Mineral Deposit Inventory for Ontario

Ministry of Energy, Northern Development and Mines

Permanent Link to this Record: MDI000000002285

Deposit: MDI000000002285

General

Mineral Deposit Identification
Deposit Name(s) Teardrop Lake - 2018
Related Deposit ID MDI000000001968
Deposit Status occurrence
Date Created 2019-Apr-10
Date Last Modified 2019-Apr-10
Created By T Pettigrew
Revised By T Pettigrew

Commodities

Primary Commodities: gold

Location

Township or Area: Bedivere Lake Area

Latitude: 48° 50' 16.07"    Longitude: -90° 54' 18.2"

UTM Zone: 15    Easting: 653722   Northing: 5411541    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay South

NTS Grid: 52B15SW

Point Location Description: Benton Resources April 2019 corporate presentation

Location Method: data compilation

Exploration and Mining History

2018: Benton Resources conducted trenching, sampling, and drilling.

Mineral Deposit Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
breccia 1 quartz breccia host

Mineralization Comments

04/10/2019 (T Pettigrew) - Wide zone of anomalous gold at Teardrop Lake grading 0.21 g/t over 42.0 m, including 1.7 g/t Au over 1.0 m in an altered quartz breccia, and an additional sample of 2.65 g/t Au over 1.0 m, located 1.2 km south of the Traxxin Zone (Benton Resources Nov 13, 2018 press release; Benton Resources 2019 corporate presentation http://www.bentonresources.ca/upload/documents/benton-resources-april-2019.pdf).

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For detailed information regarding this mineral deposit please contact the Thunder Bay South Resident Geologist District Office