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| Record Name(s) | Frontenac Vein - 1942, Frontenac Prospect - 1979, Frontenac Group - 1942 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Prospect |
| Date Created | 1991-Jan-08 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Nov-02 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Leeson
Latitude: 48° 23' 3.71" Longitude: -83° 52' 3.66"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 287688 Northing: 5362996 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Sault Ste. Marie
NTS Grid: 42B05NW
Point Location Description: Vein exposed in north central part of patented claim S35397
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: The site is accessible via a series of overgrown trails heading north-northeast from the former Renabie Mine site. The vein is located approximately 1 km north of the Renabie Mine.
1941: Frontenac Exploration and Development Company - trenching, mapping. 1948: E.E. Campbell - DD-9-1975 ft. 1964: Renabie Mines Ltd. - leased property from Anaconda American Brass Ltd., 8 ddh (3370 ft). mid-1985: property acquired by Fleck Resources Ltd. 1986: Renabie Gold Mines Ltd. purchased 3 patented claims from Fleck Resources. 1986: Royex Gold Mining Corporation - ground geophysics, soil survey, mapping, sampling, trenching. 1989: Renabie Gold Mines - stripping, tenching, mapping. 1990: Corona Corporation - sampling.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| Leeson-0011-A1/ DD 11 | 42B05NW0049 | 42B05NW0049 |
| Leeson-0015-A1/ 63A.18 | 42B05NW0046 | 42B05NW0046 |
| WP Leeson.45 | 20000017318 | 20000017318 |
| WP Leeson.35 | 20000017339 | 20000017339 |
| WP Leeson.36/ donation | 42B05NW0018 | 42B05NW0018 |
| WP Leeson.37 | 20000017340 | 20000017340 |
| WP Leeson.38 | 20000017341 | 20000017341 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Wawa
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Michipicoten
Tectonic Assemblage: Wawa
Geological Age: Archean
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Tonalite | 1 | Trondhjemite-Tonalite | Contains |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vein | 2 | Quartz | Host |
Aug 27, 2014 (A Wilson) - The tonalites are predominantly massive and homogeneous and show a moderately well developed regional fabric striking NW and dipping steeply SW. The contact between the tonalites and the shear zone is sharp. The tonalites show an absence of alteration around the shear zone. The shear consists of altered tonalite, chlorite-sericite-schist and both massive white quartz veins and banded/deformed quartz veins. Unlike the veins that host mineralization at Renabie, the wall rock adjacent to the shear structure is massive and shows an absence of hydrothermal fluid-rock interaction. The Frontenac Vein strikes S75E and dips 75°S, is located in a shear zone.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pyrite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 2 | Molybdenite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 3 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 4 | Galena | Economic | Gangue |
Aug 27, 2014 (A Wilson) - Grab samples collected by the Frontenac Exploration Co. Ltd. returned assays ranging from 0.01 oz/t Au to 10.15 oz/t Au.The main quartz zones occur as irregular lens shaped masses. Gold values are highly erratic with values ranging from trace to 35.24 g/t Au. Overall, the quartz returned low gold values with the higher values having a strong association with increased sulphide mineralization and folding. The average grade of samples is 0.5 g/t Au. Grab samples collected by Royex returned gold values up to 0.108 oz/t Au. The best assay returned from detailed channel sampling along the vein was 0.279 oz/t Au over 2.5 ft.
| Rank | Characteristic |
|---|---|
| 2 | Sheared |
| 1 | Vein |
| Shape | Length | Thickness | Depth | Strike | Dip | Plunge | Trend | Age | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Regular | 609.6 | 7.6 | 285 | 75 |
Date: Jun 22, 2001
Geologist: A Wilson
Notes: The vein consists of two principal veins separated by up to 30 ft of trondhjemite-tonalite. The width of the vein varies up to 25 feet. It consists of fine-grained bluish-white quartz which in places is streaked with chlorite.
File - Resident Geologist files WP Leeson.44
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Location: SSM RGP office
Map - Renabie Mines Limited, Nudulama Mines Limited and adjoining properties, surface geology, parts of Rennie, Leeson and Brackin townships, District of Sudbury
Publication Number: P0492 Scale: 1:6,000 Date: 1997
Author: Ferguson S.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Part - Geology of the Rennie-Leeson area
Publication Number: ARV51-08.001 Page: 24 Date: 1997
Author: Bruce E.L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Geological series, Operation Chapleau, Missinaibi Lake sheet, districts of Algoma and Sudbury
Publication Number: P0672 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 - Rennie-Leeson area, District of Sudbury, Ontario
Publication Number: ARM51G Scale: 1:31,680 Date: 1997
Author: Bruce E.L., Horwood H.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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: 70 Date: 1979
Author: Gordon J.B., Lovell H.L., de Grijs J.W., Davie R.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Wawa mineral deposits data base
Publication Number: OFR5775 Page: 244-245 Date: 1991
Author: Frey E.D., Stewart R.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Book - Gold Occurrences of the Wawa-Missanabie Area, unpublished report
Publication Number: Robinson Page: 92 Date: 1983
Author: Robinson, D.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location: Timmins RGP
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: 48 Date: 1985
Author: Rose, D.G.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/129999
Article - The geological and structural setting of gold mineralization in the Renabie portion of the Missanabie-Renabie gold district, Wawa gold camp, Wawa
Publication Number: MP146.017 Page: 99-107 Date: 1997
Author: Heather K.B.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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