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MDI52A05SW00012
| Record Name(s) | Palisades - 1885, Mining Locations R 97 and R 98 - 1885 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Discretionary Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1991-Mar-05 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Apr-26 |
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Primary Commodities: Silver
Secondary Commodities: Zinc, Fluorite, Lead
Township or Area: Lybster
Latitude: 48° 15' 33.23" Longitude: -89° 47' 4.67"
UTM Zone: 16 Easting: 293331 Northing: 5348862 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay South
NTS Grid: 52A05SW
Point Location Description: AMIS Shaft location
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: Proceed west on Hwy 11-17 to Hwy 588. Turn left onto Hwy 588 and follow it south for 20.0 km to Old Silver Mountain Road turnoff. Turn left onto Old Silver Mountain Road and follow for 4.4 km to an open filed on the left (south) side of the road. Proceed on foot to the extreme SE corner of field. The adit is located 40 m east along the base of the cliff.
1885: the vein was discovered. 1887: developments consisted of a small crosscut tunnel driven southwards into the base of the hill at a depth of about 12.2 m below the outcrop of the vein and the base of the trap sheet. A shaft was sunk to 15.2 m. 1889: unspecified development work was being conducted. 1891: Mr. Middaught and Mr. Winchell drifted 137.2 m with 14.3 m of crosscuts and a 3.0 m winze.
Province: Southern
Formation Group: Animikie Group
Geological Age: Paleoproterozoic
| 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 | Quartz | Economic | Gangue |
Feb 06, 2018 (Therese Pettigrew) - The vein occurs in flat-lying, soft, black, Animikie shales. Above them is a diabase sill approximately 100 feet thick, which caps the shales on Palisades hill. The composite vein strikes south 70 degrees east and dips 70 degrees north. The vein material is very similar in appearance to that in West End Silver Mountain deposit, in that it shows banded fluorite with green and purple varieties interlayered. The greater part of the gangue material is calcite, and white and amethystine quartz. Small amounts of galena, sphalerite, and pyrite occur locally. The vein material, which is distributed through a fracture zone 10 feet wide, has an aggregate width of 2 feet (Tanton, 1931).
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Vein |
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| 1 | Vein |
Publication - 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: 121-122 Date: 1931
Author: Tanton, T.L.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/100799
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