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Record: MDI31E14NW00002

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Sausage Lake Pit - 1914
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Discretionary Occurrence
Date Created 1991-Feb-04
Date Last Modified 2022-Jan-28
Created By
Revised By

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold, Graphite



Location

Township or Area: Laurier

Latitude: 45° 57' 48.5"    Longitude: -79° 18' 34.93"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 630969   Northing: 5091378    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Sudbury

NTS Grid: 31E14NW

Point Location Description: precise

Location Method: AMIS Site Visit

Access Description: The pits are approximately 150 metres west of a gravel road that provides access to a control dam on the north side of Sausage Lake and approximately 400 metres south of the forest access road from Trout Creek.



Exploration History

pre 1942: pitting 1990-94: B. Manella and P. Mclean - stripping, sampling, soil sampling, mapping, ground geophysics


Assessment Work on File

Assessment Work on File
Office File Number Online Assessment File Identifier Online Assessment File Directory
Laurier-SP018 / 63.5755 31E14NW9762 31E14NW9762
Laurier-SP019 / W9490-00054 31E14NW0001 31E14NW0001

Geology

Province: Grenville

Subprovince: Central Gneiss Belt

Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic  



Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Schist-Unsubdivided 1 Host

Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
1GraphiteEconomicOre
2PyrrhotiteEconomicOre

Mineralization Comments

Jan 26, 2011 (A Wilson) - Grab samples collected by Satterly returned traces of gold.



Mineral Record Details

References

Mono - Graphite in the Central Gneiss Belt of the Grenville Province of Ontario

Publication Number: OFR5649 Scale:     Date: 1987

Author: Garland M.I.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


Map - Portions of the districts of Parry Sound and Muskoka, Province of Ontario

Publication Number: ARM51A Scale: 1:126,720    Date: 1998

Author: Satterly J.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


Part - Mineral occurrences in Parry Sound District

Publication Number: ARV51-02 Scale:     Date: 1998

Author: Satterly J.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


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