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Record: MDI52E10NW00091

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Ogema Bay - 1986
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Occurrence
Date Created 1991-Jan-24
Date Last Modified 2022-Mar-02
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Copper, Silver, Gold



Location

Township or Area: Shoal Lake Area

Latitude: 49° 37' 28.24"    Longitude: -94° 49' 4.51"

UTM Zone: 15    Easting: 368706.63   Northing: 5498470.41    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Kenora

NTS Grid: 52E10NW

Point Location Description: Sample 108 on OGS map P3085

Location Method: Data Compilation



Exploration History

1986: OGS staff carried out a mapping and sampling program. No assessment reports were found on file.


Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Wabigoon

Geological Age: Archean  



Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Tonalite 1 Porphyritic Tonalite With Plagioclase Phenocrysts
Vein 2 Quartz Hanging Wall
Intermediate Tuff-Breccia 3 Tuff Breccia And Flows

Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
1PyriteEconomicOre
2ChalcopyriteEconomicOre

Mineralization Comments

May 28, 2020 (Therese Pettigrew) - Sample 108, collected in 1986, returned 940 ppb Au, 95 ppm Ag, and 1.62% Cu from a 20 cm wide quartz vein with disseminated copper sulphides. The vein had a strike of 125 degrees (Sweeny and Ayer, 1987).



Mineral Record Details

References

Map - Geological series, Precambrian geology, Clearwater Bay area, District of Kenora

Publication Number: P3085 Scale: 1:15,840    Date: 1987

Author: Ayer J.A., Sweeny J.M.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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MonoMap - Geology of the Clearwater Bay area, District of Kenora

Publication Number: OFR5684 Scale:     Date: 1988

Author: Ayer J.A.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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