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| Record Name(s) | F. Ledger - 1983, Ledger Occurrence - 9999, Brinklow - 9999 |
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| Related Record Type | Partial |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1983-May-18 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-May-09 |
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Primary Commodities: Nickel
Secondary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Walters
Latitude: 49° 42' 46.98" Longitude: -87° 42' 31.61"
UTM Zone: 16 Easting: 448902.361 Northing: 5506968.046 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay North
NTS Grid: 42E12NE
Point Location Description: Trenches and diamond-drill holes.
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: The occurrence is located in central Walters Township, north of Pasha Lake. Travel northwest from Nezah (10.1 km west of Jellicoe) on secondary Highway 801 for 6.4 km, north by gravel road for 1.1 km and approximately 396 m east on foot.
1961: The property was staked by Frank Hoey. 1962: Unspecified work was performed on the property. 1964: Claim cancelled. 1968: Property staked by Fred Ledger. 1969: Claim cancelled. 1971: Property staked by Larkin D. Ross. 1972: Claim cancelled. 1980: Property staked by William W. Brinklow. 1981: Claim cancelled. 1982: Property staked by Ross Toms, who transferred the claim to Clifford H. Haines. 1983: Clifford Haines and S.V. Burr formed Harte Resources Ltd., cut a grid over the property, and conducted a self potential survey. The company held 20 claims at this time. Drilling was done to test S.P. anomalies (4 holes totalling 264.3 m). 1984: Three holes were drilled to test S.P. anomalies (3 holes, 304.8 m total). 1986: Claim held by Harte Resources Limited.
Province: Superior
Geological Age: Archean
Dec 07, 2005 (B Nelson) - Walters Township is underlain by east-trending, isoclinally folded, and faulted mafic to felsic metavolcanics and metasediments. Mafic metavolcanics include andesite and basalt, typically pillowed or amygdaloidal, and minor tuffs. Flow rocks are fine-grained and dark green to greyish green. Discontinuous chert, oxide iron formation and sulphide layers are interbedded with the metavolcanics. The Ledger Occurrence is described by Burr (1982) as a number of pits and trenches over what appears to be a mineralized breccia fault. Stringer and massive sulphide mineralization occurs throughout, consisting mainly of pyrite with lesser amounts of chalcopyrite. An old trench some 152 m to the west of the same anomaly is described as containing heavy to massive sulphides, mainly pyrrhotite. A small exposure of tuffaceous chert with abundant pyrite stringers near the south boundary of the claim group. The pyrite stringers follow fractures that parallel the foliation. The chert is terminated to the east by a diabase dyke.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Silicate Ironstone | 1 | Chert | Near |
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| Mafic pillowed flow | 2 | Basalt | Pillowed, Amygdaloidal | Near |
| Mafic Tuff | 3 | Tuff | Near | |
| Diabase | 4 | Diabase | Near | |
| Chert | 5 | Tuffaceous | Host | |
| Breccia-unsubdivided | 6 | Host |
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Pyrrhotite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| Quartz | Alteration | Silicification | 1 |
Dec 07, 2005 (B Nelson) - One grab sample from a trench assayed 0.50 oz/ton Au. A grab sample of heavy to massive sulphides assayed 'slightly better than 0.01 oz/ton Au.' A grab sample of the mineralized chert was found to contain 0.28% Ni and traces of gold and silver.
Map - Tashota-Geraldton sheet, geological compilation series, Thunder Bay and Cochrane districts
Publication Number: M2102 Date: 1997
Author: Pye E.G., Harris F.R., Fenwick K.G., Baillie J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Walters and Leduc townships, Thunder Bay District
Publication Number: M2356 Scale: 1:31,680 Date: 1976
Author: Mackasey W.O.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - Geology of Walters and Leduc townships, District of Thunder Bay
Publication Number: R149 Date: 1976
Author: Mackasey W.O.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines
Location:
Map - Thunder Bay data series, Nezah Lake area, Thunder Bay District
Publication Number: P2517 Scale: 1:15,840 Date: 1982
Author: Speed A.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Gold occurrences, prospects, and deposits of the Beardmore-Geraldton area, districts of Thunder Bay and Cochrane
Publication Number: OFR5630 Date: 1986
Author: Mason J.K., White G.D.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
File - Resident Geologist Mineral Deposit Files
Publication Number: Min Dep Date:
Author:
Publisher Name:
Location: Thunder Bay RGP
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