Ministry of Energy, Northern Development and Mines
Permanent Link to this Record: MDI000000002322Deposit Name(s) | North Caribou River Cu - 1984 |
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Deposit Status | occurrence |
Date Created | 2019-Aug-19 |
Date Last Modified | 2019-Aug-19 |
Created By | T Pettigrew |
Revised By | T Pettigrew |
Primary Commodities: copper
Township or Area: Randall Lake Area
Latitude: 52° 52' 6.87" Longitude: -91° 6' 23.49"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 627451 Northing: 5859330 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay North
NTS Grid: 53B14SE
Point Location Description: Samples 95 and 96 on OGS map P2834
Location Method: data compilation
1979: St. Joseph Explorations Ltd. drilled 1 DDH totaling 84.43 m. 1984: OGS staff discovered and sampled the showing during a mapping program. 1985: Moss Resources carried out mapping, sampling, VLF-EM and magnetic surveys. 1988: Power Explorations drilled 3 DDH totaling 498.65 m.
Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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53B14SE0011C1 | 53B14SE0010 | Open Open |
16 | 53B14SE0002 | Open |
2.8799 | 53B14SE9437 | Open |
2.8098 | 53B14NE9438 | Open |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Sachigo
Belt: North Caribou
Geological Age: Mesoarchean
Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship |
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vein | 1 | quartz | host | |
mafic metavolcanics | 2 | near | ||
schist | 3 | chlorite-actinolite | contains | |
felsic metavolcanics | 4 | near |
Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Habit Description |
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1 | pyrite | economic | ore | ||||
1 | fuchsite | economic | gangue |
08/19/2019 (T Pettigrew) - OGS staff members collected samples from quartz-sulphide veins found in a chlorite-actinolite schist. Sample 95 returned 1.59% Cu. Sample 96 returned 1.72% Cu (Bartlett et al., 1985). No significant Cu or Au values were returned from the 1979 St. Joseph Explorations drill hole (Assessment report 53B14SE0010).
Map - Precambrian Geology of Eyapamikama Lake Area
Publication Number: P2834 Scale: 1:31 680 Date: 1985
Author: Bartlett, J.R., Breaks, F.W., DeKemp, E.A., and Shields, H.N.
Publisher Name: OGS
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