Ontario Geological Survey
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MDI43D05NE00004
Record Name(s) | Springer Lake - 1940, Owen Lake - 1980, Pickle Patricia Explorers - 1980, Goose - 2003 |
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Related Record Type | Partial |
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Record Status | Occurrence |
Date Created | 1980-Jun-04 |
Date Last Modified | 2022-Jan-28 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Secondary Commodities: Copper
Township or Area: Springer Lake Area
Latitude: 52° 28' 39.89" Longitude: -87° 35' 22.51"
UTM Zone: 16 Easting: 459957 Northing: 5814340 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay North
NTS Grid: 43D05NE
Point Location Description: Veins depicted on page 8 of AR XLIX, part VIII.
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: The property is accessible by float plane from commercial bases at Pickle Lake, Armstrong or Nakina.
1971-2: Canadian Nickel Company Ltd. drilled 46 DDH totalling 5932.3 m. 2000: Aurora Platinum Corp. staked the property and conducted reconnaissance mapping and prospecting. 2001: Aurora Platinum Corp. carried out airborne magnetic and EM surveys, mapping, sampling, and drilled 21 DDH totalling 6009.4 m. 2003: Aurora Platinum Corp. conducted an IP survey and drilled 8 DDH totalling 2098.82 m.
Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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10 | 43D12SE0010 | 43D12SE0010 |
12 | 43D05NE0004 | 43D05NE0004 |
2.28939 | 43D05NE2003 | 43D05NE2003 |
2.23509 | 43D11SW2001 | 43D11SW2001 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Sachigo
Terrane: North Caribou
Geological Age: Archean
Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Vein | 1 | Quartz | Host |
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Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 2 | Adjacent |
Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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1 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
2 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
3 | Arsenopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
1 | Quartz | Economic | Gangue | ||||
2 | Carbonate | Economic | Gangue |
Aug 16, 2018 (Therese Pettigrew) - A stockwork of quartz stringers 30 feet wide occurs in mafic metavolcanics. The stringers strike in an E-W direction and dip 45 degrees N. Traces of chalcopyrite and arsenopyrite are present in the quartz. V.K. Prest collected a sample of sulphide-bearing quartz chips that returned an assay of 0.02 opt Au (Prest, 1942).
Rank | Classification |
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1 | Lode (Gold) |
1 | Vein |
Rank | Characteristic |
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1 | Vein |
Part - Geology of the Rowlandson Lake area
Publication Number: ARV49-08.001 Scale: Date: 1997
Author: Prest V.K.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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