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Record: MDI000000002244

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Debbie Lake - 1984
Related Record Type
Record Status Occurrence
Date Created 2018-Dec-05
Date Last Modified 2022-Jan-05
Created By Therese Pettigrew
Revised By Therese Pettigrew

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Zinc

Secondary Commodities: Copper



Location

Township or Area: Santoy Lake Area

Latitude: 48° 55' 4.91"    Longitude: -86° 47' 3.61"

UTM Zone: 16    Easting: 515800   Northing: 5418366    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay South

NTS Grid: 42D15NW

Point Location Description: Map in Assessment file 42D15NW0012

Location Method: Data Compilation

Access Description: Access is by helicopter or float plane.



Exploration History

1982: Noranda Exploration Company Ltd. carried out mapping and sampling. 1984: Terrace Bay Resources Ltd. carried out mapping, prospecting, soil and rock sampling, and an airborne geophysical VLF-EM and magnetometer survey.


Assessment Work on File

Assessment Work on File
Office File Number Online Assessment File Identifier Online Assessment File Directory
2.7963 42D15NW0012 42D15NW0012
2.4617 42D15NW0030 42D15NW0030

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Wawa

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Geological Age: Archean  



Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Amphibolite 1 Fine-Grained Amphibolite Host
Intermediate lava flow-unsubdivided 2

Lithology Comments

Dec 05, 2018 (Therese Pettigrew) - The property is predominantly composed of a fine- to coarse-grained amphibolotie, with small lenses of intermediate to felsic volcanics (Assessment file 42D15NW0012).




Mineralization

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

Mineralization Comments

Dec 05, 2018 (Therese Pettigrew) - Sample R-15057 returned an assay of 5100 ppm Zn, 290 ppm Cu, 19 ppm Pb, 0.7 ppm Ag, 30 ppb Au, and 33 ppm Mo from a 1 m wide gossan in a fine-grained amphibolite mafic metavolcanics (Assessment file 42D15NW0012).



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