Ontario Geological Survey
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| Record Name(s) | NG Zinc Showing - 1996, Dog River Project - 1988 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 2001-May-04 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Sep-21 |
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Primary Commodities: Zinc, Gold
Township or Area: West
Latitude: 48° 21' 50.07" Longitude: -84° 6' 17.38"
UTM Zone: 16 Easting: 714433 Northing: 5360799 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Sault Ste. Marie
NTS Grid: 42C08SE
Point Location Description: Trench on west side of forestry road
Location Method: Based on Assessment
Access Description: The site is accessible by driving north from the Renabie Mine access road along the Easey Lake access road.
1960: Canadian Pacific Railway - mapping. 1962: Algoma Central Railway - mapping. 1983: Cut Thumb Mines Inc. - airborne geophysics. 1985-88: Orequest Consultants Ltd./Pak Man Resources Inc./2001 Resource Industries Ltd. - stripping, trenching, mapping, airborne geophysics, ground geophysics, geochemistry. 1996-1998: T. Nicholson/G. Gratton: prospecting, sampling, trenching. 1998-2000 Freewest Resources Ltd. - prospecting, mapping, ground geophysics. 2000-2004: T. Nicholson/G. Gratton - prospecting, 2 ddh (69.8 ft), soil geochemistry. 2002: Gold Insight Resources Ltd. - sampling, prospecting. 2006-2008: Golden Chalice Resources Inc. - sampling, geochemistry
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| WP Meath.15 /2.24325 | 42C08SE2017 | 42C08SE2017 |
| WP Meath.17 / 2.28550 | 42C08SE2020 | 42C08SE2020 |
| Meath 0027 / 2.5951 | 42C08NE0015 | 42C08NE0015 |
| WP Stover.21 / 2.41485 | 20000004162 | 20000004162 |
| WP Meath.11 / OP98-282 / 2.20000 | 42C08NE2002 | 42C08NE2002 |
| Meath - 0010E1 | 42C08NE0037 | 42C08NE0037 |
| Meath - 0018A1 | 42C08NE0039 | 42C08NE0039 |
| WP Meath.2 / 2.12121 | 42C08NE0054 | 42C08NE0054 |
| WP Meath.10 / 2.18864 | 42B05NW2002 | 42B05NW2002 |
| WP West.10 / 2.20932 | 42C08SE2012 | 42C08SE2012 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Wawa
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Michipicoten
Geological Age: Archean
Metamorphism Type: Regional
Metamorphism Grade: Amphibolite
Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - The McKewen Lake Deformation Zone (MLDZ) is a 1.5 km wide, SE-trending zone of strongly deformed mafic to intermediate and felsic to intermediate metavolcanic rocks, which can be traced from McKewen Lake in the northern part of West Township, southeastwards to the northwestern corner of Stover Township. Discrete 120-130 degree trending ductile shear zones are common throughout the MLDZ, but only a small number of shear zones are greater than 1 m.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Intermediate Tuff-Breccia | 1 | Tuff, Lapilli Tuff | Sheared | Host |
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| Feldspar Porphyry | 2 | Feldspar | Near |
Jul 22, 2013 (A Wilson) - The showing consists of several lenses of disseminated sphalerite, pyrite and pyrrhotite in weakly sheared felsic lapilli and crystal tuffs with weak to moderate sericitic and silicic alteration. Feldspar porphyry dikes crosscut all of the lithologies and trend through the area betweeen 300 and 325º azimuth and dip to the southwest at 60 to 85º. All of these units are cut by vertical diabase dikes that trend through the property at 340º.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Sphalerite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 1 | Pyrite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 2 | Pyrrhotite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| Sericite | Alteration | Sericitization | 1 | Medium | Replacement |
Jul 22, 2013 (A Wilson) - T. Nicholson collected samples yielding 5.56% Zn. Eight grab samples collected by Freewest in 1998 returned values ranging from 2.19% to 6.6% Zn and 740 ppb to 5590 ppb Au. A 3 foot section of pyritized intermediate metavolcanic rocks assayed >10000 ppm Zn in drill hole TN-001. The sphalerite occurs in fine-grained, reddish-purple splashes within finer dissemination sof pyrite and pyrrhotite.
MonoMap - Geology of Riggs and West townships, District of Algoma
Publication Number: R174 Date: 1978
Author: Srivastava P., Bennett G.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Article - The geological and structural setting of gold mineralization in the Missanabie-Renabie District of the Michipicoten greenstone belt, Wawa, Ontario
Publication Number: MP141.037 Page: 257-270 Date: 1997
Author: Heather K.B., Buck S.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Riggs and West townships, Algoma District
Publication Number: M2353 Scale: 1:31,680 Date: 1977
Author: Srivastava P., Bennett G., Elmhirst F., Andrews M.D.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Geological series, Missanabie area, West Township, formerly Township 46, District of Algoma
Publication Number: P0945 Scale: 1:15,840 Date: 1974
Author: Srivastava P., Bennett G., Elmhirst F., Andrews M.D.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines
Location:
Map - Precambrian Geology Compilation Series - White River Sheet
Publication Number: M2666 Scale: 1:250,000 Date: 2001
Author: Santaguida F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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