Ontario Geological Survey
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| Record Name(s) | Jackpot Extension - 2016 |
|---|---|
| Related Record Type | |
| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 2017-Jan-04 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Jan-05 |
| Created By | Andrew Tims |
| Revised By | Therese Pettigrew |
Primary Commodities: Lithium
Township or Area: Barbara Lake Area
Latitude: 49° 17' 51.12" Longitude: -87° 56' 11.62"
UTM Zone: 16 Easting: 431907 Northing: 5460954 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay South
NTS Grid: 42E05SW
Point Location Description: GPS UTM
Location Method: Based on Assessment
Access Description: Drive north of Nipigon along Highway 11 and turn onto the Gorge Creek Road. There is a weather station at the corner and a compression station on the left 0.5 km before turn. The intersection with the Gorge Creek road is 36.8 km from corner of Highway 11 and 17. Turn left 3.7 km down Gorge Creek Road. At the he 5.9 km mark from the highway 11 turn left agin and go straight till km 8.7 where a new access road leads to an old birdge at km 10.5. It id sn ATV trail after this point.
The property encompasses or is adjacent to the Jackpot, Salo and Southwest showings. 1955: Conwest staked or optioned the claims covering the showings after E.W. Hadley made a discovery of spodumene on Island showing. Conwest mapped the pegmatite outcrops and drilled 31 holes totalling 3284 m on the Jackpot showing, 8 holes totaling 153.5 m on the Salo Showing and 2 holes totaling 182.8 m on Southwest showing. 1956: Conwest sold the property to Ontario Lithium. 1957: Ontario Lithium drilled 8 holes totaling 159.9 m on the Salo Showing. 1960: Ontario Lithium brought the claims around the Jackpot Showing to lease. 2002: Leased claims over the Jackpot Showing lapse. 2009: Three claims are staked by Steve and Jim Forbes plus John Rapski covering the historical Jackpot showing. 2011: Caracle Creek International Consulting completed a prospecting assessment report for claimholders Pierre Robert and Wade Kornick. Kornick also partnered in on a larger TerraQuest airborne Magnetic/VLF survey of the immediate area of the showings. 2015: Everton Resources optioned the Kornick claims. 2016: Wade Kornik completed a program of prospecting and sampling, identifying this showing.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| 2.57197 | 20000014253 | 20000014253 |
| 2.56340 | 20000014252 | 20000014252 |
| 63A.309 | 42E05SW0026 | 42E05SW0026 |
| 12 | 42E05SW0020 | 42E05SW0020 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Quetico
Geological Age: Archean
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Pegmatite | 1 | Host |
|---|
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spodumene | Economic | Ore |
Sep 13, 2019 (Andrew Tims) - 2016 prospecting delineated a 100 meter long intermittent series outcrops of pegmatite 200 meters southwest of the Jackpot Showing trending N65E. Sample 876038 returned the equivalent of 2.96% lithium oxide from this dyke. The width and orientation of the dyke could not be determined as no contacts or other bedrock outcrops were observed (Assessment report 20000014253).
MonoMap - Geology and lithium deposits of Georgia Lake area, District of Thunder Bay
Publication Number: R031 Scale: Date: 1997
Author: Pye E.G.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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