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| Record Name(s) | Gold Coin - 1899 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1980-Jun-30 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Mar-21 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Glass
Latitude: 49° 34' 6.35" Longitude: -94° 55' 59.73"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 360217 Northing: 5492444 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kenora
NTS Grid: 52E10SW
Point Location Description: Map in Assessment report 52E10SW8556
Location Method: Data Compilation
Circa 1897: unknown individuals sunk a shaft on a quartz vein in felsite. 1898: Ontario Ltd. Co. mined 50 tones of ore from an open cut near the shaft. 1899: Incorporation of Gold Coin Mining Co. 1899-1926: sinking of second shaft in brecciated greenstone. 1926-29: Kenora Prospectors and Miners Ltd. excavated and sampled numerous pits and breccias near the south shaft. 1962-64: Olympia Mines drilled 10 DDH totalling 565 m. 1984-86: Eclipse Resources Corp. carried out prospecting, sampling, linecutting, magnetometer and VLF-EM surveys, and drilled 5 DDH totaling 305 m.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| 63.4770 | 52E10SW8552 | 52E10SW8552 |
| 63.4569 | 52E10SW8556 | 52E10SW8556 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Wabigoon
Geological Age: Archean
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Intermediate lava flow-unsubdivided | 1 | Andesite | Adjacent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mylonite/Fault Gouge/Pseudotachylite | 2 | Shear Zone | Contains | |
| Vein | 3 | Quartz | Contains |
May 15, 2020 (Therese Pettigrew) - Much of the southern half of the property is underlain by light to medium grey, fine-grained andesite flows. Light grey to white weathering felsite is abundant in the northern half and basalt crops out in the northeastern portion. The felsite has been interpreted as intrusive (Davies 1978), but may have an extrusive component. Feldspar porphyry dikes occur in many outcrops and the edge of the Canoe Lake quartz diorite stock is exposed near the northern margin of the property. A west-northwest-trending lineament, interpreted to be a fault (Davies 1978), bisects the property and may be related to the numerous mineralized shear zones. A zone of tectonic breccia, which is exposed at the south shaft 50 m south of the lineament, may reflect movement oblique to the fault (Davies and Smith, 1988).
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Gold | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore |
May 15, 2020 (Therese Pettigrew) - At least 10 mineralized zones have been identified. Feldspar porphyry dikes are commonly associated with southeast-trending, north-dipping, carbonatized and pervasively silicified shear zones. Thin quartz veins and veinlets represent later fracture fill. Pyrite is abundant within sheared felsite and is found in minor amounts, together with rare chalcopyrite and molybdenite, within quartz veins. Vein No. 6 is a northeast-trending, north-dipping breccia zone (Davies and Smith, 1988). Anomalous gold values have been reported by Dunlop (1964), who considered high gold values to correspond with high pyrite content. Olympia Mines obtained the following results from their 1964 drill program: DDH 1A returned 0.32 oz/t Au over 1.9 ft (10.97 g/t Au over 0.58 m); DDH 4 returned 0.12 oz/t Au over 7 ft (4.11 g/t Au over 2.13 m); DDH 5 returned 0.33 oz/t Au over 5 feet (11.3 g/t Au over 1.5 m), 0.34 oz/t Au over 1.4 feet (11.66 g/t Au over 0.43 m), and 0.22 oz/t Au over 2.6 ft (7.54 g/t Au over 0.79 m) (Davies and Smith, 1988). Samples from the “Snake Pit” returned values ranging from 0.67 to 3.18 oz/t Au (22.97 to 109 g/t Au). A sample from the “Open Cut” occurrence returned 1.26 oz/t Au (43.19 g/t Au) (Assessment report 52E10SW8552).
| Year | Tonnes | Commodities | Reference | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1898 | 45 | ARV08 p. 68 | 50 tons. No commodities reported, other than "without very satisfactory results". |
Mono - The geological setting of gold occurrences in the Lake of the Woods area
Publication Number: OFR5695 Scale: Date: 1988
Author: Davies J.C., Smith P.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Part - The condition of Ontario mines
Publication Number: ARV08-01.003 Scale: Date: 1998
Author: De Kalb C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - Geology of the Shoal Lake-Western Peninsula area, District of Kenora
Publication Number: OFR5242 Scale: Date: 1978
Author: Davies J.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Mono - Gold deposits of the Kenora-Fort Frances area, districts of Kenora and Rainy River
Publication Number: MDC016 Scale: Date: 1976
Author: Beard R.C., Garratt G.L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines
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