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Record: MDI42A11SE00030

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Bell Lake Property - 1934, Bingham Dobie Property - 1948, Drinkwater Vet - 1918
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Occurrence
Date Created 1991-Jan-02
Date Last Modified 2022-Sep-21
Created By
Revised By

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold



Location

Township or Area: Tisdale

Latitude: 48° 31' 5.42"    Longitude: -81° 12' 37.05"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 484471   Northing: 5373917    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Timmins

NTS Grid: 42A11SE

Point Location Description: collar of Consolidated Thompson DDH CTL-87-01

Location Method: Data Compilation

Access Description: Drive north off of Highway 101 on the Broulan Road to the Murphy Road and then head west for 3.2 km to the shore of Bell Lake.



Exploration History

1934: H.A. Bingham – property leased from A.G. Cavena for 99 years. 1948: Bingham Gold Properties - DD-3-2082 ft. 1985: Milner Consolidated Silver Mines Ltd. – ground geophysics, DD-3-453 m, OVD-8-64.3 m, mapping. 1987: Consolidated Thompson-Lundmark Gold Mines Ltd. – mapping, sampling, ground geophysics, OVD-17, DD-6-3412 ft


Assessment Work on File

Assessment Work on File
Office File Number Online Assessment File Identifier Online Assessment File Directory
T-2695/63.4628 / OM84-5C-328 42A11SE0459 42A11SE0459
T-3207/ 63.5052 / OM87-5C-106 42A11SE0425 42A11SE0425

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Abitibi

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Abitibi

Geological Age: Neoarchean  



Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Intermediate pillowed flow 1 Andesite Pillowed Adjacent
Vein 2 Quartz-Carbonate Host
Intermediate massive flow 3 Andesite Massive Contains
Intermediate Tuff 4 Graphitic Tuffaceous Adjacent

Lithology Comments

Mar 10, 2014 (A Wilson) - The property geology consists of a sequence of pillowed andesite/basalt, massive andesite, variolitic hyloclastite, massive leucoxene andesite, pillowed andesite, dacite.




Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
1PyriteEconomicGangue
2PyrrhotiteEconomicGangue
3ChalcopyriteEconomicGangue
4SphaleriteEconomicGangue
5HematiteEconomicGangue

Mineralization Comments

Mar 10, 2014 (A Wilson) - Assays from the Milner drilling returned values ranging from 0.002 oz/t Au over 10 ft to 0.004 oz/t Au over 6.4 ft. A grab sample collected from a quartz vein by Consolidated Thompson-Lundmark in 1987 returned an assay of 0.07 oz/t Au. DDH CTL-87-01 tested this vein at depth and a sample returned an average value of 0.14 oz/t Au over 0.9 ft. A re-assay of the sample returned 0.057 oz/t Au



Mineral Record Details

Classification
RankClassification            
1 Vein
Characteristics
Rank Characteristic            
1 Vein

References

File - Resident Geologist files T-0329

Publication Number: Date:

Author:

Publisher Name:

Location: Timmins RGP office


Map - Geological Compilation of the Timmins Area, Abitibi Greenstone Belt

Publication Number: P3379 Scale: 1:100,000    Date: 1998

Author: Ayer J.A., Trowell N.F.

Publisher Name:

Location:


MonoMap - Geology and ore deposits of Tisdale Township, District of Cochrane

Publication Number: R058 Date: 1968

Author: Ferguson S.A., Buffam B.S.W., Carter O.F., Griffis A.T., Holmes T.C., Hurst M.E., Jones W.A., Lane H.C., Longley C.S.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


Map - Timmins, Precambrian geology

Publication Number: M2455 Scale: 1:50,000    Date: 1982

Author: Pyke D.R.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


Map - Tisdale Township, Cochrane District

Publication Number: M2075 Scale: 1:12,000    Date: 1998

Author: Ferguson S.A.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


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