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| Record Name(s) | Maisondor Showing 4 - 1949, Loch Katrine Property - 1993 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Prospect |
| Date Created | 2001-May-04 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Sep-13 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold, Silver
Township or Area: West
Latitude: 48° 21' 54.48" Longitude: -84° 6' 20.6"
UTM Zone: 16 Easting: 714361.57 Northing: 5360932.84 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Sault Ste. Marie
NTS Grid: 42C08SE
Point Location Description: Trenched area
Location Method: Based on Assessment
Access Description: The site is accessible via forestry road from the former Renabie Mine access road.
1949-50: Maisondor Gold Mines Ltd. -trenching, mapping, 1950: McIntyre Porcupine Mines Limited - property optioned from Maisondor, DD-2-212 ft. 1960: Canadian Pacific Railway - mapping. 1962: Algoma Central Railway - mapping, prospecting. 1964-66: Winchester Exploration Ltd. - prospecting, trenching. 1966: McIntyre Porcupine Mines Ltd. - property visit. 1983: Cut Thumb Mines Inc. - airborne geophysics. 1980-85: R. Cullen and Cut Thumb Mines - prospecting, property visit, trenching, mapping, sampling. 1985-88: Orequest Consultants/Pak Man Resources Inc/2001 Resource Industries Ltd. - airborne geophysical survey, IP survey, EM survey, mapping, soil survey, trenching. 1991-92: J. Barry - prospecting, mapping, ground geophysical survey, sampling. 2006-2008: Golden Chalice Resources Inc. - sampling, geochemistry
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| Meath 0027 / 2.5951 | 42C08NE0015 | 42C08NE0015 |
| WP Stover.21 / 2.41485 | 20000004162 | 20000004162 |
| Meath 0026 / 2.5962 | 42C08NE0335 | 42C08NE0335 |
| Meath 0010C1 | 42C08SE0639 | 42C08SE0639 |
| Meath 0010B1 / 2.3599 | 42C08SE0009 | 42C08SE0009 |
| Meath 0012D1 / 2.4152 | 42C08SE0006 | 42C08SE0006 |
| West 0010B1 | 42C08SE0639 | 42C08SE0639 |
| WP Meath.1 / 2.11797 | 42C08NE0006 | 42C08NE0006 |
| WP Meath.7 / 2.15578 | 42C08SE0002 | 42C08SE0002 |
| Meath 0013C1 / 2.3855 | 42C08SE0010 | 42C08SE0010 |
| Meath 0020A1 / 2.3796 | 42C08SE0008 | 42C08SE0008 |
| Meath 0010-E1 | 42C08NE0037 | 42C08NE0037 |
| Meath 0018A1 | 42C08NE0039 | 42C08NE0039 |
| WP Meath.2 / 2.12121 | 42C08NE0054 | 42C08NE0054 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Wawa
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Michipicoten
Geological Age: Archean
Metamorphism Type: Regional
Metamorphism Grade: Amphibolite
Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - The McKewen Lake Deformation Zone (MLDZ) is a 1.5 km wide, SE-trending zone of strongly deformed mafic to intermediate and felsic to intermediate metavolcanic rocks, which can be traced from McKewen Lake in the northern part of West Township, southeastwards to the northwestern corner of Stover Township. Discrete 120-130 degree trending ductile shear zones are common throughout the MLDZ, but only a small number of shear zones are greater than 1 m.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Intermediate Tuff-Breccia | 1 | Tuff, Lapilli Tuff | Silicified | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vein | 2 | Quartz | Host |
Jul 24, 2013 (A Wilson) - The showing consists of a quartz vein which pinches and swells but averages about 8 inches thick. The vein occurs in silicified metavolcanic rocks which appear to be volcaniclastic. At the west end of the trench, diabase is exposed on the north side and a medium-grained granitic rock outcrops on the south side. A felsite dike follows the vein along its northeast side. The vein was traced intermittently along a N60W strike for 200 feet. The vein trends 135º and lies within an intermediate to felsic lapilli to lapilli bomb tuff which has a foliation trend of 126º dipping at 90º. The vein is cut off to the northwest by a diabase dike and appears to disappear to the southeast under the road. A felsite dike, 2.5 feet wide, closely follows the vein at a distance of several feet on its northeast side. This dike was traced to the outcrop on the southeast side of the road where it is only a few inches wide, but no quartz veining was found here. On the west side of the main diabase dike, west of line 36E, the felsite dike recurs at a trend of 115º dipping at 90º for about 100 feet exposed length. The quartz vein also reappears and within a few feet of the diabase contact it joins the south wall of the felsite dike which it follows for the remainder of the exposure. Small gash quartz veinlets were observed here within the felsite dike and the veining is thought to be later than the dike but possibly associated genetically. The diabase dikes cut and displace the veins and are later, and probably not associated with the gold mineralization.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gold | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 1 | Pyrite | Economic | Gangue |
Jul 24, 2013 (A Wilson) - Assays up to 8.92 oz/t Au have been obtained by McIntyre Porcupine Mines Ltd. Samples collected by Cut Thumb Mines returned assays of: 14.2 oz/t Au, 2.6 oz/t Ag over 8 inches; 0.59 oz/t Au, 0.64 oz/t Ag over 1.2 ft; 0.43 oz/t Au, 0.72 oz/t Ag over 1.2 ft and 0.22 oz/t Au over 11 inches. Channel samples by Orequest returned a value of 0.448 oz/t Au over 70 cm southeast along strike from the original showing. A channel sample northwest of the original showing returned an assay of 0.046 oz/t Au over 50 cm. Grab samples collected by Barry in 1992 returned assays of 18.107 oz/t Au, 2.823 oz/t Au and 1.699 oz/t Au. Grab samples taken by Barry in 1992 in the stripped area to the SE of the original showing returned assays ranging from 37 ppb Au to 18.107 oz/t Au.
| Shape | Length | Thickness | Depth | Strike | Dip | Plunge | Trend | Age | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Regular | 60 | 60 | 135 |
Folio - West Township, District of Algoma
Publication Number: GDIF293 Date: 1997
Author: Sault Ste Marie RGO
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location: SSM RGO
MonoMap - Geology of Riggs and West townships, District of Algoma
Publication Number: R174 Page: 46 Date: 1978
Author: Srivastava P., Bennett G.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
MonoMap - Geology of Glasgow, Meath, and Rennie townships, districts of Algoma and Sudbury
Publication Number: R090 Page: 42-43 Date: 1971
Author: Riley R.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs
Location:
Article - The geological and structural setting of gold mineralization in the Missanabie-Renabie District of the Michipicoten greenstone belt, Wawa, Ontario
Publication Number: MP141.037 Date: 1997
Author: Heather K.B., Buck S.
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: 42C - 196 Date: 1985
Author: Rose, D. G.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/129999
Mono - Wawa mineral deposits data base
Publication Number: OFR5775 Page: 282 Date: 1991
Author: Frey E.D., Stewart R.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Book - Gold Occurrences of the Wawa-Missanabie Area, unpublished report
Publication Number: Robinson Page: 282 Date: 1983
Author: Robinson, D.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location: Timmins RGP
Map - Riggs and West townships, Algoma District
Publication Number: M2353 Scale: 1:31,680 Date: 1977
Author: Srivastava P., Bennett G., Elmhirst F., Andrews M.D.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Lochalsh-Missinaibi area, districts of Algoma and Sudbury, Ontario
Publication Number: ARM44C Scale: 1:95,040 Date: 1997
Author: Burwash E.M., Collins W.H., Thomson E.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Geological series, Missanabie area, West Township, formerly Township 46, District of Algoma
Publication Number: P0945 Scale: 1:15,840 Date: 1974
Author: Srivastava P., Bennett G., Elmhirst F., Andrews M.D.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines
Location:
Map - Geological series, Missanabie area, West Township, formerly Township 46, District of Algoma
Publication Number: P0945 Scale: 1:15,840 Date: 1974
Author: Srivastava P., Bennett G., Elmhirst F., Andrews M.D.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines
Location:
Map - Precambrian Geology Compilation Series - White River Sheet
Publication Number: M2666 Scale: 1:250,000 Date: 2001
Author: Santaguida F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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