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| Record Name(s) | Filion Property - 1945, Southeast McCowan - 1971, Filion Trench #1 - 1945 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1980-Aug-27 |
| Date Last Modified | 2024-Jan-23 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: McCowan
Latitude: 49° 35' 9.84" Longitude: -82° 55' 16.41"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 361137.05 Northing: 5494382.15 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Timmins
NTS Grid: 42G10SW
Point Location Description: Trench #1, north of lake, NE 1/4, Lot 7, Conc. 1
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: Property can be accessed by travelling along Highway 11 for 3.25 miles west of Opasatika to a farm tractor trail leading northward for 3 miles to the claim group.
1936: O. Peterson- Showing discovery and prospecting, trenching. 1939: Sylvanite Gold Mines, Limited - Property examination on behalf of D. Filion, sampling, assays. 1945: Filion Gold Mines - Staking, sampling, assays; 4 claims patented. 1946: Kennco Explorations Limited - Property option, diamond drilling, 6 holes, option allowed to lapse (Kennco property report mentions previous examinations and sampling by N.A.M.E., ODM, Anglo Huronian and Noranda, but no further information is on file.) 1955, ODM: Property examination by S.A. Ferguson. 1985, RGO/MNR (L. Luhta): Property visit, sampling, assays. 2023: Torr Metals Inc. carried out soil and channel sampling.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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| 63.3847 | 42G10SE0005 | 42G10SE0005 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Quetico
Geological Age: Archean
Apr 03, 2014 (D Draper) - Property is covered by deep overburden (muskeg and clay) with few outcrops apart from bedrock exposed by trenching.General strike of main showing is N 70 - 80º E with a dip of 80º N.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Gabbroid-Unsubdivided | 1 | Near |
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| Granite | 2 | Adjacent | ||
| Vein | 3 | Quartz | Host | |
| Vein | 4 | Calcite | Host |
Apr 03, 2014 (D Draper) - Vein material is described as sporadic, mineralized lenses occurring along and near the contact of felsic and mafic intrusives. The lenses vary in length from 3 to 25 feet and from a half to 2 feet in width. Five separate occurrences of these veins were located on the property. Work was concentrated on the one nearest the south boundary of Claim S21857 (Trench #1). The host rock is metamorphosed sediments within a sequence of granites.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Gold | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 1 | Pyrite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 2 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 3 | Galena | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 4 | Calcite | Economic | Gangue |
Apr 03, 2014 (D Draper) - Pyrite only noted at main showing in Trench #1; chalcopyrite and galena were noted at Trench #2 (200 ft east of #1); best assay at #2 was 0.15 oz/t Au from a grab sample of silicified porphyry. Trench #1 results (stripped area 200ft by 15ft): 1939: 6 grab samples of quartz veins at surface returned assays of 0.02 to 1.04 oz/t Au. 1946: Samples from zones of massive pyrite (up to 4ft wide) returned up to 0.75 oz/t Au. Channel sampling gave 0.2 oz/t Au over a width of 6 ft. Very fine free gold in association with calcite stringers was discovered in the west end of the trench. Kennco drilling results returned mostly nil to trace gold values except for hole #7 which assayed from 0.03 to 0.12 oz/t Au over a 13-foot zone located directly beneath Trench #1. 1985 grab sampling of Trench #1 (West trench) returned up to 0.29 oz/t Au. Sample from Trench #2 (Middle trench) returned 0.01 oz/t Au.
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Vein |
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 1 | Vein |
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: 15 Date: 1985
Author: Rose, D.G.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/129999
File - Resident Geologist files T-0201
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Location: Timmins RGP office
Map - Hearst-Kapuskasing sheet, geological compilation series, Algoma and Cochrane districts
Publication Number: M2166 Scale: 1:253,440 Date: 1969
Author: Bennett G., Brown D.D., George P.T., Leahy E.J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Operation Kapuskasing
Publication Number: MP010 Page: 57 Date: 1967
Author: Bennett G., Brown D.D., George P.T., Leahy E.J., Guillet G.R.
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: 132 Date: 1971
Author: Ferguson S.A., Groen H.A., Haynes R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs
Location:
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
Location:
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