Ontario Geological Survey
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| Record Name(s) | Novak Shear Zone - 1999 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 2000-Dec-14 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Sep-07 |
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Primary Commodities: Copper, Silver
Secondary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Abbie Lake Area
Latitude: 48° 13' 43.08" Longitude: -85° 20' 47.42"
UTM Zone: 16 Easting: 622795.34 Northing: 5343034.06 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Sault Ste. Marie
NTS Grid: 42C03NW
Point Location Description: Stripped area between two swamps
Location Method: Field Visit with GPS
Access Description: The site is accessible via the Eagle River Mine/Paint Lake road. Drive west along the road for approximately 25.5 km to the powerline. Drive north along a forestry road for approximately 12 km to a brush dump at the end of the road. Follow a skidder trail north west for approximately 1.5 km to the stripped area on the edge of a swamp.
1998-2000: Charbonneau, Gerdes, Thibodeau - prospecting, stripping, channel sampling. 1999: Noront Resources - sampling.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| WP-Abbie Lake-22 | 42C03NW2004 | 42C03NW2004 |
| WP-Abbie Lake-21 | 42C03NW2003 | 42C03NW2003 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Wawa
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Michipicoten
Geological Age: Archean
Metamorphism Type: Regional
Metamorphism Grade: Greenschist
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Intermediate lava flow-unsubdivided | 1 | Sheared | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vein | 2 | Quartz | Host |
Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - The lithology consists of a mixture of mafic to intermediate tuffs and crystal tuffs and massive flows interbedded with massive quartz-feldspar porphyry sills. A sharply defined shear zone is mineralized with malachite, chalcopyrite and pyrite. Hematite alteration is prevalent.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Malachite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 1 | Hematite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 2 | Pyrite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| Hematite | Alteration | Hematization | 1 | Medium | Disseminated |
Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - Grab samples collected by Gerdes et al. returned values ranging from 0.32% to 1.90% Cu. Silver values ranged from 22.1 g/t Ag to 41.4 g/t Ag.
| Rank | Characteristic |
|---|---|
| 1 | Sheared |
| Shape | Length | Thickness | Depth | Strike | Dip | Plunge | Trend | Age | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Regular | 15 | 4 | 100 |
Map - University River, Algoma and Thunder Bay districts
Publication Number: M2333 Scale: 1:63,360 Date: 1976
Author: Bennett G., Thurston P.C., Giguere J.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - Geology of the Pukaskwa River-University River area, districts of Algoma and Thunder Bay
Publication Number: R153 Date: 1977
Author: Bennett G., Thurston P.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines
Location:
Map - Operation Pukaskwa, districts of Algoma and Thunder Bay
Publication Number: P0541 Scale: 1:126,720 Date: 1997
Author: Bennett G., Thurston P.C., Giguere J.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
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