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Record: MDI42B01NW00016

General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Zinc

Secondary Commodities: Copper

Location

Township or Area: Foleyet

Latitude: 48° 13' 13.31"    Longitude: -82° 28' 33.17"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 390376.991   Northing: 5341846.196    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Timmins

NTS Grid: 42B01NW

Point Location Description: The point located with the GPS is some N drill casing corresponding to hole 65-1.

Location Method: Field Visit with GPS

Access Description: The occurrence is situated about 2 km west-southwest of Foleyet. The drill hole is located about 5m from the east bank of the old Ivanhoe River opposite a low island in the river. The area can be accessed by traversing some 800m from Highway 101 which is to the south.

Exploration History

1964: Keevil Mining Group Ltd did the earliest reported work in the area and this consisted of an airborne EM survey with follow-up geological mapping and ground geophysical work. In 1965 diamond drilling intersected a graphitic slate with sphalerite and chalcopyrite Hole 65-1 (456 ft). 1980: Hudbay Mining reflew the felsic metavolcanics in the area with an Input and magnetic survey and carried out ground geophysical follow up on selected anomalies. Some of these anomalies were drill tested in 1982. 1983: Chevron Minerals carried out a Pulse EM and magnetic survey on the property after assuming all of Hudbay Mining's properties and drilled two short holes. 1992: Noranda Exploration restaked the ground, cut a new grid and have recompiled the data, ground geophysics.

Assessment Work on File

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Abitibi

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Swayze

Tectonic Assemblage: Muskego-Reeves

Geological Age: Neoarchean  

Metamorphism Type: Regional

Metamorphism Grade: Greenschist

Geology Comments

Oct 07, 2011 (A Wilson) - The drill hole is located at the northwest end of a felsic metavolcanic sequence. The hole interesected a 4 m section of irregularly bedded slates adjacent to 6 m of silicified greenish white carbonate with quartz stringers. These two units are surrounded by dark green gabbros and basalts.

Lithology

Lithology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (S Fumerton) - The hole 65-1 is located at the northwest end of a felsic metavolcanic sequence. The hole intersected a 4m section of irregularly bedded slates adjacent to 6m of silicified greenish white carbonate with quartz stringers. These two units are surrounded by dark green gabbros and basalts.

Mineralization

Mineralization Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (S Fumerton) - Mineralization is basically confined to the wacke and carbonate unit. Within the wacke, sphalerite and chalcopyrite is disseminated throughout in small grains, blebs, or seams and were thought to be related to later veining. Within the carbonate unit pyrrhotite and pyrite are the most common sulphides occurring in scattered seams and grains with minor pyrite.

Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - Assay values from drill core yielded 0.35% Zn, 0.07% Cu and 1.37 g/t Ag.

Mineral Record Details

Mineral Zones - Size and Shape

Site Visit Information

Date: May 28, 1992

Geologist: S Fumerton

Notes: The drill collar is locate 5m back from the river bank in alders next to large spruce trees. The collar is marked by a piece of 'N' casing protruding 10cm out of the ground and surrounded by a small patch of wet rust stain. This collar is about 30m west of a recently cut line with co-ordinates L17W 1+25S.

References

Book - Sudbury Timmins Algoma Mineral Program, Project 1: mineral inventory of the Sudbury-Timmins-Sault Ste. Marie region, Ontario

Publication Number: GSC OF 1087 Page: 42B-15, 42B-16  Date: 1985

Author: Rose, D. G.

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/129999

Map - Geological series, Operation Chapleau, Horwood Lake sheet, districts of Algoma, Cochrane, and Sudbury

Publication Number: P0673 Scale: 1:126,720    Date: 1997

Author: Thurston P.C., Siragusa G.M., Sage R.P.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs

Location:

Map - Precambrian Geology, Foleyet Township, District of Sudbury

Publication Number: P3198 Scale: 1:15,840    Date: 1993

Author: Ayer J.A., Puumala M.A.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

Map - Precambrian Geology, Northern Swayze Greenstone Belt

Publication Number: M2627 Scale: 1:50,000    Date: 1995

Author: Ayer J.A.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

MonoMap - Geology of the Chapleau area, districts of Algoma, Sudbury, and Cochrane

Publication Number: R157 Page: 158  Date: 1977

Author: Thurston P.C., Siragusa G.M., Sage R.P.

Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines

Location:

Core - Resident Geologist Core Library

Publication Number: Drill Core Date: 1996

Author:

Publisher Name:

Location: Timmins RGP

MonoMap - Mineral Prospects of the Swayze Greenstone Belt (Volume 1, Parts of NTS 41 O and Volume 2, Parts of NTS 41 P, 42 A and 42 B)

Publication Number: OFR5912 Page: 599-600  Date: 1995

Author: Fumerton S.L., Houle K.A.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

MonoMap - Precambrian Geology, Northern Swayze Greenstone Belt

Publication Number: R297 Page: 51  Date: 1995

Author: Ayer J.A.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

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