Ontario Geological Survey
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| Record Name(s) | Cominco Bezz 95-1 - 1995 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 2004-May-06 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Nov-23 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Murphy
Latitude: 48° 35' 53.94" Longitude: -81° 19' 7.09"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 476507.257 Northing: 5382853.068 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Timmins
NTS Grid: 42A11SW
Point Location Description: Collar of Cominco diamond drill hole Bexx 95-1
Location Method: Based on Assessment
Access Description: Heading N on Highway 655 from Timmins, turn left at the entrance to the communications tower site located about 1 km N of the Bigwater Lake campground. Follow the trail W about 1 km and then S about 1.5 km to the area of drilling.
1995 Cominco Ltd. completed Max Min and Mag surveys prior to drilling 1 ddh of 121 m at -60 degrees, az. 270 degrees. 1997 Royal Oak Mines Ltd. completed 1 hole of 608 ft. 100 m to the north of the Cominco hole.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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| T-3905 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Abitibi
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Abitibi
Geological Age: Neoarchean
Dec 07, 2005 (G Seim) - This occurrence occurs near the contact of Kidd-Munro or Tisdale metavolcanic rocks in the east and Hoyle metasedimentary rocks to the west. A north-trending conducter caused by carbonaceous,sulphidic, argillaceous mudstones found at the contact defines the structural trendin in the area. The metavolcanic rocks are mafic, chloritic, and highly carbonatized. Defromation is moderate. The contact with the carbonaceous metasediments is sheared. Frequent narrow quartz veins and associated disseminated and blebby pyrite occur in the mafic volcanic rocks near the base of the unit. Pyrite content increases towards the contact. The carbonaceous argillic mudstone is highly deformed and carrys about 5% pyrite in disseminated, framboidal, fractrue-fill and massive layers up to 10 cm in thickness. Turbidites comprised of greywacke and argillite occur east of the carbonaceous unit and graded bedding suggests an easterly facing direction to the succession.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 1 | Basalt | Host |
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| Sandy Mudstone | 2 | Greywacke and Argillite | Near | |
| Mudstone | 3 | Graphitic Argillite | Near |
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Pyrite | Economic | Gangue |
Dec 07, 2005 (G Seim) - The interval from 60.5 m to 63.5 m (3 m ) in cominco drill hole BEZZ95-1 averaged 1200 ppb Au. No anomalous assays were reported from the Royal Oak drill hole.
File - Resident Geologist file T-3905
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