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| Record Name(s) | Cline Lake Gold Mine - 1924, Pick Mine - 1959, Cline Mine - 1924 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1987-May-15 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Aug-25 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold, Silver
Secondary Commodities: Molybdenum
Township or Area: Jacobson
Latitude: 48° 19' 10.55" Longitude: -84° 21' 5.95"
UTM Zone: 16 Easting: 696323.48 Northing: 5355212.94 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Sault Ste. Marie
NTS Grid: 42C08SW
Point Location Description: No. 3 shaft
Location Method: Field Visit with GPS
Access Description: The site is accessible via Highway 527 (Dubreuilville Highway) to the new Goudreau Road. Travel along the new Goudreau Road to the junction with the old Goudreau Road (a distance of approximately 18 km), turn east and follow the old Goudreau Road to the north end of Pine Lake (approximately 6 km). Take the Jacobson Tp road (Lochalsh access road) to the Cline Lake access road (approximately 2.5 km). Depending on flooding conditions, the mine can be accessed either by foot or by vehicle right to the mine site.
1918: J. Cline discovered the property and carried out stripping, trenching, test pitting. 1924-27: Clines Canadian Gold Mines Ltd. (Cline Mines Ltd.) optioned the property and sunk the Office Shaft to 115 feet; No. 1 shaft sunk to 140 ft. with 1 level developed, No. 2 shaft (inclined) sunk to 215 ft with 2 levels established. 1927-32: Cline Mines Ltd. sunk Office Shaft to 115 feet and 1 level established. 1932-59: Cline Lake Gold Mines Limited carried out diamond drilling, and was in production. 1938-42: 3 compartment shaft deepened to 622 ft in 1940, No. 4 Shaft 4 compartment shaft deepened to 1196 ft in 1940, operations ceased October 8, 1942 and plant dismantled. 1959-79: Pick Mines Ltd. acquired the property, completed 31 surface diamond drill holes totaling 8951 ft, shaft dewatering, underground sampling, underground development, ground magnetometer survey, cyanidation and floatation tests on ore samples, adit driven on No. 3 Zone. 1970-83: Picktrex Mining and Investments Ltd./ROK Engineering Construction carried out a magnetometer survey, 9 percussion diamond drill holes totaling 53 ft, stripping, sampling, mapping, cyanidation and floatation tests. 1983-2000: Cline Development Corporation carried out a magnetometer survey, mapping, soil sampling, IP survey. 1985: Noranda Exploration Co. Ltd/Freewest Resources-Longold Resources optioned the property. 1997-90: Noranda Exploration Co. Ltd/Freewest Resources-Longold Resources completed 86 diamond drill holes totaling 14 725 m, stripping, trenching and mapping.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| JACOBSON 22-A1 | 42C08SW0090 | 42C08SW0090 |
| WP Jacobson-26 | 42C08SW0014 | 42C08SW0014 |
| JACOBSON 0037 | 42C08SW8798 | 42C08SW8798 |
| JACOBSON 0049 | 42C08SW3250 | 42C08SW3250 |
| Jacobson-0068, 42C08SW0071 | 20000005073 | 20000005073 |
| JACOBSON 0076 | 42C08SW8739 | 42C08SW8739 |
| JACOBSON 60A1 | 42C08SW0084 | 42C08SW0084 |
| WPJACOBSON.10 / 22 / 63.5203 | 42C08SW0026 | 42C08SW0026 |
| WPJACOBSON.23 / 26 / 63.523 | 42C08SW0014 | 42C08SW0014 |
| WP_Jacobson-27 | 20000019844 | 20000019844 |
| WPJACOBSON.30 | 42C08SW8739 | 42C08SW8739 |
| WPJACOBSON.51 / 63.6159 | 42C08SW0008 | 42C08SW0008 |
| WP_Jacobson-56 | 20000018813 | 20000018813 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Wawa
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Michipicoten
Tectonic Assemblage: Wawa
Geological Age: Neoarchean Geochronological Age: 2750 MA Geochron. Age Ref.: GOO VOL 1
Metamorphism Type: Regional
Metamorphism Grade: Greenschist
Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - The deposit lies within the Eastern Domain of the Goudreau Lake Deformation Zone. The GLDZ is up to 4.5 km in width and strikes in a gentle sigmoid-form for at least 30 km, subparallel to the stratigraphy and the regional foliation. In the immediate Goudreau-Lochalsh area, the GLDZ is coincident with a major contact between Cycle 2 and Cycle 3 volcanics. There is a strong structural control of the gold-bearing quartz veins systms within each of the 070-075 striking high-strain zones within the deformation zone. The Eastern Domain of the GLDZ is 9 km long and 2 km wide and contains narrow brittle and brittle-ductile high-strain zones displaying dextral, oblique slip displacement. Mineral lineations at the Cline Lake area have a consistent shallow plunge to the east and become moderately to steeply plunging in the Godin Lake area. Within the eastern domain, high-strain zones (as well as laminated, quartz-tourmaline and/or quartz-Fe-carbonate veins, fractures and flesic porphyry dikes) are dominantly parallel or at low angles to the east-striking regional foliation. The eastern domain is truncated on the west by the NW-trending Maskinonge Lake Fault.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Vein | 1 | Quartz | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Granodiorite | 2 | Porphyritic | Near | |
| Mafic pillowed flow | 3 | Sheared, Pillowed | Near | |
| Gabbroid-Unsubdivided | 4 | Near |
Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - The deposit is hosted by a series of high-strain zone hosted quartz veins that cross-cut all of the local rock types. The most prominent rock type present is a near vertical, oval shaped granodiorite stock in the immediate Cline Lake Mine workings. The granodiorite is characterized by the presence of blue opalescent quartz eyes. The stock plunges moderately to steeply to the east. Many felsic to intermediate dikes also occur in the vicinity of the mine. They have been mapped as: intermediate dikes (oldest), aphanitic felsic dikes, quartz-porphyry dikes and feldspar porphyry dikes. The mafic metavolcanic rocks in the vicinity of the mine are strongly foliated. In other locations on the property, the mafic metavolcanic rocks are massive to pillowed flows. Minor chert-magnetite iron formation has been observed intercalated within the flows. Early mappers (Bruce 1942) had mapped a series of rhyolite flows interbedded with the mafic metavolcanic rocks. More recently these units have been interpreted as synvolcanic intrusions.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gold | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 1 | Pyrite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 2 | Pyrrhotite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 3 | Sericite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 4 | Chlorite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 5 | Carbonate | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 6 | Tourmaline | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 7 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 8 | Galena | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 9 | Sphalerite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 10 | Arsenopyrite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 11 | Molybdenite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| Ankerite | Alteration | Carbonatization | 1 | Weak | Replacement | ||
| Sericite | Alteration | Sericitization | 2 | Weak | Replacement | ||
| Pyrite | Alteration | Pyritic | 3 | Weak | Replacement |
Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - Mineralization consists of auriferous quartz veins and schistose rocks hosted within brittle-ductile high-strain zones. Gold mineralization can occure with, or without, quartz in thin shears accompanied by carbonate, pyrite, and biotite or sericite. Individual veins nearly always carry anomalous gold, but gold values are generally highly erratic. Visible gold is common locally. The quartz in the gold-bearing veins typically has a sugary texture. Gold is usually found in fine particles in or near lenses or grains of fine-grained pyrite. However, gold has also been observed as irregular grains completely surrounded by quartz, as grains moulded onto pyrite grains, as fillings of fractures in pyrite, as small blebs in unfractured pyrite, filling fractures in quartz near pyrite grains and along the margins of galena grains.
Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - Alteration is confined to zones of shearing and does not affect large volumes of rock. Underground at the mine, Bruce observed that the wall rocks had not undergone extensive alteration. Alteration consists of variable amounts of Fe-carbonatization, sericitization, pyritization and minor siclicification. The mafic metavolcanics display chlorite, Fe-carbonate, calcite and minor pyrite and quartz alteration. The felsic units display sericite, quartz, pyrite and Fe-carbonate. Fe-carbonatization is the most abundant alteration type associated with the auriferous quartz veins.
| Rank | Classification |
|---|---|
| 1 | Hydrothermal |
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 1 | Sheared |
| 2 | Vein |
| Shape | Length | Thickness | Depth | Strike | Dip | Plunge | Trend | Age | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Regular | 260 | 75 |
Date: Nov 08, 2000
Geologist: A Wilson
Notes: A 15 metre wide ductile high-strain zone, known as the Cline-Edwards high-strain zone, lies a short distanct south of the No. 3 adit and the main No. 4 production shaft. This zone crosscuts both the mafic and felsic rocks. Quartz, Fe-carbonate, sericite and chlorite are commonly observed in this zone. Large, milky white quartz veins are common within the Cline-Edwards high strain zone but they are generally non-auriferous. Bruce reported that no ore of any consequence was found within this high-strain zone. This point was supported by the Noranda diamond drilling programme. Bruce indicates that this high-strain zone passes into the granodiorite stock between the 3rd and 4th levels of the underground workings. The productive part of the workings was in the hanging wall rocks of the Cline-Edwards high-strain zone. The most promininent subsidiary feature at the mine is the A fault. It trends 110-115 and occupies a nearly vertical brittel-ductile high-strain zone. Subsidiary structures splay off of the A fault, as well as the Cline-Edwards shear. The most important ore body was the A vein, which lay along the hanging wall side of the A fault. Numerous subsidiary viens branch off the hanging wall side of the A vein and are reportedly localized along the contacts of felsic dikes. No ore was found in the foot wall of the Cline-Edwards shear but mineralization is found in the footwall rocks on the adjoining Edwards property. Little mineralization was found below the 5th level of th mine workings. This appears to be because with increasing depth, the Cline-Edwards high-strain zone progressively encroaches on the near vertical dipping, eastward plunging vein system, and eventually truncates it.
| Zone | Year | Category | Tonnes | Reference | Comments | Commodities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cline Lake Gold Mine | 1987 | Possible | 18140 | Resident Geologist Files | Gold 0.19 oz/T |
| Year | Tonnes | Commodities | Reference | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942 | 41838 |
Silver 1550 Ounces Gold 8088 Ounces |
AR 52 PT 1 TABLE FACING P 10, P. 90-91 | |
| 1941 | 77395 |
Silver 218.82 Ounces Gold 12972.5 Ounces |
AR 51 PT 1 TABLE IV, P. 87 | |
| 1940 | 74287 |
Silver 2637 Ounces Gold 15426.38 Ounces |
AR 50 PT 1A, TABLE 3 | |
| 1939 | 78095 |
Silver 2622 Ounces Gold 22346.96 Ounces |
AR 49 PT 1, P. 12, 18, 99 | |
| 1938 | 29342 |
Silver 1074 Ounces Gold 7351.77 Ounces |
AR 48 PT 1 P. 95 |
Map - Goudreau-Lochalsh area, District of Algoma, Ontario
Publication Number: ARM36B Scale: 1:63,360 Date: 1927
Author: E. Thomson, T.L. Gledhill, W.H. Collins
Publisher Name: Ontario Department of Mines
Location:
Map - Goudreau gold area, District of Algoma, Ontario
Publication Number: ARM40E Scale: 1:31,680 Date: 1931
Author: E.S. Moore
Publisher Name: Ontario Department of Mines
Location:
Map - Goudreau-Lochalsh area, District of Algoma, Ontario
Publication Number: ARM49G Scale: 1:31,680 Date: 1997
Author: Bruce E.L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Michipicoten area, compilation sheet, District of Algoma
Publication Number: P0184 Scale: 1:126,720 Date: 1997
Author: Goodwin A.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Geological compilation series, Wawa sheet, districts of Algoma and Sudbury
Publication Number: P0640 Scale: 1:126,720 Date: 1997
Author: Leahy E.J., Rupert R.J., Giblin P.E., Giguere J.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs
Location:
Map - Precambrian geology, Jacobson Township
Publication Number: P3170 Scale: 1:15,840 Date: 1990
Author: Sage R.P.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Folio - Jacobson Township, District of Algoma
Publication Number: GDIF111 Date: 1997
Author: Sault Ste Marie RGO
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location: Timmins RGP
Book - NEWSP - NORANDA EXPLORATION CO LTD
Publication Number: N/A Date: 1996
Author:
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Location:
Book - Clippings - Cline Development Corp.
Publication Number: Clippings Date: 1996
Author:
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Location:
Book - NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS - PICK MINES LTD
Publication Number: N/A Date: 1996
Author:
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Location:
Part - The Michipicoten-Missinaibi area
Publication Number: ARV44-08.001 Page: 14 Date: 1997
Author: Burwash E.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Part - Mines of Ontario in 1942
Publication Number: ARV52-01.003 Page: 90-9 Date: 1997
Author: Tower W.O., Smith R.L., Bawden W.E., Cooper D.F., Taylor J.B., Little E.S., Weir E.B., Douglass D.P.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Annual report for the year 1965, statistics of the mineral industry and mining operations in Ontario for 1965
Publication Number: ARV75 Page: 48-49 Date: 1997
Author: Riddell G.S.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Part - Goudreau-Lochalsh gold area, District of Algoma
Publication Number: ARV36-02.002 Page: 79-80 Date: 1998
Author: Gledhill T.L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Gold deposits of Ontario, part 1, districts of Algoma, Cochrane, Kenora, Rainy River, and Thunder Bay
Publication Number: MDC013 Page: 37 Date: 1971
Author: Ferguson S.A., Groen H.A., Haynes R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs
Location:
Article - Goudreau-Lochalsh area, District of Algoma
Publication Number: MP126.016 Date: 1997
Author: Sage R.P.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Wawa mineral deposits data base
Publication Number: OFR5775 Page: 210-220 Date: 1991
Author: Frey E.D., Stewart R.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Article - Geological setting of gold mineralization in the Goudreau-Lochalsh area, District of Algoma
Publication Number: MP137.024 Date: 1997
Author: Heather K.B., Arias Z.G.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Book - Gold Occurrences of the Wawa-Missinabie Area, unpublished report
Publication Number: Robinson Page: 5-6 Date: 1983
Author: Robinson, D.
Publisher Name:
Location: Timmins RGP
Part - Mines of Ontario in 1941
Publication Number: ARV51-01.003 Page: 87 Date: 1997
Author: Tower W.O., Smith R.L., Cave A.E., Cooper D.F., Taylor J.B., Bawden W.E., Little E.S., Weir E.B., Douglass D.P.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - Geology of Aguonie, Bird, Finan and Jacobson Townships, District of Algoma
Publication Number: OFR5588 Page: 135-145 Date: 1993
Author: Sage R.P.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Part - Mines of Ontario in 1940
Publication Number: ARV50-01.001 Page: 23, 32 Date: 1997
Author: Tower W.O., Cave A.E., Taylor J.B., Little E.S., Hargrave W.G., Bayne A.S., Cooper D.F., Weir E.B., Douglass D.P.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Part - Mines of Ontario in 1940
Publication Number: ARV50-01.001 Page: 23-24 Date: 1997
Author: Tower W.O., Cave A.E., Taylor J.B., Little E.S., Hargrave W.G., Bayne A.S., Cooper D.F., Weir E.B., Douglass D.P.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Part - Notes on the Goudreau gold area
Publication Number: ARV30-04.003 Page: 44 Date: 1998
Author: Burrows A.G.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Part - Geology of the Goudreau-Lochalsh area
Publication Number: ARV49-03 Page: 33-41 Date: 1997
Author: Bruce E.L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Part - Statistical review of the mineral industry of Ontario for 1939
Publication Number: ARV49-01.001 Page: 12, 18, 99-100 Date: 1997
Author: Tremblay M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Molybdenum deposits of Ontario
Publication Number: MDC007 Page: 19 Date: 1968
Author: Johnston F.J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Geological and structural setting of gold mineralization in the Goudreau-Lochalsh area, Wawa gold camp
Publication Number: OFR5832 Page: 38-45 Date: 1992
Author: Heather K.B., Arias Z.G.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Book - Cline Lake Mine; In: Structural Geology of Canadian Ore Deposits, Jubilee Volume
Publication Number: Page: 433-435 Date: 1948
Author: Bruce, E.L.
Publisher Name: Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum
Location: Timmins RGP
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: 193 Date: 1985
Author: Rose, D. G.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/129999
Mono - Annual report for the year 1966, statistics of the mineral industry and mining operations in Ontario for 1966
Publication Number: ARV76 Page: 51 Date: 1998
Author: Riddell G.S.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Part - Mines of Ontario in 1938
Publication Number: ARV48-01.003 Page: 93-96 Date: 1997
Author: Sinclair D.G., Cave A.E., Tower W.O., Taylor J.B., Douglass D.P., Bayne A.S., Cooper D.F., Weir E.B., Webster A.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Part - Mines of Ontario in 1937
Publication Number: ARV47-01.003 Page: 102-103 Date: 1997
Author: Sinclair D.G., Tower W.O., Taylor J.B., Douglass D.P., Bayne A.S., Cave A.E., Cooper D.F., Weir E.B., Webster A.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Part - Mines of Ontario in 1936
Publication Number: ARV46-01.003 Page: 114-115 Date: 1997
Author: Sinclair D.G., Tower W.O., Bayne A.S., Cooper D.F., Weir E.B., Webster A.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Part - Goudreau and Michipicoten gold areas, District of Algoma
Publication Number: ARV40-04.001 Page: 35 Date: 1998
Author: Moore E.S.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Part - Mines of Ontario in 1927
Publication Number: ARV37-01.003 Page: 91 Date: 1998
Author: Sutherland T.F., McMillan J.G., Sinclair D.G., Cole G.E., Webster A.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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