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| Record Name(s) | Emerald Lake - 1904 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1979-May-31 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Mar-02 |
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Primary Commodities: Iron
Township or Area: Basswood Lake Area
Latitude: 48° 7' 13.16" Longitude: -91° 15' 6.69"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 630097.86 Northing: 5331151.6 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay South
NTS Grid: 52B03NE, 52B03NW, 52B03SE, 52B03SW
Point Location Description: General
Location Method: Data Compilation
1904: trenching and drilling in a bay at the east end of Carp Lake. No assessment files were found on record. This occurrence is within Quetico Provincial Park and therefore is not open for staking.
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Wawa
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Geological Age: Archean
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Ironstone-unsubdivided | 1 | Is |
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Sep 24, 2018 (Therese Pettigrew) - Discontinuous, dominantly NE-trending bands of iron formation containing magnetite, hematite, and quartz (chert, jasper) (Shklanka, 1968).
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Hematite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Magnetite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 1 | Chert | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 2 | Jasper | Economic | Gangue |
Sep 24, 2018 (Therese Pettigrew) - On Cap Lake, widths of 10 and 141 feet (3 and 43 m) are reported, as sample of which assayed 16.12% Fe. On Emerald Lake, 2 or 3 bands are present, a sample from which assayed 11.27% Fe. A sample NE of Emerald Lake assayed 24.01% Fe (Shklanka, 1968).
Map - Atikokan-Lakehead sheet, geological compilation series, Kenora, Rainy River and Thunder Bay districts
Publication Number: M2065 Scale: 1:253,440 Date: 1997
Author: Pye E.G., Fenwick K.G.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Iron deposits of Ontario
Publication Number: MDC011 Scale: Date: 1968
Author: Shklanka R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Part - Iron deposits of Hunter Island with notes on the Gunflint Lake area
Publication Number: ARV25-01.004 Scale: Date: 1998
Author: Parsons A.L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines
Location:
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