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Record: MDI52K13SE00002

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Newmont - 1970
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Discretionary Occurrence
Date Created 1977-Feb-07
Date Last Modified 2022-Nov-17
Created By
Revised By

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Copper

Secondary Commodities: Zinc



Location

Township or Area: Dixie Lake Area

Latitude: 50° 50' 52.09"    Longitude: -93° 35' 51.77"

UTM Zone: 15    Easting: 457921.65   Northing: 5633070.57    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Red Lake

NTS Grid: 52K13SE

Point Location Description: General

Location Method: Conversion from MDI



Exploration History

1945: Belgold Mines Ltd. carried out prospecting, trenching, and shallow drilling. Unknown date between 1945 and 1969: 8 drill holes by Currie, Mahoney, and Macdougall, and drilling by Inco. 1970: Newmont Mining Corp. conducted horizontal loop EM and magnetic surveys, and drilled 9 DDH totalling 1032.4 m.


Assessment Work on File

Assessment Work on File
Office File Number Online Assessment File Identifier Online Assessment File Directory
16 52K13SE0043 52K13SE0043
2.63 52K13SE0055 52K13SE0055
63.2701 52K13SE0057 52K13SE0057
22 52K13SE0038 52K13SE0038

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Uchi

Terrane: North Caribou

Domain: Uchi

Belt: Red Lake

Geological Age: Archean  



Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided 1
Ironstone-unsubdivided 2 Host

Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
1PyriteEconomicOre
2PyrrhotiteEconomicOre
3ChalcopyriteEconomicOre

Mineralization Comments

Nov 17, 2022 (Therese Pettigrew) - Small amounts of chalcopyrite associated with pyrrhotite and pyrite are found in an iron formation which adjoins basic metavolcanics or in shears and fractures in the Early Precambrian basic metavolcanics (SMDR 00549).


Oct 29, 2020 (Q Unknown) - 1970 – DDH: best intersection at 146.5-169.5 (23 ft): 0.1% Cu, 0.02% Zn, tr. Ni, nil Au, Ag.



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