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Record Name(s) | Fox Lake - 1984, E.A. Siegrist - 1984 |
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Related Record Type | Simple |
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Record Status | Occurrence |
Date Created | 1984-Jan-31 |
Date Last Modified | 2022-Oct-11 |
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Primary Commodities: Copper, Gold
Secondary Commodities: Silver, Sulphur/Pyrite
Township or Area: Mongowin
Latitude: 46° 9' 10.92" Longitude: -81° 44' 34.41"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 442634.947 Northing: 5111318.813 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Sudbury
NTS Grid: 41I04NE
Point Location Description: Pit
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Terrigenous-Clastic-Unsubdivided | 1 | Quartzite | Adjacent |
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Vein | 2 | Quartz-carbonate | Host |
Oct 11, 2022 (Sheree Hinz) - Quartzites belonging to the Serpent and Gowganda Formations of the Huronian Supergroup trend easterly through the area. Structurally, the property is located on the south limb of the Fox Lake Anticline. The northeast-trending Fox Lake Fault brings sheared and brecciated quartzites of the Serpent and Gowganda Formations into juxta position. These rocks adjacent to the fault are silicified, carbonatized, and veined with quartz.
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 | Quartz | Economic | Gangue |
Oct 11, 2022 (Sheree Hinz) - The main showing is a breccia zone in Gowganda Formation quartzite in which there has been replacement by carbonate and quartz, and some sulphide mineralization.
Commodity | Analytical Method | Digestion Method | Result | Unit | Limit | Qualifier |
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Copper | Unknown | 1.91 | % | |||
Gold | Unknown | .83 | oz/T | |||
Silver | Unknown | .94 | oz/T |
Map - Mongowin and Curtin townships, Sudbury District
Publication Number: M2312 Scale: 1:31,680 Date: 1975
Author: Card K.D.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines
Location:
Part - Notes on Mongowin Township and vicinity
Publication Number: ARV44-07.005 Page: 60-61 Date: 1997
Author: Rickaby H.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - Geology of the Espanola-Whitefish Falls area, District of Sudbury
Publication Number: R131 Page: 56 Date: 1976
Author: Card K.D.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division 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 Page: 76 Date: 1979
Author: Gordon J.B., Lovell H.L., de Grijs J.W., Davie R.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Folio - Mongowin Township, District of Sudbury
Publication Number: GDIF152 Date: 1997
Author: Sudbury RGO
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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