Ontario Geological Survey
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| Record Name(s) | Empire Contact - 1934 |
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| Related Record Type | Partial |
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| Record Status | Discretionary Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1983-Feb-04 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Mar-02 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Summers
Latitude: 49° 37' 21.33" Longitude: -87° 56' 33.8"
UTM Zone: 16 Easting: 431911 Northing: 5497097 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay North
NTS Grid: 42E12NW, 42E12SW
Point Location Description: Trench location from map in Assessment report 42E12NE0009
Location Method: Data Compilation
1934-39: Empire Contact Gold Syndicate carried out drilling, blasting, and sampling. 1989-90: Founder Resources carried out mapping and stripping.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| 63.4127 | 42E12SW0109 | 42E12SW0109 |
| 2.13413 | 42E12NE0009 | 42E12NE0009 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Wabigoon
Belt: Beardmore-Geraldton
Geological Age: Archean
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 1 | Contains |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terrigenous-Clastic-Unsubdivided | 2 | |||
| Vein | 3 | Host |
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Arsenopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Galena | Economic | Ore |
Nov 04, 2019 (Therese Pettigrew) - The main showing occurs on the west group. It consists of a strong shear zone along the north side of a steep hill of greenstone, which has been stripped continuously for 800 feet and indicated by trenching over a length of 2,700 feet. It strikes N. 70 E. and dips vertically or steeply south. The schisted zone is 4 to 5 feet wide and carries quartz veins ranging from mere stringers up to 30-inch veins, the average width being about 6 inches. The schist is not mineralized and carries no gold values. The quartz is a rather vitreous, sugary type, sparsely mineralized with pyrite, arsenopyrite, and galena, and is reported to carry low values in gold (Laird, 1937). Grab samples collected by Founder Resources in 1989 returned 0.005 oz/t Au (0.17 g/t Au) (Assessment report 42E12NE0009).
Mono - Gold deposits of Ontario, part 1, districts of Algoma, Cochrane, Kenora, Rainy River, and Thunder Bay
Publication Number: MDC013 Scale: Date: 1971
Author: Ferguson S.A., Groen H.A., Haynes R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs
Location:
Part - The western part of the Sturgeon River area (Sturgeon R.-Beardmore section)
Publication Number: ARV45-02.002 Scale: Date: 1998
Author: Laird H.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
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