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Record: MDI42B05SW00026

General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold, Silver

Secondary Commodities: Copper, Lead, Molybdenum, Zinc

Location

Township or Area: Stover

Latitude: 48° 19' 10.63"    Longitude: -83° 57' 25.57"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 280790.63   Northing: 5356052.36    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Sault Ste. Marie

NTS Grid: 42B05SW

Point Location Description: Stripped area

Location Method: Based on Assessment

Access Description: Access to the site is possible by driving east along the Renabie Mine Road for 9 km from the end of highway 651. Follow the disused forestry road south for approximately 9.25 km. The showing is located approxmately 3 km west of the main logging road.

Exploration History

1940's: D. McLeod - trenching. 1971: Ontario Syndicate - airborne geophysics. 1975: Dome Exploration Ltd. - airborne geophysics. 1975: Rengold Mines Limited - 6 DDH, sampling, mapping 1978-79: Carbrew Explorations Limited - mapping, ground geophysics, 1 ddh (318 ft). 1988: Ateba Mines Ltd. - stripping, 6 ddh (1153.2 ft). 1997: G. Lucuik - soil survey, mapping, sampling. 2005: Laidlaw/Stone/Hume/Mihelcic - ground geophysics

Assessment Work on File

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Wawa

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Michipicoten

Geological Age: Neoarchean   Geochronological Age: 2700 MA   Geochron. Age Ref.: GOO VOL 1

Geology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - The McKewen Lake Deformation Zone (MLDZ) is a 1.5 km wide, SE-trending zone of strongly deformed mafic to intermediate and felsic to intermediate metavolcanic rocks, which can be traced from McKewen Lake in the northern part of West Township, southeastwards to the northwestern corner of Stover Township. Discrete 120-130 degree trending ductile shear zones are common throughout the MLDZ, but only a small number of shear zones are greater than 1 m.

Lithology

Lithology Comments

Aug 19, 2013 (A Wilson) - The main vein occurs within a heavily sheared and silicified trondhjemite. The vein shows a wide zone of silicification on either side. The main showing is approximately 30 ft long and consists of a quartz vein striking northerly and dippping about 45º E. The vein is up to 4 feet in width. At the north end of the exposure the wein is approximately 10 feet wide indicating a true thickness of about 7 feet.

Mineralization

Mineralization Comments

Aug 19, 2013 (A Wilson) - Grab samples collected by Rengold in 1975 returned assays of 0.005 oz/t Au, 0.10 oz/t Ag; 1.72 oz/t Au, 23.68 oz/t Ag; 0.74 oz/t Au, 12.56 oz/t Ag; 0.22 oz/t Au, 4.04 oz/t Ag. Diamond drilling completed by Rengold intersected 4.5 ft @ 0.24 oz/t Au, 2.5 oz/t Ag; 5.0 ft @ 0.11 oz/t Au and 1.45 oz/t Ag; and 2.5 ft @ 0.14 oz/t Au and 1.3 oz/t Ag. A chip sample returned an assay of 2.70 oz/t Au, 48.4 oz/t Ag, 2.37% Pb, 0.96% Cu, 0.51% Zn and 0.08% Te. Channel samples collected by Carbrew returned assays of 0.11% Mo over 1 ft., 0.05% Mo over 4 ft and 0.12% Mo over 6.0 ft. Diamond drilling completed by Ateba in 1988 intersected 1.7 ft of 0.26 oz/t Au, 0.03 oz/t Au over 2.1 ft, 0.04 oz/t Au over 1.9 ft, 0.36 oz/t au over 35.7 ft. Grab samples collected by G. Lucuik returned values of 0.333 oz/t Au over 2.5 feet. Other assays ranged from 0.17 oz/t Au to 0.311 oz/t Au.

Mineral Record Details

Mineral Zones - Size and Shape

Rank: 1       Structure Type: Vein

References

Folio - Stover Township - unpublished GDIF

Publication Number: GDIF Date: 1986

Author: Resident Geologist Staff

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location: SSM RGO

MonoMap - Geology of the Crooked Lake area, District of Sudbury

Publication Number: R172 Page: 34  Date: 1978

Author: Bennett G.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

Article - 1975 report of the Northeastern Regional Geologist and Sault Ste. Marie Resident Geologist

Publication Number: MP064.007 Page: 94  Date: 1997

Author: Giblin P.E.

Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines

Location:

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: 42B - 58  Date: 1985

Author: Rose, D. G.

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/129999

Mono - Wawa mineral deposits data base

Publication Number: OFR5775 Page: 328  Date: 1991

Author: Frey E.D., Stewart R.C.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

Map - Stover and Brackin townships, Sudbury District

Publication Number: M2380 Scale: 1:31,680    Date: 1977

Author: Bennett G.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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:

Map - Geological series, Stover Township, District of Sudbury

Publication Number: P0790 Scale: 1:15,840    Date: 1972

Author: Bennett G., Dupuis C.P., Elmhirst F., Andrews M.D.

Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines

Location:

Map - Chapleau-Foleyet, geological compilation series, Algoma, Cochrane and Sudbury districts

Publication Number: M2221 Scale: 1:253,440    Date: 1976

Author: Thurston P.C., Sage R.P., Siragusa G.M.

Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines

Location:

Article - The geological and structural setting of gold mineralization in the Missanabie-Renabie District of the Michipicoten greenstone belt, Wawa, Ontario

Publication Number: MP141.037 Page: 257-270  Date: 1997

Author: Heather K.B., Buck S.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

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