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Record: MDI000000000281

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) South Shonia - 1992
Related Record Type
Related Record(s)
Record Status Occurrence
Date Created 2007-Mar-29
Date Last Modified 2022-Jun-06
Created By
Revised By

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold



Location

Township or Area: McVicar Lake Area

Latitude: 51° 34' 19.26"    Longitude: -91° 27' 11.8"

UTM Zone: 15    Easting: 607190.003   Northing: 5714572.001    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay North

NTS Grid: 52O11SW

Point Location Description: Assessment file map (McKay 2004).

Location Method: Data Compilation



Exploration History

1950: Chellow Gold Mines Ltd. Conducted geological mapping, trenching and diamond drilling in the Lower McVicar Lake area. 1959-1961: Kenlew Mines Ltd conducted geological mapping, stripping, trenching and diamond drilling in the lower McVicar Lake area and the area to the east of McVicar Lake. 1968-1969 New Jersey Zinc Exploration Company (Canada) Limited conducted geological mapping, geophysics, trenching and limited diamond drilling for VMS mineralization in the area north of north of McVicar Lake. 1971 Hoey Syndicate conducted geological mapping, trenching and geophysics for Cu-Ni-PGE mineralization in the lower half of the McVicar Lake area. 1977-1981, 1987, 1991 Cominco Ltd conducted extensive airborne geophysical surveys as well as diamond drilling over the McVicar Lake and Andy lake areas, well as limited diamond drilling in McVicar and Cannon Lake areas for gold and base metals. 1985-1994 Utah Mines, later BHP-Utah Mines, and then simply BHP conducted extensive grid mapping, geophysics and diamond drilling on the area surrounding McVicar Lake resulting in the discovery of the Altered Zone and Lower McVicar Lake structural zones and several associated gold showings. Utah Mines also conducted extensive work in the western Lang Lake area. 2001-2003 Prospector Consolidated Inc and Continuum Resources Ltd, conducted extensive trenching and limited diamond drilling for gold on the old BHP-Utah Mines property in the McVicar Lake area.


Assessment Work on File

Assessment Work on File
Office File Number Online Assessment File Identifier Online Assessment File Directory
2.27178 52O11SW2003 52O11SW2003
OM92-008 52O11SW0006 52O11SW0006

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Uchi

Terrane: North Caribou

Domain: Uchi

Belt: Lang Lake

Geological Age: Neoarchean  



Geology Comments

Mar 29, 2007 (Mark Puumala) - The area geology is described in MDI52O11SW00007.




Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Tonalite 1

Mineralization Comments

Mar 29, 2007 (Mark Puumala) - This occurrence is based on a reported assay of 1100 ppb Au reported by Bonner (1992c) from a grab sample collected from the Shonia Lake tonalite intrusion.



Mineral Record Details

Classification
RankClassification            
1 Lode (Gold)
Characteristics
Rank Characteristic            
1 Unknown

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