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| Record Name(s) | Vein Lake Copper Occurrence - 1991 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1991-Apr-02 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-May-09 |
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Primary Commodities: Copper
Township or Area: Blood Lake Area
Latitude: 49° 7' 2.18" Longitude: -86° 13' 5.8"
UTM Zone: 16 Easting: 557042.409 Northing: 5440786.626 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay South
NTS Grid: 42E01SE
Point Location Description: Cu symbol on ODM Map 2220
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: The occurrence is reported to be located approximately 27 km west-southwest of Manitouwadge and 6.4 km east of Vein Lake (Milne 1968, P. Map 494; Milne et al. 1972, Map 2220). The area surrounding the occurrence is accessible via a well-maintained trapline trail which begins on the western shore of the Pic River opposite the Lower Landing road and continues westward to Vein Lake . Alternatively, the occurrence is accessible via float plane to a small unnamed lake located approximately 1 km south of the occurrence.
1966: Geological mapping; M.E. Coates (OGS). 1979: Regional lake sediment and water geochemical survey; GSC-MNR. Samples collected from lakes in the vicinity of the occurrence contained slightly anomalous amounts of Ni, but not Cu, Zn nor gold. 1989: Dighem airborne geophysical survey (MAG, EM, VLF-EM); Noranda Exploration Company Limited and Noranda Minerals Inc. (Geco Diovision). 1991-1992: Reconnaissance till sampling program; I.M. Kettles (GSC).
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Wawa
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Manitouwadge-Hornepayne
Geological Age: Archean
Metamorphism Type: Regional
Metamorphism Grade: Amphibolite
Dec 07, 2005 (D McKay) - The occurrence is located in the Wawa Subprovince and is underlain primarily by a narrow (up to 1 km wide), north-easterly-trending belt of highly deformed and metamorphosed, locally migmatitic, mafic metavolcanic and metasedimentary rocks interpreted to represent the western extension of the Manitouwadge greenstone belt (Knight 1955; Coates 1970; Hawkins 1971: Kusins 1980). These metavolcanic and metasedimentary rocks are enclosed within granitic gneisses of the Black-Pic batholithic complex and have been intruded locally by dikes of quartz-feldspar pegmatite and diabase (Knight 1955; Coates 1970). The Little Joe Lake fault, a regional-scale, northwesterly-trending, dextral fault is located approximately 3.2 km south of the occurrence (Coates 1970, Map 2192). The Solann Lake fault, a regional-scale, north-northeasterly-trending fault is located approximately 4 km to the west (Coates 1970, Map 2192). The Labrador and Lloyd-Davis sulphide occurrences are located within the same belt of supracrustal rocks approximately 11 km to the northeast and 4 km to the southwest of the Vein Lake copper occurrence, respectively.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 1 | Host |
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| Paragneiss | 2 | Paragneiss | Host |
Dec 07, 2005 (D McKay) - No literature documenting the nature or extent of the copper mineralization at the occurrence could be found.
Dec 07, 2005 (D McKay) - No literature documenting the nature or extent of the copper mineralization at the occurrence could be found.
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Unknown |
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 1 | Unknown |
File - Resident Geologist Mineral Deposit Files
Publication Number: Min Dep Date: 1996
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Publisher Name:
Location: Thunder Bay RGP
Map - Manitouwadge sheet, districts of Thunder Bay and Algoma, geological compilation series
Publication Number: P0494 Scale: 1:126,720 Date: 1997
Author: Milne V.G.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Manitouwadge-Wawa sheet, geological compilation series, Algoma, Cochrane, Sudbury and Thunder Bay districts
Publication Number: M2220 Scale: 1:253,440 Date: 1972
Author: Milne V.G., Giblin P.E., Bennett G., Thurston P.C., Wolfe W.J., Giguere J.F., Leahy E.J., Rupert R.J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines
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