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Record: MDI52A05SE00045

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Rothwell Mine - 1927, Lot 5, Concession D - 1927
Related Record Type Partial
Related Record(s)
Record Status Occurrence
Date Created 1992-Mar-19
Date Last Modified 2022-Apr-26
Created By
Revised By

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Silver

Secondary Commodities: Copper, Zinc, Lead



Location

Township or Area: Paipoonge

Latitude: 48° 20' 30.2"    Longitude: -89° 36' 25.3"

UTM Zone: 16    Easting: 306823   Northing: 5357567    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay South

NTS Grid: 52A05SE

Point Location Description: From AMIS shaft location

Location Method: Conversion from MDI



Exploration History

1973: Elgin Lake Mines Ltd. drilled 2 DDH totalling 157.6 m.


Assessment Work on File

Assessment Work on File
Office File Number Online Assessment File Identifier Online Assessment File Directory
2.495 52A05SE0014 52A05SE0014
13 52A05SE0008 52A05SE0008
12 52A05SE0012 52A05SE0012

Geology

Province: Southern

Formation Group: Animikie Group

Geological Age: Paleoproterozoic  



Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Mudstone 1 Shale Adjacent
Vein 2 Quartz And Calcite Host
Diabase 3 Diabase Sills

Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
1PyriteEconomicOre
1QuartzEconomicGangue
2CalciteEconomicGangue

Mineralization Comments

Jan 29, 2018 (Therese Pettigrew) - The Rothwell mine is in lot 5, concession D, Paipoonge Township. A shaft 20 feet deep and a trench 30 feet long occur on this lot. The rocks exposed in the workings are flat-lying black shales. A fracture zone 2 feet wide, striking north 50 degrees east and dipping vertically, occurs in them. A few veinlets, up to 2 inches in width, ramify the fracture zone. The veinlets consist of white and amethystine quartz and calcite (Tanton, 1931).



Mineral Record Details

Classification
RankClassification            
1 Vein
Characteristics
Rank Characteristic            
1 Vein

References

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: 132  Date: 1931

Author: Tanton, T.L.

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/100799


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