Ontario Geological Survey
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Record Name(s) | Singleton - 1887 |
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Related Record Type | Simple |
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Record Status | Occurrence |
Date Created | 1979-Aug-24 |
Date Last Modified | 2022-Apr-26 |
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Primary Commodities: Silver
Township or Area: McIntyre
Latitude: 48° 26' 37.98" Longitude: -89° 13' 38.65"
UTM Zone: 16 Easting: 335280.99 Northing: 5368034.39 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay South
NTS Grid: 52A06NE
Point Location Description: Precise
Location Method: Data Compilation
Pre-1887: a pit 9.1 m deep was sunk. No assessment reports were found.
Province: Southern
Formation Group: Animikie Group
Geological Age: Paleoproterozoic
Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Terrigenous-Clastic-Unsubdivided | 1 |
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Ironstone-unsubdivided | 2 | Taconite |
Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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1 | Silver | Economic | Ore | ||||
2 | Galena | Economic | Ore | ||||
1 | Quartz | Economic | Gangue | ||||
2 | Calcite | Economic | Gangue |
Mar 23, 2018 (Therese Pettigrew) - In what is now the playgrounds of Ecole Secondaire Catholique de la Verendrye in the city of Port Arthur, at the corner of Prospect and Dawson streets, a pit 30 feet deep was sunk prior to 1887. This was known as the Singleton mine. A vein of quartz here occupies a fault striking north 75 degrees east. The rock on the north side of the fault is shale, and on the south taconite underlain by shale. The latter rocks are well exposed in a cliff 10 feet high about 100 feet west of the pit. Another vein, less than one foot wide, consists of quartz and strikes north. Rich bunches of native silver are said to have been obtained in the workings (Tanton, 1931).
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1 | Vein |
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1 | Vein |
Mono - Silver cobalt calcite vein deposits of Ontario
Publication Number: MDC010 Page: 76 Date: 1968
Author: Sergiades A.O.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
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: 153 Date: 1931
Author: Tanton, T.L.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/100799
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