Ministry of Energy, Northern Development and Mines
Permanent Link to this Record: MDI000000002101| Deposit Name(s) | Pete Lake - 1999 |
|---|---|
| Deposit Status | occurrence |
| Date Created | 2017-Sep-26 |
| Date Last Modified | 2019-Apr-10 |
| Created By | T Pettigrew |
| Revised By | T Pettigrew |
Primary Commodities: gold
Secondary Commodities: copper, molybdenum, bismuth, tellurium
Township or Area: Marks
Latitude: 48° 22' 23.56" Longitude: -89° 52' 17.3"
UTM Zone: 16 Easting: 287361 Northing: 5361767 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay South
NTS Grid:
Point Location Description: Cleared area from AFRI 52A05NW2007 visible in Google Earth
Location Method: based on assessment
Access Description: Approximately 6.6 km west of the intersection of Highway 590 and the Boreal Road. Cleared area is about 20 m north of the Boreal Road.
1996-8: R.A. Kukkee staked the property and conducted prospecting and sampling. 1999: Kukkee conducted stripping, trenching, and sampling.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| 2.20027 | 52A05NW2007 | Open |
| 2.19510 | 52A05NW2004 | Open |
| 2.18590 | 52A05NW2002 | Open |
| 2.17071 | 52A05NW0018 | Open |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Wawa
Belt: Shebandowan
Geological Age: Archean
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| vein | 1 | quartz | ||
| intermediate intrusive | 2 | diorite |
09/26/2017 (T Pettigrew) - The gold-bearing units consist of quartz units intermingled with variable fine-grained diorite units. A discontinuous contact of the quartz unit trends 060 degrees. Highly foliated and sub-talcose, schistose units containing biotite and muscovite have been observed (AFRI 52A05NW2007).
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Habit Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chalcopyrite | economic | ore | ||||
| 2 | galena | economic | ore | ||||
| 3 | molybdenite | economic | ore | ||||
| 1 | quartz | economic | gangue | ||||
| 2 | chlorite | economic | gangue | ||||
| 3 | muscovite | economic | gangue | ||||
| 4 | biotite | economic | gangue | ||||
| hematite | alteration | hematization | 1 | unknown | disseminated |
04/10/2019 (M A Puumala) - Samples collected by RGP staff returned assays up to 12.99 ppm Te, and 20.21 ppm Bi from sample MP18WPT351A. Assays of 0.063 ppm Au and 187.10 pp Mo were also returned from sample MP18WPT351B (Thunder Bay RGP files).
09/26/2017 (T Pettigrew) - The quartz rock units were observed to contain green chlorite, black chlorite, minor galena, molybdenum, and chalcopyrite, and also display hematization. Some of the quartz is also erratically stained red and yellow. Gold values as high as 1764 ppb were obtained from grab samples. A total of 36 of the 110 rock samples taken during the 1999 program returned gold values greater than 100 ppb Au. A total of 17 gold assays returned values greater than 300 ppb Au, with the highest values being 518 ppb, 606 ppb, 633 ppb, 990 ppb, 1,613 ppb, and 1,764 ppb Au. Values were obtained along the contact and as distant as 12 m from the contact with the diorite. A sulphide-bearing quartz unit returned 0.633 g/t Au and copper values as high as 0.117% Cu from a grab sample. Copper values up to 0.15% and nickel values to 0.035% were obtained in various samples. One sample returning a gold value of 470 ppb Au also returned values of 348 ppm molybdenum. Minor cobalt values were also noted (AFRI 52A05NW2007).
Date: 2018-Nov-01
Geologist : M A Puumala
Notes: M. Puumala and T. Pettigrew visited the property and sampled each of the lithologies and contacts. The samples collected returned assays up to 12.99 ppm Te, and 20.21 ppm Bi from sample MP18WPT351A. Assays of 0.063 ppm Au and 187.10 pp Mo were also returned from sample MP18WPT351B (Thunder Bay RGP files).
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