Mineral Deposit Inventory for Ontario

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Deposit: MDI000000002414

General

Mineral Deposit Identification
Deposit Name(s) Bancroft Lake South - 1996
Deposit Status occurrence
Date Created 2020-Jun-15
Date Last Modified 2020-Jun-15
Created By T Pettigrew
Revised By T Pettigrew

Commodities

Primary Commodities: gold

Location

Township or Area: Matapesatakun Bay Area

Latitude: 51° 14' 47.84"    Longitude: -90° 33' 19.52"

UTM Zone: 15    Easting: 670613   Northing: 5680090    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay North

NTS Grid: 52O02NE

Point Location Description: DDH H-96-2 from Assessment report 52O02NE0011

Location Method: based on assessment

Exploration and Mining History

1953-54: Hasaga Gold Mines Ltd. carried out trenching, line cutting, and drilled 88 x-ray and EX holes totaling approximately 6401 m. 1960: the Koval claims were surveyed and patented, then acquired by Little Long Lac Gold Mines. 1974-75: Little Long Lac Gold Mines carried out linecutting, mapping, IP and magnetometer surveys, and drilled 24 DDH totaling 5156.9 m. 1986-88: Moss Resources carried out mapping, VLF-EM, magnetometer, and IP surveys, and drilled 24 DDH totaling 5156.9 m, including 1 DDH totaling 153.9 m on this occurrence. 1996: Moss Resources drilled 8 DDH totaling 808.3 m including 3 DDH totaling 303.9 m on this occurrence. 2017: Tri Origin Exploration Ltd. carried out trenching and sampling.

Assessment Work on File

Assessment Work on File
Office File Number   Online Assessment File Identifier   Online Assessment File Directory  
W9660-00050     52O02NE0011     Open
52O02NE-2     20000006238     Open
52O07SE-11     52O07SE0020     Open Open
2.58165     20000015477     Open
52O02NE-4     52O07SE0023     Open
52O02NE-3     52O07SE0021     Open Open
52O07SE9624     20000005371     Open

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Uchi

Belt: Meen-dempster

Geological Age: Archean   

Mineral Deposit Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
schist 1 host
intermediate metavolcanics 2 host
vein 3 quartz host

Mineralization

Deposit Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Habit Description
1 gold economic ore
2 arsenopyrite economic ore
3 pyrite economic ore
4 pyrrhotite economic ore
5 chalcopyrite economic ore
1 garnet economic gangue

Mineralization Comments

06/15/2020 (T Pettigrew) - Drillholes H-96-1, H-96-2, H-96-3, H-96-5 and H-96-6 intersected gold mineralization within the Central Intermediate-Mafic Volcanic (CIMV) unit. The host rock is a brownish-grey, strongly foliated calcareous feldspar-biotite-quartz schist distinctively streaked/banded by anastamosing brownish biotite-rich seams and light whitish-grey calcite-rich lenses/bands which may be highly stretched lapilli fragments. DDH H-96-2 returned 0.089 oz/t Au over 11 feet (3.05 g/t Au over 3.35 m), including 0.26 oz/t Au over 3 feet (8.91 g/t Au over 0.91 m). DDH K-87-13 returned up to 0.614 oz/t Au over 5.3 feet (21.05 g/t Au over 1.62 m), 0.248 oz/t Au over 2.0 feet (8.5 g/t Au over 0.61 m), and 0.222 oz/t Au over 3.2 feet (7.61 g/t Au over 0.97 m) from an intermediate metavolcanics with visible gold, 2-5% sulphides (arsenopyrite, pyrite +/- pyrrhotite and rare chalcopyrite) in very fine-grained bands/lenses and disseminated, as well as in aggregates associated with quartz veinlets (Assessment report 52O02NE0011).

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