Ontario Geological Survey
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Record Name(s) | Lone Pine - 1887 |
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Related Record Type | Simple |
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Record Status | Discretionary Occurrence |
Date Created | 1991-Mar-05 |
Date Last Modified | 2022-May-30 |
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Primary Commodities: Zinc, Silver
Secondary Commodities: Fluorite, Lead
Township or Area: Paipoonge
Latitude: 48° 20' 35.61" Longitude: -89° 35' 57.93"
UTM Zone: 16 Easting: 307392 Northing: 5357715 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay South
NTS Grid: 52A05SE
Point Location Description: AMIS location
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: Proceed on Highway 11-17 to Highway 588. Turn left onto Highway 588 and proceed west for 5.5 km to the intersection of Highway 588 and Paipoonge Concession 1 road. A narrow raod leading south into a shale quarry is located on the southern side of the intersection. The old mine site is assumed to be somewhere within this shale quarry.
1887: showing discovered. Development beings with a 6.1 m deep pit and 9.1 m trench. 1889: R.R. Paulison acquired the property and sunk a 9.1 m deep shaft and 45.7 m drift. 1892: drifting. 1971: Elgin Lake Syndicate Ltd. optioned the property and conducted magnetometer and EM geophysical surveys, geochemical and geological surveys.
Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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63.2645 | 52A05SE0013 | 52A05SE0013 |
Province: Southern
Formation Group: Animikie Group
Geological Age: Paleoproterozoic
Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Mudstone | 1 | Shale | Adjacent |
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Vein | 2 | Quartz And Calcite | 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 | Silver | Economic | Ore | ||||
2 | Galena | Economic | Ore | ||||
3 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
4 | Sphalerite | Economic | Ore | ||||
1 | Calcite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
2 | Quartz | Economic | Gangue | ||||
3 | Fluorite | Economic | Gangue |
Feb 06, 2018 (Therese Pettigrew) - In fracture zones associated with the Lone Pine Mine area as calcite, quartz veins. Associated with the calcite and quartz is silver, galena and sphalerite. These silver-bearing veins are 2 feet (0.6 m) wide, striking 050 degrees and dipping vertically (Tanton, 1931).
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1 | Vein |
Rank | Characteristic |
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1 | Vein |
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: 134 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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