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Ministry of Energy, Northern Development and Mines
Permanent Link to this Record: MDI000000002119| Deposit Name(s) | Tak Patents - 1940, Porphyry Zone - 1999 |
|---|---|
| Deposit Status | prospect |
| Date Created | 2017-Nov-27 |
| Date Last Modified | 2018-Mar-14 |
| Created By | T Pettigrew |
| Revised By | T Pettigrew |
Primary Commodities: gold
Township or Area: Kabik Lake Area
Latitude: 49° 57' 53.91" Longitude: -92° 3' 3.29"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 568067 Northing: 5535168 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kenora
NTS Grid:
Point Location Description: Trench on map AFRI 52F16NE2006
Location Method: data compilation
Access Description: The property is accessible by water, from the boat launch located at Donnelly’s Minnitaki Lodge on Pickerel Arm.
1940s: trenching. 1948: Mosher Long Lac Gold Mines Ltd. conducted a magnetometer survey. 1980: Cominco conducted geological mapping, sampling, and a magnetometer survey. 1998-99: Triex Resources conducted prospecting and sampling, and drilled 10 DDH totaling 1558 m. 2002: Southern Rio Resources optioned the property from Triex Resources and drilled 8 DDH totaling 1209 m.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| 2.24305 | 52F16NE2006 | Open |
| 2.3756 | 52F16NE8244 | Open |
| 2.19871 | 52G13NW2002 | Open |
| 2.19094 | 52G13NW2001 | Open |
| 63.140 | 52F16NE8284 | Open |
| 2.4876 | 52F16NE8224 | Open |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Wabigoon
Belt: Abram-minnitaki Lake Lakes
Geological Age: Archean
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| vein | 1 | quartz | host | |
| porphyry | 2 | quartz-feldspar | host |
11/27/2017 (T Pettigrew) - Work on the Minnitaki property has indicated the presence of a large quartz-feldspar porphyry body that is variably silicified, carbonatized, and pyrite mineralized. This unit is at least 500 m wide by 1400 m long, located on the east end of the peninsula between Pickerel Arm of Minnitaki Lake and the main body of Minnitaki Lake (AFRI 52F16NE2006).
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Habit Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pyrite | economic | ore | ||||
| 2 | gold | economic | ore | ||||
| 1 | quartz | economic | gangue | ||||
| silica | alteration | silicification | 1 | unknown | disseminated | ||
| carbonate | alteration | carbonatization | 2 | unknown | disseminated |
11/27/2017 (T Pettigrew) - The 2002 drill program indicated the presence of a stockwork of quartz-carbonate veins within the porphyry, with varying degrees of silicification and sericitic, potassic, and hematitic alteration. Gold mineralization appears to be ubiquitous in the presence of any degree of alteration, but does not correlate well with pyrite content. Samples from the 1999 trenching program returned assays ranging from 1100-29790 ppb Au. DDH TAK-99-08 assayed 4.80 gpt over 0.5 m from 136.0-136.5 m. Assays from TAK-99-10 included 2.082 gpt Au over 31.83 m from 3.57-35.40 m, including 11.778 gpt Au over 2.88 m from 25.5-25.38 m and 7.632 gpt Au over 1.10 m from 34.3-35.4 m. DDH TAK-02-01 assayed 6.2 gpt Au over 1.2 m from 124.8-126.0 m. DDH TAK-02-04 assayed 2.9 gpt Au over 1.4 m. TAK-02-06 assayed 3.08 gpt Au over 7.57 m from 27.27-35.3 m and 7.0 gpt Au over 1.1 m from 81.3-82.4 m. DDH TAK-02-07 assayed 3.18 gpt over 8.7 m from 27.7-36.4 m including 8.62 gpt Au over 0.4 m from 27.7-28.2 m, 9.67 gpt Au over 0.8 m from 29.45-30.25 m and 7.57 gpt Au over 1.4 m from 35.0-36.4 m (AFRI 52F16NE2006).
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