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| Record Name(s) | Glatz-West Zone - 1981 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1991-Jan-22 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Aug-04 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold, Silver
Township or Area: Melgund
Latitude: 49° 32' 47.08" Longitude: -92° 23' 32.53"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 543955.295 Northing: 5488377.923 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kenora
NTS Grid: 52F09SW
Point Location Description: General
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: The Glatz-West Zone Occurrence is located at the boundary between mining claims K.697635 and K.697634 (formerly mining location A.D. 88) in Concession I, lot 11, Melgund Township. The property is accessible by the Melgund 8C road, a narrow gravel road branching east from the Snake Bay Road, about 4.8 km south of its intersection with the Trans Canada Highway. A very narrow, rough road branches north from the Melgund 8C road, about 3.0 km east of its intersection with the Snake Bay Road, and continues for 0.8 km to the occurrence. The occurrence is also accessible by the Melgund 8C road branching west from the Sandy Point Road.
1981: Staked by A. Glatz and transferred to Sulpetro Minerals Limited. 1984: Sulpetro Minerals Limited conducted stripping, mapping, and channel sampling on the occurrence. 1985: Sulpetro Minerals Limited drilled two holes on the occurrence. 2008: Prospecting Report by A. Glatz - Melgund Twp Gold Showing
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 | Massive And Pillowed | 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 | Galena | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 15 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore |
Aug 04, 2022 (Q Unknown) - The occurrence is underlain by dominantly mafic, massive, and pillowed metavolcanic flows intruded by felsic dikes. Mineralization: A few shallow pits are sunk on a stockwork of en echelon, fracture-hosted, gold-bearing quartz veins within a 15 m wide, fine-grained, quartz-feldspar porphyry dike intruding massive, and pillowed, fine-grained, dark green, mafic metavolcanic flows and lapilli tuff. The mafic metavolcanics are intensely sheared 059°-065°/79°, fissile, chloritized, and iron carbonatized. Pillows in the metavolcanics are elliptical and flattened with discontinuous and disrupted pillow selvages. The quartz-feldspar porphyry dike is sheared 056°-070°/79° and intruded in an arcuate form, bending gently to the west and east. A narrow shear trending 170°/63° SW crosscuts the northeast-shearing at the extreme east end of the dike. The dike is intensely sericitized, iron carbonatized, and contains <1% finely disseminated, fine-grained pyrite. Mineralized quartz veins strike 015°-025°/60°-85° SE through the dike and crosscut shearing. The veins are narrow [<1 cm-4 cm], closely spaced, and consist of white quartz, containing minor iron carbonate, and small blebs and clusters of pyrite, galena, and chalcopyrite along the edges of the quartz veins. A second set of subparallel, barren, quartz veins strike 155°-170°/60°-85° SW. The majority of quartz veins occur within the felsic dike and terminate at its contact with the mafic metavolcanics. A grab sample, taken by the author, from the pyritic, altered, dike assayed <0.01 ounce gold per ton, while a grab sample of the dike hosting a pyretic quartz vein assayed 0.06 ounce gold per ton. The best assays from samples taken by the author came from quartz vein material hosting abundant galena: two grab samples returned 0.18 ounce gold per ton with 0.42 ounce silver per ton and 0.88 ounce gold per ton with 2.26 ounces silver per ton, respectively. Channel sampling of the dike by Sulpetro Minerals Limited gave low anomalous gold values, although three channel samples assayed 0.13 ounce gold per ton across 0.9 metre, 0.24 ounce gold per ton across 0.9 metre, and 0.25 ounce gold per ton across 0.9 metre. (Assessment Files, Resident Geologist's Office, Kenora). A hole drilled on the dike, by Sulpetro Minerals Limited, intersected 0.07 ounce gold per ton across 7.3 metres including a 0.4 metre section assaying 0.915 ounce gold per ton (The Northern Miner, p. 3, December 30, 1985), while a second hole intersected 0.137 ounce gold per ton across 0.9 metre. (Assessment Files, Resident Geologist's Office, Kenora).(OFR5723, p. 203, 204). Sampling of the dike shows that all dike material is auriferous. Assays run from 200 ppb to a high of 39,000 ppb Au, with many samples ranging from 2 to 5 grams Au/ton. (Assessment File 52F/09SW AA-6, p.2)
Book - George Cross Newsletter 85-12-31 Troymin
Publication Number: G Cross News Page: 1 Date: 1985
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Book - Northern Miner 85-12-30 Troymin p. 3
Publication Number: NMINER Date: 1996
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Publisher Name: Northern Miner
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Article - Kenora Resident Geologist's area, Northwestern Region
Publication Number: MP134.001 Page: 20 Date: 1997
Author: Blackburn C.E., Hailstone M.H., Parker J.R., Storey C.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Mono - Geology, gold mineralization and property visits in the area investigated by the Dryden-Ignace economic geologist, 1984-1987
Publication Number: OFR5723 Page: 203-204 Date: 1989
Author: Parker J.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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