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| Record Name(s) | Redcon - KRL 20898 - 1947 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1991-Mar-12 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Aug-31 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Balmer
Latitude: 51° 5' 34.89" Longitude: -93° 43' 42.46"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 448986.648 Northing: 5660421.989 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Red Lake
NTS Grid: 52N04SE
Point Location Description: DDH P-2 on claim KRL 20898 map P.1976A
Location Method: Data Compilation
1945: Consolidated Mining and Smelting - 12 short x-ray drill holes and limited trenching. 1947: Redcon Gold Mines completed 4 diamond drill holes.1953: Performed further drilling. 1959: By this point had completed 43 holes totalling 8347.85 m. 1959-1960: Rio Tinto completed 15 holes totalling 3327.55 m, and IP and magnetometer surveys. 1972: Dickenson Mines completed airborne magnetometer and EM surveys, ground geophysical surveys, and drilled 7 holes totalling 762.81 m.1973; Performed detailed geophysics over anomalies. 1978-79: Drilled 28 holes totalling 2638.25 m. 1981: Further drilling, depths unknown. 1983: Goldquest Explorations drilled 9 holes totalling 1367.62 m.
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Uchi
Terrane: North Caribou
Domain: Uchi
Belt: Red Lake
Geological Age: Archean
Metamorphism Type: Regional
Metamorphism Grade: Greenschist
Dec 07, 2005 (K R Kettles) - The property is underlain by an interlayered sequence of mafic metavolcanic flows and pillow breccia with a few thin units of sedimentary rocks. The sedimentary units are mainly iron formation and fine argillaceous rocks which are generally thin but some layers are up to 7.3 m in thickness. Intrusive rocks on the property include sericitic quartz porphyry, quartz diorite, and thin lamprophyre dikes which are weakly magnetic and contain minor disseminated pyrite. The gold mineralization occurs in narrow quartz veins in the mafic metavolcanics.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Vein | 1 | Quartz | Narrow | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mafic pillowed flow | 2 | Pillowed Flows | Adjacent |
Dec 07, 2005 (K R Kettles) - The mafic flows are comprised mainly of massive fine grained flows with subordinate amounts of pillowed flows and pillowed breccia. Sedimentary rocks are comprised mainly of iron formation with fine argillaceous rocks. The lamprophyre dikes are thin fine grained black dikes, and are weakly magnetic.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gold | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 1 | Quartz | Economic | Gangue |
Dec 07, 2005 (K R Kettles) - Little information exists on this zone but it appears that narrow quartz veins host the gold mineralization , and that the quartz veins may occur in mafic metavolcanics. Section of drill core from two holes returned assays of: 0.40 opt Au/0.3m and 0.19 opt Au/0.95m.
File - Red Lake Resident Geologists Files 1979 Balmer #75
Publication Number: AF RL 1979 Date: 1979
Author: Harper, H.G.
Publisher Name:
Location: Red Lake RGP
Map - Geological series, Balmer Township, District of Kenora (Patricia Portion)
Publication Number: P1976A Scale: 1:12,000 Date: 1978
Author: Pirie J., Grant A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Part - Geology of Balmer Township
Publication Number: ARV60-10 Page: 54-55 Date: 1997
Author: Chisholm E.O.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Gold occurrences, prospects, and deposits of the Red Lake area, volumes 1 and 2
Publication Number: OFR5558 Page: 159-160 Date: 1987
Author: Durocher M.E., Burchell P.S., Andrews A.J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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