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| Record Name(s) | Dixie Lake Quartz - 2000 |
|---|---|
| Related Record Type | Simple |
| Record Status | Prospect |
| Date Created | 2000-Feb-28 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Jan-05 |
| Created By | R Tuomi |
| Revised By | R Tuomi |
Primary Commodities: Silica
Township or Area: South Of Byshe Area
Latitude: 50° 52' 42.24" Longitude: -93° 40' 41.54"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 452286.533 Northing: 5636521.774 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Red Lake
NTS Grid: 52K13SE
Point Location Description: Stripped area
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: From Red Lake travel south on HWY. 105 for 25.3km to a road locally referred to as Tuzek's or Garton's Road (South/right side of Hwy. 105 100m past McEwan's Road to Two Island Lake). Turn right and travel 3.5km to Barrett's gravel pit on the right side of the road. From the entrance shoot a bearing of 290 degrees to locate an old flagged road past the west bank of the pit. Walk (or use ATV) for 3.5km (paced distance) to a fork and walk 400m on the right fork (through a swamp) to the site.
1993 Mr. Perry English completed prospecting, mapping and power stripping on two large quartz veins in the South of Byshe and Willans area. These quartz veins were located along the western margin of 2 unpatented claims (26 units total) which he held. This prospector discovered the quartz veins about 5 years earlier. The best assay produced was 97.8% SiO2. Results of the sampling were provided by Peter Hinz at which time further work was considered to be warranted. Since that time some more stripping was completed on the veins (exposing numerous xenolithic fragments), however, the claims have since been allowed to lapse.
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Uchi
Geological Age: Archean
Dec 07, 2005 (R Tuomi) - The Dixie Lake site is an approximate 50m x 20m stripped area o outcrop which exposes a heterogeneous mixture of quartz as injected veins, veinlets, microveinlets, and quartz-matrix breccia within bleached, pale-green to whitish metavolcanics (or metasediments?). Two distinct ages of quartz can b identified. Fine stringers and microveinlets of very fine grained to aphanitic, glassy gray to smokey gray quartz (early generation) are multiple injected and cut by veins networks and stockworks (quartz matrix breccia) of medium grained, milky white to glassy gray, translucent quartz. The quartz zone trends at 120 degrees similar to the general orientation of the deformation zone as noted by Muir (1994). Throughout the stripped area approximately 30-50% is made up of quartz and 50-70% is made up of pervasively bleached (sericitized/illitized) metavolcanics and xenolithic fragments. Samples of the vein and matrix quartz are medium to coarse grained and glassy gray to milky white. Mottled orangish patches within the quartz may represent digested granitic fragments. The quartz tends to be locally vuggy and friable (crumbles readily). The early generation of quartz is very fine grained (cherty appearance) and occurs within internally microbrecciated, bleached volcanic fragments.
Map - Precambrian Geology, Dixie Lake Area (East), District of Kenora (Patricia Portion)
Publication Number: P3301 Scale: 1:20,000 Date: 1994
Author: Muir T.L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Mono - An Evaluation of Potential High-Purity Silica Sources: Preliminary Site Investigation, Volumes 1 and 2
Publication Number: OFR5948 Scale: Date: 1996
Author: McAuley J.B.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Article - Kenora Resident Geologist's District - 1988
Publication Number: MP142.002 Scale: Date: 1997
Author: Blackburn C.E., Hailstone M.H., Parker J.R., Storey C.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Map - Red Lake-Birch Lake sheet, geological compilation series, Kenora District
Publication Number: M2175 Scale: 1:253,440 Date: 1970
Author: Ferguson S.A., Davies J.C., Brown D.D., Pryslak A.P.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Article - Uchi subprovince
Publication Number: SV04-01.006 Scale: Date: 1997
Author: Stott G.M., Corfu F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Map - Bedrock geology of Ontario, west-central sheet
Publication Number: M2542 Scale: 1:1,000,000 Date: 1991
Author: Ontario Geological Survey
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Map - Tectonic assemblages of Ontario, west-central sheet
Publication Number: M2576 Scale: 1:1,000,000 Date: 1992
Author: Ontario Geological Survey
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
MonoMap - Geology of the Dixie Lake Area, District of Kenora (Patricia Portion)
Publication Number: OFR5904 Scale: Date: 1994
Author: Muir T.L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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