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| Record Name(s) | Northern Queen - 1897 |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 2010-Mar-03 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Aug-16 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Secondary Commodities: Copper, Zinc
Township or Area: Zealand
Latitude: 49° 43' 48.86" Longitude: -92° 34' 35.82"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 530512 Northing: 5508724 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kenora
NTS Grid: 52F10NE
Point Location Description: Former claim H.W. 130, (Con. II, Lot 3)
Location Method: Field Visit with GPS
Access Description: The Northern Queen Occurrence is located on former patented claim H.W. 130, in Zealand Township, about 2.0 km northeast of Wabigoon. (Con. II, Lot 3) (ref: OFR5723, p.155) Deposit Access Description: The occurrence is accessible by a narrow gravel road which branches east from Highway 17 immediately west of Wabigoon, near the school crossing. The Northern Queen shaft can be observed on the north side of the road approx. 2.6 km east of its intersection with Highway 17. (Kenora Property Visit File 52F/10NE Northern Queen Occurrence)
1897: Shaft sunk to 50 feet depth on quartz vein. Mine closed that summer. No assessment reports were found on file.
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Wabigoon
Geological Age: Precambrian
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 1 | Host |
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| Granitoid-Unsubdivided | 2 | Dykes | ||
| Vein | 3 | Quartz | Host |
Mar 03, 2010 (J Bongfelt) - The property is underlain by moderately to intensely sheared, chloritic, pyritic, dark green and slightly carbonatized, pillowed, mafic metavolcanic flows. South of the shaft the metavolcanics are amphibolitized and immediately north of the shaft the pillows are variolitic. Pillows face north and shearing trends 90°-110°, dipping vertical or steeply to the south, with a crenulation cleavage striking between 220° and 250° with small crenulations plunging 60° to the east. South of the shaft the metavolcanics are intruded by massive, fine to medium grained, gray, quartz feldspar porphyry dikes striking 104° -120° and dipping steeply south. The dikes vary in width from 0.3 -3.0m and contain rounded quartz and feldspar phenocrysts, ?5% biotite and hornblende, minor disseminated pyrite and weak carbonate alteration. Fine to medium-grained massive gabbroic dikes trending 100°/90° also occur on the property. Quartz veins and irregular blobs and clots of quartz occur in all the rock types and consist of white to black quartz, hematite, and chlorite. At the shaft, a stock of sub-parallel milk white quartz veins, striking 200°-206°/90°, crosscut the sheared mafic metavolcanics. The host rocks are intensely sheared, sericitic, chloritic carbonatized with calcite, and appear silicified in the shaft. Massive sulphide mineralization, crosscut by quartz veins, occurs at the bottom of the shaft. A sulphide-rich, silicified shear zone striking 120° extends through the shaft in the mafic metavolcanics and is crosscut by barren quartz veins. The sulphide mineralization is massive ?50%, consisting predominantly of coarse, massive, pyrite with minor pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite. The host rock is extremely hard, fine-grained, dark green to black, siliceous, and is similar in appearance to fine-grained diabase. Sulphides and gossan can be found in outcrops along the strike of the zone. (Kenora Property Visit File 52F/10NE Northern Queen Occurrence)
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Pyrrhotite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore |
Jun 15, 2020 (J Bongfelt) - Grab samples, taken by OGS staff member J. Parker, from the felsic dikes, altered mafic metavolcanics, sulphide-rich material, and quartz veins all assayed trace amounts of gold with minor Cu and Zn values. Fire Assay Determination results - Oct.29, 1984: highest recorded - 0.02, 0.04, 0.08, 0.22 oz. per ton Au (Kenora Property Visit File 52F/10NE Northern Queen Occurrence).
Jun 15, 2020 (Therese Pettigrew) - Samples taken by J. Satterly in 1939 of the quartz and pyrite did not return any gold values. To the east of the shaft, a 3.0 m rusty zone striking east-west carries disseminated pyrrhotite (Satterly, 1941).
Journal - Kenora Property Visit File, 52F/10NE, Northern Queen Occurrence
Publication Number: 52F/10NE Date: 2010
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Publisher Name:
Location: Kenora RGP office
Map - Dryden-Wabigoon area, District of Kenora, Ontario
Publication Number: ARM50E Scale: 1:63,360 Date: 1997
Author: Satterly J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Geology, gold mineralization and property visits in the area investigated by the Dryden-Ignace economic geologist, 1984-1987
Publication Number: OFR5723 Date: 1989
Author: Parker J.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Part - Geology of the Dryden-Wabigoon area
Publication Number: ARV50-02 Page: 52-53 Date: 1997
Author: Satterly J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Part - Mines of northwestern Ontario
Publication Number: ARV07-01.003 Page: 77 Date: 1998
Author: Bow J.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines
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