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ONTARIO DEPARTMENT OF MINES
PRELIMINARY GEOLOGICAL MAP No. P.571
ADAMS TOWNSHIPDISTRICT DF I1MJSK^MING
Scale l inch Co 1/4 mile
NTS Reference: 42A/6 GSC Aeromagnetic Map: Z93G
INDEX MAP OF TIMMINS - MATHESON AREA
Preliminary Township Maps Published 5CALE; 1 inch to 16
miles
LEGEND
PRECAMBRIANPROTEROZOIC
_____LATE MAFIC INTRUSIVE ROCKS5 5 Undifferentiated
5a Diabase (Matachewan-type} 5b Diabase (Abitibi-tyne)
INTRUSIVE CONTACT
ARCHEAN_____FELSIC INTRUSIVE ROCKS ^
4 4 Undifferentiated 4a Granodiorite
INTRUSIVE CONTACT
______ULTRAMAFIC AND MAFIC INTRUSIVE ROCKS
l 3 3 Undifferentiated3a Serpentinized dunite-peridotite 3b
Serpentinized peridotite-pyroxenite 3c Carbonatized ultramafic
rocks 3d Gabbro and diorite
INTRUSIVE CONTACT
FEL.SIC METAVOLCAKICS2 Undifferentiated (felsic volcanics)
IF Iron formation
MAFIC 10 INi'EKKELUATE METAVOLCANICS ^, l Undifferentiated la
Ampbibolitized mafic t lows and pyroclastics
GEOLOGICAL AND MINING SYMBOLS
Small bedrock outcrop,
Area of bedrock outcrop.
Foliation; (horizontal,i f f\ roj.iaLi.uu; \iLULiiuiii_i ^" Z? \
inclined, vertical).
Foliation; (dip unknown).
Lineation wiLh plunge.
boundary, observed.
Geological boundary, position interpreted.
Geological boundary, deduced from geophysics.
l i Fault or shear zone; ' ~~ ' (assumed).
Drill hole; (projected vertically, projected up dip). Overburden
shown.
MARGINALJSpTES
Location and Accessibility: The area is approximately 8 miles
south of the town ot Timmins, A good all weather road extends south
from Timmins along the west side of the township. Two additional
roads, suitable for trucks, extend from the KoTnlield Building
Corporation Limited property (Buffalo Ankerite Mine) in Deloro
Township, to the northern part of Adams Township.
Mineral Exploration: During the period 1945-47, Balmoral
Porcupine Gold Mines Limited sunk 16 diamond drill holes, near the
north-central boundary of Adams Township, totalling approximately
18,000 feet. Most of the holes wure concentrated along a
northeast-trending carbonatized shear zone , throughout which
scattered gold values were found. With the exception of
approximately four, apparently unconnected, sections ranging fro
0.24 to 0.63 ounces of gold per ton, all assays were of a very low
tenor (Assessment Work Files, Resident Geologist's Office,
1'imnins). A shaft collar was built, although no shaft sinking was
done.
In 1948, one diamond drill hole, 1,500 feet in length, was sunk
by Glenadam Porcupine Gold Mining Company Limited on the property
of D.J. Crichton. No important mineralization is reported.
In 1958, Kennco Explorations (Canada) Limited drilled three
holes totalling 1,317 feet in the northeast quadrant of the area.
Nomineralization of importance was encountered.
In 1962, Canadian Magnesite Mines Limited extensively sampled
well exposed magnesite-tearing carbonate zones near the
south-central boundary of Deloro Township. Analyses of these
samples ranged from 15.4 to 34.1 percent soluble MgO (Assessment
Work Files, Resident Geologist's Office, Timnins). Apparently
little or no follow up work has been done on the property.
In 1967, four diamond drill holes totalling 731 feet were sunk
in granodiorite on the property of T. Michie.
Interest in base metal mineralization was generated in Adams
Township in 1968, when The International Nickel Company of Canada
Limited staked a group of claims in the Tiortheast part of the
township. During the 1969 field season, line cutting and
geophysical surveys were completed on the property.
General Geology: Most of the township is underlain by medium,-
to coarse- grained, massive, pink granodiorite. The granodiorite is
fairly uniform in composit ion averaging approximately ^0 percent
quartz, and 6 percent hornblende, now partly altered to biotite and
epidote. Megacrysts of potash feldspar are ubiquitous and average
approximately 0.3 inches in maximum dimension.
The northeastern part of the township is underlain predominately
by metavolcanics and Serpentinized and earbonati zed ultramafic
rocks. Foliations within these rocks tend to be parallel to the
granodiorite contact. Rocks adjacent to the granodiorite contact
have been subjected to contact metamorphism that complies in grade
to that of the hornblende hurnfels facies.
Two northeast-trending diabase dikes intrude the granodiorite in
the southeastern part of the area. These dikes are offset by
northwest- striking faults.
Recent and Pleistocene deposits cover all but one to two percent
of the area.
Economic Geology:
Magnesite: From the work done in 1962 Canadian Magnesite Mines
Limited concluded that commercial quantities of magnesite could be
recovered from two zones outlined in Deloro Township. Development
work, however, has not been initiated. in Adams Township, four
outcrops near the north-central boundary are altered to magnesite
and dolomite, with minor quartz, talc and chlorite. No exploration
work has been done on this occurrence which seems to be part of the
same general zone which was sampled by Canadian Magnesite Mines.
Presumably the occurrence in Adams Township contains a comparable
amount of MgO as that in Deloro Township.
Gold: Anomalous gold values are known to occur along a
northeast- trending carbonatized shear zone on the former property
of Balmoral Porcupine Cold Mines Limited. Although economic
concentrations were not outlined, other similar suhparallel. shear
^ones, perhaps related to the nearby granodiorite intrusion, may
also exist. If this is true, some of these other shears may have
been more favourable tor gold deposition than the one drilled by
Balmoral Porcupine Gold Mines.
Nickel: The Serpentinized ultramafic-vulcanic assemblage in the
northeast part of the area presents the same possibility for nickel
mineralization as the corresponding rock assemblages in the
townships of Eldorado and Langmuir further to the east. In both
these townships, small nickel deposits have been outlined, but none
to date have been reported to be of economic value,
Selected References
Carlson, H.D.1967: The geology of Ogden, Deloro and Shaw
Townships;
accompanied by Maps F.341, P.342, P.343; Ontario Department of
Mines, Open File Rept. No. 5012, 117 p.
Harding, W.D. and Berry L.G.1939: Geology of the Keefer-Eldorado
area; Ontario Dept,
Mines, Vol. XLV1I, 1938, pt. 4.
Ontario Department of Mines1964: Timmins-Kirkland Lake Sheet,
Geological Compilation
Series, Map 2046.
METAL AND MINERAL REFERENCE
Au . . . . . . . . . . GoldMg . . . . . . . . . . Magnesiumpy .
. . , . . . . . . Pyrite
LIST OF PROPERTIES
1. Balmoral Porcupine Gold Mines Limited [1947]'l. Canadian
Magnesite Mines Limited3. Crichton, D.J. [1943]4. Good, L.5.
International Nickel Company of Canada, Limited, The6. Louttit,
R.7. Michie, T. [1967]8. Rat*, L.H.9. Rozack, N.M.
10. Snider, C.F.
Not e : Date in square brackets indicates year of last major
work on property.
SOURCES OF INFORMATION
Geology by D.R. Pyke and assistant, 1969.Geological and
geophysical maps and reports of individualsand mining
companies.Geology is not tied to surveyed lines. Magnetic
declination is approximately 9DW,
Issued 1969.
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