Ontario Geological Survey
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| Record Name(s) | Project 81 Property - 2011, Lucas Gold Resources Main Zone - 1987, Abitibi Price Gold Prospect - 1980, Inco DDH 27063 - 1965 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Developed Prospect With Reported Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1991-Feb-26 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Apr-14 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Lucas
Latitude: 48° 48' 16.04" Longitude: -81° 12' 25.36"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 484797 Northing: 5405739 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Timmins
NTS Grid: 42A14SE
Point Location Description: Drill collar for Inco drill hole 27063
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: The site is most easily accessed by helicopter.
1963-66: Abitibi-Price Inc. and Canadian Nickel Company Limited - airborne geophysics, 4 ddh (1665 ft). 1966-72: Abitibi-Price Inc. and Cormarty Exploration - airborne geophysics, ground geophysics; data compilation, diamond drilling 55 ddh (37 744 ft). 1972-73: McIntyre Porcupine Mines Ltd. - airborne geophyscs, prospecting, 3 ddh (1598 ft) 1981-83: Abitibi Price Inc. airborne geophysics, ground geophysics, DD-19-12415 ft, assays, overbuden drilling. 1987-89: Lucas Gold Resources Inc. - 5 ddh (5793 ft). 2011: Ring of Fire Resources Inc. - property acquistiion, airborne geophysics, IP survey, radiometric survey, TEM survey. 2012: name change to Noble Mineral Exploration Inc. - DD-6-3059 m
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| T-3560 / 63.4821 | 42A14SE0131 | 42A14SE0131 |
| T-3529 / 63.4838 | 42A14SE0106 | 42A14SE0106 |
| T-3211/ OM86-5C-296 | 42A14SW0021 | 42A14SW0021 |
| T-2496 / 2.6744 | 42A14SE0008 | 42A14SE0008 |
| T-3535/ 63.4827 | 42A14SW0026 | 42A14SW0026 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Abitibi
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Abitibi
Geological Age: Neoarchean
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Felsic Tuff | 1 | Rhyolite | Tuffaceous | Adjacent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vein | 2 | Quartz | Contains | |
| Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 3 | Leucoxene-Bearing | Near | |
| Chert | 4 | Graphitic | Host | |
| Schist-Unsubdivided | 5 | Sericitic | Footwall |
Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - The mineralization is hosted within a thick sequence of felsic tuffs and lapilli tuffs with a few thin intercalated leucoxene-bearing mafic flows or sills. Narrow fine-grained syenitic dikes intrude the felsic volcanic package. Mineralization is found within a series of quartz veins and veinlets that cross-cut a zone of chert, pyrite and some graphite that is found within the felsic metavolcanics. This zone has been interpreted as chemical metasediments. The rocks are strongly foliated and closely spaced fractures are observed in the chert and quartz veins.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pyrite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 2 | Graphite | Economic | Gangue |
Jan 21, 2013 (A Wilson) - Inco drill hole 27063 returned an intersection of 0.14 oz/t Au over 9.2 ft. Gold ad silver enrichment is confined to sulphide and/or chert-bearing rocks throughout the volcanic sequence. Tuffs in the sequence carry variable gold values ranging from 0.005 to 0.02 oz/t Au, while distinct enrichments are confined to the pyrite-chert chemical sediments. Sections of core from the Main Zone which comprise chert and pyrite with no quartz veins, mostly assay in the range of about 0.01 to 0.08 oz/t Au. Gold is closely associated with pyrite in both the chert-sulphide portions and in the quartz vien stockworks. Inco drill hole 27069A returned an assay of 0.027 oz/t Au over 10 ft. Diamond drilling by Noble Mineral Exploration Inc. and Ring of Fire Resources Inc. returned 3.16 g/t Au over 5 m Including 11.0 g/t Au over 1 m in LUC 12-03; 0.486 g/t Au over 5 m, including 1.40 g/t Au over 1 m in LUC 12-05; and 0.764 g/t Au over 9 m , including 1.87 g/t Au over 2 m in LUC 12-06.
| Shape | Length | Thickness | Depth | Strike | Dip | Plunge | Trend | Age | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tabular | 365.8 | 18.2 | 274 | 65 |
Date: Aug 12, 2003
Geologist: A Wilson
Notes: Drilling by Abitibi-Price outlined a thin tablular mineralized zone 500 ft wide, 750 feet long and 1 to 24 ft thick, averaging 5 ft in thickness and plunging 65 SW. The drill indicated tonnages were estimated to be 150,000 tons grading 0.12 oz/t Au to a depth of 900 feet. The Main Zone consists of varying amounts of black chert, massive to disseminated pyrite and white to smokey vein quartz. The hanging wall tuffs become very pyritic nearthe Main Zone upper contact and grade imperceptibly into a chert-dominated rock with some lenses of sulphidic tuff. Downward, the vein quartz content increases, with veinlets of quartz-pyrite giving way to larger cross-cutting quartz veins and finally near the footwall contact, to a thick (13 ft average) conformable quartz vein. The lowere contact in most sections is defined by the Footwall fault zone below which occurs a thick sequence of carbonate-sericite felsic tuffs.
| Zone | Year | Category | Tonnes | Reference | Comments | Commodities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abitibi Price | 1984 | Unclassified | 152407 | T-2496 | unclassified reserve is 150 000 tons @0.12 oz/t Au. | Gold 3.4 Grams per Tonne |
| Lucas | 1982 | Unclassified | 213188 | MR223 | unclassified reserve is 235 000 tons @0.10 oz/t Au. | Gold 0.10 Ounce per Ton |
Book - Core
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Location: Timmins RGO
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.
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Publication - press releases
Publication Number: Date: 2011
Author: Ring of Fire Resources Inc. and Noble Mineral Exploration Inc.
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Location: Timmins RGO
Publication - Technical report on the Project 81 Area, 38p.
Publication Number: NI 43-101 Date: 2011
Author: U. Kretschmar
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Location: Timmins RGO
Publication - Canadian Mineral Deposits not Being Mined in 1989
Publication Number: MR 223 Page: ONT-304 Date: 1990
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Publisher Name: Energy Mines and Resources Canada
Location: Timmins RGO
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