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Record Name(s) | Firepump South Zone - 1990 |
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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
Township or Area: Cowie
Latitude: 48° 10' 43.71" Longitude: -84° 27' 51.94"
UTM Zone: 16 Easting: 688480.99 Northing: 5339283.23 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Sault Ste. Marie
NTS Grid: 42C01NW
Point Location Description: Stripped area south of Firepump 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 7 km. The lake is located on the south side of the road.
1989-90: Corona Corporation - prospecting, mapping, ground geophysical survey, soil survey, stripping, trenching. 1991-92: Noranda Exploration Co. Ltd. - sampling, till sampling.
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: Archean
Metamorphism Type: Regional
Metamorphism Grade: Greenschist
Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - The lithologies north of the Hawk Lake granite complex are variously sheared over a width of 750 to 1500 m. The north limit of the shear is the north contact of the main sedimentary unit and within 100 m f this contact towards the north. The south limit is marked by the supracrustal-granite contact.
Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Sulphide Ironstone | 1 | Sulphide Facies | Host |
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Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - The occurrence is hosted by a zone of banded chert and graphite/sulphide facies iron formation. To the east, the chert is vuggy in appearance and contains bands and pods of graphitic material.
Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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1 | Arsenopyrite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
2 | Pyrite | Economic | Gangue |
Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - Gold values in this zone are up to 4.56 g/t Au.
Shape | Length | Thickness | Depth | Strike | Dip | Plunge | Trend | Age | Reference |
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Regular | 125 | 2 | 90 | 45 |
File - Resident Geologist files WP Abotossaway.25, WP Abotossaway.26
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Location: SSM RGP office
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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