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MDI42D14NW00022
| Record Name(s) | Moccasin - 1899, J. Lawrence - 1991 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Discretionary Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1991-Mar-28 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-May-06 |
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Primary Commodities: Sulphur/Pyrite
Secondary Commodities: Zinc, Nickel
Township or Area: Lahontan
Latitude: 48° 52' 56.59" Longitude: -87° 26' 23.01"
UTM Zone: 16 Easting: 467761.74 Northing: 5414474.61 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay South
NTS Grid: 42D14NW, 42D14SW
Point Location Description: Pits, trenches.
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: The occurrence is located in Lahontan Township about 8 km northeast of Rossport between McLean's Lake and Sox Lake (claim map G-629). Access is by an old road or trail leading north (by water) across Sox Lake to the showing.
1899-1901: The property was worked by J. Bowman of Rossport. Several test pits, a trench 10 feet long by 10 feet deep and a crosscut tunnel in 20 feet constitute some of the work performed. 1956: J.W. Lawsing drilled 6 DDH totalling 95 m.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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| 10 | 42D13SE0001 | 42D13SE0001 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Wawa
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Schreiber-Hemlo
Geological Age: Archean
Dec 07, 2005 (B Nelson) - Bow (1901) describes the occurrence: Location R.645, of 73 acres is situated about four miles northeast of Rossport and between Fox (now Sox) and McLean Lakes. The property was located on a deposit of pyrrhotite and iron pyrites in the expectation that it would prove to be a nickel ore. The owner, J. Bowman, of Rossport, Ontario, has been prospecting the outcrops in a small way and intermittently for the last two or more years and now there are several tests pits, a trench 10 feet long by 10 feet deep and a crosscut tunnel in 20 feet, started to strike the deposit under the hill, but since discontinued. The trench is along a contact between red granite and fine grained green trap, and in this, lying entirely in the trap side is the deposit of sulphides, solid from 6 to 18 inches, but afterwards becoming intermixed with trap and quartz until in about two feet in all it merges entirely into trap highly mineralized with pyrites. No satisfactory examination of the pits or surface outcroppings could be made on account of ice and snow. Work was to have been resumed here in a few days from the date of my visit-- February 16, 1901-- by a force of two men.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Granite | 1 | Near |
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| Diabase | 2 | Trap | Fine Grained | Host |
Dec 07, 2005 (B Nelson) - The trench is along a contact between red granite and fine-grained green trap.
| 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 | Pyrrhotite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Galena | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 1 | Quartz | Economic | Gangue |
Dec 07, 2005 (B Nelson) - The showing consists of po an py (Bow, 1901).
Map - Nipigon-Schreiber, geological compilation series, Thunder Bay District
Publication Number: M2232 Scale: 1:253,440 Date: 1973
Author: Carter M.W., McIlwaine W.H., Wisbey P.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines
Location:
Mono - Mineral Occurrences in the Nipigon-Marathon Area, Volumes 1 and 2.
Publication Number: OFR5951 Page: 227-228 Date: 1996
Author: Schnieders B.R., Smyk M.C., Speed A.A., McKay D.B.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Part - Mines of northwest Ontario, parts 1 and 2
Publication Number: ARV10.004 Page: 109-110 Date: 1998
Author: Bow J.A., Carter W.E.H.
Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines
Location:
File - Schreiber-Hemlo Resident Geologist Mineral Deposit Files, Thunder Bay office
Publication Number: Min Dep Date:
Author:
Publisher Name:
Location: Thunder Bay RGP
Map - Geological series, Precambrian geology of the Schreiber area, west part, Thunder Bay District
Publication Number: P2390 Scale: 1:15,840 Date: 1981
Author: Carter M.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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