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| Record Name(s) | Vermilion Gold Mining Company - 1887, Vermilion Mine - 1928 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Developed Prospect Without Reported Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1991-Jan-25 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Feb-08 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold, Copper
Secondary Commodities: Silver, Platinum, Palladium
Township or Area: Denison, Denison
Latitude: 46° 24' 55.79" Longitude: -81° 21' 38.94"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 472271 Northing: 5140277 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Sudbury
NTS Grid: 41I06NW
Point Location Description: shaft symbol
Location Method: AMIS Site Visit
Access Description: The Vermilion Gold Mine area is located approximately 20 km west of Sudbury, in the central area of Denison Township. The area is crosscut by two east to west trending main roads: the Trans-Canada Highway (Highway 17) and highway 658. Approximately 4 kilometers west of Whitefish, County Road 4 (also known as Fairbank Lake Road) turns north off of Highway 17. The Vermilion Gold Mine area is located approximately 2 kilometers north on the Crean Hill Road turnoff to the east of Ethel Lake. (OFR 6109, p.1,2).
1887-89: Henry Ranger- gold discovered; 12 m shaft sunk on quartz vein; The initial mine was a gold operation with several thousand dollars worth of gold being produced by the Vermilion Gold Mining Company. The Vermilion Gold Mining Company underwent a name change with the Vermilion Mining Company being incorporated; shaft sinking (3); diamond drilling; ore extraction. 1890-1916: Canadian Copper Company - purchased property; early shipment of gossan to Copper Cliff contained 6.88% Cu, 2.91% Ni, 6.5 oz/t Pd, 4.10 oz/t Pt, 4.3 oz Ag and 0.28 oz/t Au. 1900-1916: Mining of unweathered ore began; the original shaft was extended to 15 metres. During this period, 4078 tonnes were mined averaging 6.64% Ni and 6.89% Cu. During the period 1900 to March 1916, 4014 tons were mined averaging 0.64% Ni and 0.89% Cu, this included 198 tons produced in 1905 which averaged 20-25% Cu-Ni, and 4 oz Ag, 4 oz Pd, 1.5 oz Pt and 0.33 oz Au per ton. In 1915 and 1916, a further 889 and 2230 tons respectively were produced." 1917: mine closed.
Province: Southern
Subprovince: Sudbury Structure
Supergroup: Sudbury Igneous Complex, Main Mass
Geological Age: Paleoproterozoic
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Gabbroid-Unsubdivided | 1 | Contains |
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| Vein | 2 | Quartz | Host |
| 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 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Silver | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 4 | Platinum | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 5 | Sperrylite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 6 | Pyrrhotite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 7 | Bornite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 8 | Chalcocite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 9 | Cassiterite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 10 | Millerite | Economic | Ore |
Jun 21, 2016 (A Wilson) - ) Free gold is visible in places. The diorite carries copper pyrites disseminated through it, but here a fissure has formed running in a north-east and south-west direction, and dipping 65º to the south-east. This is filled with a mass of rich copper pyrites, the surface of which is coated with grey copper sulphide somewhat decomposed and soft. Native copper is also found in fernlike leaves in a thin vein cutting in from the south-east and dipping at a low angle to the north-west. Native copper also occurs in grains in crystalline hornblende rock, but in very small quantities. The copper ore occurs, as before stated, in a pure mass surrounding rock masses and breccia in the vein, and also in joints and cracks of the diorite, having apparently been separated out of the diorite. Iron pyrites occur, but not to any great extent, and also some galena and nickeliferous pyrrhotite. The upper part of the deposit has decomposed to a red gossan, which, treated at the stamp mill, is said to yield gold and sperrylite, an alloy of platinum and other metals of that group with arsenic. A stringer of quartz with copper pyrites runs into the shaft from the north-west side, while on the south-east side of the shaft the copper pyrites is fifteen to twenty feet across.
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Vein |
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 1 | Vein |
| Year | Tonnes | Commodities | Reference | Comment |
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| 1930 | 129722 | 2,156,626 pounds of copper, 1,079,167 pounds of lead and 9,103,424 pounds of zinc were produced between 1928 and 1930. | ||
| 1916 | 7133 | SMDR 0970 | grading 6.64% Ni and 6.89% Cu. |
Book - Canadian Mining Review 1888-9, p. 51,P8
Publication Number: CMR 1888 Page: 51 Date: 1888
Author:
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Location:
Map - Denison-Waters area, Sudbury District
Publication Number: M2119 Scale: 1:31,680 Date: 1967
Author: Card K.D.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Report of the Royal Ontario Nickel Commission, with appendix
Publication Number: OP01 Page: 41, 155 Date: 1997
Author: Holloway G.T., Miller W.G., Young M., Gibson T.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Folio - Denison Township, District of Sudbury
Publication Number: GDIF315 Date: 1997
Author: Sudbury RGO
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Report Of The Royal Commission On The Mineral Resources Of Ontario And Measures For Their Development
Publication Number: NSP011 Page: 24, 89 Date: 1998
Author:
Publisher Name:
Location: Sudbury DGO
Mono - Industrial minerals of northern Ontario-supplement 2
Publication Number: OFR5439 Page: 49-50 Date: 1983
Author: Vos M.A., Smith V.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Geology, Sudbury bedrock compilation, Ontario
Publication Number: OF 4570 Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 2005
Author: Ames, D E; Davidson, A; Buckle, J L; Card, K D
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/221501
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