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| Record Name(s) | Goldenrod - 1899 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Discretionary Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1976-Nov-08 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Mar-02 |
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Primary Commodities: Iron
Township or Area: Pickerel
Latitude: 49° 54' 29.05" Longitude: -92° 16' 5.56"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 552544.96 Northing: 5528666.35 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kenora
NTS Grid: 52F16NW
Point Location Description: AMIS shaft location
Location Method: Data Compilation
1899: Goldenrod Mining Company sunk a shaft to a depth of 75 feet (22.86 m) on a band of siliceous iron formation. 1950: El Pen Rey Mines Ltd. drilled 3 DDH. 1981: Braeswood Explorations Ltd. drilled 6 DDH totalling 677 m. 1990: Tri Origin Exploration Ltd. carried out linecutting, an IP survey, prospecting and sampling. 1995: Tri Origin carried out mapping, prospecting, trenching, and an IP survey. 1996: Tri Origin drilled 12 DDH totalling 1950.7 m, and a soil sampling program. 1997: Tri Origin carried out soil sampling.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| 52F16NW BE-0030 | 52F16NW0059 | 52F16NW0059 |
| 52F16NW BH-0031C1 | 52F16NW8397 | 52F16NW8397 |
| 2.17967 | 52F16NE0006 | 52F16NE0006 |
| 2.16393 | 52F16NW0010 | 52F16NW0010 |
| 2.17965 | 52F16NE0007 | 52F16NE0007 |
| 2.16939 | 52F16NW0022 | 52F16NW0022 |
| 2.16938 | 52F16NW0018 | 52F16NW0018 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Wabigoon
Geological Age: Archean
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Ironstone-unsubdivided | 1 |
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| Felsic lava flow-unsubdivided | 2 | Adjacent |
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Pyrrhotite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Magnetite | Economic | Ore |
Jun 29, 2020 (Therese Pettigrew) - The iron formation consists of white sugary quartz interbanded with dark-coloured layers composed of quartz and magnetite. In places the dark-coloured bands have been impregnated with considerable pyrite and pyrrhotite. The sulphide mineralization is probably related to intrusions of quartz porphyry, such as that exposed on the west side of Franciscan Lake. There appears to be very little vein quartz in the mineralized portions of the iron formation. No information is available as to whether any of the showings carry gold values (Hurst, 1932). Quartzose portions of the iron formation from the old dump assayed 0.01 ounce of gold per ton and the portions rich in pyrite and pyrrhotite assayed only a trace of copper and nickel (assays by Laboratory Branch, Ontario Department of Mines). It appears that the pyrite and pyrrhotite mineralization represents a sulphide facies of iron formation rather than being related to any particular intrusive rock (Johnston, 1969). Trenching done by Tri Origin in 1995 to the SW of the shaft returned assays of up to 51 ppb Au from ironstone with semi-massive pyrrhotite and pyrite lenses and stringer magnetite, as well as from felsic metavolcanics with thing massive sulphide lenses (Assessment report 52F16NW0010).
Mono - Pyrite deposits of Ontario
Publication Number: MDC005 Scale: Date: 1967
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Part - Geology of the Sioux Lookout area
Publication Number: ARV41-06.001 Scale: Date: 1998
Author: Hurst M.E.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - Geology of the western Minnitaki Lake area, District of Kenora
Publication Number: R075 Scale: Date: 1969
Author: Johnston F.J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Iron deposits of Ontario
Publication Number: MDC011 Scale: Date: 1968
Author: Shklanka R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
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