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MDI52F10NW00023
| Record Name(s) | Good Luck - 1911 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1986-Aug-12 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Aug-16 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Van Horne
Latitude: 49° 43' 18.81" Longitude: -92° 53' 23.01"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 507948.524 Northing: 5507715.82 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kenora
NTS Grid: 52F10NW
Point Location Description: Conc. 1, Lot 8, Van Horne Twp., east side of claim K.533394 / 1221026
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: The property is accessible by a very overgrown bush road and is 125 m east of the Drake Prospect. In later years, by Wabigoon Lake and bush trails.
1911: Test pit sunk on a quartz vein containing visible gold. 1912: Shaft sunk to 45 ft. 1916: No further work was done on the property since 1913, but tests were made for the Dominion Reduction Company during the summer of 1916. 1977: Hudson's Bay Oil and Gas covered the Good Luck Prospect while flying an airborne EM survey. 1980: Acquired by H. Hodge who transferred 50% interest to Moss Resources Ltd. 1981: Good Luck and rest of claims were roughly geologically mapped and covered by a mag. VLF survey. 1983: Moss Resources transferred 50% of their interest to Van Horne Gold Exploration Incorporated in April and area was geologically mapped in the summer. Earlier geophysical results now “explained in terms of topographic effects and overburden conductivity.” Visible gold reported at the Good Luck dump and three samples from the Good luck. 1987: Van Horne Gold Exploration Incorporated diamond drilled one 306 feet hole beneath the shaft. (OFR 5723 - 1989 - pg.210 & Kenora Property Visit File 52F/10NW Report for July 23, 1985 ) 2003: B. Sovereign had ownership of the unpatented claims that covered the Good Luck occurrence. Prospecting concentrated on extending the length of the shear or fracture zone and quartz veins. Numerous pits were excavated to expose the vein system, tracing 130m east of the Good Luck shaft to the edge of a swamp. Two parallel quartz veins within the fracture or shear zone were also located. (OFR 6127 - 2003 - pg.22)
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| 52F10NW NN-2 Van Horne Gold / 2.6680 | 52F10SW0014 | 52F10SW0014 |
| 52F10NW S-3, Sovereign, W. Twingrass Lake Prop. | 52F10NW2004 | 52F10NW2004 |
Province: Superior
Geological Age: Precambrian
Jun 24, 2010 (J Bongfelt) - The area is underlain by rocks of the Lower Wabigoon Assemblage of the Eagle-Wabigoon-Manitou lakes greenstone belt. Intercalated intermediate and mafic metavolcanic flows and pyroclastic rocks host the gold occurrences in the area. Parker (1989, p.210) describes the rocks associated with the occurrences as follows: “The metavolcanics are foliated 092°/090° and host a narrow, linear, shear/fracture zone trending 090/095° for approximately 800 m. The shear zone controls a <0.3 m wide quartz-iron carbonate-tourmaline vein containing 1% disseminated, fine-grained pyrite and clots and stringers of dark green chlorite.” (OFR 6127, pg.22)
Jun 24, 2010 (J Bongfelt) - The Good Luck Prospect consists of a very deep shaft on the south side of an extensive, steep outcrop. It is underlain by fine-grained, dark green-gray, chloritic, mafic to intermediate tuff, lapilli-tuff, and tuff-breccia intercalated with intermediate to felsic flows and intruded by felsic dikes. The metavolcanics are foliated 092º/90º and host a narrow, linear, shear/fracture zone trending 090º-095º for approximately 800 m. The shear zone controls a <0.3 m wide, quartz-iron carbonate-tourmaline vein containing <1% disseminated, fine-grained, pyrite and clots and stringers of dark green chlorite. The vein is trenched for its entire strike length. The wall rock is slightly pyritic, chloritized, sericitic, and carbonatized (calcite) with minor iron carbonate. The vein and shear zone extend west to the Drake Prospect. (OFR 5723 - 1989 - pg.210)
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 5 | Gold | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 10 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 15 | Tourmaline | Economic | Ore |
Jun 24, 2010 (J Bongfelt) - The Good Luck early reports give no assays, but mention veins showing "considerable free gold" and "visible gold". In the 1980's, Van Horne Gold assayed a grab sample from the shaft dump at 0.12 oz/t and a sample from the north vein, approximately 14m from the shaft, at 0.29 oz/t across one foot. In 1987 Van Horne Gold describes a drill hole (VHG 87-8) placed beneath the shaft, obtaining an assay of 0.02 oz/t. However, Norontex Explorations which took over the property from them disagree with the placement, showing in their report the drill hole being drilled under a pit nearly 60m north and 35m east of the shaft and in a direction away from the shaft. Norontex placed two drill holes on the property. No. 88-4, south of the east-west trending south (or shaft) vein, drilled in a southerly direction failed to find additional veins beneath overburden. Unfortunately, No. 88-5 placed beneath the shaft fails to include assay results with the logged strata. This omission (or loss) is a mystery since other drill holes in the report are well documented. Gold assays on the Good Luck were taken along the virtually east-west running main vein starting at the western claim boundary approx. 75 m north of No.3 post. Assays valued anywhere between 0.531 to 106.096 g/t (ppm) Au (Kenora AF 52F/10NW, S-3, Sovereign, W. - Twingrass Lake Property, pg.2 & 4 - 2003 & OFR 6127, pg.22 - 2003)
Mono - Geology, gold mineralization and property visits in the area investigated by the Dryden-Ignace economic geologist, 1984-1987
Publication Number: OFR5723 Page: 210 Date: 1989
Author: Parker J.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Part - Gold fields of Lake of the Woods, Manitou and Dryden
Publication Number: ARV20-01.006 Page: 192 Date: 1998
Author: Parsons A.L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines
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Part - Dryden gold area
Publication Number: ARV26.005 Page: 182-183 Date: 1998
Author: Thomson E.
Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines
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Compend - Report of activities, 1985, Regional and Resident Geologists
Publication Number: MP128 Page: 35, 38 Date: 1986
Author: Kustra C.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Mono - Report of Activities 2003, Resident Geologist Program, Red Lake Regional Resident Geologist Report: Red Lake and Kenora Districts
Publication Number: OFR6127 Page: 22-23 Date: 2004
Author: Lichtblau A.F., Hinz P., Ravnaas C., Storey C.C., Kosloski L., Raoul A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Journal - Kenora Property Visit File 52F/10NW00023, Good luck - July 23, 1985
Publication Number: Date: 2010
Author:
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Location: Kenora RGP office
Journal - Kenora Historical File 52F/10NW00023, Good Luck
Publication Number: Date: 2010
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Location: Kenora Geology Office Only
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