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| Record Name(s) | A.P. Ginn - 1957, Martin-Boyd - 1991 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1991-Mar-26 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-May-09 |
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Primary Commodities: Copper
Township or Area: Linklater Lake Area
Latitude: 50° 31' 46.02" Longitude: -88° 58' 11.76"
UTM Zone: 16 Easting: 360382.51 Northing: 5599353.29 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay North
NTS Grid: 52I10SW
Point Location Description: Location of sample 23 on map in Assessment report 52I10SW0038
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: There is public access to Caribou Lake at the end of the road 10 km west of Armstrong. Travel 21 km by boat in a NE direction to Kellar Island. The trenches are located about 150 m past the narrows at the SE end of Kellar Island and about 75 m inland from the shore.
1957: A.P. Ginn conducted trenching and drilled 5 DDH totalling 135 m. 1996: K. Sutton and E. Sutton carried out prospecting and sampling.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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| 2.17278 | 52I10SW0038 | 52I10SW0038 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Wabigoon
Belt: Caribou Lake
Geological Age: Archean
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 1 |
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| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Pyrrhotite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore |
Apr 10, 2019 (Therese Pettigrew) - Sample 23 collected in 1996 returned 8432 ppm Cu (Assessment report 52I10SW0038). Diamond drill logs indicate that the mineralization consists of massive to disseminated pyrrhotite and pyrite with minor chalcopyrite, within mafic metavolcanics (Sutcliffe, 1988).
File - Resident Geologist Mineral Deposit Files
Publication Number: Min Dep Date: 1996
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Publisher Name:
Location: Thunder Bay RGP
Map - Geological series, Precambrian geology of the Fletcher Lake area, east sheet, Thunder Bay District
Publication Number: P2410 Scale: 1:15,840 Date: 1981
Author: Sutcliffe R.H., Bivi A., Kavanagh G.W.L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
MonoMap - Geology of the Fletcher Lake area, District of Thunder Bay
Publication Number: R251 Page: 54 Date: 1988
Author: Sutcliffe R.H.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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