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Record: MDI42C02NE00006

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Gutcher Occurrence - 1927, Claim Ac 549 - 1927
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Discretionary Occurrence
Date Created 1982-Nov-10
Date Last Modified 2022-Sep-27
Created By
Revised By

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold



Location

Township or Area: Abotossaway

Latitude: 48° 13' 48.22"    Longitude: -84° 37' 29.45"

UTM Zone: 16    Easting: 676380.93   Northing: 5344598.58    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Sault Ste. Marie

NTS Grid: 42C02NE

Point Location Description: Centre of claim AC 549

Location Method: Based on Assessment

Access Description: The site is accessible via a bush road that branches south off of highway 519 approximately 12 km east of the highway 17 turnoff. The Ego Mine site is located approximately 19 km down this bush road. The Gutcher Occurrence is located approximately 750 km SSE of the Ego property.



Exploration History

1955-79: United Canso Oil and Gas Limited - optioned from Ego Mines Limited; ground geophysical survey, mapping.


Assessment Work on File

Assessment Work on File
Office File Number Online Assessment File Identifier Online Assessment File Directory
ABOTOSSAWAY 35 42C02NE0227 42C02NE0227
ABOTOSSAWAY 16 42C02NE0219 42C02NE0219

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Wawa

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Michipicoten

Geological Age: Neoarchean   Geochronological Age: 2722 MA   Geochron. Age Ref.: OFR 5888



Geology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - The Gutcher Lake Stock is known for a number of shear zone hosted gold-copper deposits on its north flank and shear zone quartz vein hosted gold deposits on its south flank.




Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Tonalite 1 Trondhjemite Host
Vein 2 Quartz Host

Lithology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - The occurrence consists of a narrow quartz vein (2 feet wide) within a trondhjemite. The trondhjemite is corss cut by quartz-feldspar porphyry dikes.




Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
1PyriteEconomicGangue
2ChalcopyriteEconomicGangue
AnkeriteAlterationCarbonatization1WeakReplacement

Mineralization Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - Grab samples collected by Ego Mines from the vein returned assays of 0.01 oz/t Au and 0.3 oz/t Ag.



Mineral Record Details

Characteristics
Rank Characteristic            
1 Vein

Mineral Zones - Size and Shape

Rank: 1       Structure Type: Vein

Zone Name: Detour Lake - Rank 1
Shape Length Thickness Depth Strike Dip Plunge Trend Age Reference
Regular 61 .6 75 70

References

Map - Goudreau-Lochalsh area, District of Algoma, Ontario

Publication Number: ARM36B Scale: 1:63,360    Date: 1998

Author: Gledhill T.L., Collins W.H., Thomson E.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


Map - Goudreau-Lochalsh area, District of Algoma, Ontario

Publication Number: ARM49G Scale: 1:31,680    Date: 1997

Author: Bruce E.L.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


Book - Abotossaway Township - unpublished GDIF

Publication Number: GDIF Date: 1985

Author: Resident Geologist Staff

Publisher Name:

Location: Timmins RGP


Map - Precambrian Geology, Abotossaway Township

Publication Number: OFM0223 Scale: 1:15,840    Date: 1993

Author: Sage R.P.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


Map - Michipicoten area, compilation sheet, District of Algoma

Publication Number: P0184 Scale: 1:126,720    Date: 1997

Author: Goodwin A.M.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


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

Location:


Part - Goudreau-Lochalsh gold area, District of Algoma

Publication Number: ARV36-02.002 Page: 72  Date: 1998

Author: Gledhill T.L.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


Mono - Gold deposits of Ontario, part 1, districts of Algoma, Cochrane, Kenora, Rainy River, and Thunder Bay

Publication Number: MDC013 Page: 43  Date: 1971

Author: Ferguson S.A., Groen H.A., Haynes R.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs

Location:


Mono - Wawa mineral deposits data base

Publication Number: OFR5775 Page: 104-105  Date: 1991

Author: Frey E.D., Stewart R.C.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


Book - Gold Occurrences of Wawa-Missinabie Area, unpublished report

Publication Number: Robinson Page: 38  Date: 1983

Author: Robinson, D.

Publisher Name:

Location: Timmins RGO


MonoMap - Geology of Michipicoten Greenstone Belt

Publication Number: OFR5888 Page: 82-83  Date: 1994

Author: Sage R.P.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


MonoMap - Geology of Abotossaway, Corbiere, Leclaire and Musquash Townships and Part of Dunphy Township, District of Algoma

Publication Number: OFR5587 Date: 1993

Author: Sage R.P.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


Book - Sudbury Timmins Algoma Mineral Program, Project 1: mineral inventory of the Sudbury-Timmins-Sault Ste. Marie region, Ontario

Publication Number: GSC OF 1087 Page: 55  Date: 1985

Author: Rose, D. G.

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/129999


Publication - Michipicoten Iron Ranges; Geological Survey of Canada, Memoir 147

Publication Number: GSC Memoir 147 Page: 131  Date: 1926

Author: Collins, W H; Quirke, T T; Thomson, E

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/100849


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