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| Record Name(s) | Bernatchez Occurrence - 2011 |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 2011-Mar-16 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Jan-06 |
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Primary Commodities: Copper, Zinc
Secondary Commodities: Silver
Township or Area: Norway Lake Area
Latitude: 49° 2' .61" Longitude: -91° 18' 11.79"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 624017 Northing: 5432567 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay South
NTS Grid: 52G03SW
Point Location Description: field visit with GPS, confirmed with Google Earth
Location Method: Field Visit with GPS
Access Description: All-seasons gravel based logging roads from Hwy 11 at the Sapawe junction located 24 km east of Atikokan, Ontario provide access to the property. Travel north from Hwy 11 on Hwy 623 for 5 km, to the end of the paved highway. Proceed east and north on the Sapawe gravel based logging road, for 12 km to the Premier-Sapawe Road junction. Take the Premier Road for another 34.2 km at which point you have reached the Premier- Pinecone Road junction. Continue on the Premier road strait ahead until you reach kilometer 41.3.
1938 -1940: Red Cedar Gold Mines Limited staked and explored the Morris- Lumby Lake area. 1948-1950: L.C. Anderson staked the area and optioned the property to Newkirk and Company Limited who malgamated their holdings with 38 Noranda Mines claims.Noranda Mines carried out electromagnetic surveying, geological mapping, trenching and 736 meters of diamond drilling. 1974-75: Kerr Addison Mines staked and carried out line cutting, geophysical, geochemical, geological work and one 64 m diamond drill hole under the Anderson showing. 1977: Mining North carried out extensive line cutting, geophysical and geochemical surveys, geological mapping, stripping and channel sampling after Phil Sawdo discovered high-grade gold bearing float while prospecting along new logging roads. 1987: Morrison Minerals Ltd carried out an airborne magnetic and electromagnetic survey from the western end of Lumby Lake to Wilson Lake. Several anomaly trends were identified. No follow-up work was carried out. Premier Lake Resources Limited carried out an exploration program focusing on the gold and base metal potential completing 24 km grid lines, magnetic, VLF-EM and induced polarization surveys followed by the drilling of 7 holes totaling 1213.7 m. 1992: Total Energold carried out work exploration work over Bufo Lake and to the south, east and west and around Bufo Lake focus mainly on gold. 1994-2003: Atikokan Resources Inc. completed a stripping program in 1995 exposing a high-grade silver-base metal occurrence. This was followed by a 120 km N-S grid, magnetic survey, VLF EM survey, (2) induced polarization surveys, detail geological mapping, soil geochemical survey plus several other areas of mechanical stripping. Two phases of drilling followed, 5 holes for 1214 m and 2 holes totalling 1170 m. 2010: Belmont Resources Inc. completed a a two phase 10 hole drill program totalling 2 444 m testing four targets .
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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| 2.52375 | 20000009192 | 20000009192 |
| 2.46045 | 20000006734 | 20000006734 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Wabigoon
Terrane: Marmion
Geological Age: Archean
Oct 11, 2016 (J Scott) - Stringers and lenses of sphalerite, chalcopyrite, and silver in felsic volcanic rocks.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Felsic lava flow-unsubdivided | 1 |
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| Granitoid-Unsubdivided | 2 |
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Sphalerite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Gold | Economic | Ore |
Oct 12, 2016 (Andrew Tims) - 2011 Drilling confirmed multiple parallel gold bearing quartz carbonate veins and Fe-carbonate zones in all holes returning significant values of 17.9 g/t and 6.4 g/t over 1.5 meter interval. Bufo Lake area gold showing contines on strike for 500 meters and to a depth of 200 meters and is open in all three directions. Drilling also identified a new and parallel base metal bearing sulphide horizon located about 900 meters to the north of the high grade-silver-base metal bearing Lumby-Spoon Lake Horizon.
Book - 2010 Drilling Program at the Bufo Lake & Bufo-Lumby Property, Atikokan, Ontario, Canada NI 43-101 Technical Report
Publication Number: 43-101 Date: 2010
Author: Bernatchez, R.A
Publisher Name: Belmont Resources Inc.
Location: Sedar
Map - Geology and Tectonostratigraphic Assemblages, South-Central Wabigoon Subprovince, Ontario
Publication Number: P3448 Scale: 1:250,000 Date: 2002
Author: Stone D., Tomlinson K.Y., Davis D.W., Fralick P.W., Hallé J., Percival J.A., Pufahl P.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Precambrian Geology of the Lumby Lake Greenstone Belt
Publication Number: P3619 Scale: 1:20,000 Date: 2010
Author: Buse S., Lewis D., Magnus S.J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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