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MDI52A05SE00027
| Record Name(s) | Victoria - 1886 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1979-Aug-15 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-May-30 |
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Primary Commodities: Silver
Secondary Commodities: Zinc, Fluorite, Lead
Township or Area: Paipoonge
Latitude: 48° 21' 3.36" Longitude: -89° 35' 25.51"
UTM Zone: 16 Easting: 308088 Northing: 5358549 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay South
NTS Grid: 52A05SE
Point Location Description: Transfer
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: Proceed west on Highway 11-17 to Highway 588. Turn left (south) on Highway 588 and proceed 4.3 km. Vein site is 32 m north of Highway 588. House of H. Cook is approx. 200 m west of the site.
Pre-1886: vein was discovered by Mr. Crawford and Cpt. Corbett. 1886: property was acquired by W. Coulter. 1887: a 3.2 m shaft was sunk on the vein. 1975: Raleigh Minerals Ltd. conducted sampling and drilled 3 DDH.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| 14 | 52A05SE0010 | 52A05SE0010 |
| 63.3151 | 52A05SE0011 | 52A05SE0011 |
Province: Southern
Formation Group: Animikie Group
Geological Age: Paleoproterozoic
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Mudstone | 1 | Shale | Adjacent |
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| Vein | 2 | Quartz And Calcite | Host | |
| Ironstone-unsubdivided | 3 | Adjacent |
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fluorite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Galena | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 4 | Sphalerite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 1 | Calcite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 2 | Quartz | Economic | Gangue |
Feb 06, 2018 (Therese Pettigrew) - The composite vein, which strikes 85 degrees east and dips steeply toward the north, cements a fracture zone 4 feet in width, in cherty, flat-lying, Animikie iron formation. The vein system can be traced over a distance of 800 feet westerly from the pit. The vein filling composes about one quarter of the volume of the cemented fracture zone and consists of coarsely and finely crystalline white and pink calcite, amethystine and rust-stained and colourless quartz, and pale green and purple fluorite. The metallic minerals observed are galena, sphalerite, and pyrite. Specimens richly mineralized with galena and sphalerite have been obtained near the pit and low silver values, up to a few ounces per ton, are said to have been obtained by assay (Tanton, 1931).
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Vein |
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 1 | Vein |
Book - Fort William and Port Arthur, and Thunder Cape Map-area, Thunder Bay District, Ontario; Geological Survey of Canada, Memoir 167
Publication Number: GSC Memoir 167 Page: 134 Date: 1931
Author: Tanton, T.L.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/100799
Mono - Silver cobalt calcite vein deposits of Ontario
Publication Number: MDC010 Page: 78 Date: 1968
Author: Sergiades A.O.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
File - Hazard files, Thunder Bay Mineral department
Publication Number: Date: 1996
Author:
Publisher Name:
Location: Thunder Bay RGP
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