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| Record Name(s) | New Athona - 1955, Hurd Lake - 1991, Newman Group - 1955 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1980-Apr-22 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Aug-03 |
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Primary Commodities: Copper, Gold
Secondary Commodities: Zinc, Silver
Township or Area: Maun Lake Area
Latitude: 50° 27' 8.82" Longitude: -86° 59' 39.11"
UTM Zone: 16 Easting: 500412 Northing: 5588938 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay North
NTS Grid: 42L06NE, 42L07NW
Point Location Description: From Assessment report 20000014203
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: Access to the property is by float plane or helicopter, or by boat across O’Sullivan Lake, which is accessed via Highway 643 from Nakina.
1955: New Athona Mines Ltd. drilled 5 DDH totalling 489.6 m. 1972: Stanford Mines Ltd. carried out EM and magnetometer surveys. 1981: South Atlantic Ventures Ltd. carried out mapping. 1991: M. Smith carried out geological mapping, sampling, and ground magnetic and VLF-EM surveys. 1992: M. Smith carried out sampling and soil sampling. 2004: 2005: Superior Canadian Resources Inc. carried out mapping and sampling. 2015: R. Hodgson carried out prospecting and sampling.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| 12 | 42L07NW0011 | 42L07NW0011 |
| 63.6249 | 42L07NW8040 | 42L07NW8040 |
| OP92-488 | 42L07NW0019 | 42L07NW0019 |
| 2.56556 | 20000014203 | 20000014203 |
| 2.30942 | 20000001090 | 20000001090 |
| 2.4168 | 42L06NE0025 | 42L06NE0025 |
| 2.950 | 42L07NW0016 | 42L07NW0016 |
Province: Superior
Geological Age: Archean
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Intermediate lava flow-unsubdivided | 1 | Andesite To Basalt |
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| Quartz-Feldspar Porphyry | 2 | Quartz-Feldspar | Near | |
| Felsic lava flow-unsubdivided | 3 | Rhyolite | Host |
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Pyrrhotite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 4 | Arsenopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 5 | Marcasite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 1 | Quartz | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| Carbonate | Alteration | Carbonatization | 1 | Unknown | Disseminated |
Jun 27, 2019 (Therese Pettigrew) - The New Athona showing is located 200 m SW of Hurd Lake and consists of two mineralized fracture zones containing 2-25% sulphides, including chalcopyrite, pyrite, pyrrhotite, arsenopyrite, marcasite, and quartz veining, accompanied by carbonate alteration. The showing is situated near the edge of the Hurd Lake pluton, a quartz-feldspar porphyry which has intruded a rhyolitic unit. The rhyolite has been shattered by a NE-trending fault which has resulted in a brittle kink fold of the rhyolite. The mineralized rhyolite was exposed in trenches along a strike length of 130 m. The width of the fractured mineralized zone averages 6 m. Sample 910007 collected by M. Smith in 1991 returned 2.148 ppm Au (Assessment file 42L07NW8040). Sampling by Superior Canadian Resources in 2005 returned results up to 1.134 ppm Au (Assessment report 20000001090). Grab samples collected in 1992 returned 0.2148 ppm Au, 19,100 ppm Cu, and 565 ppm Zn (Assessment file 42L07NW0019). Samples collected by R. Hodgson in 2015 returned up to 54.5 g/t Au (Assessment file 20000014203). Channel samples from the east body averaged 1.64% Cu across a width of 3 m, on the west body, 0.47% Cu across a similar width (Shklanka, 1969).
Mono - Copper, nickel, lead and zinc deposits of Ontario
Publication Number: MDC012 Page: 335 Date: 1969
Author: Shklanka R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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Part - Geology of the O'Sullivan Lake area
Publication Number: ARV64-04 Page: 21-22 Date: 1997
Author: Moorhouse W.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Folio - Maun Lake area, District of Thunder Bay
Publication Number: GDIF018 Date: 1997
Author: Thunder Bay RGO
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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