Ministry of Energy, Northern Development and Mines
Permanent Link to this Record: MDI000000002383| Deposit Name(s) | Black Bay Pb - 1983 |
|---|---|
| Deposit Status | occurrence |
| Date Created | 2020-Mar-10 |
| Date Last Modified | 2020-Mar-10 |
| Created By | T Pettigrew |
| Revised By | T Pettigrew |
Primary Commodities: lead
Township or Area: McTavish
Latitude: 48° 42' 27.67" Longitude: -88° 32' 27.6"
UTM Zone: 16 Easting: 386631 Northing: 5396107 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay South
NTS Grid: 52A10NE
Point Location Description: Sample 198234 on map in Assessment report 52A10NE0026
Location Method: based on assessment
1983: Noranda carried out prospecting, mapping, and sampling.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| 2.5900 | 52A10NE0026 | Open |
Province: Southern
Subprovince: Sibley Supergroup
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| felsic intrusive | 1 | granite | contains | |
| vein | 2 | quartz-carbonate | host | |
| metasedimentary | 3 | near |
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Habit Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quartz | economic | gangue | ||||
| 2 | carbonate | economic | gangue | ||||
| 3 | barite | economic | gangue |
03/10/2020 (T Pettigrew) - Sample 19834 collected by Noranda in 1983 returned 16,000 ppm Pb, 19 ppm Zn, and 0.8 ppm Ag from a quartz-carbonate-barite vein that was 1 cm wide and had dolomite bleaching along the fractures. Host rock is granite (Assessment report 52A10NE0026).
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