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Record: MDI42H07SE00002

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Shell DDH 7517-76-1 - 1976
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Occurrence
Date Created 1991-Feb-25
Date Last Modified 2022-Oct-11
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold

Secondary Commodities: Zinc



Location

Township or Area: Potter

Latitude: 49° 21' 40.91"    Longitude: -80° 44' 44.85"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 518458.571   Northing: 5467659.294    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Timmins

NTS Grid: 42H07SE

Point Location Description: Drill collar at 0+20E/60N on claim P393237

Location Method: Based on Assessment

Access Description: The area is easily accessible by driving north from highway 574 along a series of Abitibi Paper Company roads.



Exploration History

1975-76: Shell Canada Ltd. - airborne geophysics, ground geophysics, 1 ddh (168 m).


Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Opatica

Geological Age: Archean  



Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Schist-Unsubdivided 1 Biotite Host

Lithology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - Diamond drilling intersected a sequence of quartz-feldspar-biotite gneiss and granite. The log notes the presence of what has been interpreted as a rhyolitic breccia or fragmental.




Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
1SphaleriteEconomicOre
2ChalcopyriteEconomicOre
1PyriteEconomicGangue

Mineralization Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - The best assays returned0.02 oz/t Au and 0.01% Zn over 0.31 m in schist.



Mineral Record Details

References

File - Resident Geologist files T-3100

Publication Number: Date:

Author:

Publisher Name:

Location: Timmins RGP office


Map - Cochrane sheet, District of Cochrane, geological compilation series

Publication Number: P0372 Scale: 1:126,720    Date: 1997

Author: Bennett G., Brown D.D., George P.T.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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