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| Record Name(s) | Pays Plat Silver - 1895, John King's Silver Occurrences - 1981, Peter Moses' Silver Occurrences - 1987 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 2000-Feb-28 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Feb-18 |
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Primary Commodities: Zinc, Silver
Secondary Commodities: Copper, Lead, Gold, Fluorite
Township or Area: Yesno
Latitude: 48° 54' 24.37" Longitude: -87° 33' 49.9"
UTM Zone: 16 Easting: 458681 Northing: 5417245 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay South
NTS Grid: 42D13NE
Point Location Description: AMIS Shaft location
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: The main vein is/are located near the "mouth of the Pays Plat River". Feb 16/1989 Peter Moses (Work Assessment report) The trenches are located in Yesno Twp, Middle Fox Lake Area, and can be accessed from Pays Plat Indian Reserve on a trail leading North of Hwy 17, immediately on the West side of the Hwy 17 bridge crossing Pays Plat River. The trail crosses the E-W claim line which can be followed to the #3 post of claim 942276 and North 450', then east for 40' to the trench.
The weekly Sentinel (November 22 1895) reports "A grand find of Silver has been made at Pays Plat, just behind the indian reserve (..) $60,000 worth in actual sight (...) Mr. Donnely, Indian agent and Joseph Weiden and Eastern Properties own the property. On Dec. 2 (1895), the daily journal reports "Fourteen years ago, Mr. Weiden of the mission discovered a rich vein of Silver on the Payplat River, 1.5 mi from Lake Superior, 1.25 mi from the CP rail main line, and about midway between Rossport and Pays Plat siding...(...)". The daily journal reports on November 17, 1896 that Mr. J. Weiden sold his interests in location North of the Pays Plat Indian Reserve to Mr. John King. From the Rat Portage Miner Journal (Oct 1989), it seems that Mr. King has been operating a Silver mine there for a couple of years. In 1920 the GSC Summary Report, Part D, Tanton reports that "A small amount of Native Silver was found near the surface on the claim 570, 1.5 mi North of Pays Plat Village" The same information is reported in the Canadian Mining Journal in November of 1921. 1989: P. Moses conducted trenching.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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| W8904-00102 | 42D13NE5001 | 42D13NE5001 |
| W8904-00103 | 42D13NE5000 | 42D13NE5000 |
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Vein | 1 | Quartz-Fluorite | Host |
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Apr 26, 2012 (Shannon Zurevinski) - On behalf of Lapointe (2005)- On December 2, 1895, the Daily Journal reports:"(...) The vein where the big find was made is 10 ft wide and may be followed for 0.5 mi...(...) Huge chunks (of Silver) may be detached (...) and it is estimated that no less than $800 000 worth of Silver is in sight at this place". In the OBM annual report (1895), the inspector slaught reports that the vein is in Archean rocks and is 4 to 6' wide over a "long distance". He adds that the sample results, as stated by Mr. McKellar, would average to 2 or 3 thousands ounces to the ton and that native and sulphides of Silver are found in the vein along with Galena, Copper, Pyrite, all within a Quatz-Fluorite rich vein. McKellar reports the same on March 1896, in the Canadian Mining Institute Journal. On October 1898, the Rat Portage Miner reported that the "load of Quartz from the John King Co's Silver Mine at Pays Platt was shipped to the Keewatin Reduction Works..(...) and that the operator squeezed out an assay of gold $3.50 to the ton. In or around 1934, a GSC report states that "Near Pays Plat river (...)...Examined for Mr. Roger Maynard, an association of white, sub-translucent Quartz with some Calcite, purple and green Fluorite, (...) Copper-Pyrite, and a very little native Silver was found to contain gold in distinct traces, Silver 57 to 837 ounces to the ton. In August of 1987, John Casey, Project Geologist for Noranda in the Hemlo district, wrote a letter to Prospector Peter Moses- "It looks like the Silver is carried in a Quartz-Pyrite Breccia. The sample with high grade Silver also showed a grey metallic silver mineral. The assay returned 420 g/t (Assay 35212 in the Northern showing).
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| 1 | Vein |
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| 1 | Vein |
Book - Nipigon-Schrieber District; In: Summary Report 1920, Part D, p. 6D
Publication Number: Sum Rep 1920 Scale: Date: 1920
Author: Tanton, T.L.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/297670
Part - Sixth report of the Inspector of Mines
Publication Number: ARV05.009 Scale: Date: 1998
Author: Slaght A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines
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