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| Record Name(s) | Breitung - 1900 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Developed Prospect Without Reported Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1991-Sep-01 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-May-17 |
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Primary Commodities: Iron
Township or Area: Deroche
Latitude: 46° 42' 23.47" Longitude: -84° 7' 54.84"
UTM Zone: 16 Easting: 719234.801 Northing: 5176547.013 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Sault Ste. Marie
NTS Grid: 41K09NE
Point Location Description: Shaft and 2 adits
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: 100 metres west of Northland Lake, 800 metres north of the south boundary of Deroche Township.
1900-1905: Shaft - 175 ft, Drifting - 450 ft, Cross-cuts - 102 ft, 2 adits (298 and 132 feet). 2000 to 3000 tons of ore shipped by the Breitung Iron Co. and the Loon Lake Iron Co.
Province: Southern
Subprovince: Cobalt Basin
Supergroup: Huronian Supergroup
Geological Age: Paleoproterozoic
Dec 07, 2005 (G Bennett) - Bain (1923) has classified the rocks of the Breitung Mine area as Keewatin, and describes them as tuffs showing good, slaty cleavage. He describes volcanic bombs in the tuffs, and at the Breitung Mine he notes that these bombs have not yet been sheared or deformed to any marked degree. X Ray difraction studies of these slaty rocks show them to be composed of quartz, feldspar, chlorite, illite, a combination characteristic of the Gowganda argillite. Northwest of the mine, in the unbreciated area, several, red granite pebbles, two to four inches in diameter, were found in the slate. It seems fairly definite that these breciated rocks of the Breitung Mine area are Gowganda argillite. The breitung Mine is located in an intensely breciated zone of Cobalt argillite, and is bordered on the South by a large granitic batholith. The breciation has occurred at the intersection of two major faults, an east-west thrust fault along the south side of the bellevue ridge and a steeply dipping, northwest-striking fault along the west shore of Northland Lake. Northland Lake actually appears to follow a fault zone, and shearing may occur over a considerable width. Shearing on the Est shore of the lake suggests a fault along that shore. South of the mine, the granite batholith has been sheared in an east west direction, but it does not show the intense breciation which is so characteristic of the argillite. Brunton (1921) recognized the presence of this major fault south of the Bellevue Ridge. Near the Breitung Mine the Gowganda formation has been faulted into position against the granite, but three quarters of a mile towards the west the Lorrain quartzite is in fault conact with the granite. In the Bellevue ridge, the Cobalt Group rocks have been folded into a broad syncline which has been breached on its south limb by the thrust fault. Thesis excerpt from R. E. Hay.
Dec 07, 2005 (P Beach) - Specularite as disseminations and lenses with quartz in Gowganda argillite. Mineralized zones up to 50 feet wide.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Specularite | Economic | Ore |
Date: Aug 10, 1999
Geologist: G Bennett
Notes: Specularite as disseminations and irregular lenses with quartz in Gowganda Argillite. Mineralized zones up to 50 feet wide.
Map - Sault Ste. Marie area, District of Algoma, Ontario
Publication Number: ARM35A Scale: 1:126,720 Date: 1998
Author: McConnell R.G.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Geology, Sault Ste Marie-Ile Parisienne, Ontario
Publication Number: Map 1181A Scale: 1:63,360 Date: 1964
Author: Hay, R.E.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/107614
Part - Sault Ste. Marie area, District of Algoma
Publication Number: ARV35-02.001 Page: 47 Date: 1998
Author: McConnell R.G.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Geological series, Jarvis Lake-Garden River area, District of Algoma
Publication Number: P1064 Scale: 1:15,840 Date: 1997
Author: Bennett G., Hillier R.D., Dupuis C.P., Nentwich F., Pucovsky G.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines
Location:
Mono - Iron deposits of Ontario
Publication Number: MDC011 Page: 21-22 Date: 1968
Author: Shklanka R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Geology, Sault Ste Marie-Ile Parisienne area, District of Algoma, Ontario; Geological Survey of Canada, "A" Series Map 1412A
Publication Number: Map 1412A Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 1977
Author: Hay, R E; Frarey, M J
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/109093
Publication - Geology of the Huronian belt between Sault Ste Marie and Blind River Ontario; Geological Survey of Canada, Memoir 383
Publication Number: GSC Memoir 383 Page: 69-70 Date: 1978
Author: Frarey, M.J.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/104548
Map - Geological compilation series, Sault Ste. Marie sheet, District of Algoma
Publication Number: P0303 Scale: 1:126,720 Date: 1997
Author: Giblin P.E., Leahy E.J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Report Of The Ontario Iron Ore Committee With Appendix 1923
Publication Number: NSP013 Page: 197 Date: 1998
Author:
Publisher Name:
Location:
Map - Sault Ste. Marie-Elliot Lake sheet, geological compilation series, Algoma, Manitoulin and Sudbury districts
Publication Number: M2108 Date: 1967
Author: Giblin P.E., Leahy E.J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Publication - Deroche, Hodgins, Gaudette, and Shields Townships, Algoma District, Ontario; Geological Survey of Canada, Summary Report 1921, Part D
Publication Number: GSC SR 1921D Page: 31-32 Date: 1922
Author: Brunton, S
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/103395
Map - Sault Ste. Marie-Elliot Lake, geological compilation series, Algoma, Manitoulin and Sudbury districts
Publication Number: M2419 Scale: 1:253,440 Date: 1979
Author: Giblin P.E., Leahy E.J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Thesis - The Geology of the Sault Ste. Marie Map Area
Publication Number: PhD Thesis Page: 299-304 Date: 1963
Author: Hay, R.E.
Publisher Name: McGill University
Location: SSM RGP
Publication - Sudbury Timmins Algoma Mineral Program, Project 1: mineral inventory of the Sudbury-Timmins-Sault Ste. Marie region, Ontario
Publication Number: GSC OF 1087 Page: 124 Date: 1985
Author: Rose, D.G.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/129999
Thesis - The Specular Hematite Deposits and Huronian Formations of Deroche Township, Ontario
Publication Number: MA Thesis Date: 1923
Author: Bain, G.W.
Publisher Name: Columbia University
Location: SSM RGP office
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