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Record: MDI42C01NW00050

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Firepump South Zone - 1990
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Occurrence
Date Created 2001-Apr-30
Date Last Modified 2022-Sep-07
Created By
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold



Location

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.



Exploration History

1989-90: Corona Corporation - prospecting, mapping, ground geophysical survey, soil survey, stripping, trenching. 1991-92: Noranda Exploration Co. Ltd. - sampling, till sampling.


Assessment Work on File

Assessment Work on File
Office File Number Online Assessment File Identifier Online Assessment File Directory
WP Corbiere-14 42C06SE0002 42C06SE0002

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Wawa

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Michipicoten

Geological Age: Archean  

Metamorphism Type: Regional

Metamorphism Grade: Greenschist



Geology Comments

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.




Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Sulphide Ironstone 1 Sulphide Facies Host

Lithology Comments

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.




Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
1ArsenopyriteEconomicGangue
2PyriteEconomicGangue

Mineralization Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - Gold values in this zone are up to 4.56 g/t Au.



Mineral Record Details

Mineral Zones - Size and Shape

Rank: 1       Structure Type: Shear

Zone Name: Detour Lake - Rank 1
Shape Length Thickness Depth Strike Dip Plunge Trend Age Reference
Regular 125 2 90 45

References

File - Resident Geologist files WP Abotossaway.25, WP Abotossaway.26

Publication Number: Date:

Author:

Publisher Name:

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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