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Record: MDI52A05SW00012

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Palisades - 1885, Mining Locations R 97 and R 98 - 1885
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Discretionary Occurrence
Date Created 1991-Mar-05
Date Last Modified 2022-Apr-26
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Silver

Secondary Commodities: Zinc, Fluorite, Lead



Location

Township or Area: Lybster

Latitude: 48° 15' 33.23"    Longitude: -89° 47' 4.67"

UTM Zone: 16    Easting: 293331   Northing: 5348862    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 onto Hwy 588 and follow it south for 20.0 km to Old Silver Mountain Road turnoff. Turn left onto Old Silver Mountain Road and follow for 4.4 km to an open filed on the left (south) side of the road. Proceed on foot to the extreme SE corner of field. The adit is located 40 m east along the base of the cliff.



Exploration History

1885: the vein was discovered. 1887: developments consisted of a small crosscut tunnel driven southwards into the base of the hill at a depth of about 12.2 m below the outcrop of the vein and the base of the trap sheet. A shaft was sunk to 15.2 m. 1889: unspecified development work was being conducted. 1891: Mr. Middaught and Mr. Winchell drifted 137.2 m with 14.3 m of crosscuts and a 3.0 m winze.


Geology

Province: Southern

Formation Group: Animikie Group

Geological Age: Paleoproterozoic  



Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
1ArgentiteEconomicOre
2CalciteEconomicOre
3FluoriteEconomicOre
4GalenaEconomicOre
5PyriteEconomicOre
6SphaleriteEconomicOre
1QuartzEconomicGangue

Mineralization Comments

Feb 06, 2018 (Therese Pettigrew) - The vein occurs in flat-lying, soft, black, Animikie shales. Above them is a diabase sill approximately 100 feet thick, which caps the shales on Palisades hill. The composite vein strikes south 70 degrees east and dips 70 degrees north. The vein material is very similar in appearance to that in West End Silver Mountain deposit, in that it shows banded fluorite with green and purple varieties interlayered. The greater part of the gangue material is calcite, and white and amethystine quartz. Small amounts of galena, sphalerite, and pyrite occur locally. The vein material, which is distributed through a fracture zone 10 feet wide, has an aggregate width of 2 feet (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: 121-122  Date: 1931

Author: Tanton, T.L.

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

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


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