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| Record Name(s) | Domich Lake Breccia Zone - 1989 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 2001-Apr-30 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Sep-07 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold, Silver
Township or Area: Cowie
Latitude: 48° 10' 12.63" Longitude: -84° 25' 27.23"
UTM Zone: 16 Easting: 691501.02 Northing: 5338423.14 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Sault Ste. Marie
NTS Grid: 42C01NW
Point Location Description: Southwest corner of Domich Lake
Location Method: Based on Assessment
Access Description: The site is accessible from Hawk Junction. Drive north along the Alden Station road (parallel to the ACR tracks) for 11.4 km to where the rail crossing has been taken out. Drive east along the Forge Lake access road for 9 km. A few kilometres west of Forge Lake, the road splits and the south fork leads to the mine site. Domich Lake is located approximately 2 km SE of the mine site. Alternatively, the site is accessible by boat via Whitefish-Manitowik Lakes and then overland for approximately 1.5 km.
1989-90: Corona Corporation: prospecting, mapping, soil survey, stripping, ground geophysics.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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| WP Corbiere-14 | 42C06SE0002 | 42C06SE0002 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Wawa
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Michipicoten
Geological Age: Neoarchean
Metamorphism Type: Regional
Metamorphism Grade: Greenschist
Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - This zone is structurally correlated with the NW-trending Nicho Lake Fault which can be traced into Aguonie Township in the McVeigh Creek area near Goudreau. The silicification and mineralization are pre-diabase but it is uncertain if this event is late Archean or Proterozoic in age.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Granite | 1 | Granitic | Host |
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| Vein | 2 | Quartz | Host |
Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - The occurrence consists of a quartz-flooded vein system within a zone in the Whitefish Lake Batholith.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Sphalerite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 2 | Galena | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 3 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Gangue |
Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - Grab samples from the zone have returned values ranging up to 2.0 g/t Au and 28g/t Ag.
Map - Geological compilation series, Wawa sheet, districts of Algoma and Sudbury
Publication Number: P0640 Scale: 1:126,720 Date: 1997
Author: Leahy E.J., Rupert R.J., Giblin P.E., Giguere J.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs
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