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MDI42A11NE00056
| Record Name(s) | Gold Shield 82-3 - 1982 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1999-Jun-04 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Jan-12 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
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.
1982: drilling by Diamond drilling by Gold Shield Syndicate.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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| T-1915, 55 | 42A11NE0021 | 42A11NE0021 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Abitibi
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Abitibi
Tectonic Assemblage: Kidd-Munro
Geological Age: Neoarchean
Metamorphism Type: Regional
Metamorphism Grade: Greenschist
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Mafic pillowed flow | 1 | Amyg, Pillowed | Host |
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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.
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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