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| Record Name(s) | Markes Property - 1934, Cline-Chubb Option - 1986 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Developed Prospect Without Reported Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1987-May-22 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Oct-18 |
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| Revised By |
Primary Commodities: Gold
Secondary Commodities: Copper
Township or Area: Jacobson
Latitude: 48° 18' 58.94" Longitude: -84° 19' 24.62"
UTM Zone: 16 Easting: 698422.49 Northing: 5354926.9 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Sault Ste. Marie
NTS Grid: 42C08SW
Point Location Description: Western end of open pit
Location Method: Field Visit with GPS
Access Description: The property is located approximately 100 km from the town of Wawa, east of the town of Dubreuilville. Access to the property is via highway 17 west, to highway 519 (Dubreuilville Road) and then via the Goudreau Road for approximately 24 km. From the Edwards Gold Mine, follow road 49 east for approximately 3.5 km to a disused forestry road. Follow this road north east approximately 3 km to a barricaded road. Walk approximately 200 m up the hill to the open pit.
1934-38: W. E. Markes carried out stripping, test pitting, sampling, and hand-drilling. 1938-39: Erie Canadian Mines Ltd. optioned the property and carried out sampling, mapping, and 13 diamond drill holes totaling 3131 ft. 1939-64: W. E. Markes regained the property. 1975-77: R. Campell and D Burt completed 17 diamond drill holes totaling 1372 ft. 1979-81: M. J. Taylor carried out ground geophysical surveys and mapping. 1981-82: Vega Gold Exploration Ltd. carried out ground geophysical survey, mapping, 39 diamond drill holes totaling 1750 m. 1983: Cline Development Corporation optioned 12 claims from F. Chubb and carried out ground geophysical surveys, trenching, and mapping. 1985-87: Esso Minerals Canada optioned the property from Cline Development, carried out channel sampling, 25 diamond drill holes totaling 2529 m, stripping, mapping, and ground geophysical surveys. 1993: Hemo Gold Mines completed 13 diamond drill holes totaling 2097 m, ground geophysical surveys, mapping, and soil surveys. 1996-2000: Pele Mountain Resources Inc. carried out an IP survey, 51 diamond drill holes totaling 2952 m, mapping, till sampling, and bulk sampling in 1999 (10 406 tonnes averaging 5.1 g/t Au). 2012: Prodigy Gold Inc. carried out airborne geophysics including magnetometer and VLFEM. 2017: First Minerals Exploration Ltd. carried out 3 diamond drill holes totaling 1450m.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| WP Jacobson.115 / WP Riggs-79 / 2.53179 | 20000007814 | 20000007814 |
| WP JACOBSON.57 / 63.4842 | 42C08SW0042 | 42C08SW0042 |
| JACOBSON 0021C1 | 42C08SW0167 | 42C08SW0167 |
| JACOBSON 0036 | 42C08SW0164 | 42C08SW0164 |
| JACOBSON 0060A1 | 42C08SW0084 | 42C08SW0084 |
| JACOBSON 0062A1 | 42C08SW0081 | 42C08SW0081 |
| WP JACOBSON.3 / 35 | 42C08SW0054 | 42C08SW0054 |
| WP JACOBSON.40 / 43 | 42C08SW0035 | 42C08SW0035 |
| WP JACOBSON.70 / 2.19467 | 42C08SW2011 | 42C08SW2011 |
| WP JACOBSON.53 / 63.5089 | 42C08SW0015 | 42C08SW0015 |
| WP JACOBSON.66 / 2.18548 | 42C08SW2001 | 42C08SW2001 |
| WP JACOBSON.67 / 2.18517 | 42C08SW2002 | 42C08SW2002 |
| WP JACOBSON.71 / 2.19753 | 42C08SW2012 | 42C08SW2012 |
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 | Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 1 | Sheared, Massive, Pillowed | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feldspar Porphyry | 2 | Feldspar | Sheared | Near |
| Gabbro | 3 | Gabbro | Near | |
| Schist-Unsubdivided | 4 | Quartz-Sericite | Host |
Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - Massive to pillowed mafic metavolcanic rocks dominate the geology. These rocks are weakly to moderately carbonatized, with an increase in intensity adjacent to the shear zone. Outside the main shear, volcanic textures are preserved and pillows show little evidence of strain. North of the shear zone an intermediate to felsic dike crosscuts and truncates pillowed mafic metavolcanics. This unit has been sheared to form a quartz-sericite schist. Along strike, to the east of the main occurrence, the Markes shear departs the mafic metavolcanic rocks and enters the intermediate and quartz porphyry dikes. Gold mineralization here is associated with intense sericitization, silicification and pyritization within narrow zones containing centimetre-wide crack and seal quartz veinlets, typically with low erratic gold values.
| 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 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| Ankerite | Alteration | Carbonatization | 1 | Medium | Replacement | ||
| Silica | Alteration | Silicification | 2 | Medium | Replacement | ||
| Sericite | Alteration | Sericitization | 3 | Strong | Replacement |
Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - Burwash reports that the best 3 foot section reportedly assayed 0.19 oz/t Au. Grab samples collected by Markes in 1934 range from 0.01 to 1.43 oz/t Au. Diamond drill results from Erie Canadian's diamond drilling returned values of 9.00 dwt across 8 feet and 4.75 dwt across 12 ft. One of Vega's drill holes intersected 7.2 gt Au over 3.23 m.
Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - The Markes high-strain zone has localized most of the alteration and associated gold mineralization. Fe-carbonatization and silicification are the most obvious alteration types particularly within the mafic metavolcanic rocks. There appears to be a spatial relationship between the intense alteration, pyrite and higher gold values.
| Rank | Classification |
|---|---|
| 1 | Replacement |
| Rank | Characteristic |
|---|---|
| 1 | Sheared |
| 2 | Stockwork |
| Shape | Length | Thickness | Depth | Strike | Dip | Plunge | Trend | Age | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Regular | 1900 | 12 | 50 | 270 | 70 |
Date: Nov 15, 2000
Geologist: A Wilson
Notes: The Markes occurrence lies within the eastern domain of the GLDZ within a 90 degree striking, near vertical dipping, britttle-ductile high strain zone known as the Markes shear. There is a large mafic intrusive sill lying north of the Markes shear that is also found north of the Cline Mine. This sill has behaved more competently than the other rocks and has influenced the localization of the Markes shear. The Markes shear is a 3 to 40 m wide comosite zone comprised of numerous discrete shears which cut all rock types. Relative differences in the competencies of the lithologies has influenced the localization of the high-strain zones. In the immediate vicinity of the mineralization, the Markes shear is localized between an intermediate dike and pillowed mafic rocks on the north side, and between pillowed and massive mafic volcanic rocks along the south side. The discrete shears are 1-2 cm wide and appear to splay off of one another in a semi-regular pattern. All structures have influenced the localization of felsic dikes, alteration, higher-grade gold mineralization and later, non-auriferous quartz veins. The northern and southern boundaries of the Markes shear are defined by narrow, crack and seal quartz-tourmaline filled shears which carry some of the better gold assays.
| Zone | Year | Category | Tonnes | Reference | Comments | Commodities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Markes Property | 1987 | Unclassified | 82500 | WP Jacobson.70 | Gold 5.75 Grams per Tonne |
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 - 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
Mono - Geological and structural setting of gold mineralization in the Goudreau-Lochalsh area, Wawa gold camp
Publication Number: OFR5832 Page: 45-50 Date: 1992
Author: Heather K.B., Arias Z.G.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Part - The Michipicoten-Missinaibi area
Publication Number: ARV44-08.001 Page: 13 Date: 1997
Author: Burwash E.M.
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: 44 Date: 1971
Author: Ferguson S.A., Groen H.A., Haynes R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs
Location:
Mono - Wawa mineral deposits data base
Publication Number: OFR5775 Page: 220-221 Date: 1991
Author: Frey E.D., Stewart R.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Book - Gold Occurrences of Wawa-Missinabie Area, unpublished report
Publication Number: Robinson Page: 53 Date: 1983
Author: Robinson, D.
Publisher Name:
Location: Timmins RGO
MonoMap - Geology of Aguonie, Bird, Finan and Jacobson Townships, District of Algoma
Publication Number: OFR5588 Page: 145-147 Date: 1993
Author: Sage R.P.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Report of Activities 1999, Resident Geologist Program, Timmins Regional Resident Geologist Report: Timmins-Sault Ste. Marie Districts
Publication Number: OFR6006 Page: 5-7, 12-14 Date: 2000
Author: Atkinson B.T., Hailstone M.H., Ravnaas C., Wilson A.C., Draper D.M., Hope P., Morra P.M., Beauchamp S.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Copper, nickel, lead and zinc deposits of Ontario
Publication Number: MDC012 Page: 110 Date: 1969
Author: Shklanka R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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: 181 Date: 1985
Author: Rose, D. G.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/129999
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