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| Record Name(s) | Smerritt Option - 1972, Rio Tinto DDH S-2 - 1972 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1991-Mar-27 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Nov-01 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Machin
Latitude: 49° 21' 6.92" Longitude: -82° 2' 50.46"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 423935.9 Northing: 5467106.06 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Timmins
NTS Grid: 42G08SE
Point Location Description: NW 1/4 LOT 26 CON 3; drill collar on former claim P.320266 at 0+00N/4+00 E on Rio Tinto grid
Location Method: Based on Assessment
Access Description: The site is accessible via a series of forestry roads heading north from highway 11 at Fauquier. The site is located approximately 4 km north of highway 11.
1969: International Nickel Co. - 1 ddh (400 ft). 1972: Rio Tinto Canadian Exploraiton Ltd. - ground geophysics, mapping, 2 ddh (800 ft). 1988: McKinnon Prospecting - airborne geophysics.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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| T-1502, 2.1063 | 42G08SE8028 | 42G08SE8028 |
| T-1502, 13 | 42G08SE0010 | 42G08SE0010 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Quetico
Geological Age: Archean
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Ironstone-unsubdivided | 1 | Host |
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| Gneiss-Unsubdivided | 2 | Hanging Wall | ||
| Gneiss-Unsubdivided | 3 | Footwall |
Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - The hanging wall gneiss is a metamorphosed metasediment. It presently consists of a hornblende-garnet-biotite schist. The iron formaiton has been metamorphosed to coarse-grained hornblende and pyrrhotite with minor garnet. Lenses of pyrrhotite and magnetite are more common at depth.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Pyrrhotite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 2 | Magnetite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 3 | Pyrite | Economic | Gangue |
Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - Diamond drilling intersected 2.4 ft of sulphide rich iron formation that returned an assay of 0.04 oz/t au, 0.0064% Ni, 0.004% Zn, 0.0054% Cu.
File - Resident Geologist files T-873, T-3178
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Location: Timmins RGP office
Map - Kapuskasing sheet, districts of Cochrane and Algoma, geological compilation series
Publication Number: P0398 Scale: 1:126,720 Date: 1997
Author: Bennett G., Brown D.D., George P.T., Leahy E.J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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