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Record: MDI42C02SW00024

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Lagarde Lake East Showing - 1986, Lagarde Lake Option - 1986, Clement Option - 1986
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Occurrence
Date Created 2004-Nov-24
Date Last Modified 2023-Jan-09
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold



Location

Township or Area: Chabanel

Latitude: 48° 2' 21.59"    Longitude: -84° 45' 39.6"

UTM Zone: 16    Easting: 666888   Northing: 5323097    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Sault Ste. Marie

NTS Grid: 42C02SW

Point Location Description: Trenches

Location Method: Based on Assessment

Access Description: The site is accessible by driving along the Loonskin Lake access road to Siderite Junction (approximately 6 km from the junction of hwy 101). From there take the old fume kill road west for approximately 2 km or to where the road approaches the railway tracks. Follow the railway tracks for 2 km until you reach the south end of Lagarde Lake. The trenches are accessible by a short traverse to the west end of the lake.



Exploration History

1930's: trenching and sampling. 1984: Canamax Resources Ltd. - airborne geophysics. 1986: Noranda Exploration Co. Ltd. - mapping, sampling, ground geophysics. 1998: H. Hutteri - mapping, sampling.


Assessment Work on File

Assessment Work on File
Office File Number Online Assessment File Identifier Online Assessment File Directory
Chabanel-0049 A1 42C02NE0027 42C02NE0027
WP Chabanel.1/2.9823 42C02SW0004 42C02SW0004
WP Chabanel.2/ 2.9837 42C02SE0066 42C02SE0066
WP Chabanel .3/ 2.9948 42C02SE0064 42C02SE0064

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Wawa

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Michipicoten

Geological Age: Neoarchean  



Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided 1 Mafic To Intermediate Near
Felsic lava flow-unsubdivided 2 Felsic To Intermediate Near
Vein 3 Quartz-Siderite Host

Lithology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - Mineralization is hosted by a silicifed shear zone at the contact between the intermediate-mafic and the intermediate-felsic metavolcanic rocks.




Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
1PyriteEconomicOre
2ChalcopyriteEconomicOre
3ArsenopyriteEconomicOre

Mineralization Comments

Jan 08, 2016 (A Wilson) - Grab samples collected by Noranda in 1986 returned assays up to 3.26 g/t Au.



Mineral Record Details

References

File - Resident Geologist file WP Chabanel.29

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Location: SSM RGP office


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

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

Publication Number: OFR5586 Date: 1993

Author: Sage R.P.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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