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Record: MDI42C03SW00015

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Missing Lake Zone - 1983, Missing Lake Claims - 1983, Missing Lake Showings - 1983
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Discretionary Occurrence
Date Created 1991-Jan-08
Date Last Modified 2022-Sep-16
Created By
Revised By

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold



Location

Township or Area: Mishibishu Lake Area

Latitude: 48° 0' 1.87"    Longitude: -85° 29' 48.78"

UTM Zone: 16    Easting: 612123.29   Northing: 5317451.07    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Sault Ste. Marie

NTS Grid: 42C03SW

Point Location Description: Soil sample sites

Location Method: Based on Assessment

Access Description: The property is located approximately 50 km west of Wawa. The mine is accessed by travelling west on Highway 17 for approximately 48 km and then travelling down the Paint Lake Road (Magnacon Road or Eagle River road) for approximately 60 km. Traverse overland from the road to the lake.



Exploration History

1983: Central Crude Limited - airborne geophysics, mapping, ground geophysics, geochemistry. 1985: Wasabi Resources Ltd., Chavin of Canada Limited and O'Brien Energy and Resources Ltd. - mapping, ground geophysics, geochemistry. 1987: Noranda Exploration Co. Ltd. - mapping, geochemistry. 1998: River Gold Mines Ltd. - diamond drilling.


Assessment Work on File

Assessment Work on File
Office File Number Online Assessment File Identifier Online Assessment File Directory
WP Pt. Isacor-17 41N14NW2001 41N14NW2001
Mishibishu Lake 0031 42C03SW0096 42C03SW0096
41N14NW0014 42C03SW0101 42C03SW0101
WP-Pt. Isacor-2 42C03SW9184 42C03SW9184
41N14NW0012 42C03SW0115 42C03SW0115

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Wawa

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Michipicoten

Tectonic Assemblage: Catfish

Geological Age: Neoarchean   Geochronological Age: 2.7 GA   Geochron. Age Ref.: GOO VOL 1



Geology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - This area is interpreted to be the westward extension of the Rook Lake Deformation Zone. The strike length of the RLDZ is 8 km and the maximum width is 1 km. The RLDZ is centred within a clastic metasedimentary rock sequence which exhibits sheared contacts with felsic intrusive rocks to the north and mafic metavolcanics to the south. The style of deformation and alteration observed in the RLDZ is similar to, yet not as intensely developed as the MDZ. The penetrative foliation strikes 285, dips moderately steeply to the north. Variable trending, moderately to steeply plunging stretchin lineations are commonly obscured or overprinted by crenulation lineattions. The RLDZ possesses structural characteristics similar to the other deformation zones in the belt. Felsic intrusive dikes/sills are common and concentrated within the central and northern parts of the zone, ranging in thickness from centimetres to several hundred metres.




Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Oxide Ironstone 1 Oxide-Facies Host
Intermediate Tuff 2 Tuff Near

Lithology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - The zone is underlain by interbedded oxide-sulphide facies iron formation, metasediments and mafic flows. The southern part of the zone terminates at the contact with a unit composed of felsic tuffs and intermediate to felsic metavolcanics. Low gold values up to 26 ppb are recoreded in this zone associated with altered mafic flows, quartz veins and iron formation.




Mineralization Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - Low but elevated gold values were obtained from soil sampling.



Mineral Record Details

Characteristics
Rank Characteristic            
1 Sheared

Mineral Zones - Size and Shape

Rank: 1       Structure Type: Shear

Zone Name: Detour Lake - Rank 1
Shape Length Thickness Depth Strike Dip Plunge Trend Age Reference
Regular 1000 80

References

Map - Precambrian geology, Mishibishu Lake area, Pilot Harbour sheet

Publication Number: P3155 Scale: 1:15,840    Date: 1992

Author: Reid R.G., Bowen R.P., Heather K.B., Logothetis J., Reilly B.A.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Map - Geological series, Precambrian geology, Mishibishu Lake area, northeastern section, districts of Thunder Bay and Algoma

Publication Number: P2970 Scale: 1:15,840    Date: 1986

Author: Bowen R.P., Logothetis J., Heather K.B.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


Mono - Wawa mineral deposits data base

Publication Number: OFR5775 Page: 289  Date: 1991

Author: Frey E.D., Stewart R.C.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


Map - Operation Pukaskwa, University River sheet, districts of Thunder Bay and Algoma

Publication Number: P0507 Scale: 1:63,360    Date: 1997

Author: Bennett G., Thurston P.C., Giguere J.F.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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Mono - Geology, structure and economic geology of the Mishibishu Lake area

Publication Number: OFR5774 Page: 155, 243-245  Date: 1991

Author: Reid R.G., Bowen R.P., Reilly B.A., Logothetis J., Heather K.B.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Map - Operation Pukaskwa, districts of Algoma and Thunder Bay

Publication Number: P0541 Scale: 1:126,720    Date: 1997

Author: Bennett G., Thurston P.C., Giguere J.F.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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Map - University River, Algoma and Thunder Bay districts

Publication Number: M2333 Scale: 1:63,360    Date: 1976

Author: Bennett G., Thurston P.C., Giguere J.F.

Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines

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Map - Mishibishu Lake area, District of Thunder Bay, Ontario

Publication Number: ARM49J Scale: 1:63,360    Date: 1997

Author: Evans E.L.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


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