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| Record Name(s) | Compass Gold Property - 1940, Sylvanite Gold Property - 1940 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1991-Jan-08 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Jul-21 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold, Copper
Township or Area: Abotossaway
Latitude: 48° 14' 21.03" Longitude: -84° 36' 47.2"
UTM Zone: 16 Easting: 677220.96 Northing: 5345638.55 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Sault Ste. Marie
NTS Grid: 42C02NE
Point Location Description: Shaft on former claim AC 1478
Location Method: Based on Assessment
Access Description: The former minesite is located approximately 6.5 km by overgrown bush road, west of Goudreau. The mine site is located on the northwest side of the road. This occurrence is located aproximately 1 km NNE of the mine.
Pre 1940: 6 diamond drill holes, shaft sunk on No 1 vein, open cut developed on east side of diabase dike, mill on site. 1940: Sylvanite Gold Mines Ltd. - property description.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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| ABOTOSSAWAY 26 | 42C02NE0226 | 42C02NE0226 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Wawa
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Michipicoten
Tectonic Assemblage: Catfish
Geological Age: Neoarchean Geochronological Age: 2750 MA Geochron. Age Ref.: GOO VOL 1
Metamorphism Type: Regional
Metamorphism Grade: Greenschist
Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - The occurrenc lies within the western domain of the Goudreau Lake Deformation Zone, which is comprised of 85 to 115 degree striking brittle and brittle-ductile high-strain zones displaying dextral oblique-slip displacement. The occurrence is hosted within mafic to intermediate metavolcanics of the third volcanic cycle in contact with the north side of the Gutcher Lake Stock. The mineralization lies within the thermal metamorphic aureole of the Gutcher Lake Stock.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 1 | Massive, Pillowed Flows | Host |
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| Vein | 2 | Quartz | Host |
Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - The occurrence is hosted in an east trending vein hosted by pillowed and massive mafic to intermediate metavolcanic rocks. The vin is cross cut by a NNW trending olivine diabase dike.
Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - Assays returned values ranging from $0.20 Au/1.5 ft to $47.00 over 3.1 ft.
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:
Book - Abotossaway Township - unpublished GDIF
Publication Number: GDIF Date: 1985
Author: Resident Geologist Staff
Publisher Name:
Location: Timmins RGP
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:
Map - Precambrian Geology, Abotossaway Township
Publication Number: OFM0223 Scale: 1:15,840 Date: 1993
Author: Sage R.P.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Wawa mineral deposits data base
Publication Number: OFR5775 Page: 109 Date: 1991
Author: Frey E.D., Stewart R.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Book - Gold Occurrences of the Wawa-Missinabie Area, unpublished report
Publication Number: Robinson Page: 104 Date: 1983
Author: Robinson, D.
Publisher Name:
Location: Timmins RGP
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: 44 Date: 1985
Author: Rose, D. G.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/129999
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