Ontario Geological Survey
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| Record Name(s) | Dawson Lodes - 1884, Mining Location R 64 - 1884, Silver Centre - 1890 |
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| Related Record Type | Partial |
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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: Zinc, Fluorite, Lead
Township or Area: Lybster
Latitude: 48° 15' 5.43" Longitude: -89° 51' 36.52"
UTM Zone: 16 Easting: 287695 Northing: 5348210 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay South
NTS Grid: 52A05SW
Point Location Description: Transfer
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: Proceed west on Hwy. 11-17 to Hwy. 588. Turn left onto Hwy. 588 and proceed west to Nolalu. At Nolalu, turn left (south) over the bridge onto the 2nd sideroad just past the general store. Proceed 5.0 km to intersection with Old Silver Mountain Road. Turn right onto Old Silver Mountain Road and continue west for 1.7 km to a Y in the road. Keep to right branch and proceed for 1.9 km to an abandoned farm. Park vehicles, then follow trail west over broken bridge towards Silver Mountain for 760 m. Approx. 160 m pas small creek, the shaft can be seen on south side of the trail.
1885: veins were discovered by S. Dawson and A. Russell. 1886-88: stripping took place. 1890: Silver Centre Mining Company of Ontario held the property. A shaft, crosscut, and trench were developed. 1892: the mine was idle.
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 | Barite | Economic | Gangue |
Feb 06, 2018 (Therese Pettigrew) - Several large veins occur on mining location R 64. They vary in width from 3 to 8 feet. In the veins various forms of quartz preponderate and are accompanied in places by varying proportions of green fluorite, calcite, and occasionally a little barite. At one exposure, a vein consists almost entirely of solid vitreous quartz, and has a marked, banded or "combed" appearance due to different-coloured layers (amethyst, white, translucent, etc). The fluorite seems to have been mostly deposited between the irregular surfaces of these layers. The metallic minerals sphalerite, galena, and pyrite occur occasionally, in disseminated grains, and in the case of pyrite also as very thin films coating cleavage planes, jointing, etc. The enclosing rocks are of Animikie iron formation (Tanton, 1931). It was reported that there are traces of silver in the veins on the property.
| 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: 118-119 Date: 1931
Author: Tanton, T.L.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/100799
Map - Kakabeka Sheet, Thunder Bay District, Ontario
Publication Number: Map 213A Scale: 1:63,360 Date: 1928
Author: Tanton, T.L.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/107463
File - Hazard files, Thunder Bay Mineral department
Publication Number: Date: 1996
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Location: Thunder Bay RGP
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