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Record: MDI000000002607

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Randall Lake NE - 1988, Discovery Lake - 1987
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Record Status Occurrence
Date Created 2021-Oct-29
Date Last Modified 2022-Jan-18
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold



Location

Township or Area: Randall Lake Area

Latitude: 52° 51' 39.54"    Longitude: -91° 7' 3.24"

UTM Zone: 15    Easting: 626730   Northing: 5858466    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay North

NTS Grid: 52B14SE

Point Location Description: DDH RL-88-24 from Assessment report

Location Method: Data Compilation

Access Description: The property is approximately 180 km NNW of Pickle Lake. Access is by float plane.



Exploration History

1987: Power Explorations Inc. carried out prospecting, mapping, stripping, and sampling. 1988: Power Explorations Inc. drilled 26 DDH totalling 4585.7 m on the property, including 1 DDH totalling 249 on the occurrence.


Assessment Work on File

Assessment Work on File
Office File Number Online Assessment File Identifier Online Assessment File Directory
16 53B14SE0002 53B14SE0002
2.10731 53B14SE0004 53B14SE0004

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Berens River

Terrane: North Caribou

Domain: North Caribou Core

Belt: North Caribou

Geological Age: Archean  



Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided 1 Contains
Siltstone 2 Near
Schist-Unsubdivided 3 Near
Vein 4 quartz Host
Ironstone-unsubdivided 5 Contains

Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
1PyriteEconomicOre
2MagnetiteEconomicOre

Mineralization Comments

Oct 29, 2021 (Therese Pettigrew) - Samples collected from the SE shoreline of Discovery Lake returned up to 0.548 ppm Au from a 1.5 foot wide grunerite-chert iron formation with 20% magnetite and trace pyrite (Assessment report 53B14SE0004). DDH RL-88-24 returned 0.030 oz/t Au over 5 feet (1.03 g/t Au over 1.5 m) from a mafic volcanic with trace magnetite and trace to 0.5% pyrite (Assessment report 53B14SE0002).



Assay Samples

Assay Samples
CommodityAnalytical MethodDigestion Method ResultUnitLimitQualifier
GoldUnknown.03oz/T

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