Ontario Geological Survey
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MDI52J02SE00013
| Record Name(s) | Frd - 1902, Bg 170 - 1902 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1991-Jan-20 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Mar-03 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Squash Lake Area
Latitude: 50° 6' 48.15" Longitude: -90° 39' 11.29"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 667788.65 Northing: 5553873.98 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kenora
NTS Grid: 52J02SE
Point Location Description: Vein
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: Light aircraft can land on Couture Lake in summer and winter. The best access by water to Couture Lake is a short portage from Sturgeon Lake across the St. Anthony property to Couture Lake. Alternatively a small creek runs out of Couture Lake into the small bay on Sturgeon Lake near the St. Anthony mine dock. A light boat can be poled and dragged into Couture Lake from this bay. The best access to the north end of Sturgeon Lake are access points off Hwy. 599 from Horizontal Bay to Trappers Point.
1902: Messrs. Forget, Rowan and Daigle controlled the property in 1902. 1903: Miller et al. (1903) described a quartz body on claim BG 170 and adjacent areas. They sampled the vein and reported a chip sampling assay of 0.16 ounce gold per short ton. 1970: Selco Exploration Co. Ltd. did a ground EM survey (ABEM minigun horizontal loop) on Couture Lake immediately bordering on BG 170. 1974: Cyrille Fortier held patented claim BG 170 in 1974. 1983: Copconda-York Resources Inc. did magnetic and VLF-EM surveys on Couture Lake in 1983. The surveys surrounded BG 170 and suggest that several conductors are parallel to the island and another may cross it. 1988: Villeneuve Resources Ltd. did magnetic and VLF electromagnetic surveys over the Northeast Arm of Sturgeon Lake. Couture Lake was covered. 2011: Pacific Iron Ore Corp. carried out prospecting and sampling.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| 2.51573 | 20000007562 | 20000007562 |
| 2.43134 | 20000005520 | 20000005520 |
| 52J02SE0069 | 52J02SE2101 | 52J02SE2101 |
| 52J02SE0037A1 | 52J02NE0113 | 52J02NE0113 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Wabigoon
Belt: Sturgeon Lake
Geological Age: Archean
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Vein | 1 | Quartz | Host |
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| Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 2 | Host | ||
| Porphyry-unsubdivided | 3 | Dykes | Near |
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gold | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 4 | Tourmaline | Economic | Ore | ||||
| Quartz | Alteration | Silicification | 1 | Unknown | Disseminated |
Apr 14, 2020 (R Tuomi) - The claim is an island of 8 acres in Couture Lake. Miller et al (1903) described the property: Location BG 170 includes an island of eight acres in the lake. A body of quartz which sometimes has a width of 25 or 30 feet occurs on the island. Its strike is towards the northeast, parallel in a general way with that of the greenschist through which it runs. At times, the quartz breaks across the strike of the schist, the ore body not being bounded by definite walls. Very little work has been done on the deposit. The quartz in places carries a small amount of copper pyrites and iron pyrites, as well as a little tourmaline. Messrs. Forget, Rowan and Daigle control the property. The ore is said to pan well in places. A sample which I took across a considerable width of the deposit, being careful not to get above the average value, gave $2.75 in gold per ton of 2000 lbs. Gold sold at $17 per Troy ounce at that time so that $2.75 is equivalent to a grade of 0.16 ounce gold per ton.
Apr 14, 2020 (Therese Pettigrew) - A sample collected by Pacific Iron Ore in 2011 returned 0.539 ppm Au (Assessment report 20000007562).
Dec 07, 2005 (R Tuomi) - Shearing.
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
Location:
Part - The Sturgeon Lake gold field
Publication Number: ARV20-01.005 Scale: Date: 1998
Author: Moore E.S.
Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines
Location:
Part - Mines of northwestern Ontario
Publication Number: ARV12.006 Scale: Date: 1998
Author: Miller W.G.
Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines
Location:
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