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| Record Name(s) | Kerr-Addison (Stack Vein) - 1984, J.E. Lefever - 1984, Silams - 1936, Stack Vein - 1949, Lefever - 1959, Kerr Addison Stack Vein - 1984 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1992-Jun-30 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Nov-03 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Horwood
Latitude: 48° 2' .53" Longitude: -82° 18' 15"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 402778.862 Northing: 5320844.164 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Timmins
NTS Grid: 42B01SW
Point Location Description: The B trench system 150m northwest of the main trench exposing the vein
Location Method: Field Visit with GPS
Access Description: The showing is 87km west southwest of Timmins and access is possible via Highway 101 to the Groundhog Lake - Horwood Lake access road / Highway 616. From this point a gravel road extends south for 11km to a landing on Horwood Lake. A 7km boat trip from the landing is then required to reach the east shore some 600m north of the showing which must be traversed.
1936 P.H. Silams initially staked the ground. Between this date and 1959 a series of trenches and pits had been dug over a 300m strike length but no records of this work exist. 1959 Kerr Addison optioned the property from J. Lefever and carried out a magnetic survey and short drill program. Grab samples returned up to 145 g/tonne gold and 23 g/tonne gold over 3cm in core from the veins. The vein was found to be series of discontinuous stringers. 1980 Raise Contracting and Ingamar Exploration over the next two years carried out a magnetic and VLF geophysical survey combined with a limited mapping program. 1986 Pelangio Larder Mines Ltd carried out an exploration program over the next three years which consisted of Magnetic, VLF-EM, and IP geophysical surveys, and a geological mapping program. This work found that the vein consists of a central quartz vein in chlorite carbonate sulphide schist. A maximum value of 30 g/tonne gold was returned in the schist associated with quartz carbonate stringers.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| T-2712, 2.10441 | 42B01SE0045 | 42B01SE0045 |
| T-2123, 17 | 42B01SE0069 | 42B01SE0069 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Abitibi
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Swayze
Geological Age: Neoarchean Geochronological Age: 2700 MA Geochron. Age Ref.: GOO VOL 1
Metamorphism Type: Regional
Metamorphism Grade: Greenschist
Dec 07, 2005 (S Fumerton) - Minor shearing is associated with the veins which trend 120.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Vein | 1 | Quartz-Carbonate | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diorite | 2 | Diorite | Host | |
| Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 3 | Basalt | Tholeiitic Fe, Pillowed, Tuff | N/A |
| Vein | 4 | Quartz-Carbonate | Contains |
Dec 07, 2005 (S Fumerton) - The surrounding rocks consist of a northeasterly trending sequence of Fe tholeiitic metavolcanics. In the area the sequence is dominated by medium to coarse grained massive flows though there are intercalated horizons of fine grained flows, pillowed flows, and various tuffaceous rocks. The veins trend to the northwest and are hosted in a fine grained mafic flow with a series of subparallel anatomising chloritic shears within a metre of the veins.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pyrite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 2 | Pyrrhotite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| Chlorite | Alteration | Chloritic | 1 | Weak | Network |
Dec 07, 2005 (S Fumerton) - The Stack vein consists of a series of narrow quartz carbonate or fine grained cherty veins which are hosted in fine grained and medium grained mafic flows. At the northwest end (Trench B), the vein consists of a 15cm fine grained cherty quartz carbonate vein with a 4cm coarse quartz vein on the contact. Bleaching of the host rock extends 10cm from these veins and chloritic shears extend 2m. In the centre (Trench G) there are a number of quartz carbonate veins with abundant sulphides locally. One vein in this locality is up to 20cm thick.
| Commodity | Analytical Method | Digestion Method | Result | Unit | Limit | Qualifier |
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| Gold | Unknown | .03 | ppm | |||
| Gold | Unknown | 2.78 | ppm | |||
| Gold | Unknown | .58 | ppm | |||
| Silver | Unknown | .35 | ppm | |||
| Silver | Unknown | .035 | ppm | |||
| Silver | Unknown | .35 | ppm |
| 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 | 400 | 300 | N/A | N/A |
Date: Jun 30, 1992
Geologist: S Fumerton
Notes: There are a series of old trenches over a three hundred metre strike length. The northwestern trench has been cleaned out and series of sawn channel samples have been collected.
File - Resident Geologist files T-890, T-1976, T-2430, T-2737
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:
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
File - Resident Geologist files 1946, air photo
Publication Number: Date: 1996
Author:
Publisher Name:
Location: Timmins RGP office
Part - Geology of the Horwood Lake area
Publication Number: ARV46-02 Page: 25 Date: 1997
Author: Harding W.D.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - Geology of the Horwood Lake Area, Sudbury District
Publication Number: R169 Page: 48 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: 57 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: 601-603 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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