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Record: MDI52E10SW00019

General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold

Location

Township or Area: Glass

Latitude: 49° 34' 40.44"    Longitude: -94° 56' 27.99"

UTM Zone: 15    Easting: 359676.58   Northing: 5493511.28    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Kenora

NTS Grid: 52E10SW

Point Location Description: General

Location Method: Conversion from MDI

Access Description: The property consisted of mining locations S105, S106 and S107, with work done primarily on S106. The northern pit is 600 m north of the eastern part of Hell diver Bay, and 1.2 km east-northeast of the Olympia No. l shaft. The area may be reached by boat from Clytie Bay Landing or from Kenora via Ash Rapids.

Exploration History

1897: property was owned by the Bullion Mining Company, who carried out pitting and stripping. 1983: Selco Exploration Inc. conducted mag and HLEM surveys.

Assessment Work on File

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Wabigoon

Geological Age: Archean  

Lithology

Lithology Comments

Jan 28, 2020 (Therese Pettigrew) - Rocks in the vicinity of the workings are predominately fine- to medium-grained, mafic metavolcani c flows. Pillows indicate that the northeast-trending stratigraphy is southeast-facing. A narrow, coarse-grained peridotite sill is located in the central part of the property (Davies and Smith, 1988).

Mineralization

Mineralization Comments

Jan 28, 2020 (Therese Pettigrew) - Two pits were found in the area of location S106 by Davies and Smith (1988). The north pit and an adjacent trench lie at the southern edge of a 105 degree-trending linear valley. The 1.8 by 2 m pit was sunk an estimated 3 m on a narrow, white, sugary quartz vein trending about 130 degrees and dipping 85 N. The vein locally contains up to 20% pyrite and rare specks of gold. Enclosing basalts contain fine disseminated pyrrhotite; they are fractured but not sheared. A second pit lies 250 m to the south, on the northwestern side of a linear valley which is apparently underlain by peridotite. The 1.8 by 2.4 m pit, now 2.5 m deep, was sunk on a 2 m wide felsite dike which trends 130 degrees and narrows to the northwest. No quartz vein is present but the felsite contains abundant pyrite and a little pyrrhotite, both disseminated and on fine fractures. The pit lies near a weak 115 degree-striking lineament (Davies and Smith, 1988).

Mineral Record Details

References

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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Part - Fourth report on the west Ontario gold region

Publication Number: ARV07-02.001 Scale:     Date: 1998

Author: Coleman A.P.

Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines

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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

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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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