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| Record Name(s) | Spring Lake Occurrence - 1969, Wesson Claims Group - 1947 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Discretionary Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1991-Jan-08 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Apr-26 |
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Primary Commodities: Copper
Secondary Commodities: Sulphur/Pyrite
Township or Area: Rennie
Latitude: 48° 24' 8.86" Longitude: -83° 55' 30.67"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 283508 Northing: 5365168 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Sault Ste. Marie
NTS Grid: 42B05NW
Point Location Description: py and po mineralization on southwest shore of Spring Lake
Location Method: Based on Assessment
Access Description: Spring Lake is accessible by a short traverse from a secondary haul road connecting the old Renabie road to the Dubreuilville main haul road. The occurrence is located on the lake shore.
1947 - Wesson Mines Ltd: prospecting, magnetometer survey, 3 ddh (395.2 ft. ft), mapping. 1952 - Cobalt Products Limited: magnetometer survey. 1967- Westfield Minerals Ltd.: airborne geophysics, ground IP and resistivity surveys. 1968 - Noranda Exploration: geological and ground geophysical surveys. 1979-1980 - Noranda Exploration: ground magnetometer and HLEM surveys. 1983: Tundra Gold Mines Ltd. - airborne geophysical survey. 1993 - Noranda Exploration: soil geochemical survey, geological mapping. 1996-99: Falconbridge Ltd. - mapping, geochemical survey, sampling, ground geophysics. 2007-2008: Chalice Diamond Corp. - airborne geophysics
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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| WP. Meath.20 / 2.34531 | 20000002017 | 20000002017 |
| Rennie 0018A1 / 2.3282 | 42B05NW0084 | 42B05NW0084 |
| Rennie 0032 / 2.6293 | 42B05NW0014 | 42B05NW0014 |
| Rennie 0016A1/ 63.124 | 42B05NW0064 | 42B05NW0064 |
| Rennie 0011B1 | 42B05NW0102 | 42B05NW0102 |
| Meath 0017 / 63.1646 | 42C08NE0029 | 42C08NE0029 |
| WP Rennie.12 / 2.18710 | 42B05NW2004 | 42B05NW2004 |
| WP Rennie.13 / 2.19637 | 42B05NW2003 | 42B05NW2003 |
| WP Rennie.9 / 2.15250 | 42B05NW0015 | 42B05NW0015 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Wawa
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Michipicoten
Geological Age: Archean
Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - The property is underlain by intermediate to felsic pyroclastic rocks, mafic metavolcanic flows, granitic stocks and several diabase dikes. Three zones of disseminated to massive pyrite and pyrrhotite discovered by Wesson Mines. Mineralization at Spring Lake lies within a narrow unit of intermediate tuffaceous rocks lying between mafic metavolcanics to the north and a quartz monzonite stock on the south. A northwest trending diabase dike cuts across all lithologies just west of the occurrence.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Intermediate Tuff | 1 | Tuff | Near |
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| Quartz Monzonite | 2 | Footwall | ||
| Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 3 | Hanging Wall | ||
| Sulphide Ironstone | 4 | Sulphide Facies | Garnetiferous Metadacite Breccia | Host |
| Vein | 5 | Quartz | Host |
Sep 09, 2013 (A Wilson) - The occurrence is hosted by a narrow unit of intermediate tuffaceous rocks. The quartz veins hosting the mineralization are in garnetiferous metadacitic breccia which has been intruded by granitic sills. A local zone of felsic breccia flanks the north side of the granite body. Chloritic iron formation occurs within this unit. Geochemistry suggests that the volcanics mapped in this area are of calc-alkaline affinity. An elliptical granite body intrudes the volcanic assemblage at a mafic-intermediate metavolcanic contact. A local zone of felsic breccia flanks the north siide of the granite.
| 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 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Pyrrhotite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 1 | Tourmaline | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| Sericite | Alteration | Sericitization | 1 | Medium | Replacement |
Sep 09, 2013 (A Wilson) - Stringer to disseminated pyrite and pyrrhotite is associated with iron formation. The mineralization is associated with quartz veining. Soil samples collected by Noranda returned only background values for gold and silver. Copper and zinc values also were background values only.
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Replacement |
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 1 | Vein |
| Shape | Length | Thickness | Depth | Strike | Dip | Plunge | Trend | Age | Reference |
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| Regular |
Book - Rennie Township unpublished GDIF
Publication Number: GDIF Date: 1986
Author: Resident Geologist Staff
Publisher Name:
Location: SSM RGO
MonoMap - Geology of the Kabinakagami Lake area, District of Algoma
Publication Number: R159 Page: 184 Date: 1977
Author: Siragusa G.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - Geology of Glasgow, Meath, and Rennie townships, districts of Algoma and Sudbury
Publication Number: R090 Page: 36, 44-45 Date: 1971
Author: Riley R.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs
Location:
Mono - Copper, nickel, lead and zinc deposits of Ontario
Publication Number: MDC012 Page: 261-262 Date: 1969
Author: Shklanka R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Book - Sudbury Timmins Algoma Mineral Program, Project 1: mineral inventory of the Sudbury-Timmins-Sault Ste. Marie region, Ontario
Publication Number: GSC OF 1087 Page: 61 Date: 1985
Author: Rose, D.G.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/129999
Mono - Wawa mineral deposits data base
Publication Number: OFR5775 Page: 318 Date: 1991
Author: Frey E.D., Stewart R.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Glasgow, Meath, and Rennie townships, Algoma and Sudbury districts
Publication Number: M2210 Scale: 1:31,680 Date: 1971
Author: Riley R.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs
Location:
Map - Lochalsh-Missinaibi area, districts of Algoma and Sudbury, Ontario
Publication Number: ARM44C Scale: 1:95,040 Date: 1997
Author: Burwash E.M., Collins W.H., Thomson E.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Rennie-Leeson area, District of Sudbury, Ontario
Publication Number: ARM51G Scale: 1:31,680 Date: 1997
Author: Bruce E.L., Horwood H.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Rennie Township, District of Sudbury
Publication Number: P0404 Scale: 1:15,840 Date: 1997
Author: Riley R.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Chapleau-Foleyet, geological compilation series, Algoma, Cochrane and Sudbury districts
Publication Number: M2221 Scale: 1:253,440 Date: 1976
Author: Thurston P.C., Sage R.P., Siragusa G.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines
Location:
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