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| Record Name(s) | Thor Lake - 1983 |
|---|---|
| Related Record Type | |
| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 2019-Mar-13 |
| Date Last Modified | 2021-Dec-06 |
| Created By | Therese Pettigrew |
| Revised By | Therese Pettigrew |
Primary Commodities: Gold, Zinc, Silver
Township or Area: Brothers
Latitude: 48° 38' 34.13" Longitude: -85° 44' 34.45"
UTM Zone: 16 Easting: 592602 Northing: 5388513.01 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay South
NTS Grid: 42C12NE
Point Location Description: Point 214 on OGS map M2614
Location Method: Data Compilation
1980: Lac Minerals Exploration Ltd. staked the property. 1981-92: Lac Minerals conducted airborne EM and magnetometer surveys. 1983-84: Lac Minerals conducted soil sampling and geological mapping. 1985: Lac Minerals drilled 2 DDH totaling 372 m. 1986: Lac Minerals drilled 1 DDH totaling 73.76 m. 1999-2002: Teck optioned the property and conducted geological mapping, prospecting, lithogeochemical sampling, soil sampling, trenching, and drilled 9 DDH. 2010: MetalCORP conducted sampling and mapping.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| 42C12NE0056 | 42C12NE0058 | 42C12NE0058 |
| 2.19638 | 42C12NE2002 | 42C12NE2002 |
| 42C12NE0044 | 42C12NW0012 | 42C12NW0012 |
| 42C12NW0055 | 42C12NE0025 | 42C12NE0025 |
| 42C12NE0031 | 42C12NE0019 | 42C12NE0019 |
| 2.45064 | 20000004629 | 20000004629 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Wawa
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Schreiber-Hemlo
Geological Age: Archean
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Schist-Unsubdivided | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intermediate lava flow-unsubdivided | 2 | |||
| Amphibolite | 3 |
Mar 13, 2019 (Therese Pettigrew) - The Gouda-Thor horizon represents a gently to moderately north-dipping layer of biotite white mica schist, locally including quartz eyes, typically of 10 to 20 m true thickness, which itself is hosted by either a sequence of biotite quartzofeldspathic schistose-gneissic rocks or locally, by amphibolite (Assessment file 20000007421).
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pyrrhotite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Sphalerite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 4 | Galena | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 5 | Stibnite | Economic | Ore |
Mar 13, 2019 (Therese Pettigrew) - Muir (2000) describes this showing as an off-faulted portion of the Gouda Lake horizon, with assays up to 10.63 ppm Au, 42 ppm Ag, and 5.14% Zn.
Map - Geological Compilation of the Eastern Half of the Schreiber-Hemlo Greenstone Belt
Publication Number: M2614 Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 2000
Author: Muir T.L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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