Ministry of Energy, Northern Development and Mines
Permanent Link to this Record: MDI000000002388| Deposit Name(s) | Ciccarelli Agate And Amethyst - 2001 |
|---|---|
| Deposit Status | occurrence |
| Date Created | 2020-Mar-24 |
| Date Last Modified | 2020-Mar-24 |
| Created By | T Pettigrew |
| Revised By | T Pettigrew |
Primary Commodities: amethyst, mineral specimen
Township or Area: Macgregor
Latitude: 48° 29' 14.4" Longitude: -89° 10' 24.46"
UTM Zone: 16 Easting: 339407 Northing: 5372749 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay South
NTS Grid: 52A06NE
Point Location Description: Zone C from Assessment report 52A06NE2002 and AMIS location
Location Method: based on assessment
Access Description: To access the property, turn north from the Hwy 11/17 at the Hodder Avenue intersection. This is called Copenhagen Road and the claim access point is about 300 meters north of the main highway where a gated gravel road heads eastward.
2001-07: M. Ciccarelli staked the property and carried out stripping.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| 2.27672 | 52A06NE2002 | Open |
| 2.25471 | 52A06NE2001 | Open |
| 2.29909 | 20000000412 | Open |
| 2.35092 | 20000002172 | Open |
| 2.32282 | 20000001335 | Open |
Province: Southern
Subprovince: Animikie Supergroup
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| metasedimentary | 1 | chert and iron carbonate | contains | |
| vein | 2 | is | ||
| mafic intrusive | 3 | diabase | adjacent |
03/24/2020 (T Pettigrew) - The bedrock on these claims consist of flat-lying sedimentary rocks belonging to the Upper Gunflint Formation, of the Animikie Series. Alternating layers of chert and iron carbonate rocks are exposed in outcrops across the claim area. To the immediate westem edge of the claims, these rocks are overlain by Rove Formation shales. To the southem and eastem limits of these claims are several diabase Sills. The north half of the claims is covered by a cutover with no rock exposed. A fault runs east-west across the middle of the claims. Several smaller faults have formed a small hillside where quartz and agate have formed in a network of thin veins and in horizontal openings between layers of the bedrock (Assessment report 20000002172).
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Habit Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | amethyst | economic | ore | ||||
| 2 | agate | economic | ore | ||||
| 3 | fluorite | economic | ore |
03/24/2020 (T Pettigrew) - Stripping of location C revealed an agate vein about 5” thick, lying horizontally below a thin later of ultramafics, chert and gravel. Small vugs with agate stalactites were found here with fine smokey quartz in vugs. Thin veins of white quartz, amethyst, and purple fluorite are located in ultramafic intrusives at this location as well (Assessment report 52A06NE2001).
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