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| Record Name(s) | Wampum Lake - 1940 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Prospect |
| Date Created | 1983-Apr-29 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Jul-15 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Rowan Lake Area
Latitude: 49° 17' 19.03" Longitude: -93° 30' 18.66"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 463263.73 Northing: 5459663.91 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kenora
NTS Grid: 52F05SE
Point Location Description: Precise
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: From Kenora, travel along Highway 72, then east for 42 km along the Cameron Lake Road, then along a 7 km long skidder trail.
1940-41: Wampum Gold Mines Ltd. conducted trenching and drilled 35 DDH. Shaft to 200 ft, with levels at 100 and 188 ft with 400 ft lateral workings driven. 1968: Norlac Mines Ltd. conducted mag & EM geophysical surveys. 1981-84: Sherritt Gordon Mines conducted magnetic, EM and IP geophysical surveys, geological mapping and sampling. 1985-86: Falconbridge drilled 6 DDH totalling 579 m. 1994: Freewest Resources conducted sampling. 2007-8: Western Warrior conducted a regional aeromag survey, stripping, geological mapping, sampling, and drilled 11 DDH totalling 2174 m.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| 63.2476 | 52F05SE0150 | 52F05SE0150 |
| 2.38815 | 20000003462 | 20000003462 |
| 40 | 52F05SE0042 | 52F05SE0042 |
| 39 | 52F05SE0084 | 52F05SE0084 |
| 2.1495 | 52F05SE0133 | 52F05SE0133 |
| 2.37787 | 20000002920 | 20000002920 |
| 2.16762 | 52F06SW0003 | 52F06SW0003 |
| 2.4226 | 52F05SE0113 | 52F05SE0113 |
| 2.8359 | 52F05SE0055 | 52F05SE0055 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Wabigoon
Belt: Kakagi-Rowan Lakes
Geological Age: Archean
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 1 | Basalt | Adjacent |
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| Vein | 2 | Contains |
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gold | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore |
Sep 26, 2017 (C Ravnaas) - Grade: 0.72 opt Au across 3.0 m along 17.1 m length.
Sep 26, 2017 (Therese Pettigrew) - 9 quartz veins have been reported in 2 parallel zones 1000 ft apart. The main zone is 500 ft wide in schist and strikes 106 degrees with a vertical dip (Neilson and Bray, 1981). Gold is found in association with disseminated pyrite and narrow quartz-carbonate veins in schistose mafic metavolcanics. The small granite intrusion located east of the Wampum shaft also contains disseminated pyrite. The Wampum shaft is located in the north zone which is situated on the northern limb of a steeply plunging synformal structure near the contact with a metagabbro sill. A sample of quartz material taken from the Wampum dump by L. Kaye assayed 0.07 opt Au (2.2 gpt) (Kaye, 1973). Assays from the 2007-8 drill program include 9.05 ppm Au from DDH WL07-02, 106.19 ppm Au from DDH WL07-02, and 10.88 ppm Au from WL07-05 (AFRI 20000003462). Sample 38587 from Trench 16 assayed 24.79 gpt Au. Sample 38590 from Trench 12 assayed 77.62 gpt Au (AFRI 20000002920).
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Lode (Gold) |
| 1 | Vein |
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 1 | Sheared |
| 1 | Vein |
Part - Mines of Ontario in 1941
Publication Number: ARV51-01.003 Page: 210 Date: 1997
Author: Tower W.O., Smith R.L., Cave A.E., Cooper D.F., Taylor J.B., Bawden W.E., Little E.S., Weir E.B., Douglass D.P.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Gold deposits of Ontario, part 1, districts of Algoma, Cochrane, Kenora, Rainy River, and Thunder Bay
Publication Number: MDC013 Page: 172 Date: 1971
Author: Ferguson S.A., Groen H.A., Haynes R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs
Location:
Map - Geological series, Rowan Lake area, District of Kenora
Publication Number: P0831 Scale: 1:15,840 Date: 1973
Author: Kaye L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines
Location:
Mono - Gold deposits of the Kenora-Fort Frances area, districts of Kenora and Rainy River
Publication Number: MDC016 Page: 42 Date: 1976
Author: Beard R.C., Garratt G.L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines
Location:
Mono - Feasibility of small scale gold mining in northwestern Ontario (parts of the districts of Kenora, Rainy River, and Thunder Bay), volume 1, text, volume 2, appendices
Publication Number: OFR5332 Page: 33-34, C-12 Date: 1981
Author: Neilson J.N., Bray R.C.E.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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