Ontario Geological Survey
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| Record Name(s) | Nakina 1 - 1988, Nakina Mines - 1967, Nakina Project - 1988, Kapikotongwa Lake Property - 1967, Kayedon Lake Prospect - 1967 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Prospect |
| Date Created | 1980-May-15 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Dec-22 |
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Primary Commodities: Zinc, Lead, Gold
Secondary Commodities: Copper, Silver
Township or Area: Ogoki Lake Area
Latitude: 50° 45' 4.13" Longitude: -87° 0' 23.78"
UTM Zone: 16 Easting: 499534 Northing: 5622152 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay North
NTS Grid: 42L14SE
Point Location Description: approximate centre of a cluster of drill holes
Location Method: Based on Assessment
Access Description:
1968: Nakina Mines Ltd. – ground geophysics, DD-10-3731 ft, sampling, prospecting, trenching. 1975: Falconbridge Nickel Mines Limited – airborne geophysics. 1979: Comino Ltd. – geological report. 1984: Kerr Addison Mines Ltd. – airborne geophysics, mapping, DD-1-106 m. 1988: Kerr Addison Mines Ltd. carried out airborne geophysics. 2018: B. Kuzmich carried out drill core resampling, rock sampling, assaying and analyses. 2020-2023: B. Kuzmich, A. Pleson, N. Brandon, and Silver Spruce Resources Inc. carried out airborne geophysics compilation and interpretation, LiDAR, prospecting, and airborne geophysics (magnetometer, radiometric, and VLFEM).
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| 2.11671 | 42L14SE0001 | 42L14SE0001 |
| 2.1906 | 42L15SW0016 | 42L15SW0016 |
| 63.2352 | 42L15SW0013 | 42L15SW0013 |
| 63B.15 | 42L14SE0023 | 42L14SE0023 |
| 13 | 42L14SE0016 | 42L14SE0016 |
| 2.6442 | 42L15SW0007 | 42L15SW0007 |
| 2.2907 | 42L15SW0009 | 42L15SW0009 |
| 2.10218 | 42L15SW0002 | 42L15SW0002 |
| 20000017088 | 20000017088 | |
| 20000021098 | 20000021098 | |
| 20000019760 | 20000019760 | |
| 20000021471 | 20000021471 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: English River
Terrane: English River Basins
Belt: Melchett Lake
Geological Age: Archean
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Intermediate Tuff | 1 | Tuffaceous | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vein | 2 | Quartz | Contains | |
| Felsic lava flow-unsubdivided | 3 | Host |
Dec 22, 2023 (Sheree Hinz) - The rocks on the Melchett Lake property consist of an east-west trending assemblage of schists and gneisses derived from mafic to acidic volcanics and associated epiclastic deposits. The mafic to intermediate rocks are now massive to foliated hornblende- feldspar(-garnet) schists with some fragments which probably represent mafic lapilli tuffs. Fold axes and rare facing orientations suggest that the rocks in the core mineralized area of the Melchett Lake property young northwards and form the northern limb of a large easterly double plunging antiform. Later north-south folding and brittle fault features are indicated by crenulations and offsets of strata and dykes.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Galena | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Sphalerite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 1 | Pyrite | Economic | Gangue |
Aug 15, 2014 (A Wilson) - Assays from surface trenches returned high zinc values. One sample returned 14.85% Zn, 0.13% Cu, 0.92 oz/t Ag and 0.30 oz/t Au. Drilling intersected widespread but low grade mineralization. Drill hole N-4 intersected 8.25% Zn, 1.08% Pb, 0.76 oz/t Ag and 0.02 oz/t Au.
Dec 22, 2023 (Sheree Hinz) - Base metal mineralization consisting of pyrite, sphalerite, chalcopyrite and galena occurs within the felsic metavolcanic sequences of the Property. There are locally high-grade lenses of Zn & Ag with variable Cu, Au and Pb, and gold grades. The mineralization is interpreted to occur as paleo-topographic accumulations related to fumarolic activity forming polymetallic deposits overprinted by a later stage gold-rich event. Nakina 1 extends for some 1.5 kilometres east-west, with the central 300 metres containing zinc (sphalerite) and silver mineralization and is developed in acidic to intermediate metavolcanic schists with abundant pyrite, sericite and chlorite alteration. Assays from the 2019 sampling program returned 3.24% Zn, 6690 ppm Pb, 399 ppm Cu 4.06 ppm Ag, 0.383 ppm Au.
| Rank | Characteristic |
|---|---|
| 1 | Disseminated |
| Shape | Length | Thickness | Depth | Strike | Dip | Plunge | Trend | Age | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Regular | 365 |
Map - Geological series, Precambrian geology of the Melchett Lake area, east part, District of Thunder Bay
Publication Number: P2393 Scale: 1:15,840 Date: 1981
Author: Bond W.D., Foster J.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Compilation series, Ogoki Lake sheet, Thunder Bay and Cochrane districts
Publication Number: P0274 Scale: 1:126,720 Date: 1997
Author: Stott G.M., McConnell C.D., Mason J.K.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Copper, nickel, lead and zinc deposits of Ontario
Publication Number: MDC012 Page: 339-340 Date: 1969
Author: Shklanka R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
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