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Record: MDI42C08SW00187

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Amax DDH W-6-75 - 1975, Amax Power Group - 1973, Nucanolan Resources Ltd. - 1999
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Occurrence
Date Created 2001-May-23
Date Last Modified 2023-Aug-23
Created By
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Copper, Lead

Secondary Commodities: Gold, Silver, Zinc



Location

Township or Area: Riggs

Latitude: 48° 18' 49.06"    Longitude: -84° 17' 19.04"

UTM Zone: 16    Easting: 701019   Northing: 5354713    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Sault Ste. Marie

NTS Grid: 42C08SW

Point Location Description: Drill collar for Amax DDH W-6-75

Location Method: Based on Assessment

Access Description: Access to the area is via the Lochalsh Road. Follow the old Goudreau Road from the junction of the old and new Goudreau roads for approximately 7 km to the Jacobson Township turnoff. Follow the Lochalsh Road for approximately 10 km. Take the Godin Lake Road for about 1.5 km to the site.



Exploration History

1973-75: Amax Exploration Inc. - mapping, ground magnetometer, EM surveys, 1 ddh (501 ft). 1987-88: Teco Mines and Oils Ltd. - ground geophysics, VLF-EM survey, mapping. 1990-99: Loydex Resources Inc. - stripping, sampling, prospecting, trenching, assays.


Assessment Work on File

Assessment Work on File
Office File Number Online Assessment File Identifier Online Assessment File Directory
WP Riggs.41, W9750.00027 42C08SE0036 42C08SE0036
WP Riggs.52/2.20020 42C08SE2004 42C08SE2004
WP Riggs. 48/2.19211 42C08SW2007 42C08SW2007
Finan 0012 42C08SE0160 42C08SE0160
Finan-0011 42C08SW8730 42C08SW8730
Riggs 0011E1/13 42C08SW0629 42C08SW0629
WP Riggs.14/ 2.10814 42C08SW0848 42C08SW0848
WP Riggs.17/ 2.11028 42C08NE0742 42C08NE0742
WP Riggs.26/ 2.13519 42C08SW0604 42C08SW0604

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Wawa

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Michipicoten

Geological Age: Neoarchean  



Geology Comments

Sep 23, 2016 (A Wilson) - 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 systems 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. Within the eastern domain, high-strain zones (as well as laminated, quartz-tourmaline and/or quartz-Fe-carbonate veins, fractures and felsic 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.




Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Vein 1 Quartz Host
Schist-Unsubdivided 2 Quartz-Sericite Host
Intermediate lava flow-unsubdivided 3 Near

Lithology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - Glassy quartz veins are found associated with quartz sericite schist and siliceous, intermediate tuff.




Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
1PyriteEconomicGangue
2PyrrhotiteEconomicGangue
3ChalcopyriteEconomicGangue
4SphaleriteEconomicGangue

Mineralization Comments

Sep 23, 2016 (A Wilson) - The best assay returned 0.04 oz/t Au and 1530 ppm Zn from quartz sericite schist. Elevated copper and lead values were also returned from quartz veins within siliceous tuff. Grab samples from stripped areas in the same vicinity of the Amax drilling returned assays with copper values as high as 17,500 ppm Cu. Assays from the adjacent Nucanolen Resources property returned assays up to 1471 g/t Au.



Mineral Record Details

References

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 Page: 257-270  Date: 1997

Author: Heather K.B., Buck S.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


File - Resident Geologist files WP Riggs.45 (OP96-13), WP Riggs.31 (W9250.00004)

Publication Number: Date:

Author:

Publisher Name:

Location: SSM RGP office


Map - Geological series, Missanabie area, Riggs Township, formerly Township 47, District of Algoma

Publication Number: P0944 Scale: 1:15,840    Date: 1974

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

Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines

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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

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MonoMap - Geology of Riggs and West townships, District of Algoma

Publication Number: R174 Page: 41-42  Date: 1978

Author: Srivastava P., Bennett G.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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