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| Record Name(s) | Silver Hill - 1872, Mining Location R 70 - 1872, Gehl's Mine - 1886 |
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| Related Record Type | Partial |
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| Record Status | Discretionary Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1991-Mar-05 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Dec-05 |
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Primary Commodities: Silver
Secondary Commodities: Lead, Fluorite, Zinc
Township or Area: Lybster
Latitude: 48° 15' 23.78" Longitude: -89° 50' 20.78"
UTM Zone: 16 Easting: 289277.59 Northing: 5348718.53 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay South
NTS Grid: 52A04NW, 52A05SW
Point Location Description: Transfer
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: Proceed west on Hwy 11-17 to Hwy 588. Turn left (south) onto Hwy 588 and proceed to Nolalu. At Nolalu, turn left (south) onto gravel road marked as Second Side Road and proceed 5.0 km to a small intersection. Turn right at the intersection and proceed 1.7 km to a Y intersection. Follow the right branch of the Y for 0.9 km to trail on right. Follow trail due north for 182 m to mine site.
1872: J.C. Haskins discovered the veins and sunk a series of test pits on them. 1885: A.S. Hall acquired the property and sank a shaft to 6.1 m. 1886: Hall sold portions of his holdings to C. Gehl, A.H. Macdougall, and W.R. Bell. A few shallow test pits and three small open cuts were cut on the veins.
Province: Southern
Formation Group: Animikie Group
Geological Age: Paleoproterozoic
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Ironstone-unsubdivided | 1 | Adjacent |
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| Vein | 2 | Calcite And Quartz | 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 | Calcite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Fluorite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 4 | Galena | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 5 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 6 | Sphalerite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 1 | Barite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 2 | Quartz | Economic | Gangue |
Feb 07, 2018 (Therese Pettigrew) - In the northeast part of mining location R 70 two nearly parallel veins have been developed. They strike approximately east and are about 10 chains apart. On the southern vein two test pits, 100 feet apart, have been sunk to depths of 4 and 7 feet, respectively. On the northern vein an open-cut has been driven 20 feet into the west side of Silver Hill and at the portal a shaft has been sunk at least 25 feet. Two smaller open-cuts have been made one above and one below that previously mentioned; the three open-cuts are within a horizontal distance of 50 feet. The southern vein is 2 feet wide and occurs in a fracture in diabase. The northern vein where exposed is in a fault shatter zone 4 feet wide traversing flat-lying Animikie iron formation; the eastern extension of the vein presumably passes •through a diabase sill capping Silver Hill. The strike of the southern vein varies from south 75 degrees east to south 65 degrees east, the dip is 80 degrees south. The northern vein strikes north 77 degrees east and dips 75 degrees south. The southern vein consists of coarsely crystalline white calcite and associated green fluorite, barite, colourless, and rarely amethystine, quartz, and pyrite. In the case of the north vein, vein material makes up approximately one-third of the substance within the shatter zone. It shows the same mineral assemblage as the southern vein, with the exception that no barite is visible. Mr. Ingall reports that a little silver and argentite were found in this vein (Tanton, 1931). A sample was taken by Ingall in his 1886 visit to the property. The sample contained calcite, quartz, fluorite, specks of pyrite, and was coated in parts with hydrated iron peroxide. The sample assayed traces of gold and 0.525 opt Ag (Ingall, 1888).
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Vein |
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| 1 | Vein |
Map - Kakabeka Sheet, Thunder Bay District, Ontario
Publication Number: Map 213A Scale: 1:63,360 Date: 1928
Author: Tanton, T.L.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/107463
Publication - Report on mines and mining on Lake Superior; Geological Survey of Canada, Annual Report vol. 3, (1887-1888), pt. H
Publication Number: GSC AR 3-H Date: 1888
Author: Ingall, E.D.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/297102
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: 119 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
Author:
Publisher Name:
Location: Thunder Bay RGP
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