Ontario Geological Survey
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| Record Name(s) | Rabbit Mountain Junior - 1883, Mining Location 57 T - 1883 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1991-Mar-05 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Apr-26 |
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Primary Commodities: Zinc
Secondary Commodities: Silver, Barite, Lead, Fluorite
Township or Area: Scoble
Latitude: 48° 18' 20.25" Longitude: -89° 36' 34.94"
UTM Zone: 16 Easting: 306488 Northing: 5353562 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay South
NTS Grid: 52A05SE
Point Location Description: AMIS Shaft location
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: Follow Highway 588 to the intersection with the Paipoonge C line road, then drive 2.9 km along the C line road to an old non-driveable road, which extends to the SW for about 4 km and leads to a clearing, the former site of the stamp mill for the Rabbit mine. To the right of the clearing is a pond and beaver dam. The No. 2 shaft is situated 18.3 m SW of the water. The Rabbit Mountain Jr vein is 121.0 m NW of the No. 2 shaft.
1883: T.A. Keefer discovered the vein. By the end of 1885, the shaft had been sunk 17.4 m. There does not appear to have been development work done after 1886. 1955: Nanglora Mining and Exploration Company Ltd. drilled 2 DDH totalling 258.2 m.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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| 15 | 52A05SE0029 | 52A05SE0029 |
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 | Calcite And Quartz | Host | |
| Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 3 |
| 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 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Galena | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 4 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 5 | Silver | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 6 | Sphalerite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 1 | Quartz | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 2 | Calcite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 3 | Fluorite | Economic | Gangue |
Feb 06, 2018 (Therese Pettigrew) - Tanton (1931) reported that 122 m NW of shaft No. 2 of Rabbit Mountain Mine, a shaft was sunk 22.9 m. The work that was done seems to have yielded little silver. The shaft is said to have been sunk on a vein 1.22-1.53 m wide in a diabase sill. The strike of the vein is approximately NE and dips 75 degrees to the SE. The vein minerals are calcite, white and amethystine quartz, green fluorite, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, and pyrite. OGS samples collected in 1984 near the adits returned assays of <0.01 opt Au, 0.1-0.48 opt Ag, 9-116 ppm Cu, 1130-44,800 ppm Pb, and 2140-11,520 ppm Zn, with up to 3% galena and sphalerite in the vein.
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Vein |
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| 1 | Vein |
Mono - Silver cobalt calcite vein deposits of Ontario
Publication Number: MDC010 Page: 72 Date: 1968
Author: Sergiades A.O.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Publication - 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: 135-137 Date: 1931
Author: Tanton, T.L.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/100799
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