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| Record Name(s) | Belmore Bay - 1909, P.7 - 1909, Douglas Mine - 1906, Belmore Syndicate - 1934, Al 635 (Tb.7) - 1991, Clifton Consolidated - 1936 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1991-Jan-20 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Feb-22 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Squash Lake Area
Latitude: 50° 3' 32.65" Longitude: -90° 36' 16.37"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 671456 Northing: 5547947 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kenora
NTS Grid: 52J02SE
Point Location Description: AMIS shaft location
Location Method: Based on Assessment
Access Description: Access to the Douglas Mining Co. property on Belmore Bay can be had in summer by light aircraft or boat. In winter a light aircraft can land on the bay or a ski-doo can cross from the west shore of Sturgeon Lake to Belmore Bay. The trenched area is approximately 400 m from the shore of the Bay.
1906-09: Douglas Mining Company carried out trenching and sunk 2 shafts.
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Wabigoon
Belt: Sturgeon Lake
Geological Age: Archean
Dec 07, 2005 (R Tuomi) - The abstract quoted below was taken from Ontario Geological Survey Miscellaneous Paper 161 , Report of Activities 1992, p. 68-69. The rocks form part of the Handy Lake Assemblage, a mixed group of basaltic flows and calc-alkaline pyroclastic rocks. In the trenched areas, the exposed rocks are mainly massive to foliated dark green metabasalts with few, if any, intrusive rocks other than narrow quartz veins. Trenches have been excavated to a depth of 1 to 2 m over a strike length of 300 m. Few pillow structures are obvious, and the rocks have a schistosity which varies from north to 330 degrees and dip steeply west The trenches, which vary from 1 to 2 m in width, expose narrow (25 to 50 cm) rusty white quartz veins which trend 20 degrees and have variable steep dips. Two shafts were located on the vein structure. The shaft reported by Moore (1911) to be 22 feet deep is largely fallen in and the vein is not exposed. The second pit to the south, reported to be 73 feet deep, is lined by logs and has samples of quartz from the shaft on site. The grey to white quartz with pyrite and chalcopyrite mentioned in Moore( 1911), was sampled and returned 1.356 ounce gold per ton (DAJ92-30), the best assay obtained in the examination.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Vein | 1 | Quartz | Host |
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| Gabbro | 2 | Gabbro | Host |
Dec 07, 2005 (R Tuomi) - OTHER ASSOCIATED ROCK TYPES: At several sites the vein portions tended to pinch off into a schistose mafic rock.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Galena | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 4 | Sphalerite | Economic | Ore |
Apr 15, 2020 (R Tuomi) - On claim P. 7 there is a shaft said to be 22 feet deep on a vein varying in width from 3 inches to 2 feet. A test-pit near by shows stringers running through the schist. On the same claim and 98 paces distant from the 22-foot shaft there is another one 76 feet deep on the same vein. The rock from the bottom of the shaft consists of grey to white quartz scattered through schist and mineralized with chalcopyrite and pyrite.
Apr 15, 2020 (Therese Pettigrew) - Samples collected by RGP staff in 1992 returned values ranging from 0.002 oz/t Au up to 1.356 oz/t Au (0.06 to 46.5 g/t Au) (Janes et al., 1993).
Dec 07, 2005 (R Tuomi) - There was a slight amount of shearing on the vein walls and a trace of carbonate in the quartz vein. Other reports on the showing have reported sphalerite and galena on the vein walls but that could not be confirmed.
Book - CLIPPINGS 1907-37
Publication Number: CLIPPINGS Scale: Date: 1907
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MonoMap - Geology of the Squaw Lake-Sturgeon Lake area, District of Thunder Bay
Publication Number: R227 Scale: Date: 1983
Author: Trowell N.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Part - Mines of Ontario
Publication Number: ARV18-01.002 Scale: Date: 1998
Author: Corkill E.T.
Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines
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Part - The Sturgeon Lake gold field
Publication Number: ARV20-01.005 Scale: Date: 1998
Author: Moore E.S.
Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines
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Compend - Report of Activities 1992, Resident Geologists
Publication Number: MP161 Scale: Date: 1993
Author: Fenwick K.G., Pitts A.E., Newsome J.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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