Ministry of Energy, Northern Development and Mines
Permanent Link to this Record: MDI52F16NE00002| Deposit Name(s) | Batch River - 1950, Misfit Lake - 1950 |
|---|---|
| Related Deposit Type | None |
| Deposit Status | occurrence |
| Date Created | 1984-Apr-19 |
| Date Last Modified | 2020-Jul-14 |
| Created By | Q Unknown |
| Revised By | T Pettigrew |
Primary Commodities: gold
Township or Area: Kabik Lake Area, Pickerel
Latitude: 49° 57' 43.92" Longitude: -92° 8' 29.55"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 561571 Northing: 5534781 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kenora
NTS Grid: 52F16NE
Point Location Description: DDH on map in Assessment report 52F16NE8396
Location Method: based on assessment
Source Map: OGS 1968, MAP 2155 WESTERN MINNITAKI LAKE AREA IN GR 75
Sources Map Scale: 1:25 000
Access Description: The zone is located about 12 m south of the old highway 72 and about 40 m south of Misfit Lake.
1950: Batch River Gold Mines Ltd. carried out prospecting, mapping, sampling, and drilled 4 DDH totalling 309.1 m. 1988: Rare Earth Minerals Ltd. carried out geological mapping and a scintillometer survey. 1997: D. Brown, T. Darling, and M. Hatfield carried out prospecting and sampling. 1998: D. Brown and T. Darling carried out prospecting and sampling.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| 52F16NE-0050 | 52F16NE8221 | Open |
| 52F16NE-0037A1 | 52F16NE8581 | Open |
| 52F16NE-0010A1 | 52F16NE8586 | Open |
| 52F16NE-0037B1 | 52F16NE8396 | Open |
| 2.19032 | 52F16NE2001 | Open |
| 2.20219 | 52F16NE2005 | Open |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Wabigoon
Geological Age: Archean
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| mafic to intermediate metavolcanics | 1 | |||
| vein | 2 | quartz | ||
| schist | 3 | near |
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Habit Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pyrite | economic | ore | ||||
| 1 | tourmaline | economic | gangue |
07/14/2020 (T Pettigrew) - The showing on the south side of the highway is a of small quartz veins some 15 feet wide with individual veinlets up to six inches wide. These are subparallel to the strike of the formations but dip in the opposite direction as much as 45 to the southeast. Two holes underneath this showing were drilled by Batch River Gold Mines. At a vertical depth of 65 feet (DDK B-1) only negligible gold values were returned while a deeper hole (B-4) returned 0.10 oz/t gold over six feet (3.43 g/t Au over 1.83 m). A section on holes B-1 and B-4, shows the zone to dip 70 to the southeast. This zone was picked up in DDH B-2 100 feet to the southwest with low values (0.06 oz/t; 2.06 g/t Au), but was not picked up in B-3 which was drilled another 100 feet to the southwest. (Assessment reports 52F16NE8581 and 52F16NE8221). Samples collected by prospectors in 1997 returned up to 0.19 g/t Au (Assessment report 52F16NE2001).
Book - NMI FILE, 52F/16 AU 7
Publication Number: N/A Date: 1996
Publication - Geology of the Western Minnitaki Lake Area, p. 23
Publication Number: R075 Date: 1969
Author: Johnston, F.J.
Publisher Name: OGS
Publication - Gold Deposits of the Kenora-Fort Frances Area, p. 8
Publication Number: MDC016 Date: 1976
Author: Beard, R.C., Garratt, G.L.
Publisher Name: OGS
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