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Record Name(s) | Horseshoe - 1940 |
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Record Status | Occurrence |
Date Created | 2022-Dec-13 |
Date Last Modified | 2022-Dec-13 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Poisson
Latitude: 50° 25' 12.55" Longitude: -90° 31' 59.76"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 675228 Northing: 5588255 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kenora
NTS Grid: 52J07NE
Point Location Description: Location from map in Assessment report 20000008409
Location Method: Based on Assessment
1940: Northern Canada Mines Ltd. carried pout prospecting. 1967: Algoma Steel Corp. Ltd. carried out magnetometer surveys and geological mapping. 1984: R. Ramsay carried out geological mapping. 1991: G Gorzynski and H E Ewen carried out prospecting, trenching, and sampling. 1992: G. Gorzynski carried out prospecting. 2014: Parkside Resources Corp. carried out prospecting and sampling. 2015: Independence Gold Corp. carried out prospecting and mapping. 2016: New Dimension Resources Ltd carried out prospecting and sampling. 2020: Prospector Metals Corp. acquired a 70% option on the project from Capella Minerals Ltd. and conducted a high-resolution airborne magnetic survey.
Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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3917 | 20000019395 | 20000019395 |
2.56458 | 20000015339 | 20000015339 |
2.55604 | 20000008409 | 20000008409 |
OP92-309 | 52J08NW0003 | 52J08NW0003 |
OP91-276 | 52J09SW0004 | 52J09SW0004 |
2.6300 | 52J07NE9137 | 52J07NE9137 |
2.57588 | 20000009265 | 20000009265 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Wabigoon
Terrane: Western Wabigoon
Belt: Savant Lake
Geological Age: Archean
Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Oxide Ironstone | 1 |
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Sandstone | 2 | clastic metasediments | ||
Vein | 3 | quartz | Host |
Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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1 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
2 | Gold | Economic | Ore |
Dec 13, 2022 (Therese Pettigrew) - The Horseshoe trench contained mixed oxide facies iron formation and clastic metasediments as well as a 3 to 5 cm wide quartz vein that contained trace pyrite, as well as one flake of visible gold approximately 1 millimeter in size Sampling in 2014 returned assays of 26.904-138.866 ppm Au (Assessment report 20000008409). A sample taken in 1990 returned 0.42 opt Au (Assessment report 52J08NW0003). Sample S193844 returned 14.25 ppm Au and 1.86 ppm Ag from a 1-2 cm quartz vein in very fine grained black iron metasediments with <1% pyrite (Assessment report 20000009265).
Commodity | Analytical Method | Digestion Method | Result | Unit | Limit | Qualifier |
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Gold | Gravimetric | 138.866 | ppm | |||
Gold | Gravimetric | 14.25 | ppm | |||
Gold | Gravimetric | 26.904 | ppm |
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