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MDI52F10NW00040
| Record Name(s) | Al89 - 1991, Widow's Showing - 1991 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1991-Jan-22 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Aug-16 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Van Horne
Latitude: 49° 43' 15.75" Longitude: -92° 56' .18"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 504801.791 Northing: 5507617.812 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kenora
NTS Grid: 52F10NW
Point Location Description: south half of patented claim A.L. 89, Lot 12, Concession I, Van Horne Township
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: Both No.1 & 2 Occurrences are accessible from the trail or by walking east from Flambeau Lake. (Kenora Property Visit File 52F/10NW00040)
1985-1986: Gold was discovered on mining location A.L. 89 which was purchased by Falconbridge Ltd. (R. Band, geologist. Falconbridge Ltd., personal communication, 1986). Falconbridge Ltd. conducted stripping, sampling, geophysical and geological surveys, and trenching. 1987: Van Horne Gold Exploration Inc. entered into a joint venture agreement with Falconbridge Ltd. on the A.L. 89 property and conducted diamond drilling at the occurrence. (OFR5723, p.300)
Province: Superior
Geological Age: Precambrian
Nov 02, 2010 (J Bongfelt) - The occurrence is situated in a fine- to medium-grained, intensely altered gabbro stock at its northeastern contact with mafic metavolcanic flows of the Lower Wabigoon Volcanics. A gradational contact between the gabbro and adjacent mafic flows indicates that the gabbro is a subvolcanic intrusion and the source for some of the mafic flows in the area. The gabbro is intruded by a wide diabase dike, smaller diabase dikelets, and felsic dikes. (OFR5723, p.299)
Nov 02, 2010 (J Bongfelt) - Quartz veins consist of milk-white, vitreous quartz containing black tourmaline, minor iron carbonate, and minor pyrite, with a few clots of chalcopyrite, sphalerite, and malachite staining. Altered, angular fragments of wall rock commonly occur within the quartz veins. At a small stripped outcrop, west of the main stripped area, tension fracture-hosted quartz veins trending 3350 occur within a fine-grained, intensely altered, felsic rock intruded by fine-grained diabase dikelets. Veins of dark green chlorite and magnetite, containing angular fragments of the wall rock, occur within the outcrop. Mr. A. Kozowy discovered northwest-trending, tension fracture-hosted quartz veins in intermediate to felsic metavolcanic flows about 240 m east of the Widow's Showing occurrence. A few small shallow test pits were sunk on the pyritic and hematized quartz veins. (OFR5723, p.299)
| 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 | Malachite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 15 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 20 | Sphalerite | Economic | Ore |
Nov 02, 2010 (J Bongfelt) - Occurrence #1: three grab samples of altered, pyritic, gabbro, taken by J.R. Parker, from a high outcrop about 80 m west-southwest of the Widow's Showing, assayed 0.01, 0.02, and 0.04 ounce gold per ton. Seven grab samples of quartz vein material taken from the small stripped outcrop west of the main Widow's Showing, assayed 155, 440, 440, 780, 1600, 5330, and 7640 ppb gold, while four samples taken by Mr. A. Kozowy assayed 0.5, 0.229, 0.06, and 0.08 ounce gold per ton. Nine grab samples of quartz vein/wall rock material taken by the author from the main Widow's Showing assayed 50, 190, 430, 535, 2630, 2830, and 4200 ppb gold and 0.39 and 0.80 ounce gold per ton. A grab sample of altered, pyritic, wall rock assayed 1900 ppb gold. Nine grab samples, taken by Mr. A. Kozowy, from the main Widow's Showing assayed 0.08, 0.12, 0.16, 0.22, 0.24, 0.32, 0.48, 0.50 and 1.48 ounces gold per ton (A. Kozowy, prospector. Dryden, personal communication, 1985). Occurrence #2: four grab samples of quartz vein material taken by the author from Mr. Kozowy's shallow test pits 240 m east of the Widow's Showing assayed 160, 1250, 1640 and 3380 ppb gold. (OFR5723, p.299-300 and Kenora Property Visit File 52F/10NW00040)
Mono - Geology, gold mineralization and property visits in the area investigated by the Dryden-Ignace economic geologist, 1984-1987
Publication Number: OFR5723 Page: 299-300 Date: 1989
Author: Parker J.R.
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: 299-300 Date: 1989
Author: Parker J.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Journal - Kenora Property Visit File 52F/10NW00040 - A.L.89 / Widow's Showing, 1986 Jack Parker
Publication Number: Date: 2010
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Location: Kenora RGP office
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