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Record: MDI42D14SW00028

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Rongie Lake - 1957
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Discretionary Occurrence
Date Created 1991-Apr-02
Date Last Modified 2022-Mar-02
Created By
Revised By

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Molybdenum



Location

Township or Area: Killraine

Latitude: 48° 48' 52.97"    Longitude: -87° 18' 10.35"

UTM Zone: 16    Easting: 477765   Northing: 5406903    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay South

NTS Grid: 42D14SW

Point Location Description: Precise

Location Method: Conversion from MDI



Exploration History

1957-58: Elwood Mining Exploration Co. Ltd. carried out mapping, a ground EM survey, and drilled 1 DDH totalling 157.6 m.


Assessment Work on File

Assessment Work on File
Office File Number Online Assessment File Identifier Online Assessment File Directory
63.961 42D14SW0020 42D14SW0020
10 42D14SW0038 42D14SW0038



Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Felsic lava flow-unsubdivided 1 Rhyolite Contains
Vein 2 Quartz Host

Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
1PyriteEconomicOre
2PyrrhotiteEconomicOre
3MolybdeniteEconomicOre
4ChalcopyriteEconomicOre
1QuartzEconomicGangue

Mineralization Comments

Apr 30, 2019 (Therese Pettigrew) - The zone consists of a quartz vein, about 4 feet (1.22 m) wide mineralized with pyrite, pyrrhotite and occasional flecks of molybdenite and chalcopyrite. The vein strikes NE and occurs in rhyolite close to syentite. No assays were reported (Assessment file 42D14SW0020).



Mineral Record Details

Classification
RankClassification            
1 Vein
Characteristics
Rank Characteristic            
1 Vein

References

Map - Geological series, Precambrian geology of the Schreiber area, east part, Thunder Bay District

Publication Number: P2391 Scale: 1:15,840    Date: 1981

Author: Carter M.W.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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