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| Record Name(s) | Drake - 1986 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 2010-Jun-08 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Aug-16 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Van Horne
Latitude: 49° 43' 19.29" Longitude: -92° 53' 30.19"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 507804.798 Northing: 5507730.387 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kenora
NTS Grid: 52F10NW
Point Location Description: Conc. 1, Lot 9, Van Horne Twp., 430 m west of Twingrass Lakes
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: The property is accessible by a very overgrown bush road branching north from another narrow, grassy bush road which branches west from an all-weather road, south of its intersection with the Wabigoon Lake Road.
1917 This is the only record of the Drake property and the work had been done prior to this date. Three shafts along the line of the Good Luck vein are respectively 52, 12 and 10 ft. in depth, with considerable stripping having been done between the shafts. 1977 Hudsons Bay Oil and Gas did an airborne EM survey over a large area including the Drake prospect. 1980 Acquired by H. Hodge who transfers 50% interest to Moss Resources Ltd. 1981 Drake and rest of claim 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 T.5. Joliffe maps geology of area in the summer. Earlier geophysical work now "explained in terms of topographic effects and overburden conductivity". Reports the Good Luck -Drake trench is 700 ft. long on a <3 ft. wide vein. Visible gold reported at the Good Luck dump and 3 samples from the Good Luck. Drake and east end of trench ran 0.12, 0.20 and trace oz/ton respectively.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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| 2.39588 / 52F10NW DDD-1 | 20000003580 | 20000003580 |
Province: Superior
Geological Age: Precambrian
Jun 08, 2010 (J Bongfelt) - The prospect is situated within intercalated intermediate and mafic metavolcanic flows and pyroclastics of the Lower Wabigoon Volcanics which are intruded by numerous felsic dikes.
Jun 08, 2010 (J Bongfelt) - The Drake Prospect consists of a deep shaft on the south edge of a large, extensive outcrop. It is underlain by fine-grained, dark green-gray, chloritic, mafic to intermediate tuff, lapilli-tuff and tuff-breccia. The metavolcanics are foliated 092º/90º and host a narrow, linear, shear/fracture zone trending 090 º -095 º for approximately 800 m. The shear zone hosts a narrow (0.3 m), quartz-iron carbonate-tourmaline vein containing <1% disseminated, fine-grained pyrite and dark green chlorite. The vein extends eastward through the shaft at the Good Luck Prospect. Wall rock alteration is characterized by chloritization, sericitization, pyritization [<1-2%], and some minor iron carbonatization.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 5 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore |
Jun 08, 2010 (J Bongfelt) - 2008: Grab sample from quartz vein material from waste pile = 23.3 g/T Au (Kenora AF 52F/10NW, DDD-1, Laurentian Goldfields Ltd., pg.21) 1985: Grab sample from rock dump at shaft = 0.20 oz. Au/ton (MP128, ROA, 1985, pg. 38) 1985: Grab sample from rock dump near shaft = 870 ppb Au (Kenora Property Visit File 52F/10NW00021, Drake)
Mono - Geology, gold mineralization and property visits in the area investigated by the Dryden-Ignace economic geologist, 1984-1987
Publication Number: OFR5723 Page: 184 Date: 1989
Author: Parker J.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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File - Kenora Property Visit File 52F/10NW00021, Drake
Publication Number: Date: 2010
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Location: Kenora RGP office
File - Kenora Historical File 52F/10NW00021, Drake
Publication Number: Date: 2010
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Location: Kenora RGP Office
Article - Kenora Resident Geologist area, Northwestern Region
Publication Number: MP128.001 Page: 34, 38 Date: 1997
Author: Blackburn C.E., Hailstone M.H., Parker J.R., Storey C.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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