Ministry of Energy, Northern Development and Mines
Permanent Link to this Record: MDI000000002152| Deposit Name(s) | 301 Zone - 2011, Pidgeon Ne - 1993 |
|---|---|
| Deposit Status | occurrence |
| Date Created | 2017-Dec-20 |
| Date Last Modified | 2020-Sep-15 |
| Created By | C Ravnaas |
| Revised By | T Pettigrew |
Primary Commodities: zinc
Secondary Commodities: gold, copper
Township or Area: Bad Vermilion Lake Area
Latitude: 48° 44' 44.93" Longitude: -92° 32' 46.69"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 533353 Northing: 5399299 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kenora
NTS Grid: 52C10NE
Point Location Description: Sample 21672 location from Assessment report 20000007049
Location Method: based on assessment
1990-93: Inco optioned the property and conducted airborne magnetometer and EM surveys, IP and HLEM surveys, mapping, trenching, sampling, and drilled 1 DDH totalling 407 m. 2011: Pathfinder Gold Inc carried out prospecting, mapping and sampling.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| 2.50545 | 20000007049 | Open |
| 2.15048 | 52C10NE8113 | Open |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Wabigoon
Belt: Fort Frances-mine Centre
Geological Age: Archean
12/20/2017 (C Ravnaas) - The property is underlain by a tightly folded sequence of intercalated mafic flows, intermediate to felsic tuff, minor lapilli tuff and flows in contact with cobble, sand or clay based metasediments (Quetico). The stratigraphy follows the steeply dipping regional foliation at 070o. Foliation is related to splays off the Seine River Fault to the south. North of the highway, the stratigraphy follows an eastwest foliation near the Gold Bug and Alice A where regional foliation is strongly influenced by the east-west Quetico Fault.” from Poulson GR 266.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| vein | 1 | host | ||
| felsic metavolcanics | 2 | rhyolite breccia | contains | |
| mafic metavolcanics | 3 | host |
12/20/2017 (C Ravnaas) - Quartz veins and stringers locally parallel the intense foliation in both rock types. Veins are commonly folded and locally contain abundant ankerite, chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite and pyrite from Poulson MDC 29 page 40.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Habit Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pyrite | economic | ore | ||||
| 2 | sphalerite | economic | ore | ||||
| 3 | chalcopyrite | economic | ore |
12/20/2017 (C Ravnaas) - chip sample 21672 - 0.16gpt Au, 3.0 gpt Ag, 249ppm Cu & 0.42% Zn / 1.0m from a rhyolite breccia (Assessment report 20000007049)
09/15/2020 (T Pettigrew) - A series of previously dug pits were sampled in 2011. The pits were in quartz veins within the silicified rhyolite breccia and shearing. The silicified and sheared rhyolite breccia can be seen over a 50 m width before it disappears into the large swamp to the SE. Shearing increases as the low ground is approached. The veins differ from those influenced by the Quetico Fault in that far more sulphides are present in the form of pyrite, sphalerite, (2 to 20%), chalcopyrite and gold and silver (Assessment report 20000007049). DDH returned up to 11444 ppm Zn, 3102 ppm Pb, 156 ppm Cu, and 2.3 ppm Ag over 0.93 m from a rhyolite with quartz eyes and 5-7% disseminated pyrite and up to 10% pyrite, galena, and sphalerite, and 14,229 ppm Zn, 815 ppm Cu, and 3.7 ppm Ag over 0.75 m from a mafic metavolcanic with trace pyrite and sphalerite in fractures (Assessment report 52C10NE8113).
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