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Record: MDI42C08SE00091

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Pileggi West Discovery Occurrence - 1942, Stover Gold Occurrence - 1979, D. A. Fitzgerald Holdings - 1978
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Occurrence
Date Created 2001-May-25
Date Last Modified 2022-Jul-15
Created By
Revised By

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold



Location

Township or Area: Stover

Latitude: 48° 20' 30.21"    Longitude: -84° 0' 11.74"

UTM Zone: 16    Easting: 722051.39   Northing: 5358622.93    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Sault Ste. Marie

NTS Grid: 42C08SE

Point Location Description: Series of old trenches near road

Location Method: Other Literature

Access Description: Drive east from the north end of highway 651 for aproximately 4 km along the Renabie Mine access road to the junction of a southward trending forestry road. Drive south for approximately 2 km to the occurrence.



Exploration History

1942-44: Pileggi Prospecting Syndicate - stripping, sampling, trenching. 1975-76 - airborne geophysics, 10 ddh (7078 ft). 1984: R. J. MGowan - airborne geophysics. 1996-99. W. Kerr - prospecting, stripping, sampling, mapping. 2005: Laidlaw/Stone/Hume/Mihelcic - ground geophysics.


Assessment Work on File

Assessment Work on File
Office File Number Online Assessment File Identifier Online Assessment File Directory
Stover 0026/ 2.6953 42C08SE0004 42C08SE0004
WP Stover.15 / 2.30746 20000000820 20000000820
Stover 0014B1 42B05SW0108 42B05SW0108
Meath 0019A1 / 2.1725 42C08NE0028 42C08NE0028
WP Stover.12 / 2.17069 42B05SW0040 42B05SW0040

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Wawa

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Michipicoten

Geological Age: Neoarchean  



Geology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - The Baltimore Lake Deformation Zone (BLDZ) is located in northwestern Stover Township where it is defined by by a 1.2 km wide, SE-trending zone of folding, transposition and shearing. The BLDZ can be traced fro approximately 6 km southeastward across Stover Township. The BLDZ is characterized by rootless isoclinal folds of bedding/schistosity, sinistral and dextral shear folds, transposition and ductile shear zones axial planr to the folds.




Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Schist-Unsubdivided 1 Silicified Andesite Host

Lithology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - Visible gold was dicovered in a quartz lens adjacent to an aplitic dike. The main host lithology consists of pyritized sheared intermediate metavolcanics.




Mineralization

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

Mineralization Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - A chip sample collected by W. Kerr in 1999 returned an assay of 6.2 oz/t Au over 0.60 m.



Mineral Record Details

Characteristics
Rank Characteristic            
1 Sheared

References

Part - Geology and mineralization in the northern part of Stover Township

Publication Number: ARV51-08.002 Page: 35-39  Date: 1997

Author: Horwood H.C.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


Book - Stover Township - unpublished GDIF

Publication Number: GDIF Date: 1986

Author: Resident Geologist Staff

Publisher Name:

Location: SSM RGO


MonoMap - Geology of the Crooked Lake area, District of Sudbury

Publication Number: R172 Page: 35-36  Date: 1978

Author: Bennett G.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


Mono - Gold deposits of Ontario, part 2, part of District of Cochrane, districts of Muskoka, Nipissing, Parry Sound, Sudbury, Timiskaming, and counties of southern Ontario

Publication Number: MDC018 Page: 85  Date: 1979

Author: Gordon J.B., Lovell H.L., de Grijs J.W., Davie R.F.

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: 62  Date: 1985

Author: Rose, D.G.

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/129999


Map - Stover and Brackin townships, Sudbury District

Publication Number: M2380 Scale: 1:31,680    Date: 1977

Author: Bennett G.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


Map - Rennie-Leeson area, District of Sudbury, Ontario

Publication Number: ARM51G Scale: 1:31,680    Date: 1997

Author: Bruce E.L., Horwood H.C.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


Map - Geological series, Stover Township, District of Sudbury

Publication Number: P0790 Scale: 1:15,840    Date: 1972

Author: Bennett G., Dupuis C.P., Elmhirst F., Andrews M.D.

Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines

Location:


Map - Chapleau-Foleyet, geological compilation series, Algoma, Cochrane and Sudbury districts

Publication Number: M2221 Scale: 1:253,440    Date: 1976

Author: Thurston P.C., Sage R.P., Siragusa G.M.

Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines

Location:


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