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| Record Name(s) | Canamax Geddes Lake - 1982 |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 2011-Mar-18 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Aug-03 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold, Zinc
Township or Area: Max Lake Area
Latitude: 49° 8' 40.7" Longitude: -89° 20' 38.09"
UTM Zone: 16 Easting: 329064 Northing: 5446180.01 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay South
NTS Grid: 52H03NW
Point Location Description: field visit with GPS
Location Method: Field Visit with GPS
Access Description: The Geddes Lake occurrence is located in the Max Lake Area, approximately 100 km north of the City of Thunder Bay. Access to the site is obtained by travelling north via Highway 527 approximately 85 km to a secondary logging road. The occurrence is located approximately 250 m east of the highway and to the north of the logging road.
1958: Several airborne conductors were drilled by F.H. Jowsey Ltd. without intersecting anything of economic importance. 1982-88: Trenching, line cutting, geological mapping, ground geophysical surveys and diamond drilling (24 DDH totaling 1034.8 m) by Canmax Resources Inc. 1990: Sampling of historic drill core, ground VLF and magnetic surveys, prospecting, soil geochemical survey, assays by Metalstake Resources. 1997-98: Prospecting, trenching, diamond drilling, sampling and assays by W. Gilbert and D. Gillis.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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| 2.14182 | 52H03NW0003 | 52H03NW0003 |
| 29 | 52H03NW0005 | 52H03NW0005 |
| 28 | 52H03NW0007 | 52H03NW0007 |
| 2.8130 | 52H03NW0010 | 52H03NW0010 |
| 27 | 52H03NW0011 | 52H03NW0011 |
| 2.19011 | 52H03NW2003 | 52H03NW2003 |
| 2.19218 | 52H03NW2002 | 52H03NW2002 |
| 63.5955 | 52H03NW0002 | 52H03NW0002 |
| 2.6986 | 52H03NW0012 | 52H03NW0012 |
| 2.9506 | 52H03NW0009 | 52H03NW0009 |
Province: Superior
Geological Age: Archean
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Ironstone-unsubdivided | 1 | Adjacent |
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| Vein | 2 | Quartz | Host | |
| Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 3 | Adjacent |
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Pyrrhotite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 4 | Magnetite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 5 | Sphalerite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 1 | Chert | Economic | Gangue |
Mar 18, 2011 (J Scott) - 0.50 oz/t Au in quartz veins cutting iron formation
Nov 28, 2017 (Mark Puumala) - The following description of the Geddes Lake gold showing is excerpted from AFRI 52H03NW0010: The main showing is auriferous iron formation located at or near the contact of the metavolcanics and metasediments. The surface expression is approximately 2 to 3 m wide and consists of 3 distinct units: a vein quartz unit with pyrite, a chert (+ minor pyrrhotite) unit and a banded magnetite unit. The showing has a surface strike length of approximately 100 m and a probable strike length of 1500 m. The iron formation strikes approximately N60E and dips steeply to the north. Mineralization occurs mainly as pyrrhotite and pyrite with trace to minor amounts of chalcopyrite. Arsenic assays show very few samples to carry more than 10 ppm with the majority being less than 5 ppm. Anomalous gold assays are associated with the iron formation which returned assays up to 5.45 ppm over 1.55 m in drill core and up to 16.7 ppm in grab samples from the trenches.
Nov 28, 2017 (Therese Pettigrew) - Egner and Curran report assays of 2900 ppm and over 10,000 ppm Zn from a vein in DDH x-23-2 (AFRI 52H03NW0003).
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Lode (Gold) |
Date: Sep 06, 2018
Geologist: Therese Pettigrew
Notes: The showing was visited on Aug 31/18 by RGP staff M. Puumala and T. Pettigrew. Three of the four Canamax trenches were located. Trench T-1 is at NAD83 UTM Zone 16 329039 m E, 5446168 m N. Trench T-2 (the largest trench and the main showing) is at NAD 83 UTM Zone 16 329064 m E, 5446180 m E. Trench T-4 is at NAD 83 UTM Zone 16 329124 m E, 5446203 m N. The vein in T-3 is hosted in sheared mafic metavolcanics that have strong carbonate alteration and abundant pyrite which occasionally had a sugary texture. In T-4, the zone is hosted in an iron formation that contains some magnetite. Quartz bands contained sulphides. Samples taken by M. Puumala from the main trench (T-2) assayed up to 0.058 oz/t Au (1.80 g/t Au).
MonoMap - Geology of Lac des Iles area, District of Thunder Bay
Publication Number: R064 Date: 1968
Author: Pye E.G.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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Article - Thunder Bay Resident Geologist's District-1991
Publication Number: MP158.005 Page: 96 Date: 1997
Author: Lavigne Jr. M.J., Scott J.F., Sarvas P.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Report of Activities 2009, Resident Geologist Program, Thunder Bay South Regional Resident Geologist Report: Thunder Bay South District
Publication Number: OFR6246 Page: 49 Date: 2010
Author: Scott J.F., Campbell D.A., Lockwood H.C., Brunelle M.R., Pelaia R.
Publisher Name:
Location:
Mono - Iron deposits of Ontario
Publication Number: MDC011 Page: 427 Date: 1968
Author: Shklanka R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
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