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| Record Name(s) | Northern Eagle Barite - 1984 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1984-Mar-13 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Dec-01 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold, Barite
Secondary Commodities: Molybdenum, Silver
Township or Area: Pic
Latitude: 48° 41' 28.46" Longitude: -86° 11' 46.48"
UTM Zone: 16 Easting: 559151 Northing: 5393445 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay South
NTS Grid: 42D09NE
Point Location Description: AMIS location
Location Method: Data Compilation
1983: Northern Eagle carried out geological mapping, soil sampling, IP surveys, airborne VLF-EM and magnetic surveys, trenching, and drilled 6 DDH totaling 101.57 m. 1989: Noranda Exploration carried out mapping and prospecting. 1992: Hemlo Gold Mines Inc. carried out a magnetometer survey. 1994: Hemlo Gold Mines conducted trenching and sampling. 2006: Consolidated Beaufield Resources Inc. carried out sampling.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| 28 | 42D09NE0192 | 42D09NE0192 |
| 2.6999 | 42D09NE0184 | 42D09NE0184 |
| 2.15667 | 42D09NE0050 | 42D09NE0050 |
| 2.12737 | 42D09NE0130 | 42D09NE0130 |
| 2.14821 | 42D09NE8282 | 42D09NE8282 |
| 2.6809 | 42D09NE0188 | 42D09NE0188 |
| 2.32923 | 20000001578 | 20000001578 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Wawa
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Schreiber-Hemlo
Geological Age: Archean
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Schist-Unsubdivided | 1 | Tuff, Pyritic, Sericite, Mica |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mafic pillowed flow | 1 | Pillow, Breccia | ||
| Granite | 2 | Dike | ||
| Conglomerate | 2 | Chloritic, Pyritic, Carbonate, | Breccia | |
| Silty Sandstone | 2 | Wackes, Silts |
Dec 17, 2018 (Therese Pettigrew) - The stratigraphy consists of mafic metavolcanics and metasediments to the south, followed by a quartz-feldspar sill (3 m wide) with lenses of graphitic schist, followed by the barite unit. This is overlain by a sericitic schist (with abundant green mica), graphitic schists, and metasiltstone. Further to the north (1 km), metapelites containing garnet, staurolite, and andalusite are exposed (Patterson, 1984).
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Barite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore |
Dec 17, 2018 (Therese Pettigrew) - The occurrence has been trenched, exposing a unit of massive barite 1 to 2 m thick, with a strike of 110 degrees, and dipping 80 degrees S, for 60 m. The massive barite is pale grey-white in colour with poorly developed bedding of carbonate- and pyrite-rich layers, 1 to 2 mm thick, that make up <10% of the rock. Gold assays are generally <400 ppb Au (Patterson, 1984). Barite forms the major constituent of the zone and assay results greatly exceeded visual estimates. Barite grades calculated across all the trenches were estimated between 25.23% Ba over 3.75 m to 10.86% Ba over 6.1 m. A series of grab samples taken prior to the trenching returned assay values of up to 37.74% barite and 0.016 oz/t Au. A grab sample taken by George Patterson. Regional Geologist (O.M.N.R.), Thunder Bay yielded a value of 0.12 oz/t Au but this was not repeated in the systematic trench sampling by Northern Eagle (Assessment file 42D09NE0184).
Book - Canadian Mines Handbook 1983-84, N Eagle
Publication Number: CMH 1983-84 Page: 261 Date: 1996
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Mono - Field trip guidebook to the Hemlo area
Publication Number: MP118 Page: 15 Date: 1984
Author: Patterson G.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Book - Northern Miner 83-11-17, N Eagle, p. 23
Publication Number: NMINER Date: 1996
Author:
Publisher Name: Northern Miner
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Compend - Report of activities, 1983, Regional and Resident Geologists
Publication Number: MP117 Page: 77 Date: 1984
Author: Kustra C.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Book - Northern Miner 83-11-24, N Eagle p. A15
Publication Number: NMINER Date: 1996
Author:
Publisher Name: Northern Miner
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MonoMap - Geology of the Heron Bay area, District of Thunder Bay
Publication Number: R218 Date: 1982
Author: Muir T.L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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