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| Record Name(s) | Reliance - 1896, Westerfield - 1896 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1980-Sep-04 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-May-11 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Lower Manitou Lake Area
Latitude: 49° 21' 9.9" Longitude: -92° 51' 24.09"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 510407.765 Northing: 5466680.36 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kenora
NTS Grid: 52F07SW
Point Location Description: Precise
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: St. Joe Canada Incorporated (presently Bond Gold Canada Incorporated) has conducted extensive exploration at the Reliance Prospect (Assessment Files, Resident Geologist's Office, Kenora), southeast of the Twentieth Century Mine near Carleton Lake. (MP 142, p. 17; 1989)
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Wabigoon
Terrane: Western Wabigoon
Belt: Eagle-Wabigoon-Manitou
Geological Age: Precambrian
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Schist-Unsubdivided | 1 | Adjacent |
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| Vein | 2 | Contains |
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 5 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 10 | Gold | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 15 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 20 | Pyrrhotite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 25 | Sphalerite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 30 | Tourmaline | Economic | Ore |
Feb 22, 2010 (C Ravnaas) - GRADE: BEST ASSAYS - 0.11 AND 0.25 OPT AU (COMPOSITE). St. Joe Canada Incorporated (presently Bond Gold Canada Incorporated) has conducted extensive exploration at the Reliance Prospect (Assessment Files, Resident Geologist's Office, Kenora), southeast of the Twentieth Century Mine near Carleton Lake. The Reliance Prospect is geologically similar to the Twentieth Century Mine in that goldbearing quartz veins are hosted by a strong shear zone in mafic metavolcanic flows of the Blanchard Lake Group. Massive granodiorite dikes intrude the shear zone, which consists of fissile, altered metavolcanic rocks hosting quartz veins which contain pyrite, chalcopyrite, and sphalerite. The major difference is that the shear zone at the Twentieth Century Mine is east-trending, while the shear zone at the Reliance Prospect is northeast-trending. The shear zones and gold-bearing quartz veins at the Twentieth Century Mine may extend beneath the extensive, swampy overburden situated east, west, and north of the mine. Therefore, potential for discovering an extension of the mineralized zone does exist. Further exploration in the vicinity of the mine for shear zones and felsic or granodiorite dikes, similar to those at the Twentieth Century Mine and Reliance Prospect, may lead to new gold discoveries. (MP 142, p. 17; 1989) This prospect, known formally as the Westerfield mine and the Independence mine, is located south of Upper Manitou Lake, and west of Carlton Lake. Between the years 1896 and 1900 a shaft was sunk and a stamp mill taken into the property. In 1903 the Reliance Gold Mining Co. sank the No. 2 shaft to a depth of 97 feet and completed 150 ft. of drifting at the 80 ft. level. There are no assay values available from this period. The mine was acquired in 1922 by the Dryden Gold Corp. of New York. This company dewatered and retimbered two old shafts and examined the surface sbowings but abandoned the ground in 1925. A grab sample taken in 1932 b7 Thomson from beside the No. 1 shaft is reported to have assayed $4.00 per ton in gold. A quartz vein, which is not well exposed at the surface, has been traced along a sheared zone by shafts and test pits for a distance of about 800 ft. The sheared zone strikes N15°E and dips 60° to 75° S.E. The vein material consists of fractured quartz containing a little tourmaline and schist. The included schist carries pyrite and sometimes traces of pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite and sphalerite. The wall rock is a carbonated chlorite schist. The width of the vein cannot be ascertained at the two shafts but in one of the pit there is mineralized quartz and schist across 6½ feet, the quartz vein being about 2 feet wide. The claim is largely covered by massive andesite which is intruded by an occasional aplite dyke. A small stock of granite occurs nearby on Carlton Lake. (Thomson, 1933, p. 34). (Historical File 52F07SW00009, EMR#502601, Kenora Resident Geologist Office)
Book - George Cross Newsletter 83-07-27, Geddes
Publication Number: G Cross News Page: 3 Date: 1983
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Book - Northern Miner 87-02-16, Explorco, p. 23
Publication Number: NMINER Date: 1996
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Publisher Name: Northern Miner
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Part - Geology of the Manitou-Stormy lakes area
Publication Number: ARV42-04.001 Page: 33-35 Date: 1998
Author: Thomson J.E.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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MonoMap - Geology of the Lower Manitou-Uphill lakes area, District of Kenora
Publication Number: R142 Page: 69 Date: 1976
Author: Blackburn C.E.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines
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Mono - Gold deposits of the Kenora-Fort Frances area, districts of Kenora and Rainy River
Publication Number: MDC016 Page: 34 Date: 1976
Author: Beard R.C., Garratt G.L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines
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