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General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Miller Gold Occurrence - 1937, Miller Group - 1937
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Discretionary Occurrence
Date Created 1991-Jan-08
Date Last Modified 2022-Jun-15
Created By
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold



Location

Township or Area: Chabanel

Latitude: 48° 2' 49.6"    Longitude: -84° 45' 12.73"

UTM Zone: 16    Easting: 667419   Northing: 5323978    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Sault Ste. Marie

NTS Grid: 42C02SW

Point Location Description: Boundary between former claims SSM 9154 and 9153

Location Method: AMIS Site Visit

Access Description: Site is located 26 km from Wawa. Hwy.17 is taken for 14 km to Steephill Falls Dam Road. The dam is passed at 19.4 km and another 6.6 km is taken on gravels roads (first taking the right fork at 22.9 km and the left fork at 23.4 km). The showing is 88m south of the gravel road. The gravel road is washed out at this point.



Exploration History

1937: Miller Brothers - trenching and sampling. 1937: Hollinger Gold Mines Ltd. - sampling. 1938: Erie Canadian Mines - sampling. 1984: Canamax Resources Ltd. - airborne geophysics. 1986-90: Noranda Exploration Ltd. - mapping, sampling. 1990-91: G. Luciuk - sampling. 2000: Dumont Nickel Inc. - sampling.


Assessment Work on File

Assessment Work on File
Office File Number Online Assessment File Identifier Online Assessment File Directory
WP Corbiere-12 / 63.5863 42C02NE0002 42C02NE0002
WP Chabanel . 20/ 2.14574 42C02SW0002 42C02SW0002
WP Chabanel-32 / 2.20579 42C02SE2007 42C02SE2007
Chabanel 0034 42C02SW0012 42C02SW0012

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Wawa

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Michipicoten

Geological Age: Neoarchean   Geochronological Age: 2750 MA   Geochron. Age Ref.: OFR5888

Metamorphism Type: Regional

Metamorphism Grade: Greenschist



Geology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - The occurrence lies stratigraphically above the Michipicoten iron formation within argillite and wackes. The main occurrence lies adjacent to a small quartz gabbro intrusion.




Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Terrigenous-Clastic-Unsubdivided 1 Argillite, Wacke Adjacent
Diorite 2 Diorite Near
Vein 3 Quartz-Carbonate Host

Lithology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - Information on the property is sketchy at best. The occurrence is described as consisting of a series of quartz veins within a diorite. The OGS mapped a small quartz gabbro plug in the vicinity of the showing and has located the occurrence adjacent to an NW-trending diabase dike. No recent mapping of the occurrence has taken place.




Mineralization

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

Mineralization Comments

Jan 08, 2016 (A Wilson) - Samples taken from trenches by Hollinger returned values ranging from 0.02 - 1.88 oz. Au/t. Samples collected by Lucuik in 1991 returned assays up to 2190 ppb Au. A grab sample collected from a quartz vein by Dumont Nickel from the same vicinity returned 1315 ppm Au.



Mineral Record Details

References

Map - Geological series, Precambrian geology of Chabanel Township, Algoma District

Publication Number: P2439 Scale: 1:15,840    Date: 1982

Author: Sage R.P., Rebic Z., Abercrombie S., Neale K., MacMillan D.W., England D., Calvert T.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


Map - Precambrian Geology, Michipicoten Greenstone Belt, Central Portion

Publication Number: P3303 Scale: 1:50,000    Date: 1994

Author: Sage R.P.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


Folio - Chabanel Township - unpublished GDIF

Publication Number: GDIF Date: 1987

Author: Resident Geologist Staff

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location: SSM RGO


Mono - Wawa mineral deposits data base

Publication Number: OFR5775 Page: 139-140  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 Date: 1983

Author: Robinson, D.

Publisher Name:

Location: SSM RGO


MonoMap - Geology of Chabanel, Esquega, Lastheels and McMurray Townships, District of Algoma

Publication Number: OFR5586 Page: 392  Date: 1993

Author: Sage R.P.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


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