Project Metadata

As part of the Federal Winter Special Employment Program, two drilling projects were carried out in the winter of 1971-1972 (December to April).  The objectives of the project were:

• to evaluate aspects of exploration geochemistry in the clay belt environment of this region
• to provide data useful for mineral exploration
• to provide winter employment within the area
• to test, compare and apply drilling techniques for mineral tracing in areas of thick overburden (Cobra vs rotary drilling)

 

	Area	Description	GSC Publication
I	Timmins to Val d’Or	Regional lake bottom sampling*	Open File 112
	Nighthawk Lake, ON Lac Abitibi, QC Lac Pelletier, QC Lac Macamic, QC	Detailed till and lake bottom sampling*	Open File 112
II	Duprat, QC Duparquet, QC Frederickhouse, ON Harricanaw-Amos, QC Mattagami Esker, QC Munro, ON Normétal, QC Rivière-Héva, QC Timmins Airport, ON Vasan-Deshaies/Siscoe, QC	Rotary drilling for till and bedrock samples	Open File 116 Open File 945 (gold content for selected till samples)
	Kamiskotia-Jameland, ON (pilot project)	Rotary drilling for till and bedrock samples	GSC Open File 116 supplement
	Larder Lake	Cobra drilling for till and bedrock samples	GSC Open File 116

 

* Limited access, poor ground mobility and adverse winter conditions made it impossible to obtain the desired uniform distribution and density of sample sites.  At many sites, contamination was observed due to mine workings, but contamination is not necessarily recognized in the winter so it may have been present, but not recorded.  Therefore, due to the variable density and problem of contamination, careful consideration must be given to these data prior to follow-up work.

Special Employment Plan of the Federal Winter Works Program