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Record: MDI42B01SW00018

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Labbe #3 - 1936, Queensway - 1963
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Discretionary Occurrence
Date Created 1999-Nov-08
Date Last Modified 2022-Nov-03
Created By
Revised By

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold



Location

Township or Area: Horwood

Latitude: 48° 1' 41.16"    Longitude: -82° 15' 24.11"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 406307.655   Northing: 5320187.289    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Timmins

NTS Grid: 42B01SW

Point Location Description: Rough position of #3 zone trench transferred from plans ot OBM map

Location Method: Other

Access Description: The showing is 87 km southwest of Timmins and access is best via Highway 101 to the Kenogaming main haul rad then south and southwest on the Kenogaming and Penhorwwd haul road to Tionaga. South of the tracks at Tionaga, a new road extends west to the Horwood Peninsula and passses close to the showing.



Exploration History

1952: Horlak Mines Ltd. - diamond drilling. 1963: Queensway Mines - trenching, diamond drilling. 1980: Northgate Exploration - geological mapping, stripping sampling, mag and VLF-EM, soil and humus sampling. 1989: Noranda Exploration - geological mapping.


Assessment Work on File

Assessment Work on File
Office File Number Online Assessment File Identifier Online Assessment File Directory
T-2125, 2.1561 42B01SE0063 42B01SE0063
T-2322, 2.4455 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

Geology

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



Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Vein 1 Vein Host
Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided 2 Basalt Near
Diorite 3 Diorite Near

Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
1PyriteEconomicGangue

Mineralization Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - One description states that here are losts of quart veins in the vicinity of the #3 showing. A grab sample taken by the OGS returned values of 0.10 g/t Au.



Mineral Record Details

Mineral Zones - Size and Shape

Rank: 1       Structure Type: Vein

Zone Name: Detour Lake - Rank 1
Shape Length Thickness Depth Strike Dip Plunge Trend Age Reference
Unknown

References

File - Resident Geologist files T-2120, 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:


Part - Geology of the Horwood Lake area

Publication Number: ARV46-02 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: 55-56  Date: 1978

Author: Breaks F.W.

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: 561-562  Date: 1995

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

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


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