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| Record Name(s) | Pentland - Wetmore East - 1996, 400 Zone - 9999 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1999-May-31 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Jan-05 |
| Created By | R Pressacco |
| Revised By | D Draper |
Primary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Hoyle
Latitude: 48° 32' 25.41" Longitude: -81° 9' 50.99"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 487882.499 Northing: 5376378.279 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Timmins
NTS Grid: 42A11SE
Point Location Description: Point scaled from sketch in May 23, 1996 press release.
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: Access to property is via a gravel road northwards from Florence Street, South Porcupine. This road leads to the Kinross Gold Corporation security gate.
Exploration work resulted in diamond drilling in 1996 to follow up on a previous drill hole H1232 which intersected a weighted average grade of 0.10 oz/ton Au / 114 feet at a vertical depth of 310 feet. Drill holes PW-13 and -16 were drilled 300 feet to the east-northeast and intersected a weighted average grade of 0.16 oz/ton Au / 25.3 feet (PW-13), and 0.31 oz/ton Au / 19.0 feet (PW-16). The press release states ..This is an exciting development since the gold mineralization is more sulphide-rich than normal and occurs well south of The New Mines Trends. The best gold values are associated with zones of finely disseminated pyrrhotite (5%) with traces of arsenopyrite visible within broad zones of strongly foliated, altered, and bleached mafic volcanics. Due to excessive flattening, hole PW-16 intersected the sulphide zone only 30 feet below hole PW-13.. Other values include PW-12 (0.22 oz/ton Au / 2.3 feet), PW-14 (0.03 oz/ton Au / 1.0 foot), and PW-15 (0.16 oz/ton Au / 1.6 feet).
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Abitibi
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Abitibi
Tectonic Assemblage: Tisdale
Geological Age: Neoarchean
Metamorphism Type: Regional
Metamorphism Grade: Greenschist
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 1 | Host |
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Book - MORE GOLD IN AN OVERLOOKED PLACE (PRESS RELEASE, MAY 23, 1996)
Publication Number: PR96-09 Scale: Date:
Author: Pentland Firth Ventures
Publisher Name:
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