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Permanent Link to this Record: MDI42E05SW00026

Record: MDI42E05SW00026

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Reef Bay - 1973
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Discretionary Occurrence
Date Created 1991-Apr-02
Date Last Modified 2022-May-09
Created By
Revised By

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Copper

Secondary Commodities: Silver



Location

Township or Area: Barbara Lake Area

Latitude: 49° 17' 33.98"    Longitude: -87° 46' 36.03"

UTM Zone: 16    Easting: 443526.05   Northing: 5460292.88    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay South

NTS Grid: 42E05SW

Point Location Description: General

Location Method: Conversion from MDI



Exploration History

1991: E. Kukkee and R. Kwiatkowski conducted prospecting and sampling.


Assessment Work on File

Assessment Work on File
Office File Number Online Assessment File Identifier Online Assessment File Directory
63.6210 42L12SW8020 42L12SW8020

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Quetico

Geological Age: Archean  



Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Terrigenous-Clastic-Unsubdivided 1
Granite 2 Near
Schist-Unsubdivided 3 Mica Near

Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
1ChalcopyriteEconomicOre
2GalenaEconomicOre
3SphaleriteEconomicOre

Mineralization Comments

Sep 12, 2019 (Therese Pettigrew) - This occurrence is shown on OGS map M2232, but doesn’t appear on any of the previous OGS maps generated from mapping projects. There was no information on mineralization in the assessment files, and the original source of the showing hasn’t been located. No assays have been located.



Mineral Record Details

References

File - Resident Geologist Mineral Deposit Files

Publication Number: Min Dep Date: 1996

Author:

Publisher Name:

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:


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