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Record: MDI52F10NW00003

General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold

Location

Township or Area: Van Horne

Latitude: 49° 43' 11.63"    Longitude: -92° 53' 17.99"

UTM Zone: 15    Easting: 508049.448   Northing: 5507494.311    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Kenora

NTS Grid: 52F10NW

Point Location Description: Precise

Location Method: Conversion from MDI

Access Description: The property is on the immediate north side of a narrow, grassy, bush road which branches west from an all-weather road.

Exploration History

1901 Developed by R & H Hutchinson, J. Hammon and C. Seih in late 1901 and early 1902. Shaft was down to 64 ft. with 31 ft. of drifting at the 62 ft. level. 1902 A February mill test of 67 tons of the ore is said "to have given satisfactory returns". 1911 Shaft reported to be down 60 ft. and work stopped at that time. 1913 Shaft to a depth of 114 ft. Vein at surface was 18" wide and 4 ft. wide at a shaft bottom. 1977 Hudsons Bay Oil and Gas covered the Gold Moose while flying an EM survey. 1980 Acquired by H. Hodge who transfers 50% interest to Moss Resources Ltd. 1981 Gold Moose and rest of claims are roughly geologically mapped and are covered by a mag., VLF survey. 1983 Moss Resources transfers 50% of their interest to Van Horne Gold Exploration Inc. in April and area is geologically mapped in the summer by T.S. Joliffe. Earlier geophysical results now 'explained in terms of topographic effects and overburden conductivity'. Joliffe supposed the Gold Moose shaft to be the reported south Good Luck vein, but it is much more likely to be the Gold Moose. Reports a sample from the dump ran 0.31 oz/ton. Shaft is sunk on an E-W trending vein less than 2 ft. wide. (Kenora Property Visit File, 52F/10NW00003 - Golden Moose Report)

Assessment Work on File

Geology

Province: Superior

Geological Age: Precambrian  

Geology Comments

Jun 24, 2010 (J Bongfelt) - The prospect is situated within intimately intercalated mafic and intermediate metavolcanic flows and pyroclastics of the Lower Wabigoon Volcanics. (OFR5723, pg. 207)

Lithology

Lithology Comments

Jun 24, 2010 (J Bongfelt) - The prospect consists of a small shaft sunk on a 0.9 m-1.5 m wide shear zone hosting a 0.3 m wide, rusty, pyritic [< 1%], quartz-tourmaline-carbonate vein striking 086º/80º N. The host rocks are fine-grained, gray-green, intermediate lapilli-tuff and tuff-breccia intruded by an east-trending, massive, fine-grained, pale green-gray intermediate dike on the northeast side of the shaft. Wallrocks are intensely sheared, chloritic, and carbonatized. (OFR5723, pg. 207)

Mineralization

Mineralization Comments

Jun 24, 2010 (J Bongfelt) - A shaft located just to the west of the property on the Bush Road to Guy Lake may be on the reported south vein of the Good Luck Mine. The east-west trending quartz-carbonate vein is less than 2 feet wide. A sample from the shaft dump assayed 0.31 oz. Au/Ton. The shear zone and quartz-carbonate veinlets poorly exposed in a water-filled pit on trend about 950 feet to the east may be an extension of the southern Good Luck vein. A sample of the vein material assayed 0.02 oz. Au/Ton. There is room for a further eastward extension of the vein/shear zone beneath the overburden cover along the Guy Lake Road.' (Kenora AF 52F/10NW, NN-2, Van Horne Gold Exploration Inc., pg. 19 of Report)

Mineral Record Details

References

Part - The mines of Ontario

Publication Number: ARV11.016 Page: 244  Date: 1998

Author: Carter W.E.H.

Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines

Location:

Part - Geology of the Dryden-Wabigoon area

Publication Number: ARV50-02 Page: 50  Date: 1997

Author: Satterly J.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:

Mono - Gold deposits of Ontario, part 1, districts of Algoma, Cochrane, Kenora, Rainy River, and Thunder Bay

Publication Number: MDC013 Page: 239  Date: 1971

Author: Ferguson S.A., Groen H.A., Haynes R.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs

Location:

Mono - Gold deposits of the Kenora-Fort Frances area, districts of Kenora and Rainy River

Publication Number: MDC016 Page: 18  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 Page: 42  Date: 1981

Author: Neilson J.N., Bray R.C.E.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Compend - Report of activities, 1985, Regional and Resident Geologists

Publication Number: MP128 Page: 35, 23  Date: 1986

Author: Kustra C.R.

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: 207-208  Date: 1989

Author: Parker J.R.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

File - Kenora Property Visit File, 52F/10NW00003 - Golden Moose

Publication Number: Date: 2010

Author:

Publisher Name:

Location: Kenora RGP office

File - Kenora Historical File, 52F/10NW00003 - Gold Moose

Publication Number: Date: 2010

Author:

Publisher Name:

Location: Kenora RGP

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