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General

Mineral Record Identification
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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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold



Location

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



Exploration History

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.


Assessment Work on File

Assessment Work on File
Office File Number Online Assessment File Identifier Online Assessment File Directory
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

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Wabigoon

Terrane: Western Wabigoon

Belt: Savant Lake

Geological Age: Archean  



Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Oxide Ironstone 1
Sandstone 2 clastic metasediments
Vein 3 quartz Host

Mineralization

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

Mineralization Comments

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).



Assay Samples

Assay Samples
CommodityAnalytical MethodDigestion Method ResultUnitLimitQualifier
GoldGravimetric138.866ppm
GoldGravimetric14.25ppm
GoldGravimetric26.904ppm

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