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| Record Name(s) | Queensway - 1963, W. Labbe - 1983, Labbe #1 - 1936, Labbe #2 - 1936 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Discretionary Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1992-May-25 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Nov-03 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Horwood
Latitude: 48° 1' 33.92" Longitude: -82° 14' 55.64"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 406893.626 Northing: 5319954.305 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Timmins
NTS Grid: 42B01SE
Point Location Description: Southern stripped area marked on geology maps by Noranda Exploration.
Location Method: Field Visit with GPS
Access Description: The showings are on the west shore of Hardiman Bay, Horwood Lake. Easiest access is via boat from landings at the north end of Hardiman Bay or Horwood Lake to a point on the shore of Hardiman Bay. The point where a line cut by Noranda meets the shore is flagged and the line, though overgrown, leads to the stripped areas.
1936 Claims originally staked by W Labbe and in the same year a short hole was drilled on one zone to the north while a quartz vein to southwest was stripped. 1952 Horlak Mines drill tested a number of shear zones and quartz veins but no assay data has been reported. 1963 Queensway Mines Ltd carried out a drill program centred on the #1 and #2 zones together with a trenching program which allegedly returned sub-economic gold values. Some work was also carried out on the Labbe #3 showing. 1980 Northgate Exploration carried an integrated exploration program over a two year period which included geological mapping, striping, resampling old trenches, magnetic and VLF-EM geophysics, together with soil and humus samples. The geochemical samples were anomalous in the vicinity of old trenches. Rock samples in the trenches returned values between trace and 6 g/tonne gold for #1 zone, and between trace and 10g/tonne for #2 zone. Zone #1 has a reported average grade of 1 g/t where as zone #2 has a grade of 2 g/t. 1989 Noranda Exploration mapped a large area of Horwood Peninsula which included the showings which were also stripped and resampled at the same time.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| T-2125, 2.1561 | 42B01SE0063 | 42B01SE0063 |
| T-2120, 16 | 42B01SW8532 | 42B01SW8532 |
| T-2322, 2.3720 | 42B01SE0056 | 42B01SE0056 |
| 2.4455, T-2322 | 42B01SE0052 | 42B01SE0052 |
| 2.10617, T-2125 | 42B01SE0046 | 42B01SE0046 |
| 2.11727, T-2125 | 42B01SE0038 | 42B01SE0038 |
| 2.10903, T-2125 | 42B01SE0024 | 42B01SE0024 |
| 63.5300, T-2125 | 42B01SE0036 | 42B01SE0036 |
| 2.12936, T-2125 | 42B01SE0034 | 42B01SE0034 |
| 2.12897, T-2125 | 42B01SE0031 | 42B01SE0031 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Abitibi
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Swayze
Geological Age: Neoarchean Geochronological Age: 2700 MA Geochron. Age Ref.: GOO VOL 1
Dec 07, 2005 (S Fumerton) - The granodiorite is cut by a swarm of minor faults and shear zones roughly trending 240 and dipping 60 north. Within these faults there are a number of discontinuous thin (<2cm) quartz veins. Chloritic alteration occurs as thin seams along the fault surfaces. These faults are spaced 1 to 5m apart but because they are not always parallel the faults locally intersect.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Granodiorite | 1 | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Porphyry-unsubdivided | 2 | Host | ||
| Schist-Unsubdivided | 3 | Near | ||
| Mylonite/Fault Gouge/Pseudotachylite | 4 | Shear Zone | Contains | |
| Vein | 5 | Contains | ||
| Feldspar Porphyry | 6 | Feldspar Porphyry | Adjacent |
Dec 07, 2005 (S Fumerton) - The host rock is a massive to weekly foliated pyrite, amphibole granodiorite. This granodiorite is coarse grained (<4mm), and contains 20 to 30% quartz and about 10% combined pyrite and amphibole. A number of thin variolitic mafic dykes cut the granodiorite.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pyrite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 2 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 3 | Galena | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 4 | Arsenopyrite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| Chlorite | Alteration | Chloritic | 1 | Weak | Network |
Dec 07, 2005 (S Fumerton) - Pyrite occurs locally in the fault plains as trails of concentrated medium grained sulphides up to a centimetre thick but more commonly up to 4mm thick. More typically pyrite is disseminated in a mantle adjacent to the faults up to 20cm wide. In some places quartz stringer veins are contained within the faults. The associated sulphides are not common. Perpendicular to these pyritic fault zones are thin quartz - chlorite veins which extend up to 2m from the fault.
| Commodity | Analytical Method | Digestion Method | Result | Unit | Limit | Qualifier |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gold | Unknown | 2.16 | ||||
| Silver | Unknown | .35 |
| Rank | Classification |
|---|---|
| 5 | Mesothermal |
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 5 | Sheared |
| Shape | Length | Thickness | Depth | Strike | Dip | Plunge | Trend | Age | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Irregular | 50 | 240 | 60 | N/A | N/A |
File - Resident Geologist files T-2124, T-2128
Publication Number: Date:
Author:
Publisher Name:
Location: Timmins RGP office
Map - Horwood Lake, Sudbury District
Publication Number: M2329 Scale: 1:31,680 Date: 1975
Author: Breaks F.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines
Location:
Book - Canadian Mines Handbook 1963
Publication Number: CMH 1963 Page: 246 Date: 1963
Author:
Publisher Name:
Location:
Publication - Sudbury Timmins Algoma Mineral Program, Project 1: mineral inventory of the Sudbury-Timmins-Sault Ste. Marie region, Ontario
Publication Number: GSC OF 1087 Date: 1985
Author: Rose, D.G.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/129999
Part - Geology of the Horwood Lake area
Publication Number: ARV46-02 Page: 27-29 Date: 1997
Author: Harding W.D.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - Geology of the Chapleau area, districts of Algoma, Sudbury, and Cochrane
Publication Number: R157 Date: 1977
Author: Thurston P.C., Siragusa G.M., Sage R.P.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - Geology of the Horwood Lake Area, Sudbury District
Publication Number: R169 Page: 55-56 Date: 1978
Author: Breaks F.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Gold deposits of Ontario, part 2, part of District of Cochrane, districts of Muskoka, Nipissing, Parry Sound, Sudbury, Timiskaming, and counties of southern Ontario
Publication Number: MDC018 Page: 68-69 Date: 1979
Author: Gordon J.B., Lovell H.L., de Grijs J.W., Davie R.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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: 560-561 Date: 1995
Author: Fumerton S.L., Houle K.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Book - Horwood Township - unpublished GDIF
Publication Number: GDIF Date: 1990
Author: Resident Geologist Staff
Publisher Name:
Location: Timmins RGP
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