Ontario Geological Survey
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| Record Name(s) | Alkenore Buffalo Zone 9 - 1995, Ty Lake - North - 1995 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1995-May-26 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Sep-02 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Benedickson
Latitude: 50° 2' 37.23" Longitude: -91° 40' 44.26"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 594587.717 Northing: 5544322.471 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kenora
NTS Grid: 52J04SE
Point Location Description: Trenches on top of ridge in cut over
Location Method: Field Visit
Access Description: Take Hwy 642 east from Sioux Lookout to the Forty Mile Lake forest access road. Take the Forty Mile Lake road north to the bed of the former CNR Graham rail line. Proceed southeast along the rail bed to a point about 400 m SE of the Starr Creek crossing. Traverse N through the bush and into the cutover 600-700 m to the trench area.
1936-1937 - Alkenore-Buffalo Gold Mines Ltd. Trenching and 3 diamond drill holes 1980 A.C.A. Howe for Goldwinn Resources Ltd. conducted geological mapping, some stripping and sampling and geophysical surveys. Sampling of this zone yielded values up to 1.08 ounces per ton gold. 1985 A.C.A. Howe for Teeshin Resources Ltd. drilled 7 diamond drill holes on this showing. Hole 85-1 averaged 0.024 over 6 ft. from 181 ft. to 187 ft. 1997: Staked by J. Bond II and S. Johnson. Prospecting and sampling by S. Johnson in 1998.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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| 52J04SE-0020 | 52J04SE0010 | 52J04SE0010 |
| 52J04SE-0019 | 52J04SE0015 | 52J04SE0015 |
| 52J04SE-0022 | 52J04SE9059 | 52J04SE9059 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Wabigoon
Terrane: Western Wabigoon
Belt: Abram-Minnitaki Lakes
Geological Age: Archean
Dec 07, 2005 (G Seim) - This zone is hosted in mafic metavolcanic rocks, presumably flows. The exposure of the occurrence is obscures by extensive slash from a recent logging operation. Samples of fly rock from the trenches indicate that the mineralized zone consists of a variably silicified zone of mafic metaolcanic that locally takes on a granitic appearance (silicification and albitization?) Historic records suggest the a porphyry dike/sill may be next to the zone. The zone may trend northeast.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 1 | Host |
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| Porphyry-unsubdivided | 2 | Near |
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 1 | Quartz | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| Ankerite | Alteration | Carbonatization | 1 | ||||
| Quartz | Alteration | Silicification | 2 | ||||
| Albite | Alteration | Albitization | 3 |
Dec 07, 2005 (G Seim) - Samples from this zone contain 5% to 15% disseminated pyrite.
Dec 07, 2005 (G Seim) - Little is known about the alteration at this occurrence other than there is a iron carbonatized and silicified interval of mafic metavolcanic rock.
| Commodity | Analytical Method | Digestion Method | Result | Unit | Limit | Qualifier |
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| Gold | Unknown | .01 | oz/T | |||
| Gold | Unknown | .07 | oz/t |
Date: Oct 30, 1998
Geologist: G Seim
Notes: Visit conducted on April 30 1998, in the company of S. Johnson and C. Bath. The trenches were obscured by extensive slash, the result of recent logging activity.
File - Resident Geologist files 52J04SE-0013-A1
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Location: Kenora RGP office
Part - Geology of the Superior Junction-Sturgeon Lake area
Publication Number: ARV46-06.001 Page: 21 Date: 1997
Author: Horwood H.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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