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| Record Name(s) | Belmore Bay NE - 1934, Claim TB.6 - 1906, Claim SV 399 - 1906, Ruby - 1911 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Discretionary Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1995-May-29 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Feb-17 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Squash Lake Area
Latitude: 50° 4' 1.98" Longitude: -90° 35' 43.13"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 672087.66 Northing: 5548874.04 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kenora
NTS Grid: 52J02SE
Point Location Description: Shaft
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: The property is located on claim SV 399, later replaced by TB 5 and TB 6. A trail from the northeast corner of Belmore Bay passes to the south of the property. Access to Belmore Bay can be obtained by properly equipped light aircraft in winter and summer. Boat and snowmobile access in season is available fromaccess points on Hwy. 599 from Horizontal Bay to Trappers Point.
1906: The claims were acquired By John Douglas, J.A. Daggett and James Atwood. 1907: The P.6 claim, acquired from C. Coveney, was stripped and sampled. A 10 m deep shaft is on the property. Claims P 6, P 7, P 8, TB 5, TB 6, TB 7, AL 638 and AL 639 were held. 1934: The property was acquired by the Belmore Bay Syndicate in 1934. 1974: E.R. Rowland held the Ruby occurrence. The area is under patents and very little exploration work has been reported.
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Wabigoon
Belt: Sturgeon Lake
Geological Age: Archean
Dec 07, 2005 (R Tuomi) - Moore (1911) reported on the Ruby property: On what is called the Ruby property owned by the Douglas Mining Company there is a shaft said to be 30 feet deep on a mass of quartz stringers about 4 feet wide, in dark greenstones varying in composition from diabase to diorite. North of this shaft 100 feet and on the same vein is a pit about 22 feet deep where the vein varies in width from 3 inches to 2 feet. The veins run in a general northeast direction with the strike of the rock and with a dip 60 degrees northwest. The gangue here is quartz of good quality and calcite. It contains pyrite and chalcopyrite, and specimens of free gold were seen in calcite and quartz.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Vein | 1 | Quartz | Host |
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| Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 2 | Host | ||
| Quartz Porphyry | 3 | Quartz | Near |
| 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 | Gold | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 1 | Calcite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 2 | Quartz | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| Carbonate | Alteration | Carbonatization | 1 | Unknown | Disseminated | ||
| Quartz | Alteration | Silicification | 2 | Unknown | Disseminated |
Dec 07, 2005 (R Tuomi) - This property share many characteristics with the Belmore Bay no. 2 property. The vein location, trend and mineralogy suggest that the Ruby is a northern extension of the former property.
Dec 07, 2005 (R Tuomi) - Shearing.
Book - CLIPPINGS 1909-1937
Publication Number: CLIPPINGS Scale: Date: 1909
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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 - 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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