Ontario Geological Survey
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| Record Name(s) | Badger - 1887, Mining Location T 201 - 1887 |
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| Related Record Type | Compound |
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| Record Status | Developed Prospect Without Reported Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1979-Aug-14 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Feb-08 |
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Primary Commodities: Silver
Secondary Commodities: Zinc, Fluorite, Lead
Township or Area: Gillies
Latitude: 48° 18' 18.27" Longitude: -89° 39' 26.83"
UTM Zone: 16 Easting: 302945.69 Northing: 5353622.44 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay South
NTS Grid: 52A05SE
Point Location Description: Transfer
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: Proceed along Highway 11-17 to Highway 588. Turn left (south) onto Highway 588 and proceed for 12.5 km to a gravel road on the left (south) side of the highway. Turn left (south) onto the gravel road and proceed for about 0.5 km to the Porcupine Mine site. At the shaft area of the Porcupine mine, an old road proceeds east. Follow the old road for 0.8 km to a clearing at the right (south) side of the road. The clearing is part of the Badger mine site.
1887: discovered by C.F. Eschweiler. 1887-1891: Badger Silver Mining Company sunk a shaft to 73.2 m. Drifting of 609.6 m and stoping between first and second levels was completed, as well as winzes and air shafts. 1892: mining operations ceased. 1897: Owned by a group of investors including A.M. Wiley of Port Arthur. 15 tons of dump material was shipped to smelter. Old drifts were re-timbered to examine workings. 1955: O.J. Wieben acquired the property and drilled 4 DDH totalling 110 m. 1959: O.J. Wieben conducted airborne magnetic and EM surveys. 1965: P.H. Read drilled 3 DDH totalling 110 m. 1967: P.H. Read drilled 5 DDH totalling 416.8 m. 1975: Cairngorm Mines drilled 3 DDH totalling 122.2 m. 1997: Elgin Lake Mines Ltd. conducted geological reconnaissance.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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| 2.18412 | 52A05SE2004 | 52A05SE2004 |
| 63.981 | 52A05SE0020 | 52A05SE0020 |
Province: Southern
Formation Group: Animikie Group
Geological Age: Paleoproterozoic
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Terrigenous-Clastic-Unsubdivided | 1 | Adjacent |
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| Vein | 2 | Host | ||
| Diabase | 3 | Diabase Sill |
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Argentite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Fluorite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Galena | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 4 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 5 | Sphalerite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 1 | Calcite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 2 | Quartz | Economic | Gangue |
Feb 06, 2018 (Therese Pettigrew) - The veins of Badger mine are 170 feet apart at the shafts and occur in flat-lying Animikie shale, and a diabase sill which caps these strata. The southern or No.1 vein is composite and occurs in a shatter zone 5 feet wide along a fault on the southern side of which the rocks have moved relatively downward 15 feet or more. The fault strikes north 40 degrees east and dips steeply southeast. The vein material consists of calcite, white and amethystine quartz, green and purple fluorite, yellow and black sphalerite, galena, and a little pyrite; leaf and nugget argentite are said to have occurred abundantly in pockets a few feet in diameter and spaced at intervals of scores of feet. The northern or No. 2 vein is inferred to be about 4 inches wide judging from the material in the dumps. The workings indicate a trend of north 65 degrees east. The vein consists chiefly of white quartz with smaller amounts of white and pink calcite, green and purple fluorite, sphalerite, and galena (Tanton, 1931). The July 10, 1890 Daily Sentinel reports the No. 2 vein is averaging 3500 opt Ag and has hit extremes of 10,000 opt Ag. The July 11, 2890 Daily Sentinel states that the No. 2 Vein at 12.2 m assayed 270 opt Ag, at 15.2 m 1800 opt Ag, and at 20.4 m 3245 opt Ag.
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Vein |
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 1 | Vein |
| Year | Tonnes | Commodities | Reference | Comment |
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| 1899 | 272 |
Silver 15000 Ounces |
Tanton, 1931 | Total production was reported to be $300,000 from Badger & Porcupine mines. Assuming $20/oz silver, total production was 15,000 oz Ag. Grade estimations vary widely, but assuming 50 oz/t grade, tonnage is estimated at 300 tons. |
| 1891 | 116 |
Silver 8152 Ounces |
Canadian Mining and Mechanical Review, 1891, vol. 10, p.4 | 128 tons of ore aggregated, valued at $150,000 |
Book - Canadian Mining Review 1902, vol. 21, no. 8
Publication Number: CMR 1902 Page: 202-204 Date: 1902
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Location: https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.8_04198_97/2
Mono - Silver cobalt calcite vein deposits of Ontario
Publication Number: MDC010 Page: 63 Date: 1968
Author: Sergiades A.O.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Book - Fort William and Port Arthur, and Thunder Cape Map-area, Thunder Bay District, Ontario; Geological Survey of Canada, Memoir 167
Publication Number: GSC Memoir 167 Page: 126 Date: 1931
Author: Tanton, T.L.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/100799
File - Hazard files, Thunder Bay Mineral department
Publication Number: Date: 1996
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Location: Thunder Bay RGP
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