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| Record Name(s) | Bee-Hive - 1895 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1983-May-26 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Mar-17 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Secondary Commodities: Copper
Township or Area: Lower Manitou Lake Area
Latitude: 49° 16' 56.59" Longitude: -92° 56' 46.52"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 503908.737 Northing: 5458849.354 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kenora
NTS Grid: 52F07SW
Point Location Description: Precise
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: The Beehive prospect is located 56 km south-southwest of Dryden, at the northeast corner of Manitou Island, on Lower Manitou Lake. Access to the prospect is via motor boat or float plane. The occurrence consists of 5 trenches and one shaft. (OFR 5731, p. 42-46; 1990)
1895: Issac Saunders found visible gold in loose rock debris (Rat Portage Miner December 30, 1897). 1897: The discovery of the main vein (#1) which was traced over 140 feet (Thomson 1933). 1898: A shaft was sunk to a depth of 100 feet (Rat Portage Miner, February 11, 1989) by the Sheridan brothers (Rat Portage Miner, December 30, 1897). 1933: Thomson (1933) noticed some visible gold within vein #1. 1943: Chip sampling undertaken by Sylvanite Gold Mines Ltd.
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Wabigoon
Terrane: Western Wabigoon
Belt: Eagle-Wabigoon-Manitou
Geological Age: Precambrian
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Vein | 1 | Contains |
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| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 5 | Azurite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 10 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 15 | Gold | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 20 | Malachite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 25 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 30 | Tourmaline | Economic | Ore |
Feb 23, 2010 (C Ravnaas) - 1943: Chip sampling undertaken by Sylvanite Gold Mines Ltd. yielded 0.549 ounce gold per ton (uncut) for a 15.5 foot length, and an average of 2.5 feet width, or 0.433 ounce gold per ton (cut at l ounce), between the shaft and Pit #1 (Assessment Files, Resident Geologist's Office, Kenora). The property is underlain by mafic metavolcanic rocks of the Blanchard Lake group (Blackburn 1976, 1982). The shear consists of pyritic chlorite-carbonate schist, locally mica schist. The schist is injected by quartz veins that pinch and swell. Two shear zones are observed in the vicinity of the workings. The main shear zone has a general strike of 090°, dipping 70° to the south. The major quartz veins are about 40 cm wide. The minimum width of the exposed shear zone is about 15 m in the shaft area. Kinematic indicators suggest a north-side-down, dip-slip shear, based on steep lineations defined by elongate chlorite clots which plunge 81° to the east, and by the fold in Vein #2 in the cliff face north of the shaft. However, the orientation of the schistosity (040°/72° SE) and of the extension quartz vein (17°/70° E) in relation to the shear fabric suggests dextral oblique movement. The shaft appears to have been sunk as the intersection of an extensional quartz vein (#3) and a central quartz vein (#1). The attitude and the geometry of vein #3 suggests that this vein is a sigmoidal extension quartz vein. Thirty metres east of the shaft, the east-trending shear zone is truncated by a northeast-trending shear zone, consisting of chlorite-carbonate schist, injected by quartz veinlets that pinch and swell. The quartz-carbonate veins are opaque, and milky white to dark grey. Mineralization consists of 1-2% disseminated medium grained chalcopyrite and pyrite. Malachite staining is common, and azurite less common. The veins have a layered appearance due to tourmaline seams up to a few centimeters wide. Sulphides are commonly located at the edges of the tourmaline layers. Tourmaline constitutes 3-5% of the quartz vein material. Schists of the shear zone contain 1% disseminated pyrite. Eight grab samples were collected by the author. Analytical data (Table 4) indicate that the gold in the quartz veins is related to both total sulphide content, and to copper content, and that the schists are low in gold. The best grab samples from the quartz veins yielded: 1) Vein #1: trace 2) Vein #2: 0.538 ounce gold per ton 3) Vein #3: 0.887 ounce gold per ton (OFR 5731, p. 42-46; 1990)
| Year | Tonnes | Commodities | Reference | Comment |
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| 1983 | 0 | MDI |
MonoMap - Geology of the Lower Manitou-Uphill lakes area, District of Kenora
Publication Number: R142 Scale: Date: 1976
Author: Blackburn C.E.
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 Scale: 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 Scale: Date: 1981
Author: Neilson J.N., Bray R.C.E.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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
Location:
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