Ontario Geological Survey
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Record Name(s) | Pitch Creek - 1979 |
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Related Record Type | Partial |
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Record Status | Occurrence |
Date Created | 1979-Aug-16 |
Date Last Modified | 2022-Mar-03 |
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Primary Commodities: Barite
Township or Area: O'Connor
Latitude: 48° 20' 5.56" Longitude: -89° 44' 33.65"
UTM Zone: 16 Easting: 296744.89 Northing: 5357157.11 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay South
NTS Grid: 52A05SE, 52A05SW
Point Location Description: Transfer
Location Method: Based on Assessment
1987: Mill Rock resources drilled three holes, totalling166 m, into a Barite vein on claims staked by J.McDermott. 1989: J. McDermott undertakes a trenching program to expose and extend the barite vein. 1990: J.McDermott completes three additional trenches to link up pervious trenches.
Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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63.5733 | 52A05SW0001 | 52A05SW0001 |
13 | 52A05SW0003 | 52A05SW0003 |
63.5602 | 52A05SW0002 | 52A05SW0002 |
Province: Southern
Formation Group: Animikie Group
Geological Age: Paleoproterozoic Geochronological Age: 1878.3 ± 1.3 ma Geochron. Age Ref.: Fralick et al. 2002
Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 1 | Tuffs | Host |
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Claystone | 2 | Adjacent |
Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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1 | Barite | Economic | Ore |
Sep 21, 2016 (Andrew Tims) - A 16ft channel sample was taken across trench #3 of platey white Barite. The assay for this channel sample returned 87.512 BaS04 .
Map - Hymers-Stanley area, Gunflint iron range, District of Thunder Bay
Publication Number: M1960L Scale: 1:31,680 Date: 1997
Author: Moorhouse W.W., Goodwin A.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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Publication - Fort William and Port Arthur, and Thunder Cape map areas, Thunder Bay District, Ontario; Geological Survey of Canada, Memoir 167
Publication Number: GSC Memoir 167 Scale: Date: 1931
Author: Tanton, T.L.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/100799
Article - Proterozoic geology of the Lake Superior area
Publication Number: SV04-01.016 Scale: Date: 1997
Author: Sutcliffe R.H.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Barite in Ontario
Publication Number: IMR010 Scale: Date: 1997
Author: Guillet G.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
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