work on File
Office File Number Online Assessment File Identifier Online Assessment File Directory
T-2399, 2.11535 42A10NE0501 42A10NE0501

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Abitibi

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Abitibi

Tectonic Assemblage: Porcupine

Geological Age: Neoarchean   Geochronological Age: >2695 MA   Geochron. Age Ref.: MP 169 P. 75



Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Intermediate lava flow-unsubdivided 1 Dacite Near
Vein 2 Quartz-Carbonate Host
Peridotite 3 Peridotite Footwall

Lithology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - Elevated gold values were returned from narrow quartz + carbonate veinlets in fragmental dacite. The veinlets host small pyrite blebs and disseminated pyrite.




Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
1PyriteEconomicGangue

Mineralization Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - A 5 ft section of drill core returned $0.17 Au from quartz-carbonate veins.



Mineral Record Details

References

Article - Geology of Dundonald and German Townships, District of Cochrane

Publication Number: MP162.006 Page: 26-29  Date: 1993

Author: Muir T.L.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


File - Resident Geologist file T-0564

Publication Number: Date:

Author:

Publisher Name:

Location: Timmins RGP office


Map - Precambrian Geology, Dundonald and German Townships

Publication Number: OFM0232 Scale: 1:50,000    Date: 1994

Author: Muir T.L.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Map - Matheson-Black sheet, District of Cochrane

Publication Number: P0119 Scale: 1:63,360    Date: 1997

Author: Ginn R.M., Savage W.S., Leahy E.J.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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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

Location:


Map - Geology of German Township

Publication Number: P3346 Scale: 1:20,000    Date: 1995

Author: Muir T.L.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


Map - German Township

Publication Number: P0037 Scale: 1:15,840    Date: 1997

Author: Satterly J.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


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