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Record Name(s) | Paulore Shaft - 1936, Redaurum Shaft Zone - 1944 |
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Related Record Type | Partial |
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Record Status | Developed Prospect Without Reported Reserves or Resources |
Date Created | 1984-Apr-24 |
Date Last Modified | 2022-Oct-06 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Baird
Latitude: 50° 59' 45.37" Longitude: -93° 55' 37.77"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 434936.61 Northing: 5649782.05 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Red Lake
NTS Grid: 52K13NW
Point Location Description: Shaft symbol claim KRL 12252
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: Old trails and drill roads.
1936-38: Paulore Gold Mines trenched for 198.25 m, drilled 24 holes totalling 1711.66 m, started a vertical shaft to 100.65 m with levels at 13.73m, 45.75 m, and 91.5 m, lateral development of 297.38 m, and 22 underground drill holes totalling 821.98 m. 1937: Rajah Red Lake Gold Mines drilled seven surface holes totalling approximately 1200 m. 1939: Howey Gold Mines Ltd. drilled two holes totalling 289.32 m. 1944-1946: Redaurum Red Lake Gold Mines incorporated; completed 4575 m of drilling. 1977: Company name changed to Orelock Explorations Ltd. 1978: performed geophysical surveys (magnetometer and VLF-EM) and 2 drill holes totalling 185.14 m. 1979: Completed 6 drill holes totalling 570.1 m. 1984: Redaurum Red Lake Mines Ltd. carried out mapping, line cutting, ground VLF-EM and magnetic surveys, and diamond drilling. 2001-02: Placer Dome carried out soil sampling, a helicopter airborne magnetic survey, prospecting, mapping, and drilled 1 DDH totalling 637 m. 2006: Placer Dome drilled 3 DDH totalling 598 m.
Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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2.25521 | 52K13NW2010 | 52K13NW2010 |
2.39545 | 20000013664 | 20000013664 |
2.8382 | 52K13NW0072 | 52K13NW0072 |
63.4866 | 52N04SW0140 | 52N04SW0140 |
63.3539 | 52N13NW0000 | 52N13NW0000 |
63.3711 | 52N04SW0236 | 52N04SW0236 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Uchi
Terrane: North Caribou
Domain: Uchi
Belt: Red Lake
Geological Age: Archean
Metamorphism Type: Regional
Metamorphism Grade: U. Greenschist
Dec 07, 2005 (K R Kettles) - Much of the Redaurum property is underlain by mafic metavolcanic flows and a few mafic to ultramafic sills and/or dikes. Rock units generally strike east-west and dip steeply to the south. Adjacent to the strong NE striking lineament extending from Paulore Lake along Dam Creek, the mafic flows have been almost completely altered to massive carbonate. A thin band (150 m) of felsic volcanics outcrops in the north-central part of the property. Intercalated with both the felsic and mafic volcanics are several relativeluy narrow and apparently discontinuous bands of iron formation.
Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 1 | Carbonatized Basalt | Adjacent |
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Chert | 2 | Adjacent | ||
Mylonite/Fault Gouge/Pseudotachylite | 3 | Shear Zone | Contains | |
Vein | 4 | Quartz, Carbonate | Stringers | Host |
Dec 07, 2005 (K R Kettles) - Adjacent to the NE striking lineament the mafic flows have been almost completely altered to massive carbonate. Country metavolcanics are also silicified next to the deposit. The mafic metavolcanics have been enriched in CO2, As, and SiO2. A few mafic to ultramafic sills cut the mafic volcanics. A thin band of felsic metavolcanics occurs to the north. Minor bands of iron formation are intercalated with both the felsic and mafic metavolcanics.
Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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1 | Gold | Economic | Ore | ||||
2 | Arsenopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
1 | Quartz | Economic | Gangue | ||||
2 | Carbonate | Economic | Gangue | ||||
Carbonate | Alteration | Carbonatization | 1 | Strong | Replacement | ||
Silica | Alteration | Silicification | 2 | Unknown | Veins |
Dec 07, 2005 (K R Kettles) - Gold with minor arsenopyrite occurs in quartz and carbonate stringers and silicified mafic metavolcanics. The altered mafic flows are adjacent to a strong NE striking lineament extending from Paulore Lake along Dam Creek. Surface drilling indicated that good values were present in the lenses containing arsenopyrite, but that the lenses were small. Five drill sections returned the following assays: 0.95 oz/ton Au over 3.7 m, 0.48 oz/ton over 1.4 m, 0.20 oz/ton Au over 0.6 m, 0.57 oz/ton over 1.5 m and 0.20 oz/ton over 1.5 m. Small quartz stringers and zones of carbonate were intersected but with a few exceptions, they all yielded low assays.
Nov 30, 2020 (Therese Pettigrew) - Drill holes RD06001, -002, and -003 were drilled targeting the Shaft Zone. Lithologies intersected were predominantly mafic volcanics varying from massive to pillowed to locally brecciated. Minor diabase, diorite and lamprophyre dykes are also present. Variable carbonate alteration is present in the area with weak silicification observed locally in the core. Typically, sulphide mineralization, mostly pyrrhotite and pyrite, is weak although it is locally more abundant. Carbonate, and to a lesser extent quartz +/- carbonate veining, is common, generally ranging from stringers to narrow veins. As with the sulphides, an increase in veining does not indicate an increase in gold. The best drill intersection from the three holes returned 1.47 g/t gold over 1.00m (RD06001) (Assessment report 20000013664).
Dec 07, 2005 (K R Kettles) - The mafic metavolcanics which host the stringers of quartz, carbonate and gold are almost completely altered to massive carbonate, and have been silicified as well.
File - Resident Geologist files 1942-63 Baird #24; 1943-46 Baird #25
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Location: Red Lake RGP office
Map - Baird Township, eastern part, Kenora District
Publication Number: M2072 Scale: 1:12,000 Date: 1997
Author: Ferguson S.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - Geology of the eastern part of Baird Township, District of Kenora
Publication Number: R039 Page: 30-32 Date: 1997
Author: Ferguson S.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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Part - Mines of Ontario in 1937
Publication Number: ARV47-01.003 Page: 189 Date: 1997
Author: Sinclair D.G., Tower W.O., Taylor J.B., Douglass D.P., Bayne A.S., Cave A.E., Cooper D.F., Weir E.B., Webster A.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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Mono - Gold deposits of Ontario, part 1, districts of Algoma, Cochrane, Kenora, Rainy River, and Thunder Bay
Publication Number: MDC013 Page: 189 Date: 1971
Author: Ferguson S.A., Groen H.A., Haynes R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs
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Part - Geology and mineral deposits of the Red Lake area
Publication Number: ARV49-02 Page: 193-198 Date: 1998
Author: Horwood H.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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Mono - Gold occurrences, prospects, and deposits of the Red Lake area, volumes 1 and 2
Publication Number: OFR5558 Page: 9-10 Date: 1987
Author: Durocher M.E., Burchell P.S., Andrews A.J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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