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| Record Name(s) | Wagon Road - 1995, No. 7 Vein - 1936, East Zone - 1945 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1995-May-26 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Jul-20 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Beckington Lake Area
Latitude: 50° 10' 38.42" Longitude: -90° 36' 9.88"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 671162.585 Northing: 5561099.072 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kenora
NTS Grid: 52J02NE
Point Location Description: Pits
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: Access to the showing can be had from Hwy 599 which intersects the Beckington Lake road 1.5 km south of the Village of Savant Lake. Approximately 9km east a south trending trail leads to the east side of Thomas Lake. This trail extends south to Mine Lake and can be used by all-terrain vehicles under normal conditions.
The first work done on Mine Lake was probably carried out in the 1910 to 1925 period or earlier. E.S. Moore (1911) mentioned a large number of prospects in the vicinity of Ouillette Lake, lying north of Couture Lake; Many of these consist of little pits of no importance, but the Ouillette Lake Mining Company, with headquarters at Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, have done much prospecting work on nine claims northeast of the Lake. Outside of the two old locations SV 421 and SV 422, none of the claims have been surveyed, but they adjoin on the east and south. One pit about 25 feet long runs across a mass of schistose diorite, and the rock is cut up by stringers of quartz. The quartz carries considerable pyrite and pyrrhotite, and a number of specimens of free gold were seen. In another pit about 15 feet long and 7 feet deep a mass of white quartz stringers about 10 feet wide may be seen lying along the hanging wall. The rock has about the composition of diorite. On the surface near this pit there is a quartz vein about 3 feet wide which may be connected with the mass already described. It pinches down to about 20 inches in a pit 10 feet deep. On location SV 422 there is a pit on a large mass of quartz. The pit is about 14 feet wide, and the quartz extends almost across it. On another claim a mass of stringers appearing on the surface unite in a pit to form a vein about 8 feet wide. The rock in which these veins occur is largely coarse greenstone, the gangue is mostly quartz, and the other minerals in the vein chalcopyrite and pyrite. The veins in some places form some of the largest in the region, and some carry gold, but they show a tendency to break up into small stringers or otherwise become irregular.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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| 52J02NE-0026B1 | 52J02NE9285 | 52J02NE9285 |
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Vein | 1 | Quartz | Host |
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| Diorite | 2 | Diorite | Host |
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 5 | Bornite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 10 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 15 | Gold | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 20 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 25 | Pyrrhotite | Economic | Ore |
Book - CLIPPINGS 1909-1955
Publication Number: CLIPPINGS Date: 1996
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File - Sioux Lookout Mineral Deposit Files
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Location: Thunder Bay RGP office
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