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| Record Name(s) | Roseval Silica - 1991, Horwood Mine - 1964, Tionaga Site - 1964, Roseval 1 - 1987 |
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| Related Record Type | Compound |
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| Record Status | Past Producing Mine With Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1992-Jun-03 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Sep-27 |
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Primary Commodities: Silica
Township or Area: Penhorwood
Latitude: 48° 4' 58.76" Longitude: -82° 9' 21.27"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 413913.4 Northing: 5326170.52 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Timmins
NTS Grid: 42B01SE
Point Location Description: The point located with the GPS is adjacent to the southern quarry on the west side of the vein
Location Method: Field Visit with GPS
Access Description: The deposit is situated about 60 km west-southwest of Timmins five miles east of Kukatush station on the C.N.R mainline. Access by vehicle is via the Kenogaming logging road / Penhorwood road south from Highway 101. To the railway crossing at Tionaga. Just south of the tracks a newly constructed logging road goes west for 4km and crosses the stripped area over the main vein.
There are some overgrown trenches at the south end of this vein but no records of this early work are on file. 1956 The first reported exploration in the immediate area was by Canadian Johns Manville in their search for asbestos associated with ultramafic intrusions to the west of the Roseval vein. This work which consisted of geological mapping and ground mag 1964 Horwood Mining Ltd quarried quartz as a source of decorative crushed stone for a two year period. 1987 Roseval Silica Inc resumed work with the objective evaluating the potential of silica flux for the Kidd Creek smelter or direct shipping quartz to SKW in Quebec as a source for silicon and ferro-silicon with a minimum 99.8% SiO2. This work consisted of mapping, overburden removal, diamond drilling and percussion drilling. Some trenches were also blasted in the vein to obtain samples for analysis. Due to problems associated with drilling and stripping the deposit together with costs associated in up grading the road, work on the #1 deposit was discontinued in favour of the #2 deposit which was found earlier in the year on the main road to the Cryderman Deposit. 1988 The deposit was included in a geological mapping program which covered the whole property. After this work there are a number of reports on file which review results from these two years but no additional work was performed. 1992 La Societe de Gestion Maskours Inc. drilled four diamond drill holes (190m) to evaluate the vein. 2001: La Société de Gestion Maskours Inc. – GL, Str, Tr, Bulk.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| T-4903 / 2.26121 | 42B01SE2006 | 42B01SE2006 |
| T-3237 / 2.12658 | 42B01SE0010 | 42B01SE0010 |
| T-3237 / 2.13006 | 42B01SE0007 | 42B01SE0007 |
| T-3237 / 63.5551 | 42B01SE0011 | 42B01SE0011 |
| T-3237 / 31 | 42B01SE0301 | 42B01SE0301 |
| T-3237 / 42B01SE0012 | 20000005044 | 20000005044 |
| T-506 / 63.805 | 42B01SE0020 | 42B01SE0020 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Abitibi
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Swayze
Geological Age: Neoarchean
Metamorphism Type: Regional
Metamorphism Grade: Greenschist
Dec 07, 2005 (S Fumerton) - Though a number of major lineaments parallel the vein and the host rocks are folded and faulted, no direct relationship between these and the vein have been established except the proximity of the veins to the volcanic - granodiorite contact.
Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - The property is underlain by a narrow NE trending body of metavolcanic rocks which have been intuded by ultramafic bodies, early biotite trondhjemite gneiss and late biotite granodiorite. The early gneissic unit intudes to the north and south of the Roseval quartz veins (Hardiman Lake pluton) while the late intrusive forms a narrow foliation parallel dike within, to the NE and SW of the Roseval property, and intrudes further to the north (Kukatush Pluton) Quartz bodies are located on or near the contacts between the metavolcanic rocks and older and younger felsic rocks. All of these formations are cut by later NW trending diabase dikes. The veins occur in highly strained rock within the Hardiman Lake Deformation Zone.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 1 | Basalt | Tholeiitic Fe | Near |
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| Vein | 2 | Quartz | Host |
Dec 07, 2005 (S Fumerton) - The #1 quartz vein has been traced for 550m and has a maximum known width of 20m but this varies greatly with the pinching and swelling of the vein. The vein has been emplaced in highly sheared and carbonatized mafic volcanics close to and parallel with the contact between the mafic volcanics and a granodiorite. Within the vein at the north end crude near vertical bands occur. Impurities are concentrated into the bands and consist chloritic selvedges derived from the mafic volcanics, some pink calcite lenses, uncommon feldspar grains and poorly defined fracture zone. Separating the impure bands are bands of very clean quartz with both fine and coarse grains. This part of the vein is extensively pervaded by closely spaced fractures which may be related to exfoliation associated with the rebound following glaciation. The central part of the vein contains numerous feldspar grains forming up to 40% of the vein. Here the vein does not exhibit any banding and mafic inclusions are common. At the southern end of the vein the percentage of impurities decreases.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Quartz | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 1 | Calcite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 2 | Chlorite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| Dolomite | Alteration | Carbonatization | 1 | Medium | Replacement |
Dec 07, 2005 (S Fumerton) - Typically the vein consists of a tan quartz with variable amounts of clear, opaque white with local green and pink tints. Some drill logs also report intervals of quartz-calcite veining within the main quartz vein. The vein is fractured with calcite and chlorite occurring as fracture filling.
Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - Quartz is glassy to smoky grey coloured, medium to coarsely crystalline with mottle spots and fracture controlled smears of iron staining. Normalized SiO2 values of this site range from 99.65 - 99.84%.
| Rank | Classification |
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| 5 | Mesothermal |
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 5 | Vein |
| Shape | Length | Thickness | Depth | Strike | Dip | Plunge | Trend | Age | Reference |
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| Tabular | 550 | 20 | 20 | 215 | N/A | N/A |
Date: Jun 09, 1992
Geologist: S Fumerton
Notes: Visited the deposit with Germain Lauzier to evaluate it. A new road by Mallete Lumber leading to the Horwood peninsula was being constructed over the vein at the time of the visit. It would appear that this quartz occurrence is as good or better than the Roseval #2 and #3 deposits which were eventually mined.
| Zone | Year | Category | Tonnes | Reference | Comments | Commodities |
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| HORWOOD | 1987 | Probable | 63230 | Komarechka R 1987. Calculation of Reserves in Nor-Dev Assistance Contract grant | Silica 92 Percent |
| Year | Tonnes | Commodities | Reference | Comment |
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| 2010 | -1 |
Silica |
MNR Communication | Roseval Silica aggregate permit was suspended for failure to file a compliance report. The production is suspended. The -1 in production stands for no production. |
| 1964 | 800 |
Silica 800 Tonne |
No official production figures are available. However, from the size of the two |
Compend - Report of activities, 1990, Resident Geologists
Publication Number: MP152 Page: 211-238 Date: 1991
Author: Fenwick K.G., Newsome J.W., Pitts A.E.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Penhorwood Township, District of Sudbury
Publication Number: P0419 Scale: 1:15,840 Date: 1997
Author: Milne V.G.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Penhorwood and Kenogaming townships, Sudbury District
Publication Number: M2231 Scale: 1:31,680 Date: 1972
Author: Milne V.G.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs
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 Kukatush-Sewell Lake area, District of Sudbury
Publication Number: R097 Page: 88-89 Date: 1972
Author: Milne V.G.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - Geology of the Chapleau area, districts of Algoma, Sudbury, and Cochrane
Publication Number: R157 Page: 180-181 Date: 1977
Author: Thurston P.C., Siragusa G.M., Sage R.P.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - Precambrian Geology, Northern Swayze Greenstone Belt
Publication Number: R297 Page: 54 Date: 1995
Author: Ayer J.A.
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: 539-541 Date: 1995
Author: Fumerton S.L., Houle K.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - An Evaluation of Potential High-Purity Silica Sources: Preliminary Site Investigation, Volumes 1 and 2
Publication Number: OFR5948 Page: 195-208 Date: 1996
Author: McAuley J.B.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Book - Penhorwood Township - unpublished GDIF
Publication Number: GDIF Date: 1993
Author: Resident Geologist Staff
Publisher Name:
Location: Timmins RGP
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