Ministry of Energy, Northern Development and Mines
Permanent Link to this Record: MDI52K15NE00005| Deposit Name(s) | Slate Lake Au - 1988, Panama Lake Property - 1991 |
|---|---|
| Related Deposit Type | None |
| Deposit Status | occurrence |
| Date Created | 1991-Mar-22 |
| Date Last Modified | 2019-Apr-10 |
| Created By | Q Unknown |
| Revised By | T Pettigrew |
Primary Commodities: gold
Township or Area: Slate Lake Area
Latitude: 50° 57' 41.07" Longitude: -92° 35' 50.62"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 528274 Northing: 5645611 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Red Lake
NTS Grid: 52K15NE
Point Location Description: Benton Resources corporation presentation April 2019
Location Method: data compilation
Source Map: OGS 1981 P.2407 SLATE LAKE AREA-WEST SHEET
Sources Map Scale: 1:12 000
Access Description: Access to the property area is provided by an all-weather logging road to within 0.5 km of Slate Lake and then by boat or snowmobile.
1986: Noranda staked the property. 1988: Noranda carried out sampling. 1989: Noranda carried out an IP survey, humus sampling, and prospecting. 1994: Cumberland Resources Ltd. carried out reconnaissance geological mapping and sampling. 2002: Jonpol Explorations Ltd. carried out grid cutting and a soil survey. 2018-19: Benton Resources conducted sampling and drilled 2 DDH.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| 2.24634 | 52K15NE2001 | Open |
| 2.12661 | 52K15NE0014 | Open |
| 2.16109 | 52K15NE0004 | Open |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Uchi
Belt: Birch-uchi
Geological Age: Archean
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| vein | 1 | quartz | host | |
| iron formation | 2 | silicified | contains | |
| porphyry | 3 | feldspar porphyry |
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Habit Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pyrite | economic | ore | ||||
| 2 | pyrrhotite | economic | ore | ||||
| 3 | arsenopyrite | economic | ore | ||||
| 1 | quartz | economic | gangue |
04/10/2019 (T Pettigrew) - A sample collected by Noranda in 1989 returned an assay of 6270 ppb Au (Assessment report 52K15NE0014). Sampling by Benton Resources in 2018 returned an assay of 6.17 ppm Au from an arsenic-rich quartz vein within a carbonate shear zone, located 270 m north of the location where the GSC found 107 gold grains in till samples (Benton Resources October 2018 corporate presentation http://www.bentonresources.ca/upload/documents/benton-resources-panama-october.pdf). In 1988, Noranda identified a 20-30 m wide mineralized shear which yielded results of up to 2.8 g/t Au over 4.5 m. DDH PL-19-08 drilled by Benton Resources in 2019 returned results of 0.18 g/t Au over 8.4 m from a silicified arsenopyrite-rich, quartz-flooded zone. DDH PL-19-09 returned 0.425 g/t Au over 2 m from an altered feldspar porphyry with quartz stringers and abundant sulphides (Benton Resources March 27, 2019 press release).
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