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Record: MDI000000002115

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s)	Yoke Lake - 1983
Related Record Type
Related Record(s)
Record Status	Discretionary Occurrence
Date Created	2017-Oct-31
Date Last Modified	2022-Jul-15
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold

Location

Township or Area: Bluffpoint Lake Area

Latitude: 49° 10' 11.1" Longitude: -93° 27' 49.83"

UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 466189 Northing: 5446430 UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Kenora

NTS Grid: 52F03NW

Point Location Description: From map M2463

Location Method: Data Compilation

Exploration History

No exploration work over this showing has been found in the assessment files.

Assessment Work on File

Assessment Work on File
Office File Number	Online Assessment File Identifier	Online Assessment File Directory
2.56281	20000014468	20000014468

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Wabigoon

Geological Age: Archean

Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type	Rank	Composition	Relationship
Quartz-Feldspar Porphyry	1	Quartz Porphyry	Adjacent
Vein	2	Quartz	Host
Intermediate lava flow-unsubdivided	3		Adjacent

Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank	Mineral Name	Class	Economic Mineral Type	Alteration Mineral Type	Alteration Ranking	Alteration Intensity	Alteration Style
1	Quartz	Economic	Gangue

Mineralization Comments

Oct 31, 2017 (Therese Pettigrew) - A grab sample taken from a 2.5 cm wide quartz vein, trending N35W and dipping 60 degrees to the NE, in a quartz-feldspar porphyry dyke located 100 m north of Yoke Lake and 1575 m west of the creek into Crossroute Lake, assayed 0.32 opt Au (Edwards, 1983).

Mineral Record Details

References

Map - Straw Lake, Kenora and Rainy River districts

Publication Number: M2463 Scale: 1:31,680 Date: 1984

Author: Edwards G.R., Sutcliffe R.H.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

MonoMap - Geology of the Straw Lake area, districts of Kenora and Rainy River

Publication Number: R222 Page: 55 Date: 1984

Author: Edwards G.R.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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