Ontario Geological Survey
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MDI52H13NE00011
| Record Name(s) | Paddon Lake - 1991, Wig Lake Main Zone - 1963, Harrison Minerals - 1963, Baker Zone - 1963 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1991-Mar-26 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Jun-14 |
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Primary Commodities: Nickel
Secondary Commodities: Copper
Township or Area: Puddy Lake Area
Latitude: 49° 57' .2" Longitude: -89° 35' 55.2"
UTM Zone: 16 Easting: 313579.265 Northing: 5536314.857 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay South
NTS Grid: 52H13NE
Point Location Description: Precise
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: Paddon Lake is located 175 km north of Thunder Bay and 50 km southwest of Armstrong. Highway 527 lies 24 km to the east of the property. Access to the property is by either float or ski equipped aircraft or helicopter. A winter road leaves the highway and accesses the northwest bay of Obonga Lake. The road extends through the centre of the property to the east of Chrome Lake.
1963: Harrison Minerals carried out prospecting, trenching, and drilled 2 DDH totalling 116.4 m.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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| 10 | 52H13NE0018 | 52H13NE0018 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Wabigoon
Belt: Obonga Lake
Geological Age: Archean
| 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 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 15 | Pyrrhotite | Economic | Ore |
Dec 07, 2005 (B Schnieders) - The gabbro is a coarse grained rock, and intrudes metasedimentary gneiss exposed on the north shore of Wig (Paddon) Lake. The contact is widely pyritized and fractured, but sampling disclosed no copper or nickel values. Drill hole 63-1 tested underneath the Main zone some 60 feet west of the trench and further established a zone of mineralization with continuous but weak copper-nickel (Tough, 1963, Assessment Files, Harrrison Minerals, OGS, Thunder Bay). Samples from the trench on the Main Zone assayed up to 0.20% Cu and 0.27% Ni (Tough, 1963).
Jun 14, 2022 (Therese Pettigrew) - DDH 63-1 returned up to 0.21% Ni and 0.07% Cu from a gabbro with serpentine stringers (Assessment report 52H13NE0018).
Map - Obonga Lake area, west part, District of Thunder Bay
Publication Number: P0416 Scale: 1:15,840 Date: 1997
Author: Kustra C.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Obonga Lake area, west part, District of Thunder Bay
Publication Number: P0416 Scale: 1:15,840 Date: 1997
Author: Kustra C.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
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