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| Record Name(s) | Geneva Lake Mine - 1929, Lake Geneva Mining Company Property - 1929, Genex Mines Property - 1957 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Developed Prospect With Reported Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1985-Jul-25 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-May-11 |
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Primary Commodities: Zinc, Lead, Silver
Secondary Commodities: Copper, Gold, Uranium
Township or Area: Hess
Latitude: 46° 47' 25.79" Longitude: -81° 30' 54.76"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 460677.998 Northing: 5182012 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Sudbury
NTS Grid: 41I13SE
Point Location Description: shaft
Location Method: AMIS Site Visit
Access Description: Starting at Hwy 144 at Levack turnoff, travel on Hwy 144, drive 25.5km northwest to Benny turnoff; turn east onto logging road, drive 4.7km east to road junction; turn southwest onto Geneva Lake mine access road , drive 3.2km east-southeast to mine site situated on prominent knob above swamp.
1924: J. Osborne - discovery 1925: Collins-Babson Syndicate - exploration. 1927-28: Towgamac Exploration Company Limited - trenching, stripping, mapping, DD-600m, shaft sinking. 1929-1944: Lake Geneva Mining Company - underground development, mining. 1949-52: Geneva Lake Mines & Bidgood Kirkland Gold Mines Limited - dewatering, DD-17-12,100 ft. 1970-73: Geneva Metals Inc. - ground geophysics, DD-3-1502 ft- 1985: Noranda Exploration Co. Ltd. - airborne geophysics. 1989: Falconbridge Ltd. - airborne geophysics. 1989-90: Geneva Lake Minerals Corp. - ground geophysics, DD-23-15,962 ft. 2000-2004: D. Beilhartz - prospecting, sampling, mapping, ground geophysics
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| Hess-0017 | 41I14SW0032 | 41I14SW0032 |
| Craig-0026 | 41I13SE0005 | 41I13SE0005 |
| Ulster-SP012 / 2.12328 | 41I13SE0019 | 41I13SE0019 |
| Hess-SP008 / 63.6125 | 41I13SE0051 | 41I13SE0051 |
| Hess-SP023 / 2.20901 | 41I13SE2005 | 41I13SE2005 |
| Hess-SP031 / 2.23759 | 41I13SE2009 | 41I13SE2009 |
| Hess-SP035 / 2.26297 | 41I13SE2010 | 41I13SE2010 |
| Hess-SP037 / 2.27864 | 41I13SE2012 | 41I13SE2012 |
| Harty-0011 / 2.1699 | 41I14SW9510 | 41I14SW9510 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Abitibi
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Benny
Geological Age: Archean
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 1 | Host |
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| Intermediate Tuff | 2 | Tuff | Adjacent |
May 25, 2010 (A Wilson) - The property consists of a central band of mafic metavolcanics surrounded by intermediate metavolcanic tuffs and breccias. The northern and southern portions of the property are underlain by monzonite plutons.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Galena | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 4 | Sphalerite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 6 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Pyrite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 3 | Arsenopyrite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 5 | Magnetite | Economic | Gangue |
May 25, 2010 (A Wilson) - An assay from Towgamac's drill hole No-11 returned 5.48%Pb, 16.35% Zn, 1.06 oz/t Ag, $0.40 gold over 4.5 feet. The deposit strikes southeasterly, and dips south at 45° to 50° and rakes to the southeast at 45°. The sulphide zone has been traced along surface for 700 feet and has a width up to 20 feet. The sulphide mineralization is generally massive but shows distinctive banding. The mineralization consists of rafts of altered host rock and fine-grained sphalerite, and coarser grained galena, chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite and pyrite forming cross-cutting stringer zones. Grab samples collected by Geneva Lake Minerals Corp. in 1989 returned 0.008% Cu, 8.98% Pb, 17.62% Zn, 3.28 oz/t Ag and 0.003 oz/t Au; 0.28% Cu, 1.14% Pb, 7.915% Zn, 2.33 oz/t Ag and 0.023 oz/t Au. A sample of the stringer ore returned 1.05% Cu, 0.03% Pb, 0.01% Zn, 0.67 oz/t Ag and 0.002 oz/t Au. A grab sample of intermediate tuff taken from the Geneva Lake Mine dump by the OGS in 1980 yielded 0.032% U3O8.
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Replacement |
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 2 | Stratabound |
| 1 | Vein |
| Zone | Year | Category | Tonnes | Reference | Comments | Commodities |
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| Geneva Lake Mine | 1989 | Unclassified | 103419 | 41I13SE0051 1989 report by Geneva Lake Minerals Corp. | estimated underground reserves are 114,000 tons grading 10% Zn and 3% Pb across an average width of 5.3 feet plus 24,000 tons with 8% combined Pb-Zn content across 4 feet plus 32,000 tons with a 6% combined Pb-Zn content across 3.0 ft |
| Year | Tonnes | Commodities | Reference | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1944 | 73108 | AFRI 41I13SE0051 1989 report by Geneva Lake Minerals Corp. | Production 1941-44: 80,588 tons @ 3.34% Pb, 9.21% Zn yielding 10,389,646 lb Zn, 3,598,411 lb Pb and $28,416 silver |
Map - Sudbury mining area, Sudbury District
Publication Number: M2170 Scale: 1:63,360 Date: 1969
Author: Card K.D.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Cartier sheet, districts of Sudbury and Algoma, geological compilation series
Publication Number: P0287 Scale: 1:126,720 Date: 1997
Author: Card K.D.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Book - JUB VOL 1, P590-596
Publication Number: JUB VOL 1 Date: 1948
Author:
Publisher Name: CIMM
Location:
Map - Sudbury data series, Hess Township, Sudbury District
Publication Number: P2143 Scale: 1:15,840 Date: 1981
Author: Adlington R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Journal - A lead-zinc deposit at Geneva Lake, Ontario; Economic Geology (1931) vol. 26, no. 3
Publication Number: EG V26 Page: 295-313 Date: 1931
Author: Tuck, R.
Publisher Name: Economic Geology; Society of Economic Geologists
Location: https://doi.org/10.2113/gsecongeo.26.3.295
Map - Geological series, Benny area, Hess Lake sheet, District of Sudbury
Publication Number: P0949 Scale: 1:15,840 Date: 1974
Author: Card K.D., Innes D.G.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines
Location:
Map - Geological series, Benny area, Geneva-Munster lakes sheet, District of Sudbury
Publication Number: P1108 Scale: 1:15,840 Date: 1976
Author: Card K.D., Innes D.G.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines
Location:
Folio - Hess Township, District of Sudbury
Publication Number: GDIF244 Date: 1997
Author: Sudbury RGO
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Part - The Cartier-Stralak area, District of Sudbury
Publication Number: ARV38-07.002 Page: 61-63 Date: 1998
Author: Osborne F.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Copper, nickel, lead and zinc deposits in Ontario (revised to February, 1957)
Publication Number: MDC002 Page: 97 Date: 1957
Author: Thomson J.E., Ferguson S.A., Johnston W.G.Q., Pye E.G., Savage W.S., Thomson R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Copper, nickel, lead and zinc deposits of Ontario
Publication Number: MDC012 Page: 248-249 Date: 1969
Author: Shklanka R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - Geology of the Benny area, District of Sudbury
Publication Number: R206 Page: 93-95 Date: 1981
Author: Card K.D., Innes D.G.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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