Mineral Deposit Inventory for Ontario

Ministry of Energy, Northern Development and Mines

Permanent Link to this Record: MDI000000002317

Deposit: MDI000000002317

General

Mineral Deposit Identification
Deposit Name(s) Neartic - 1983
Deposit Status occurrence
Date Created 2019-Aug-15
Date Last Modified 2019-Aug-15
Created By T Pettigrew
Revised By T Pettigrew

Commodities

Primary Commodities: gold

Secondary Commodities: copper

Location

Township or Area: Lingman Lake Area

Latitude: 53° 52' 13.64"    Longitude: -92° 51' 3.72"

UTM Zone: 15    Easting: 509795   Northing: 5969119    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Red Lake

NTS Grid: 53F15SW

Point Location Description: Drillholes in Assessment report 20000004830

Location Method: data compilation

Exploration and Mining History

1983: Neartic Resources Inc. drilled 14 DDH totaling 815 m.

Assessment Work on File

Assessment Work on File
Office File Number   Online Assessment File Identifier   Online Assessment File Directory  
53F15SW0004     20000004830     Open

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Sachigo

Geological Age: Archean   

Mineral Deposit Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
mafic to intermediate metavolcanics 1 basalt to andesite
vein 2 quartz
felsic metavolcanics 3 rhyolite

Mineralization

Deposit Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Habit Description
1 pyrite economic ore
2 pyrrhotite economic ore
3 chalcopyrite economic ore
4 molybdenite economic ore

Mineralization Comments

08/15/2019 (T Pettigrew) - DDH 1 assayed 0.35 oz/t Au (12.0 g/t Au) over 1.28 m from a quartz-ankerite altered andesite containing molybdenite and sulphides, and up to 0.19% Cu over 2.44 m from a metasediment with bands of pyrrhotite. DDH 2 assayed up to 0.07 oz/t Au (2.4 g/t Au) over 1.1 m from an andesite with abundant quartz veinlets. DDH 5 assayed 0.084 oz/t Au (2.88 g/t Au) over 0.37 m from an andesite with quartz flooding, minor pyrite, pyrrhotite, and chalcopyrite. DDH assayed 0.048 oz/t Au (1.65 g/t Au) over 0.61 m from a rhyolite containing quartz veins with pyrite and pyrrhotite, as well as 0.19% Cu over 1.5 m from a rhyolite with abundant sulphide stringers, 5% pyrite and pyrrhotite and <1% chalcopyrite (Assessment report 20000004830).

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