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MDI52F07NE00020
| Record Name(s) | Edna Mine - 1897, Mcedna - 1897 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1991-Jan-22 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Mar-17 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Boyer Lake Area
Latitude: 49° 27' 5.08" Longitude: -92° 43' 25.57"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 520020.902 Northing: 5477675.565 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kenora
NTS Grid: 52F07NE
Point Location Description: General
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: The McEdna Prospect is located at the extreme northwest corner of mining claim K.696309 (formerly mining location McA. 29) in the Boyer Lake area, approximately 800 m west-northwest of Goldrock and immediately north of Pincher Creek. The prospect is accessible by old overgrown roads and trails. (OFR 5723, p. 241, 1989)
1897: Gold Explorer's of Canada sunk a 55 ft. shaft with 20 ft. of crosscutting on claim McA. 29. 1983: Claim K.696309 staked by M. Woitowicz. 1984: Transferred to St. Joe Canada Incorporated who conducted geological mapping, geophysical surveys, and sampling over the claim. 1985: Transferred to M. Woitowicz. 1986: Transferred to Falconbridge Limited. 1987: Falconbridge Limited conducted diamond drilling. (Assessment Files, Resident Geologist's Office, Kenora). (OFR 5723, p. 241, 242, 1989)
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Wabigoon
Terrane: Western Wabigoon
Belt: Eagle-Wabigoon-Manitou
Geological Age: Precambrian
Feb 24, 2010 (C Ravnaas) - The prospect is situated within intermediate flows and pyroclastics at the contact between the Pincher Lake Group and the underlying Upper Manitou Lake Group, on the northwest limb of the Manitou Anticline, between two north-trending crossfaults. The McEdna Prospect is underlain by strongly sheared (042°/82 0 -89° SE), sericitized, chloritized, weakly iron carbonatized, hematitic, intermediate tuffs containing variable amounts of disseminated pyrite ( Feb 24, 2010 (C Ravnaas) - St. Joe Canada Incorporated obtained numerous, high anomalous gold values from grab and channel samples, including two grab samples which assayed 9460 ppb gold and 56910 ppb gold (Assessment Files, Resident Geologist's Office, Kenora). (OFR 5723, p. 241, 242, 1989) Part - Fourth report on the west Ontario gold region Publication Number:
ARV07-02.001
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Date: 1998 Author: Coleman A.P. Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines Location: MonoMap - Geology of the Boyer Lake-Meggisi Lake area, District of Kenora Publication Number:
R202
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Date: 1981 Author: Blackburn C.E. Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey Location: Mono - Geology, gold mineralization and property visits in the area investigated by the Dryden-Ignace economic geologist, 1984-1987 Publication Number:
OFR5723
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Date: 1989 Author: Parker J.R. Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey Location: We are continuously updating our assessment file / technical report information. If you notice errors in the data, please
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5 Pyrite Economic Ore
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