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Record: MDI42E03SW00035

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Northpine Lake - 1974, Chapman Lake Southern Showing - 1974
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Discretionary Occurrence
Date Created 1991-Apr-01
Date Last Modified 2022-Mar-02
Created By
Revised By

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Copper



Location

Township or Area: Rope Lake Area

Latitude: 49° 3' 48.52"    Longitude: -87° 16' 33.62"

UTM Zone: 16    Easting: 479838   Northing: 5434549    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay South

NTS Grid: 42E03SW

Point Location Description: Cu showing on OGS map M2293

Location Method: Data Compilation



Exploration History

No assessment reports were found on file


Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Quetico

Geological Age: Archean  



Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Granite 1 Grey Biotite Leucogranite 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
1ChalcopyriteEconomicOre
2PyriteEconomicOre

Mineralization Comments

Jun 14, 2019 (Therese Pettigrew) - About 1.6 km south of Chapman Lake, on the eastern shore of Northpine Lake is a showing in the Greenhedge Lake-Southpine Lake fault. The showing consists of a quartz vein 30 cm wide in sheared grey biotite leucogranite containing 1-2% chalcopyrite as disseminated grains up to 0.6 cm across (Carter, 1975).



Mineral Record Details

References

Map - Dickison Lake, Thunder Bay District

Publication Number: M2293 Scale: 1:63,360    Date: 1974

Author: Carter M.W.

Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines

Location:


MonoMap - Geology of the Dickison Lake area, District of Thunder Bay

Publication Number: R123 Scale:     Date: 1975

Author: Carter M.W.

Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines

Location:


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