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| Record Name(s) | Newago Road Gold Showing - 1984 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 2000-Aug-21 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Sep-16 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Bird
Latitude: 48° 14' 15.26" Longitude: -84° 23' 25.93"
UTM Zone: 16 Easting: 693751.33 Northing: 5345997.94 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Sault Ste. Marie
NTS Grid: 42C01NW
Point Location Description: Sheared outcrop at side of forestry road
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: The occurrence lies at the side of the Newago Forestry Road which in turn branches off of the Riggs Township forestry acceess road.
1969: Acme Oil and Gas - airborne geophysics. 1983-85: International Corona - mapping, sampling, trenching, soil geochemistry.(WP Bird.2)(WP Abotossaway.9).
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| WP COWIE.2 | 42C06SE0002 | 42C06SE0002 |
| KEATING 0017 | 42C07SW0031 | 42C07SW0031 |
| WP ABOTOSSAWAY9 | 42C07SE0009 | 42C07SE0009 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Wawa
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Michipicoten
Tectonic Assemblage: Wawa
Geological Age: Neoarchean Geochronological Age: 2750 MA Geochron. Age Ref.: GOO VOL 1
Metamorphism Type: Regional
Metamorphism Grade: Greenschist
Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - Supracrustal rocks in the immediate Goudreau-Lochalsh district consist of cycle 2 felsic to intermediate, pyroclastic metavolcanics which are capped by pyrite-bearing ironstone. To the north are pillowed , massive and schistose, mafic to intermediate metavolcanics and minor intercalations of mafic pyroclastic rocks of cycle 3. Several medium to coarse grained quartz dioritie to dioritie sills and/or dikes intrude all of the metavolcanic rocks. Along the northern margin of the supracrustal sequence, separating cycle 3 mafic metavolcanic rocks from the external granitoids, are thinly-bedded metasedimentary rocks with iminor intercalations of chert-magnetite ironstone. The Cradle Lakes Deformation Zone is at least 5 km in length and rouchly 1-2 km wide, but may be up to 10 km in total length. The CLDZ is subparalle to stratigraphy and occurs largely within fedlspar-crystal tuffs, which in many places are difficult to distinguish fromthe cradle Lakes stock, a feldspar porphyry intrusion adjacent to and partially within the CLDZ. The CLDZ contains a large, east-striking high stain zone that is up to 40 m wide and has been traced for several hundred metres along strike.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Intermediate Tuff-Breccia | 1 | Andesite | Tuff, Breccia | Near |
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| Diorite | 2 | Diorite | Near | |
| Vein | 3 | Quartz | Host |
Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - The showing consists of a quartz vein in a rusty sericite schist. The mafic metavolcanic rocks in the area are described as chlorite schists.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pyrite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 2 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Gangue |
Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - International Corona obtained an assay of 0.354 oz/t Au from an old trench in 1984 and a grab sample of 0.559 oz/t Au in 1986. An assay of 0.022 oz/t Au was recorded from a pyritiferous gabbro in the same area.
File - Resident Geologist files WP Bird.02
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Location: SSM RGP office
Map - Precambrian Geology, Bird Township
Publication Number: OFM0218 Scale: 1:15,840 Date: 1993
Author: Sage R.P.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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MonoMap - Geology of Aguonie, Bird, Finan and Jacobson Townships, District of Algoma
Publication Number: OFR5588 Date: 1993
Author: Sage R.P.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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