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Record: MDI42A11NE00056

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Gold Shield 82-3 - 1982
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Occurrence
Date Created 1999-Jun-04
Date Last Modified 2023-Jan-12
Created By
Revised By

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold



Location

Township or Area: Tully

Latitude: 48° 44' 33.95"    Longitude: -81° 11' 25.43"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 486002.246   Northing: 5398878.142    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Timmins

NTS Grid: 42A11NE

Point Location Description: Point plotted on OBM topo map from information contained in Assessment File T-1915.

Location Method: Based on Assessment

Access Description: Access to the area is from the west via a gravel road that passes through the southern portion of Prosser Twp and departs from Hwy 655. From the end of the road, bush trails lead to the drill site.



Exploration History

1982: drilling by Diamond drilling by Gold Shield Syndicate.


Assessment Work on File

Assessment Work on File
Office File Number Online Assessment File Identifier Online Assessment File Directory
T-1915, 55 42A11NE0021 42A11NE0021

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Abitibi

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Abitibi

Tectonic Assemblage: Kidd-Munro

Geological Age: Neoarchean  

Metamorphism Type: Regional

Metamorphism Grade: Greenschist



Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Mafic pillowed flow 1 Amyg, Pillowed Host

Mineralization Comments

Jan 12, 2023 (Q Unknown) - Diamond drilling by the Gold Shield Syndicate in 1982 resulted in DDH 82-3 intersecting a 46.8 foot section of quatrz-chlorite-tourmaline-pyrite veining hosted by an amygdaloidal mafic flow. One sample of an interval that contained 40% quartz and 1% pyrite returned a gold value of 0.036 oz/ton Au / 5.3 feet.



Mineral Record Details

References

Map - Timmins data series, Tully Township, District of Cochrane

Publication Number: P0699 Scale: 1:15,840    Date: 1997

Author: Hunt D.S., Richard J.A., Carey E.R.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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