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MDI52A05SE00040
| Record Name(s) | Black Fox - 1890, Mining Location T 146 - 1890 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1991-Mar-05 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-May-30 |
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Primary Commodities: Silver
Secondary Commodities: Zinc, Fluorite, Lead
Township or Area: Gillies
Latitude: 48° 18' 36.89" Longitude: -89° 38' 26.76"
UTM Zone: 16 Easting: 304202.68 Northing: 5354154.44 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay South
NTS Grid: 52A05SE
Point Location Description: Transfer
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: Proceed along Highway 11-17 to Highway 588. Turn left (south) onto Highway 588 and proceed SW for 10 km. At this point, there is a gravel road with a gate near the entrance on the left (SE) side of the highway. Proceed on foot past the gate along the gravel road for 600 m to the Beaver Mine site. Follow the road past the Beaver Mine for a further 1.7 km. Turn left onto a small obscure trail and follow the trail for 750 m. An adit is located approximately 75 m SE of the trail at the base of a hill.
Pre-1890: a 52 m crosscut driven into the north-facing cliff to the Black Fox vein, and a winze sunk to a depth of 7 m. 1890: owned by the Beaver Milling and Mining Company. 1959: property acquired by Cairngorm Mines Ltd. 2018: Honey Badger carried out prospecting and sampling.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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| 43575, 43576, 43587, 43593 | 20000017904 | 20000017904 |
Province: Southern
Formation Group: Animikie Group
Geological Age: Paleoproterozoic
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Terrigenous-Clastic-Unsubdivided | 1 | Adjacent |
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| Vein | 2 | Host | ||
| Diabase | 3 | Diabase Sill |
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Argentite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Galena | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 4 | Silver | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 5 | Sphalerite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 1 | Quartz | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 2 | Calcite | Economic | Gangue |
Feb 06, 2018 (Therese Pettigrew) - The Black Fox vein strikes north 80 degrees east from a small notch. In 1927, the mouths of two caved adits were noted about 150 feet NE of the notch and 20 feet below the base of the diabase sill. A dump, measuring approximately 50 feet by 5 feet by 7 feet, extends from the mouth of the adits. One adit appears to trend south 10 degrees east into the shale, the other south 35 degrees east. Above these at the base of a diabase sill, there is a pit 5 feet deep. No vein material is exposed in place near these workings. On the dump, however, are blocks of shale penetrated by veins up to 4 inches in width and consisting of white and amethystine quartz, calcite, and small amounts of sphalerite and pyrite (Tanton, 1931). In his 1890 report to the Beaver Milling and Mining Company, W.W. Russell noted that the argentite and native silver are spatially related to the higher concentrations of sphalerite within the composite vein. The greatest concentrations of silver mineralization were observed to occur within the upper part of the Rove Formation, near the contact with the overlying diabase sill. There is no record of production at the Black Fox vein site, and it is unlikely that any of the ore from the dump was milled or processed. An assay from a sample from the dump taken during the 1984 Hazards Land survey, however, showed the rock to contain 46 opt Ag. Sample 1099078 collected in 2018 by Honey Badger Exploration returned 7.09 g/t Ag, 0.86% Pb, 0.34% Zn (Assessment report 20000017904).
| 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: 134-135 Date: 1931
Author: Tanton, T.L.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/100799
File - Hazard files, Thunder Bay Mineral department
Publication Number: Date: 1996
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Publisher Name:
Location: Thunder Bay RGP
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