Ontario Geological Survey
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Record Name(s) | Silver Valley - 1885, Mining Location R 111 - 1885 |
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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: Silver
Secondary Commodities: Gold, Zinc, Fluorite, Lead
Township or Area: Lybster
Latitude: 48° 15' 54.73" Longitude: -89° 49' 46.62"
UTM Zone: 16 Easting: 290017 Northing: 5349648.01 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay South
NTS Grid: 52A05SW
Point Location Description: AMIS Shaft Location
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: Proceed west on Hwy 11-17 to Hwy 588. Turn left on Hwy 588 and follow it south to Nolalu. Turn left over the bridge, just past the general store, and proceed along this road for 2.8 km. turn right on the secondary gravel road and follow for 1.3 km to the west side of a field (south of the road), with an old farm house on it. Leave vehicle here and follow the trail on the west side of the field for 280 m south to a clearing on the west side. Follow a trail that leads off at approx. 200 degrees. The trail immediately goes over a hill into an east-west valley (Silver Valley) and then follows up the ridge on the south side of the valley and turns west. Follow the trail along the south bank of the valley to the adit.
1885: vein was discovered. 1886: a 14 m shaft was sunk and a 5.5 m adit completed.
Province: Southern
Formation Group: Animikie Group
Geological Age: Paleoproterozoic
Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Ironstone-unsubdivided | 1 | Adjacent |
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Vein | 2 | 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 | Calcite | Economic | Ore | ||||
3 | Fluorite | Economic | Ore | ||||
4 | Galena | Economic | Ore | ||||
5 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
6 | Sphalerite | Economic | Ore | ||||
1 | Quartz | Economic | Gangue | ||||
2 | Amethyst | Economic | Gangue |
Rank | Classification |
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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: 120 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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