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| Record Name(s) | Snoopy Point - 1991, Bg 136 - 1899 |
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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-17 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Secondary Commodities: Copper
Township or Area: Squash Lake Area, Fourbay Lake Area
Latitude: 50° 2' 24.41" Longitude: -90° 44' 56.87"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 661171.74 Northing: 5545517.83 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kenora
NTS Grid: 52J02SE, 52J02SW
Point Location Description: Tunnel
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: The site is accessible by light aircraft in summer and winter. Launching points off Highway 599 from Cobb Bay to Trappers Point can be used for boat or snowmobile access to the lake.
1899-1900: United States Gold Mining Co. Ltd. bought claims BG 128-129, BG 134-136, BG 140 and BG 149 from Peter King and Joseph Gauthier. The company also controlled the Shores properties AL367 and AL 368 (managed by E.A. Shores) on the south shore of King Bay. 1901-1902: The United States Gold Mining Co. Ltd. worked on both properties. A tunnel was driven 46 m into a quartz vein on a hill on claim BG 136. The gold tenor was deemed unsatisfactory and site was abandoned in 1903 (Moore 1911). 1902: U.S. Gold Mining Co. or Shores Properties (AL 367, AL 368 and BG 136) installed a 2 stamp mill which yielded a little gold in 1902 from small irregular veins in granite near the greenstone. From the description it is likely that the site referred to was the King Bay property, since no muck pile is found on BG 136 while several are present on the King Bay property. 1974: Steep Rock Iron Mines held 2 groups of patented claims, one group of 7 (AL 367-373) near the west end of King Bay. The second comprising 6 patented claims (BG 128, 129, 134-136 and 149). Excerpts from a company report on the No. 2 Prospect describe a tunnel 24 to 30 m long with a crosscut near the end. The vein walls were in granite. 1978: J.R. Nixon drilled 1 DDH totalling 81. M. 1984: Property was optioned to Hudson Bay Exploration and Development Company Ltd. who carried out prospecting and sampling.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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| 28 | 52J02SE9253 | 52J02SE9253 |
| 52J02SW-0051 | 52J02SW0016 | 52J02SW0016 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Wabigoon
Belt: Sturgeon Lake
Geological Age: Archean
Dec 07, 2005 (R Tuomi) - Both Miller (1903) and Moore (1911,p.141) visited and described the property. The following is taken from Moore (1911). The workings on Claim B.G. 136 consist of a tunnel which runs horizontally not far below the surface, along a vein for a distance of about 150 feet, making a bend to the north about 100 feet from the exit. The vein is quite irregular, and is in the porphyritic granite not far from the contact with greenstone. The gangue is quartz, and carries some pyrite and a little chalcopyrite, partly altered to malachite. The quartz was dark, slighly opal-escent, and does not look unfavourable, though no free gold was seen.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Vein | 1 | Quartz | Host |
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| Quartz Diorite | 2 | Quartz Diorite | Host | |
| Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 3 | Near |
Dec 07, 2005 (R Tuomi) - MINERALIZATION OCCURS IN: quartz veins HOST ROCK: quartz diorite with inclusions of mafic metavolcanic composition. OTHER ASSOCIATED ROCK TYPES: 1) amphibolite inclusions.
| 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 | Malachite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 4 | Gold | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 1 | Quartz | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| Carbonate | Alteration | Carbonatization | 1 | Unknown | Disseminated | ||
| Mica | Alteration | Unknown | 2 | Unknown | Disseminated |
Dec 07, 2005 (R Tuomi) - Adit and surface sampling plans by Hudson Bay Exploration and Development Company Ltd. in assessment file SLKT 52J02SW-0051.
Mar 24, 2020 (Therese Pettigrew) - A channel sample collected by Hudson Bay Exploration in 1984 returned 0.39 oz/t Au over 2.8 feet (13.4 g/t Au over 0.85 m) from a blue quartz vein in granite (Assessment report 52J02SW0016).
Dec 07, 2005 (R Tuomi) - Micas were chloritic.
Part - Mines of Ontario
Publication Number: ARV20-01.003 Scale: Date: 1998
Author: Corkill E.T.
Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines
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