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| Record Name(s) | Meston - 1937, Aggressive Mining Ltd - 1973 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Prospect |
| Date Created | 1980-Sep-29 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Sep-16 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Rowan Lake Area
Latitude: 49° 16' 42.04" Longitude: -93° 39' 40.68"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 451901.14 Northing: 5458609.1 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kenora
NTS Grid: 52F05SE
Point Location Description: Rowan Lake Area east of Cameron Lake, approx. 0.4km SE of the south-eastern lobe of Knutson Lake
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: Floatplane to Cameron Lake or Sullivan Bay of Rowan Lake from Nestor Falls; or a water route through Kakagi Lake (Crow Lake), a one mile portage and via Cameron Lake to property.
1937: Geological survey and trenching of area 210 m by 50 m. 1961: Geological survey by Noranda Mines Ltd. 1972-73: Canex Placer conducted geological mapping, sampling, a magnetic geophysical survey, and drilled 3 DDH totalling 439.3 m. 1973: trenching, sampling of existing trenches, VLF electromagnetic survey by Aggressive Mining Ltd. 1979: VLF electromagnetic survey by Nolan Lake Explorations Inc. 1980: 3 DDH totalling 270m by Nolan Lake Explorations Inc. 1980-81: Nolan Lake Exploration drilled 21 DDHs (total 3842 ft) on property, 14 of which were on the Meston zone. 1982: Nolan Lake Exploration conducted an IP geophysical survey. 1984: Canolan Resources completed a ground magnetic and a VLF survey. 1986: Canolan Resources became Nucanolan Resources Ltd. and drilled 9 DDHs on property, 4 of which were on the Meston zone; 200 overburden holes on property; trenching, stripping, geological mapping and prospecting. 2010-11: Cameron Gold Operations Ltd. conducted an IP geophysical survey, sampling, and drilled 35 DDH totalling 3934.5 m.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| 52F/05SE, G-1, Aggressive Mining, 2.1389 | 52F05SE0136 | 52F05SE0136 |
| 52F/05SE, A-1, Aggressive Mining Ltd., 2.12940 | 52F05SE0138 | 52F05SE0138 |
| 2.55658 | 20000014017 | 20000014017 |
| 2.5596 | 52F05SE0106 | 52F05SE0106 |
| 2.5595 | 52F05SE0105 | 52F05SE0105 |
| W7301-00096 | 52F05SE5023 | 52F05SE5023 |
| 2.3138 | 52F05SE0116 | 52F05SE0116 |
| 25 | 52F05SE0115 | 52F05SE0115 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Wabigoon
Belt: Savant Lake
Geological Age: Archean
Mar 10, 2011 (J Bongfelt) - 'Mafic volcanic roacks immediately south of contact with mafic intrusive rocks. Structure - weakly foliated rocks. Prospect occurs several hundred metres north of projected extension of the Monte Cristo Shear Zone.' (OFR 5713, Meston Prospect, p.115)
Sep 26, 2017 (Therese Pettigrew) - The property is underlain by rocks of the Archean, Savant Lake-Crow Lake metavolcanic metasedimentary belt in the Wabigoon Subprovince of the Canadian Shield. It occurs within a region of greenstone metavolcanic rock, bounded by granitoid batholiths such as Nolan Lake stock. The area is cut by a number of major faults, the Cameron Lake Shear Zone (CLSZ), a northwest-southeast trending zone of high strain that hosts the gold mineralization of the Cameron Deposit. CLSZ is a splay off the Pipestone-Cameron Fault a northwest-striking structure that separates the Rowan Lake Greenstone Terrane from the Kakagi Greenstone Terrane to the SW. This northwest-striking, steeply northeast-dipping fault is a significant zone of deformation and displacement which has been defined for over 100 km of strike length and has characteristics similar to the regional “breaks” recognized in other Canadian Archean gold camps. The Monte Cristo Shear Zone is another main structure in the region striking NE-SW, to the east of the CLSZ. The Monte Cristo Shear Zone has gold occurrences along its length most notably Monte Cristo and Victor prospects (AFRI 2.55658).
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Vein | 1 | Contains |
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| Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 2 | |||
| Intermediate Tuff | 3 | Tuffs, Andesites |
Mar 10, 2011 (J Bongfelt) - Many carbonate dykes; NE trending zone of quartz stringers, 600 feet long by 80 to 100 feet wide. (Kenora Historical File 52F/05SE00007, Meston)
Sep 26, 2017 (Therese Pettigrew) - The Meston Prospect is in a quartz-carbonate-pyrite breccia. The wall rock at Meston consists of silicified basalt and intermediate tuff in the hanging wall, while the footwall is dominated by mafic dolerite. A shear zone consisting of chlorite-sericite schist was encountered in the footwall in a few holes (AFRI 2.55658).
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Gold | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 1 | Quartz | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 2 | Ankerite | Economic | Gangue |
Mar 10, 2011 (J Bongfelt) - '….in 1986, channel samples from breccia-veins assayed up to 0.2 oz./ton Au. (OFR 5713, Meston Prospect, p.115) Re: 1981 - Nolan Lake Exploration Inc. DD 81-8: 0.245 oz./ton Au & DD 81-11: 0.11 oz./ton Au (claim #527559) (Kenora AF 52F/05SE, II-6, Nolan Lake Exploration Inc., diamond drill logs) Re: 1973 - Canex drilled three DD holes, DD R-3 (claim K-346460): trace to 0.32 oz./ton Au (Kenora AF 52F/05SE, G-1, Canex Placer Ltd., diamond drill logs & Kenora AF 52F/05SE, A-1, Aggressive Mining Ltd.) 'Gold values occur in a lacework of ankerite-quartz. A NE trending zone of quartz stringers defined by trenching is 180m (600 ft.) long by 24.30m (80-100 ft.) wide with an indicated grade of just under 3.4 g/t (0.10 oz/ton) Au. Averages of channel samples across one trench gave 5.90 g/t (0.172 oz/ton) Au across 6.1m (20.1 ft.) and 4.94 g/t (0.144 oz/ton) Au across 6.7m (22 ft.). (Kenora Historical File F05/05SE00007, Meston - Doc. SMDR 001440 and MDC 16, p.27)
Sep 26, 2017 (Therese Pettigrew) - The Meston Prospect comprises a quartz-carbonate-pyrite breccia similar to that which hosts the mineralization at the Company’s Cameron Gold Deposit. A second style of gold mineralisation at Meston is represented by veinlets emanating from the breccia vein into the surrounding wallrock display sericite-(Fe) carbonate altered selvedges and associated pyrite. Akin to the Cameron Gold deposit, there is a strong correlation between pyrite content and gold mineralization at the Meston prospect. Canex Placer’s 1973 drill program produced an intercept of 3.11 gpt Au over 6.4 m. The 2011 drill program was successful in identifying and delineating a shallowly west plunging rod-shaped breccia vein 1-3 m in thickness. The gold mineralized zone at Meston was followed along strike with diamond drilling for 380 m, with mineralization remaining open to the west. Assays from the 2011 drill program include 6.27 ppm in NMD-11-004, 11.4 ppm Au in NMD-11-008, 3.02 ppm Au in NMD-11-008, 6.53 ppm Au in NMD-11-009, 5.08 ppm in NMD-11-013, 5.6 ppm Au in NMD-11-028 (AFRI 2.55658).
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Lode (Gold) |
| 1 | Vein |
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 1 | Sheared |
| 1 | Vein |
File - Resident Geologist files 52F/05SE, II-6, Nolan Lake Exploration Inc.
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Location: Kenora RGP office
Mono - The geological setting and distribution of gold in the Cameron-Rowan lakes area, District of Kenora, with emphasis on the Monte Cristo and Victor Island prospects
Publication Number: OFR5713 Page: 115 Date: 1989
Author: Melling D.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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