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Record: MDI42A11SE00126

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Norhoy - Matheson 1 - 1938
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Occurrence
Date Created 1999-May-18
Date Last Modified 2023-Jan-06
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold



Location

Township or Area: Matheson

Latitude: 48° 34' 49.55"    Longitude: -81° 4' 13.94"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 494797.51   Northing: 5380818.428    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Timmins

NTS Grid: 42A11SE

Point Location Description: Point scaled from a detailed map in Assessment File T-3588.

Location Method: Based on Assessment

Access Description: Access is easiest via the perimeter roads along the Kidd Creek tailings ponds.



Exploration History

1938: Hollinger Consolidated Gold Mines, Limited: Prospecting, hand stripping, and sampling.


Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Abitibi

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Abitibi

Tectonic Assemblage: Porcupine

Geological Age: Neoarchean  

Metamorphism Type: Regional

Metamorphism Grade: Greenschist



Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided 1 Host

Lithology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (R Pressacco) - Rock descriptions taken from a 1938 detailed geological map.




Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
1GoldEconomicOre
1QuartzEconomicGangue
2CarbonateEconomicGangue

Mineralization Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (R Pressacco) - Detailed geological map indicates the presence of a quartz vein hosted within carbonated lava. A notation indicates that the best assay result from a grab sample taken from pit dump piles was 0.32 oz/ton Au. A number of other grab samples returned nil to 0.02 oz/ton Au.



Mineral Record Details

References

File - Resident Geologist files T-3588

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Location: Timmins RGP office


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