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MDI42C12NW00010
| Record Name(s) | Golden Sceptre Fracture Zone - 1983, Lac Minerals (West Zone) - 1991, Williams Options - 1991, Lake Superior Shear Zone - 1947 |
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| Related Record Type | Partial |
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| Record Status | Prospect |
| Date Created | 1991-Mar-26 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-May-18 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Secondary Commodities: Molybdenum
Township or Area: Bomby
Latitude: 48° 41' 47.17" Longitude: -85° 56' 6.17"
UTM Zone: 16 Easting: 578365 Northing: 5394258 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay South
NTS Grid: 42C12NW
Point Location Description: Precise
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: Access is just north of the Trans-Canada Highway, approximately 6.5 km west of the junction of Highway 17 and Highway 614 and 800 m north of the highway.
1947: Lake Superior Mining Corp. drilled 13 x-ray holes totalling 1846 ft. 1949: Lake Superior Mining drilled 10 DDH totalling 4022 ft. 1951: Teck Exploration Company Ltd. drilled 15 DDH totalling 6382 ft. 1973: Ardel Explorations Ltd. drilled 3 DDH totalling 790 ft. 1977: R. Newman conducted geological mapping and sampling, a VLF-EM survey, and geochemical soil sampling. 1980: Corona Resources Ltd. optioned the property from D. McKinnon and conducted ground magnetic and VLF-EM geophysical surveys and drilled 83 DDH totalling over 26,000 ft. 1981: Golden Sceptre Resources Ltd. conducted a magnetometer geophysical survey. 1982: property was optioned to Noranda Exploration Company, who drilled 17 DDH totalling 4328.2 m. 1997: Battle Mountain Canada Ltd. conducted diamond drilling (1 DDH totalling 1861.7 m). 2002: Homestake Canada Inc. drilled 4 DDH totalling 606.97 m. The Fracture zone is now part of the Williams mine open pit (see MDI42C12NW00005).
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| 2.17923 | 42C12NW0037 | 42C12NW0037 |
| 2.23773 | 42C12NW2004 | 42C12NW2004 |
| 18 | 42C12NW0149 | 42C12NW0149 |
| 2.2449 | 42C12NW0464 | 42C12NW0464 |
| 2.4980 | 42C12NW0154 | 42C12NW0154 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Wawa
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Schreiber-Hemlo
Geological Age: Archean
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 1 |
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| Vein | 2 | Quartz | Host | |
| Felsic Tuff | 3 | Quartz-Eye Tuff |
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gold | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Pyrrhotite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 4 | Telluride | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 1 | Quartz | Economic | Gangue |
Mar 16, 2016 (Therese Pettigrew) - The Fracture Zone is hosted in quartz veins which cut a quartz-eye tuff. This zone appears to be a strike extension of mineralization discovered during the 1950s on the western side of the Lac Minerals Limited property. The mineralization consists of native gold, molybdenite, pyrite, and telluride minerals. Diamond drilling in 1982 has intersected a number of high grade zones (up to 3.36 ounces gold per ton) over narrow widths (1.6 to 4.9 feet; George Cross Newsletter, Number 204; October 25 1982) (MP118). During their 1980-81 drill program, Corona delineated the Lake Superior Shear Zone, approximately 1600 ft in length with widths varying from 2-15 ft with an average grade of approximately 0.15 oz/t Au. Narrower widths of higher grade material (1.86 oz/t Au over 2.0 ft in DDH 81-57) were intersected periodically (AFRI 42C12NW8705).
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Lode (Gold) |
| 2 | Vein |
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 1 | Sheared |
Mono - Field trip guidebook to the Hemlo area
Publication Number: MP118 Date: 1984
Author: Patterson G.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Map - Hemlo, Thunder Bay District
Publication Number: M2452 Scale: 1:31,680 Date: 1981
Author: Muir T.L., Lafleur J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Map - Geological Compilation of the Eastern Half of the Schreiber-Hemlo Greenstone Belt
Publication Number: M2614 Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 2000
Author: Muir T.L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Journal - Canadian Mining Journal May 1985
Publication Number: CMJ 1985 Page: 42-58 Date: 1985
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