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| Record Name(s) | Lee Lake - Southeast - 1991 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1991-Feb-27 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Aug-04 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Kawashegamuk Lake Area
Latitude: 49° 29' 26.42" Longitude: -92° 22' 41.75"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 545026.879 Northing: 5482189.389 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kenora
NTS Grid: 52F08NW
Point Location Description: Precise
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: The Lee Lake Occurrence, about 42 km southeast of Dryden, is located approximately 400 m west of Lee Lake, a small lake about 1 km north of Kawashegamuk Lake. (MP142, pg 24, 25; 1989)
Pre-1902: The Long Lake Gold Mining Company had commenced development work at the Lee Lake Occurrence (also known as the Long Lake-McCracken Occurrence). Carter (1902) reported that the company had sunk two shafts to depths of 20 and 28 feet on its claim group known as the Long Lake or Santa Marie claims (Long Lake Mine, Assessment Files, Resident Geologist's Office, Kenora) on Mining Locations S.V.353, 354, and 355, and H.W.575. During the early 1930s, the occurrence was restaked (mining claims K.5092 and K.5093). 1939: The occurrence was restaked again, (mining claims K.9164 to K.9175 inclusive) and optioned to Sylvanite Gold Mines Limited who conducted a brief evaluation of the property. 1964: W.L. Olsen held the property. 1983: Labrador Exploration Limited conducted a ground magnetic survey and diamond drilling. 1988: the occurrence was staked by A. Glatz, a prospector from Dryden, who has conducted prospecting and sampling.
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Wabigoon
Terrane: Western Wabigoon
Belt: Eagle-Wabigoon-Manitou
Geological Age: Precambrian
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 1 |
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| Felsic lava flow-unsubdivided | 2 | |||
| Porphyry-unsubdivided | 3 | felsic, quartz and quartz-feldspar | dykes and plugs | |
| Vein | 4 | quartz | Host |
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 5 | Galena | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 10 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore |
Aug 04, 2022 (Q Unknown) - Best assay: 0.04 opt Au. Five quartz veins were located on the property during the 1930s and most of them were reported to contain galena, pyrite, chalcopyrite, and gold. A grab sample taken by Sylvanite Gold Mines Limited in 1939 from one of the quartz veins on the property assayed 56.40 in gold at $36 per ounce of gold (McCracken Property, Assessment Files, Resident Geologist's Office, Kenora). The Lee Lake Occurrence is situated within the Kawashegamuk Lake Group, a mixed sequence of calc-alkalic to tholeiitic, mafic to felsic metavolcanic flows and pyroclastics (Kresz 1987). The metavolcanics are intruded by numerous, felsic, quartz and quartz-feldspar porphyry dikes and plugs, and small gabbro stocks, which commonly host gold-bearing quartz veins. The occurrence is 800 m northeast of the wide, northwest-trending Kawashegamuk Lake shear zone, and occurs at the eastern margin of an extensive area of intense carbonate alteration which extends several kilometres southeast from Dinorwic Lake (see Blackburn et al. 1987, p. 16-20). (MP142, p. 24, 25; 1989)
Mono - The geological setting of gold occurrences in the Lake of the Woods area
Publication Number: OFR5695 Page: 97-98,165 Date: 1988
Author: Davies J.C., Smith P.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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