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Record: MDI41H08SE00062

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Beatty and Wilcox Mine - 1897
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Occurrence
Date Created 1984-Aug-23
Date Last Modified 2022-Feb-18
Created By
Revised By

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold, Silver



Location

Township or Area: Cowper

Latitude: 45° 15' 15.59"    Longitude: -80° 4' 14.45"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 572919.78   Northing: 5011624    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Sudbury

NTS Grid: 41H08SE

Point Location Description: shaft

Location Method: AMIS Site Visit

Access Description: From Portage into Spider Lake from Three Legged lake, travel by boat 3.5km toward Spider Bay. The reported shaft is on the north shore of Spider Lake.



Exploration History

1897: Beatty and Wilcox - development, prospecting


Geology

Province: Grenville

Subprovince: Central Gneiss Belt

Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic  



Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Vein 1 Quartz Host
Terrigenous-Clastic-Unsubdivided 2 Contains

Mineralization

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

Mineralization Comments

Oct 06, 2010 (A Wilson) - Samples from within a vein in the shaft returned 1.64 oz/t Au and 1.16 oz/t Ag; and 0.47 oz/t Au.



Mineral Record Details

Classification
RankClassification            
1 Vein

References

Part - Mines of eastern Ontario

Publication Number: ARV07-01.004 Scale:     Date: 1998

Author: Slaght A.

Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines

Location:


Mono - Gold deposits of Ontario, part 2, part of District of Cochrane, districts of Muskoka, Nipissing, Parry Sound, Sudbury, Timiskaming, and counties of southern Ontario

Publication Number: MDC018 Scale:     Date: 1979

Author: Gordon J.B., Lovell H.L., de Grijs J.W., Davie R.F.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


Map - Parry Sound-Huntsville area, Ontario

Publication Number: M2118 Scale: 1:126,720    Date: 1967

Author: Hewitt D.F.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


Map - Precambrian Geology, Sans Souci Area

Publication Number: P3551 Scale: 1:50,000    Date: 2004

Author: Culshaw N.G., Corrigan D., Ketchum J.W.F., Wallace P., Wodicka N.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


Map - Precambrian Geology, Parry Sound Area

Publication Number: P3550 Scale: 1:50,000    Date: 2004

Author: Culshaw N.G., Corrigan D., Ketchum J.W.F., Wallace P., Wodicka N.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


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