Ontario Geological Survey
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MDI000000002267
Record Name(s) | Rust Lake - 1987, Placer Dome DDH 505-006 - 1995 |
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Record Status | Discretionary Occurrence |
Date Created | 2019-Mar-13 |
Date Last Modified | 2021-Dec-06 |
Created By | Therese Pettigrew |
Revised By | Therese Pettigrew |
Primary Commodities: Zinc
Township or Area: Brothers
Latitude: 48° 40' 45.66" Longitude: -85° 46' 26.26"
UTM Zone: 16 Easting: 590249 Northing: 5392537 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay South
NTS Grid: 42C12NW
Point Location Description: Point 172 on OGS map M2614
Location Method: Data Compilation
1987: Lac Minerals Ltd. drilled 2 DDH totaling 576.6 m. 1995: Placer Dome drilled 1 DDH totaling 443 m. 1999: Teck Exploration Ltd. carried out prospecting, mapping, sampling, and soil sampling. 2003: Teck Cominco Ltd. Exploration conducted resistivity and IP ground surveys.
Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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2.16900 | 42C12NE0028 | 42C12NE0028 |
W9540-00330 | 42C12NE0022 | 42C12NE0022 |
2.17010 | 42C12NE0030 | 42C12NE0030 |
20 | 42C12NW0002 | 42C12NW0002 |
2.28167 | 42C12NW2009 | 42C12NW2009 |
2.20174 | 42C12NE2003 | 42C12NE2003 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Wawa
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Schreiber-Hemlo
Geological Age: Archean
Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Schist-Unsubdivided | 1 | Sillimanite-Garnet | Host |
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Intermediate Tuff | 2 | Tuff | Adjacent |
Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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1 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
2 | Pyrrhotite | Economic | Ore | ||||
3 | Sphalerite | Economic | Ore |
Mar 13, 2019 (Therese Pettigrew) - Muir (2000) describes the showing as sillimanite-garnet-bearing arenite with amphibole-sillimanite-feldspar-quartz stockwork zones. The showing contains 1-3% disseminated pyrite, pyrrhotite, and sphalerite that assayed up to 0.422% Zn over 0.40 m.
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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