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| Record Name(s) | King Edward - 1903 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1991-Jan-22 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Feb-18 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Secondary Commodities: Copper, Lead
Township or Area: Lower Manitou Lake Area
Latitude: 49° 20' 32.08" Longitude: -92° 51' 1.59"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 510863.94 Northing: 5465513.27 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kenora
NTS Grid: 52F07SW
Point Location Description: General
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: The King Edward occurrence is located 48 km south of Dryden, about 300 m southwest of Carleton Lake, just north of a wide swamp which connects Carleton Lake to Troutlet Lake. Access to the prospect is via motor boat or float plane. The occurrence consists of one pit. (OFR 5731, p. 90; 1989)
1903: English capitalists reportedly sunk large numbers of test pits and open cuts. They found two differing trends of quartz veins, at 30° and at 135°. Both carried pyrite, chalcopyrite, galena and sphalerite (Carter 1904). 1989: The property was staked by Robert Fairservice.
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Wabigoon
Terrane: Western Wabigoon
Belt: Eagle-Wabigoon-Manitou
Geological Age: Precambrian
Feb 23, 2010 (C Ravnaas) - GRADE: FREE GOLD REPORTED (OGS 1904). 1903: English capitalists reportedly sunk large numbers of test pits and open cuts. They found two differing trends of quartz veins, at 30° and at 135°. Both carried pyrite, chalcopyrite, galena and sphalerite (Carter 1904). 1989: The property was staked by Robert Fairservice. The pit is sunk in biotite granodiorite of the Carleton Lake Stock (Blackburn 1976). The rock is carbonatized, and poor exposure and the crumbly nature of the altered rock prevented investigation of the pit. There is no outcrop in the immediate vicinity of the occurrence. The quartz vein in the pit strikes 030° and dips 56° to the southeast. The vein is 70 cm wide, accompanied by quartz veinlets in the country rock. The quartz vein is light to medium grey, vitreous to translucent, rarely cloudy, and stained by limonite alteration. Fine grained mineralization is 1% pyrite, and locally 1% galena and 1-2% chalcopyrite with a trace of bornite. Eight grab samples were taken by the author. Gold values are uniformly low, but silver values are relatively high compared to regional background mineralization (Table 13). The mineralization and geological setting is similar to that at the Queen Alexandra Northern occurrence. (OFR 5731, p. 90-92; 1989)
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Bornite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Galena | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 4 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 5 | Sphalerite | Economic | Ore |
Feb 23, 2010 (C Ravnaas) - GRADE: FREE GOLD REPORTED (OGS 1904). 1903: English capitalists reportedly sunk large numbers of test pits and open cuts. They found two differing trends of quartz veins, at 30° and at 135°. Both carried pyrite, chalcopyrite, galena and sphalerite (Carter 1904). 1989: The property was staked by Robert Fairservice. The pit is sunk in biotite granodiorite of the Carleton Lake Stock (Blackburn 1976). The rock is carbonatized, and poor exposure and the crumbly nature of the altered rock prevented investigation of the pit. There is no outcrop in the immediate vicinity of the occurrence. The quartz vein in the pit strikes 030° and dips 56° to the southeast. The vein is 70 cm wide, accompanied by quartz veinlets in the country rock. The quartz vein is light to medium grey, vitreous to translucent, rarely cloudy, and stained by limonite alteration. Fine grained mineralization is 1% pyrite, and locally 1% galena and 1-2% chalcopyrite with a trace of bornite. Eight grab samples were taken by the author. Gold values are uniformly low, but silver values are relatively high compared to regional background mineralization (Table 13). The mineralization and geological setting is similar to that at the Queen Alexandra Northern occurrence. (OFR 5731, p. 90-92; 1989)
Part - Mines of western Ontario
Publication Number: ARV13-01.005 Scale: Date: 1998
Author: Carter W.E.H.
Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines
Location:
Mono - Property visits by the Dryden area mineral commodity geologist, 1989
Publication Number: OFR5731 Scale: Date: 1990
Author: Delisle P.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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