Ontario Geological Survey
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| Record Name(s) | Bucksaw's - 1991, TB 953 (South Half of HW 704) - 1991, William Leduit - 1991, Bucke Property - 1991, R. Steen - 1991 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1991-Jan-20 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Sep-27 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Beckington Lake Area
Latitude: 50° 9' 12.79" Longitude: -90° 38' 56.15"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 667948.619 Northing: 5558350.007 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kenora
NTS Grid: 52J02NE
Point Location Description: Shaft
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: Light aircraft can land on Sturgeon Lake near the site in summer and winter. The closest access to the lake for boats and snowmobiles are the public access points off Hwy 599 from Trapper's Point to Horizontal Bay of Sturgeon Lake.
1909: Corkill (1910) reported on work done on Sturgeon Lake: “At a claim three miles north of the St. Anthony, Mr. Wm. Leduit was engaged in sinking a shaft on a quartz vein. The shaft was, at the time of my visit, 48 feet deep. An 18-h.p. boiler and hoist were in use.” 1910: Moore (1911) described the work done on Claim HW 704, laterknown in part as TB 953: “Besides a large number of pits, too numerous to mention individually, there are two more shafts near the east shore of North Bay. One of these is on claim H.W. 704, along the contact between granite and green schist. The shaft is about 48 feet deep, and was sunk by William Lediet on an irregular quartz lode, which is made up of stringers and lenses of quartz in the schist extending the width of the shaft. The quartz and schist are impregnated with pyrite, but we did not find any visible gold.” 1980: Sampling was conducted.
Dec 07, 2005 (R Tuomi) - The showings in this area of North Bay of Sturgeon Lake are sited at or near the contact of sheared to massive mafic metavolcanics to the east and white leucogranodiorite to the west. Late feldspar porphyritic phases of the granodiorite can be mistaken for feldspar porphyry. The strike of the contact and foliation in the meta-basalts varies from north to 025 degrees. The dip of the contact is variable but tends to dip moderately to the east. The quartz veins are usually lenticular and pinch out along strike and down dip.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Vein | 1 | Quartz | Host |
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| Granite | 2 | Host |
Dec 07, 2005 (R Tuomi) - Host rock: contact between granite and greenschist.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Gold | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Sphalerite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| Carbonate | Alteration | Carbonatization | 1 | ||||
| Quartz | Alteration | Silicification | 2 |
Dec 07, 2005 (R Tuomi) - 1911: Surface samples along main vein assay 0.2 to 2.0 ounce gold per ton (Moore, 1911). 1980: Surface grab samples assayed up to 0.06 ounce gold per ton.
Part - Mines of Ontario
Publication Number: ARV19-01.003 Page: 79 Date: 1998
Author: Corkill E.T.
Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines
Location:
Part - The Sturgeon Lake gold field
Publication Number: ARV20-01.005 Page: 148 Date: 1998
Author: Moore E.S.
Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines
Location:
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