Ontario Geological Survey
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| Record Name(s) | Copeland - 1919, Federal Mine - 1919 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1979-Aug-15 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-May-30 |
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Primary Commodities: Silver
Secondary Commodities: Copper, Zinc, Barite, Fluorite, Lead
Township or Area: Paipoonge
Latitude: 48° 20' 46.37" Longitude: -89° 31' 42.01"
UTM Zone: 16 Easting: 312670 Northing: 5357870.99 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay South
NTS Grid: 52A05SE
Point Location Description: AMIS Shaft location
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: Proceed west on Highway 11-17 to Highway 130. Turn left (south) on Highway 130 and follow this for 8.7 km, then continue west on Paipoonge Concession 1 road for 4.8 km. Turn right (north) on road to shale quarry. . Oliver Creek is found at the base of this road. Follow the creek NE (downstream for 0.8 km). Mine and dump are located on north side of creek.
1919: Federal Mining Company Ltd. was incorporated to prospect on the property. 1920: Development work was started. 1921: work on the property stopped.
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 |
| 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 | Barite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 4 | Fluorite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 5 | Galena | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 6 | Marcasite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 7 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 8 | Sphalerite | Economic | Ore |
Feb 06, 2018 (Therese Pettigrew) - Copeland's vein outcrops on the north bank of Oliver Creek in the south half of lot 26, concession B, Paipoonge township, 2.5 miles southeast from Stanley. Workings extend 160 feet along the vein and lie immediately north of the creek. There are two shafts 90 feet apart, the main or west shaft having a depth of 20 feet or more and the east shaft having a depth of 10 feet. A drift, now partly caved, has been driven 60 feet easterly along the vein from the bottom of the main shaft. Fifty feet west of the main shaft a small test pit has been sunk, but does not now disclose the vein. Mine buildings were destroyed by fire in 1925. A fault zone in horizontal, black Animikie shale, strikes south 61 degrees east, dips 70 degrees toward the southeast, and has an average width of 2 feet. Owing to a mantle of drift, 6 feet to 20 feet thick, natural outcrops are to be found only along the bed of the stream. Along the fault zone, as exposed, there is only a slight brecciation of the north wall-rock, whereas the south wall-rock is highly shattered and shows, on a horizontal surface, two sets of fissures intersecting at an angle of 45 degrees. A composite vein cements the fissures in the fault zone. The vein material consists of pink and white calcite; colourless, amethystine, and rose quartz; green, purple, and yellow fluorite; buff-coloured barite, sphalerite, galena, pyrite, marcasite, and argentite. The greater part of the vein material is coarsely crystalline, white calcite. The metallic minerals make up approximately one-tenth of the vein matter as exposed, and they are listed above in their order of relative abundance. Argentite occurs in small amount as films or in leaf form in cleavage cracks in calcite (Tanton, 1931). F.S. Wiley reported that the average value is about 13 opt Ag (Parsons, 1922). No appreciable amount of silver was produced.
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Vein |
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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: 138 Date: 1931
Author: Tanton, T.L.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/100799
Mono - Silver cobalt calcite vein deposits of Ontario
Publication Number: MDC010 Page: 77 Date: 1968
Author: Sergiades A.O.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
File - Hazard files, Thunder Bay Mineral department
Publication Number: Date: 1996
Author:
Publisher Name:
Location: Thunder Bay RGP
Part - Economic deposits in Thunder Bay District
Publication Number: ARV30-04.002 Date: 1998
Author: Parsons A.L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
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