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| Record Name(s) | Sorry Mac - Trench D - 1984 |
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| Related Record Type | Partial |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1991-Jan-21 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Aug-04 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Vista Lake Area
Latitude: 49° 7' 25.67" Longitude: -93° 7' 17.35"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 491136.186 Northing: 5441225.038 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kenora
NTS Grid: 52F03NE
Point Location Description: General
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: The Sorry Mac occurrences are located 75 km south-southwest of Dryden, between Hailstone Bay and Hidden Bay, on the southeast side of Manitou Stretch. Road access to the property is from Hwy 502, along the Cedar Narrows Road to the landing on the Manitou Stretch. A boat trip of about 17 km reaches the occurrences. The Sorry Mac occurrences consist of six trenches along a 1.8 km length trending northeasterly. (OFR 5731, p. 137)
1934: Thomson (1934) identified a quartz vein (now trench C) on map ARM43A during regional geological survey. 1984-86: Sparton Resources conducted ground VLF-electromagnetic and magnetic surveys, a soil geochemical survey, a geological survey, and trenching and rock sampling. They exposed five mineralized sites known as trenches A to E. Sparton Resources conducted a follow-up diamond drill program in 10 holes for a total amount of 918.4 m. 1989: Homestake Mineral Development Co. conducted geological, ground VLF-electromagnetic, magnetic, induced polarizations and soil geochemical surveys, and re-sampled the trenches
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Wabigoon
Terrane: Western Wabigoon
Belt: Eagle-Wabigoon-Manitou
Geological Age: Precambrian
Feb 18, 2010 (C Ravnaas) - The geology of the area as mapped by Smith and Stephenson (1988), consists of metavolcanic and metasedimentary rocks intruded by gabbroic rocks. Mafic metavolcanic rocks are predominant. The property is widely sheared, so that the rocks are iron carbonatized and schistose. The core of the shear zone is characterized by a steeply-dipping, fissile, rock. Alteration products, in order of decreasing abundance, are dolomite, ankerite, sulphides, fuchsite, grey sericite, chlorite, calcite, and quartz veining. At least three parallel, gold-bearing, shear zones have been identified by the author over a 1.7 km length. Shearing trends approximately northeast at the Hidden Bay, but is deflected at Hailstone Bay toward the north-northeast. All the shear zones display vertical to flat dip to the northwest (90° to 25°), with moderate to steeply plunging slickenside lineations, indicating a north-side-up, oblique slip component of movement in the shear zones. The highly altered zone is about l to 10 m wide. The fissile zone, up to 3 m in width, is filled with narrow, semi-massive, bands of sulphide minerals and/or quartz veinlets. The quartz material is white to pale grey, opaque to rarely vitreous, commonly brecciated, and commonly laminated due to narrow ribbons of sericite, chlorite, calcite, ankerite, and dolomite. Tourmaline may also be present. Sulphide minerals are up to 25% arsenopyrite, up to 2% pyrite, and locally up to 2% chalcopyrite, and traces of bornite. Disseminated sulphides vary from very fine- to coarse-grained. Trench C has been opened up over a 16.25 m strike length, and displays a typical replacement-type vein, in which a gradational to more altered zone consists of fissure-filling. Analytical results of fifteen grab samples taken by the author across the area indicate a correlation between gold, and antimony and arsenic contents, and that gold is preferentially associated with the sulphidized and iron carbonatized fissile zone. The best result came from such a sample from trench C, which assayed 0.34 ounce gold per ton. (OFR 5731, p. 137-142)
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 5 | Arsenopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 10 | Bornite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 15 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 20 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore |
Feb 18, 2010 (C Ravnaas) - 1984 - 1986: Sparton Resources conducted ground VLF-electromagnetic and magnetic surveys, a soil geochemical survey, a geological survey, and trenching and rock sampling. They exposed five mineralized sites known as trenches A to E. The best results from the sampling came from trench C where a chip sample assayed 0.344 ounce gold per ton over 1 m, and trench D where a chip sample assayed 0.355 ounce gold per ton over 1 m. Sparton Resources conducted a follow-up diamond drill program in 10 holes for a total amount of 918.4 m. Among assays recorded from the first seven holes only, the best intersection was 0.18 ounce gold per ton over 1.2 m in a hole beneath trench E (Assessment Files, Resident Geologist's Office, Kenora). The geology of the area as mapped by Smith and Stephenson (1988), consists of metavolcanic and metasedimentary rocks intruded by gabbroic rocks. Mafic metavolcanic rocks are predominant. The property is widely sheared, so that the rocks are iron carbonatized and schistose. The core of the shear zone is characterized by a steeply-dipping, fissile, rock. Alteration products, in order of decreasing abundance, are dolomite, ankerite, sulphides, fuchsite, grey sericite, chlorite, calcite, and quartz veining. At least three parallel, gold-bearing, shear zones have been identified by the author over a 1.7 km length. Shearing trends approximately northeast at the Hidden Bay, but is deflected at Hailstone Bay toward the north-northeast. All the shear zones display vertical to flat dip to the northwest (90° to 25°), with moderate to steeply plunging slickenside lineations, indicating a north-side-up, oblique slip component of movement in the shear zones. The highly altered zone is about l to 10 m wide. The fissile zone, up to 3 m in width, is filled with narrow, semi-massive, bands of sulphide minerals and/or quartz veinlets. The quartz material is white to pale grey, opaque to rarely vitreous, commonly brecciated, and commonly laminated due to narrow ribbons of sericite, chlorite, calcite, ankerite, and dolomite. Tourmaline may also be present. Sulphide minerals are up to 25% arsenopyrite, up to 2% pyrite, and locally up to 2% chalcopyrite, and traces of bornite. Disseminated sulphides vary from very fine- to coarse-grained. Trench C has been opened up over a 16.25 m strike length, and displays a typical replacement-type vein, in which a gradational to more altered zone consists of fissure-filling. Analytical results of fifteen grab samples taken by the author across the area indicate a correlation between gold, and antimony and arsenic contents, and that gold is preferentially associated with the sulphidized and iron carbonatized fissile zone. The best result came from such a sample from trench C, which assayed 0.34 ounce gold per ton. (OFR 5731, p. 137-142)
Map - Straw-Manitou lakes area, districts of Kenora and Rainy River, Ontario
Publication Number: ARM43A Scale: 1:63,360 Date: 1997
Author: Thomson J.E.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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Part - Geology of the Straw-Manitou lakes area
Publication Number: ARV43-04 Date: 1998
Author: Thomson J.E.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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Article - Geology of the Vista Lake area, districts of Rainy River and Kenora
Publication Number: MP141.019 Page: 138-144 Date: 1997
Author: Smith P.M., Stephenson C.D.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Mono - Property visits by the Dryden area mineral commodity geologist, 1989
Publication Number: OFR5731 Page: 137-142 Date: 1990
Author: Delisle P.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Geology of the Vista Lake area
Publication Number: OFR5753 Page: 93-95 Date: 1990
Author: Smith P.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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