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MDI52F11NE00048
| Record Name(s) | Fornieri Bay Prospect - 1986, Kamlo - 1986 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Prospect |
| Date Created | 2011-Feb-11 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Aug-16 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Secondary Commodities: Copper, Silver
Township or Area: Buchan Bay Area
Latitude: 49° 40' 30.9" Longitude: -93° 12' 7.56"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 485418.817 Northing: 5502544.024 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kenora
NTS Grid: 52F11NE
Point Location Description: Precise
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: The property is accessible by boat.
Exploration History: 1935: Staked by Mr. S.S. Fornieri. 1936-1939: Extensive trenching conducted by Erie Canadian Mines Limited. Property known as the Kirkland Prospector's Claims. 1948: Mapped and sampled by Magdalena Red Lake Gold Mines Limited. 1973: Acquired by Kamlo Gold Mines Limited who conducted geological mapping, geophysical surveys, and diamond drilling on the property. 1981: Staked by R. Knappett and transferred to C.M. Hames. 1982-1985: Diamond drilling and geophysical surveys conducted by Raleigh Resources Limited. (OFR 5723, pg. 196-197)
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| 2.8401 / 52F11NE Z-6 | 52F11NE0227 | 52F11NE0227 |
| 63.3064 / 52F11NE H-1 | 52F11NE0248 | 52F11NE0248 |
| 63.3821 | 52F11NE0239 | 52F11NE0239 |
Province: Superior
Geological Age: Precambrian
Feb 11, 2011 (J Bongfelt) - Geology The prospect is situated within intermediate to felsic pyroclastics of the Lower Wabigoon Volcanics, dominantly consisting of massive, feldspar and quartz-feldspar crystal tuffs intruded by gabbro, diorite, and felsite or porphyritic felsic dikes. (OFR 5723, pg.195)
Feb 11, 2011 (J Bongfelt) - Lithology The majority of trenching and sampling at Fornieri Bay was conducted less than 100 m inland along the east shore of the bay. Although it was difficult to observe geological relationships within the numerous trenches due to poor exposure, the author noted numerous narrow, fracture-hosted quartz veins and veinlets occurring throughout the felsic and intermediate crystal tuff host rocks. Previous descriptions of the quartz veins by Erie Canadian Gold Mines Limited indicate that the majority are fracture hosted, lensoid, and discontinuous (Assessment Files, Resident Geologist's Office, Kenora). At the most extensively trenched zone, gold-bearing, fracture-controlled quartz veins are hosted by a wide quartz porphyry dike intruding felsic crystal tuffs. Moorhouse (1941) indicated that gold values were obtained from four, wide, generally east-trending quartz veins and two large lenticular zones of quartz stringers. The majority of quartz veins and stringers consist of white and blue-gray quartz containing <1% disseminated pyrrhotite, pyrite, minor chalcopyrite and chlorite. Moorhouse (1941) observed small amounts of visible gold and bismuthinite within the larger quartz veins. Host rocks at Fornieri Bay contain <1-5% disseminated pyrrhotite and pyrite. Aleration is not obvious on weathered outcrop surfaces but is well defined in drill core. Host rocks containing disseminated sulphides, hairline fractures, and quartz veining, are pale gray to buff brown-gray, due to sericitization, calcium carbonate alteration, and moderate silicification. Feldspar fragments in the crystal tuffs are sericitized and less distinguishable in the alteration zones. Many of the fractures and quartz veins are surrounded by narrow, alteration haloes in which sericitization and carbonatization impart a pale gray appearance to the host rocks. (OFR 5723, pg. 195)
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 5 | Bismuthinite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 10 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 15 | Gold | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 20 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 25 | Pyrrhotite | Economic | Ore |
Feb 11, 2011 (J Bongfelt) - Mineralization 'The best assay from ten chip samples, taken by the author, J.R. Parker, from the quartz veins and stringer zones exposed in the main trenched area was 280 ppb gold. Grab samples from shear zone-hosted quartz veins in test pits north of the main trenched area assayed 165 ppb and 980 ppb gold.' 'Sulphide-rich samples of fractured rhyolite, containing narrow quartz stringers, taken from a hole drilled in the vicinity of the old trenches in 1982, assayed 0.057 ounce gold per ton over 10 ft., and 0.374 ounce silver per ton and 0.65% copper over 5 ft. Holes drilled south and west of the trenches in 1983, intersected relatively narrow diorite and gabbro dikes intruding rhyolitic flows and felsic tuffs hosting wide intervals of abundant (4-5%) pyrite, pyrrhotite, and chalcopyrite in quartz-carbonate veinlets, along fractures, and disseminated throughout relatively undeformed host rocks. These wide sulphide-rich intersections were found to host anomalous gold mineralization assaying 0.013 ounce gold per ton over 150 ft. and 0.023 ounce gold per ton over 178 ft., including a smaller intersection of 0.036 ounce gold per ton over 70 ft. In 1985, further drilling intersected more sections of anomalous gold, with one intersection assaying 0.24 ounce gold per ton over 3.5 ft. and 0.22 ounce gold per ton over 10 ft. (Assessent Files, Resident Geologist's Office, Kenora). It should be noted the'holes drilled by Kamio Gold Mines Ltd. were drilled down dip and the holes drilled by Raleigh Resources Ltd. were drilled parallel to the strike of stratigraphy and structures such as shear zones.' (OFR 5723, pg. 196)
File - Resident Geologist files 52F/11NE, V-1, Fornieri Bay Prospect; 52F/11NE, I-1, Kirkland Prospectors Claims
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Location: Kenora RGP
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: 41 Date: 1981
Author: Neilson J.N., Bray R.C.E.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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File - Kenora Property Visit File 52F/11NE00048, Fornieri, 1985
Publication Number: Date: 2011
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Location: Kenora RGP office
Compend - Report of activities, 1983, Regional and Resident Geologists
Publication Number: MP117 Page: 6 Date: 1984
Author: Kustra C.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Mono - Gold deposits of Ontario, part 1, districts of Algoma, Cochrane, Kenora, Rainy River, and Thunder Bay
Publication Number: MDC013 Page: 241 Date: 1971
Author: Ferguson S.A., Groen H.A., Haynes R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs
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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: 195-197 Date: 1989
Author: Parker J.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Compend - Annual report of Resident Geologists Section, Geological Branch, 1967, part 2
Publication Number: MP017 Page: 17, 23-24, 28-30 Date: 1968
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Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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Mono - Gold deposits of the Kenora-Fort Frances area, districts of Kenora and Rainy River
Publication Number: MDC016 Page: 16 Date: 1976
Author: Beard R.C., Garratt G.L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines
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