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MDI52C10NE00048
| Record Name(s) | Pidgeon A Prospect - 1975, Kerr Addison - 1969, Hanna Prospect - 1975 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1984-Jan-09 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Mar-02 |
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Primary Commodities: Zinc
Secondary Commodities: Copper, Lead, Silver, Tungsten
Township or Area: Bad Vermilion Lake Area
Latitude: 48° 44' 28.38" Longitude: -92° 33' 19.65"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 532683 Northing: 5398784 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kenora
NTS Grid: 52C10NE
Point Location Description: Location of sample 21659 from Assessment report 20000007049
Location Method: Based on Assessment
1969: Kerr Addison drilled 5 DDH totalling 170.2 m. 1975: Hanna Mines held the property and carried out line cutting, EM magnetic and geological surveys, and drilled 1 DDH. 1988-89: G.A. Armstrong drilled 3 DDH totalling 340.16 m. 1990-93: Inco optioned the property and conducted airborne magnetometer and EM surveys, IP and HLEM surveys, mapping, trenching, sampling, and drilled 2 DDH totalling 711.7 m. 2011: R. Cousineau carried out prospecting and sampling.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| 19 | 52C10NE0090 | 52C10NE0090 |
| 2.15421 | 52C15SE0021 | 52C15SE0021 |
| 34 | 52C10NE0033 | 52C10NE0033 |
| 16 | 52C10NE0498 | 52C10NE0498 |
| 63.3367 | 52C16SW0035 | 52C16SW0035 |
| 2.50545 | 20000007049 | 20000007049 |
| 2.15048 | 52C15SE8115 | 52C15SE8115 |
| 2.2297 | 52C16SW0428 | 52C16SW0428 |
| 2.14873 | 52C16SW8111 | 52C16SW8111 |
| 63.5995 | 52C11NE0001 | 52C11NE0001 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Wabigoon
Terrane: Western Wabigoon
Belt: Fort Frances-Mine Centre
Geological Age: Archean
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Intermediate lava flow-unsubdivided | 1 | Andesite | Host |
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Sep 15, 2020 (Therese Pettigrew) - Rhyolitic tuffs and lapilli tuff are the dominant rock types exposed on this property. They are intercalated with minor metavolcanics of intermediate composition and are cut by narrow sills of metadiabase. The rocks are intensely foliated and all rock units are increasingly transposed into an E-W orientation in proximity to the Quetico Fault at the Northern margin of the property (Poulsen, 1984).
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Sphalerite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 4 | Pyrrhotite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 5 | Galena | Economic | Ore |
Sep 15, 2020 (Therese Pettigrew) - At the Pidgeon property, en echelon lenses of sphalerite-galena-chalcopyrite with iron carbonates are conformable with siliceous metavolcanic rocks. The mineralization occurs as massive lenses with some ankerite in silicified rhyolite. Spotted pyrite alteration is ubiquitous in the footwall to the mineralization and is exposed over a strike length of 2.5 km. The alteration appears to increase in intensity towards the mineralized horizon and is accompanied by sericitization and silicification of the host rocks (Poulsen, 1984). DDH P.G-1 returned up to 1.08% Zn over 5 feet, and 3.53% Pb and 0.25% Zn over 5 feet from fine-grained andesite with less than 1% pyrite, occasional blebs of sphalerite and rare flecks of chalcopyrite. DDH P.G-2 returned up to 5.61% Zn and 0.32 oz/t Ag over 0.5 feet from andesite with pyrite and sphalerite. DDH P.G-4 returned up to 0.51% Zn, 0.12 oz/t Ag, and 0.03% Pb over 2 feet from andesite (Assessment report 52C10NE0090). DDH 79824-0 returned up to 7330 ppm Zn and 2071 ppm Cu over 0.75 m from a massive pyrite interval in intercalated chert and basalt and 6430 ppm Zn and 768 ppm Cu over 1.05 m from a mineralized chert horizon with pyrite, chalcopyrite, and sphalerite. DDH 79826-0 returned up to 4894 ppm Zn over 1.02 m from an andesite with streaks of pyrrhotite (Assessment report 52C15SE0021). DDH MC-76-1 returned up to 0.7% Zn, 0.04% Cu, and 0.17 oz/t Ag over 3.5 feet from a felsic metavolcanic with 15% sulphides in veins and blebs, 2-3% sphalerite in veins up to 0.25 inches, and a trace of chalcopyrite and galena (Assessment report 52C10NE0498). Grab sample 21659, collected in returned 101,248 ppm Zn, 0.568 gpt Au, 35 gpt Ag, 4256 ppm As, 3543 ppm Cu, 1083 ppm Pb, and 1198 ppm W from a 0.5 m shear with quartz veining, 5% pyrite, and 15% sphalerite (Assessment report 20000007049).
Mono - The geological setting of mineralization in the Mine Centre-Fort Frances area, District of Rainy River
Publication Number: OFR5512 Scale: Date: 1984
Author: Poulsen K.H.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Mono - Report of Activities 1993, Resident Geologists
Publication Number: OFR5892 Scale: Date: 1994
Author: Baker C.L., Dressler B.O., Mason J.K., Newsome J.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Compend - Report of Activities 1992, Resident Geologists
Publication Number: MP161 Scale: Date: 1993
Author: Fenwick K.G., Pitts A.E., Newsome J.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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