Ministry of Energy, Northern Development and Mines
Permanent Link to this Record: MDI000000002333| Deposit Name(s) | Brule Creek - 2012, Conmee 1 Group - 1962 |
|---|---|
| Deposit Status | occurrence |
| Date Created | 2019-Sep-11 |
| Date Last Modified | 2019-Sep-11 |
| Created By | T Pettigrew |
| Revised By | T Pettigrew |
Primary Commodities: iron
Secondary Commodities: gold
Township or Area: Conmee
Latitude: 48° 29' 1.37" Longitude: -89° 43' 6.8"
UTM Zone: 16 Easting: 299120 Northing: 5373635 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay South
NTS Grid: 52A05NE
Point Location Description: Sample 1291579 from Assessment report 20000007495
Location Method: data compilation
Access Description: The property is approximately 9 km north of the village of Kakabeka Falls. Direct access to the property is via Mokomon Road, which provides access to a series of rural and logging roads.
1956: New Fortune Mines Ltd. conducted an airborne magnetometer survey. 1961: Hanna Mining Company optioned the property. 1962: Hanna Mining Company conducted magnetometer and geological surveys. 1993: K. Kukee conducted trenching and sampling. 2011: Atlas Mining Ltd. conducted a helicopter-born high resolution magnetic and VLF-EM survey, prospecting and sampling. 2012: Atlas Mining carried out trenching and sampling.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| 2.53446 | 20000007495 | Open |
| 2.14930 | 52A05NE8200 | Open |
| 63A.413 | 52A05NE0015 | Open |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Wawa
Geological Age: Archean
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| iron formation | 1 | is | ||
| conglomerate | 2 | is | ||
| gabbro | 3 | near |
09/11/2019 (T Pettigrew) - Sample descriptions include banded magnetite and grey chert intermixed with siltstone, banded hematite and jasper, and crudely bedded conglomerate with banded iron formation fragments (Assessment report 20000007495).
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Habit Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | magnetite | economic | ore | ||||
| 2 | hematite | economic | ore | ||||
| 1 | chert | economic | gangue | ||||
| 2 | jasper | economic | gangue |
09/11/2019 (T Pettigrew) - Iron reported as Fe2O3 ranged in values from a low of 15.04% to a high of 52.16%. Only 3 samples were below 20% Fe2O3 and were spatially located within 5-7 meters. 12 samples were over 35% Fe2O3 and all trenches had the iron formation open to the northeast. Gold assays returned values of 6-35 ppb Au (Assessment report 20000007495).
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