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| Record Name(s) | Pigeon-Hyndman - 1946, New Klondike - 1946 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1983-Jan-06 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Aug-04 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Melgund
Latitude: 49° 34' 35.51" Longitude: -92° 18' 54.83"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 549504.921 Northing: 5491774.378 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kenora
NTS Grid: 52F09SW
Point Location Description: Precise
Location Method: Field Visit
Access Description: The New Klondike Prospect (mining locations S.V. 254 and S.V. 263) is located on lots 3, 4, and 5, Concession III, Melgund Township. The property is accessible from a narrow bush road which branches east from the Sandy Point Road, about 1.4 km south of its intersection with Highway 17 at Borups Corners.
1900s: First discovered near the turn of the century. 1946: E.L. Pidgeon staked mining location S.V. 254 and conducted stripping and sampling. 1953: E.L. Pidgeon staked more claims in the area. 1956: E.L. Pidgeon staked mining location S.V. 263. 1959: G.L. Pidgeon drilled three holes, totalling 125.0 metres, on the property and blasted test pits along a strike length of 365.0 metres. 1983: Patented claims acquired by A. Glatz. 1984: Property optioned to Silver Lake Resources who removed a 700 lb. bulk sample from mining location S.V. 254 and carried out drilling. Silver Lake Resources established a grid, and conducted stripping, and geological and geophysical surveys, and sampling. 1985: Silver Lake Resources conducted more stripping, channel sampling, and diamond drilling. The company subsequently dropped the option on the property.
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 | Porphyritic and Amygdaloidal | Contains |
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| Vein | 2 | quartz | Host |
| 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 | Tourmaline | Economic | Ore |
Aug 04, 2022 (Q Unknown) - The New Klondike Prospect is underlain by mafic, massive, pillowed, vesicular, porphyritic, and amygdaloidal metavolcanic flows intruded by felsic and mafic dikes and small dioritic plugs. The metavolcanics host a major northeast-trending shear zone which extends through the prospect. Mineralization: The New Klondike Prospect consists of a large stripped area with numerous small test pits. A 60 m (or more) wide shear zone trending 060°-070°/80°-90° NW hosts gold-bearing quartz veins. Mafic metavolcanic flows and conformable quartz-feldspar porphyry dikes are intensely sheared, fissile, chloritized, intensely carbonatized and sericitized. The mafic metavolcanics contain up to 15% disseminated pyrite. Lineations (slickensides) within the shear zone plunge 062°-075° to the northeast. Movement along the shear zone is interpreted to have a dextral horizontal component based on detailed mapping by Silver Lake Resources (Assessment Files, Resident Geologist's Office, Kenora), indicated by right-hand sense of displacement of felsic dikes and mappable rock units in the vicinity of the shear. The shear zone hosts several sets of quartz veins. Boudinaged quartz veins striking 062°-075° are hosted by the shear zone, however, a second set of fracture-hosted veins, striking 175°, crosscuts the first set. Another set of veins, striking between 112° and 116°, are tightly Z-folded and plunge vertically or steeply to the northeast. The quartz veins contain pyrite, minor chalcopyrite, black tourmaline, carbonate, and flakes of visible gold. Sampling done by Silver Lake Resources (Assessment Files, Resident Geologist's Office, Kenora) indicates that gold values from the quartz veins range from trace to 36.22 ounces gold per ton. Wall rocks are not known to host gold mineralization. (OFR 5723, p. 256, 257). 1946: Sampling by R. Thomson, Resident Geologist, yielded assays ranging between 0.01 and 0.55 ounce gold per ton. 1984: Property optioned to Silver Lake Resources who removed a 700 lb. bulk sample from mining location S.V. 254. The sample assayed 0.319 ounce gold per ton. Two drill holes intersected mineralized quartz veins at a vertical depth of 30.5 metres. One drill intersection assayed 0.105 ounce gold per ton across 1.2 metres.
Part - Geology of the Dyment area
Publication Number: ARV69-06 Page: 26 Date: 1997
Author: Satterly J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Gold deposits of the Kenora-Fort Frances area, districts of Kenora and Rainy River
Publication Number: MDC016 Page: 33 Date: 1976
Author: Beard R.C., Garratt G.L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines
Location:
Article - Kenora Resident Geologist's area, Northwestern Region
Publication Number: MP134.001 Page: 19-20 Date: 1997
Author: Blackburn C.E., Hailstone M.H., Parker J.R., Storey C.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Geology, gold mineralization and property visits in the area investigated by the Dryden-Ignace economic geologist, 1984-1987
Publication Number: OFR5723 Page: 256-257 Date: 1989
Author: Parker J.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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