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Record: MDI52C16SW00004

General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold

Secondary Commodities: Copper, Silver

Location

Township or Area: Bennett

Latitude: 48° 47' 14.56"    Longitude: -92° 15' 28.95"

UTM Zone: 15    Easting: 554499.19   Northing: 5404085.35    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Kenora

NTS Grid: 52C16SW

Point Location Description: Shaft location from OGS map M2467

Location Method: Data Compilation

Exploration History

1896: Independence Mining and Development Company Ltd. started work and sank a shaft. 1898: 125 tons of ore were produced. 1910: The patented claims which were surveyed in 1897 lapsed and became open ground. 1915: The property was acquired by J.A. Kennedy et al. 1975: International Chemalloy Corp. carried out line cutting and magnetometer and EM surveys. 1983-84: Lynx Canada Explorations Ltd. carried out linecutting, VLF-EM and magnetometer surveys, soil and humus surveys, prospecting, mapping, trenching and sampling. 1987-88: Royal Crest Resources Ltd. carried out prospecting, sampling, line cutting, magnetometer, EM, and IP surveys, geological mapping, and drilled 5 DDH totalling 884.5 m to the west of this showing.

Assessment Work on File

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Wabigoon

Geological Age: Archean  

Geology Comments

Sep 15, 2020 (Therese Pettigrew) - The property occurs in the Wabigoon Subprovince and is located north of the Quetico fault. The area consists mainly of metavolcanic and metasediments that are situated south of the Hillyer Creek Dome and north of the "Seine Series" metasediments. The regional strike tends approximately in an east-west direction and dips steeply to the south or vertical (Assessment report 52C16SE0005).

Lithology

Mineralization

Mineralization Comments

Sep 15, 2020 (Therese Pettigrew) - Bow (1899) gave the following description of this mine: “The main workings of the mine are on lot 11 on the third concession, where a shaft six by eight feet in cross-section has been sunk 75 feet. As this was only for prospecting purposes, it will likely be abandoned and a working shaft sunk at a more convenient point close by on the strike of the same pay streak. The latter, on which the shaft is sunk, is a body of quartz heavily mineralized with copper and iron pyrites, from six to 24 inches in width and traceable for 50 or 60 feet on the surface. The vein dipped south, leaving the shaft at a depth of a few feet, but the latter was continued vertical. As the lower workings were full of water I could not go down, but the manager informed me that at a depth of 45 feet a cross-cut had been driven 10 feet south cutting the vein, and a drift had been driven 20 feet upon it. A cross-cut had also been driven three feet north from the shaft, making, with the width of the shaft, 19 feet of cross-cutting altogether. An average sample taken along this, excluding the pay streak, gave $7.35 per ton. The pay streak averages $145. A mill run of the dump, consisting of the material from the cross-cuts, including the pay-streak, gave $19.42 per ton. A couple of test pits had been sunk near the shaft, one 15 feet and the other six feet. About 40 feet of open-cutting four or five feet in depth had been done along the outcropping of the vein east of the shaft. Samples taken by Fumerton (1985) returned from trace up to 0.96 oz/t Au and 44-380 ppm Cu. The main quartz vein is up to 18 m long on surface and up to 0.6 m thick. Presently this vein is poorly exposed and little vein material can be found in the nearby rock dumps. The host rock is felsic quartz crystal tuff in which the quartz clasts commonly have a blue tint. Within this rock numerous small, discontinuous quartz veins occur at various attitudes. The felsic tuff strikes east and is surrounded by a complex mixture of intercalated epiclastic and chemical metasediments and metavolcanics which might represent a sequence at a facies boundary (Fumerton, 1985). A soil geochemical survey .completed in the 1983 field season revelled an extremely high sample result (i.e. 0.05 oz.ton/Au) at location 25+00W, 0+25N. Follow-up prospecting (in 1984) lead to a major trenching effort just south of this location (baseline) which resulted in a showing with extremely high values. High gold and silver values were sampled at the contact between banded sediments and mafic volcanics. Within the wallrock, quartz veins and sulphides plus, telluride mineralization are identified (Assessment report 52C16SE0005). Three samples taken by Royal Crest Resources in 1987 returned 0.03 to 0.30 oz/t Au and 0.01 to 4.18 oz/t Ag. The sample that returned 0.3 oz/t Au and 4.18 oz/t Ag was taken from a strongly sheared unit with 1% pyrite and chalcopyrite (Assessment report 52C16SW0002).

Mineral Record Details

References

MonoMap - Geology of the Calm Lake area, District of Rainy River

Publication Number: R226 Page: 49-53, 60  Date: 1985

Author: Fumerton S.L.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Part - Mines of northwestern Ontario

Publication Number: ARV08-01.004 Page: 81-83, 274  Date: 1998

Author: Bow J.A.

Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines

Location:

Mono - Property visits and reports of the Atikokan economic geologist, 1979-1983, Atikokan geological survey

Publication Number: OFR5539 Page: 272-274  Date: 1985

Author: Schnieders B.R., Dutka R.J.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Book - Northern Miner 85-03-07, Lynx, p. B29

Publication Number: NMINER Date: 1996

Author:

Publisher Name: Northern Miner

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Mono - Gold deposits of Ontario, part 1, districts of Algoma, Cochrane, Kenora, Rainy River, and Thunder Bay

Publication Number: MDC013 Page: 248-249  Date: 1971

Author: Ferguson S.A., Groen H.A., Haynes R.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs

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Mono - Gold deposits of the Kenora-Fort Frances area, districts of Kenora and Rainy River

Publication Number: MDC016 Page: 22  Date: 1976

Author: Beard R.C., Garratt G.L.

Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines

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Article - Calm Lake area, District of Rainy River

Publication Number: MP096.008 Page: 34  Date: 1997

Author: Fumerton S.L.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

Article - Kenora Resident Geologist area, Northwestern Region

Publication Number: MP122.001 Page: 21  Date: 1997

Author: Blackburn C.E., Hailstone M.H.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

Article - Kenora Resident Geologist area, Northwestern Region

Publication Number: MP128.001 Page: 18-19  Date: 1997

Author: Blackburn C.E., Hailstone M.H., Parker J.R., Storey C.C.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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