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| Record Name(s) | Salo Occurrence - 1955, Blue Sky Central - 2016 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1980-Jan-31 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-May-17 |
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Primary Commodities: Lithium
Secondary Commodities: Beryl
Township or Area: Barbara Lake Area
Latitude: 49° 18' 2.18" Longitude: -87° 56' 29.75"
UTM Zone: 16 Easting: 431545 Northing: 5461300 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay South
NTS Grid: 42E05SW
Point Location Description: 8 diamond drill holes and surface sampling.
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: The Salo occurrence is located 40 km northeast of Nipigon in the Georgia Lake area. The occurrence is southwest of Georgia Lake. Access is via the Little Bear Quarry Road (Camp 81) located approximately 18 km east of Nipigon on Highway 17. trael up the lIttle Bear Road for approximately 20 km to where a road branches off to the northwest. The Cosgrave Lake Road is no longer accessible by vehicle due to unsafe bridges. 4x4 quadrunners will take you the remaining 10 km to the area. The Salo occurrence is located on the north side of the road approximately 1.5 km west of Dot Creek and Marrow Lake.
1955: The Ontario Lithium Company Ltd. diamond drilled eight holes totalling 503.5 feet (152.6 m). 1957: Ontario Lithium drilled 8 holes, totaling 159.9 m on Salo Showing. 1985: B. Zayachkivsky completed an MSc. Thesis on the Granitoids and Rare-Element Pegmatites of the Georgia Lake Area, Northwestern Ontario. 2009: Three claims are staked by Steve and Jim Forbes plus John Rapski covering the historical Jackpot showing. 2009: P. Robert and W. Kornick staked claims over the Salo and Carrot Showings encompassing the Jackpot claim block of Forbes and Rapski. 2011: Caracle Creek International Consulting completed a prospecting assessment report for claimholders P. Robert and W. Kornick. Kornick also partnered in on a larger TerraQuest airborne Magnetic/VLF survey of the immediate area of the showings. 2013: W. Kornick restaked the claim block after having lapsed. 2015: Everton Resources options the W. Kornick claims. 2016: Wade Kornik completed a program of prospecting and sampling.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| 2.57197 | 20000014253 | 20000014253 |
| 63A.309 | 42E05SW0026 | 42E05SW0026 |
| 12 | 42E05SW0020 | 42E05SW0020 |
| 2.56340 | 20000014252 | 20000014252 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Quetico
Geological Age: Archean
Dec 07, 2005 (B Schnieders) - The Salo deposit is located along the old bush road, about 1 1/2 miles southwest of Georgia Lake. Striking N.80 degrees E for 350 feet, the dike is up to 30 feet wide and forms a north-facing escarpment. The pegmatite dike has potash feldspar crystals up to up to 3 feet in length, and prismatic crystals of spodumene up to 2 feet in length. in a matrix of feldspar, quartz, subordinate muscovite, and apatite. Drilling showed that the dike terminated against metasediments 23 to 28 feet below surface (Pye, 1965).
Dec 07, 2005 (B Nelson) - The area is underlain by Archean and Proterozoic aged rocks. The Archean rocks include the Quetico metasedimentary rocks. The metasedimentary rocks are intruded by granitic rocks, porphyry, pegmatite and aplite. Two mica leucogranites are present as large plutonic masses, smaller satellite intrusions and tonalitic sill dispersed throughout the pegmatite field (Zayachkivsky, 1985). The Proterozoic rocks are represented by the Sibley Group sedimentary rocks. Intrusive into the Proterozoic sedimentary rocks and the older formations are bodies of diabase. The Salo pegmatite vein was located approximately 30 m north of the road, and is shown by Pye (1965) to cross the road. The vein observed strikes 84 degrees and several old pits were observed. The pegmatite vein observed contained white to pink feldspar, quartz, and abundant muscovite crystals up to 1 cm in size. In one area spodumene crystals up to 15 cm were observed. Pye (1965) described the Salo occurrence as: The Salo deposit is exposed along the motor road about 1 1/2 miles southwest of Georgia Lake. It has been traced on the surface in a direction of N.80 degreesE. for 350 feet. It is exposed across horizontal widths of up to 30 feet and forms a north facing escarpment, 10 15 feet high, along the valley of an east flowing creek. The Salo pegmatite is made up of elongated crystals of potash feldspar, up to 3 feet in length, and prismatic crystals of spodumene, up to 2 feet in length, in a matrix of feldspar, quartz, subordinate muscovite, and a little accessory apatite. Its spodumene content is about 25 percent, and from 28 July to 3 August 1955, it was tested by eight diamond drillholes, totalling 503.5 feet. This work, however, showed the pegmatite to be roughly cylindrical in shape, terminating against metasediments 23-28 feet below the surface, and hence to be merely an erosional remnant of little economic importance.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Granite | 1 | Near |
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| Porphyry-unsubdivided | 2 | Near | ||
| Pegmatite | 3 | Host | ||
| Granite | 4 | Mica Leucogranite | Near | |
| Diabase | 5 | Diabase | Near |
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Spodumene | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 1 | Quartz | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 2 | Mica | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 3 | Feldspar | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 4 | Apatite | Economic | Gangue |
Dec 07, 2005 (B Nelson) - Gilmour (1955) suggests that the deposit only contains about 3000 tons of spodumene-bearing pegmatite. The Salo pegmatite is made up of elongated crystals of potash feldspar, up to 3 feet in length, and prismatic crystals of spodumene, up to 2 feet in length, in a matrix of feldspar, quartz, subordinate muscovite, and a little accessory apatite. Its spodumene content is about 25 percent.
Sep 12, 2019 (Therese Pettigrew) - Samples collected in 2016 returned values of 2.51 to 7.08% Li2O (Assessment file 20000014253).
Date: Feb 26, 1997
Geologist: B Nelson
Notes: Resident Geologist personnel visited the occurrence June 29, 1990.
Map - Georgia Lake area, Thunder Bay District
Publication Number: M2056 Scale: 1:63,360 Date: 1997
Author: Pye E.G.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - Geology and lithium deposits of Georgia Lake area, District of Thunder Bay
Publication Number: R031 Page: 101 Date: 1997
Author: Pye E.G.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Thesis - Granitoids and Rare-Element Pegmatites of the Georgia Lake Area, Northwestern Ontario
Publication Number: MSc Date: 1985
Author: Zayachivsky, B.
Publisher Name: Lakehead University
Location: Thunder Bay RGP
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:
Publication - Geology of Canadian Lithium Deposits, pp.58-59.
Publication Number: Econ Geol 21 Date: 1965
Author: Mulligan, R
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/102454
Thesis - The Petrography and Alteration of Some Spodumene Pegmatites near Beardmore, Ontario
Publication Number: PhD Thesis Date: 1964
Author: Milne, V.G.
Publisher Name: University of Toronto
Location:
Mono - Mineral Occurrences in the Nipigon-Marathon Area, Volumes 1 and 2.
Publication Number: OFR5951 Page: 886-888 Date: 1996
Author: Schnieders B.R., Smyk M.C., Speed A.A., McKay D.B.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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