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| Record Name(s) | Keevil Mining DDH 66-7 - 1966, Ivanhoe-Watson - 1984 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1984-May-11 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Sep-21 |
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Primary Commodities: Nickel
Secondary Commodities: Copper
Township or Area: Watson
Latitude: 48° 42' 48.13" Longitude: -82° 20' 10.29"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 401709.12 Northing: 5396454.55 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Timmins
NTS Grid: 42B09NW
Point Location Description: Drill collar at 5+30N/25+70W on Keevil grid on former claim S135008
Location Method: Based on Assessment
Access Description: The site is accessible via a series of logging roads heading north from highway 101.
1965: Keevil Mining Group Ltd. – GL, comp. 1966: Keevil Mining Group Ltd. - 1 ddh (551 ft). 1977: Asarco Exploration Co. Ltd. - airborne geophysics. 1996: Stratabound Minerals Corp. - ground geophysics. 2004: Becker Gold Mines Ltd.- AEM, AMag.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| T-4982 / 2.27576 | 42B09NE2003 | 42B09NE2003 |
| T-3815 / 2.16837 | 42B16SW0009 | 42B16SW0009 |
| T-1870 / 2.2499 | 42B09NW0001 | 42B09NW0001 |
| T-1348 | 42B09NW0004 | 42B09NW0004 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Abitibi
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Abitibi
Geological Age: Archean
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Peridotite | 1 | Peridotite | Serpentinized | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Felsic lava flow-unsubdivided | 2 | Rhyolite | Near |
Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - Diamond drilling intersected a serpentinized peridotite that is highly altered to talc and magnesium carbonate. At 162.5 to 191 ft the peridotite is interbedded with a medium-grained massive and uniform rhyolitic unit. Elevated nickel and copper values were returned from a sulphide rich, micaceous unit.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 1 | Pyrrhotite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 2 | Pyrite | Economic | Gangue |
Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - A 9 ft wide section of micaceous sediments (?) returned an assay of 0.12% Ni and 0.04% Cu.
File - Resident Geologist files T-1044
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Location: Timmins RGP office
Map - Timmins data series, Watson Township, District of Cochrane
Publication Number: P2109 Scale: 1:15,840 Date: 1980
Author: Hunt D.S., MacRae B.A., Maharaj D.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Geological series, Operation Chapleau, Horwood Lake sheet, districts of Algoma, Cochrane, and Sudbury
Publication Number: P0673 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
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Map - Elsas sheet, districts of Cochrane and Algoma, geological compilation series
Publication Number: P0271 Scale: 1:126,720 Date: 1998
Author: Carlson H.D.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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Map - Geological Compilation of the Timmins Area, Abitibi Greenstone Belt
Publication Number: P3379 Scale: 1:100,000 Date: 1998
Author: Ayer J.A., Trowell N.F.
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