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| Record Name(s) | Killala Twp Quartz - 1989 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 2000-Mar-03 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Aug-03 |
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Primary Commodities: Silica
Township or Area: Killala
Latitude: 50° 59' 25.36" Longitude: -94° 4' 12.2"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 424900 Northing: 5649300 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Red Lake
NTS Grid: 52L14NE
Point Location Description: Quartz vein system
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: The property is accessed by travelling southwest of Red Lake on Hwy. 618 (Madsen Mine Rd.) for a distance of 9.2km to Flat Lake Road. Turn right (northwest) on this well maintained gravel road and travel 14.5km Turn right (northeast) and travel 3.7km on a narrow, old logging access road. From here walk to the north 250m through a partially regrown clear cut area to its northwest corner (west end of a small lake). The quartz vein system extends from the clear cut into the bush.
No assessment reports were found on file.
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Uchi
Geological Age: Archean Geochronological Age: 2704+/-1.5Ma Geochron. Age Ref.: Corfu and Andrews 1987
Dec 07, 2005 (R Tuomi) - Atkinson and Storey (1989) document the geology of the Killala Vein complex as follows: *A second major quartz-vein complex occurs in the Killala-Baird Batholith, 14.5km northwest of the Roger Lake vein complex. This vein complex is situated 2.2km west of Parker Lake in northeast Killala Township, and was previously identified by Horwood. The Killala vein complex has a strike length of 200m with a maximum width of 45m. The Killala vein complex occurs on the same structure as the Roger Lake vein complex. It consists of multiple generations of quartz veining and wall rock silicification, accompanied only rarely by pyrite mineralization. 13 samples were collected from the Killala vein complex and 3 from the Roger Lake veincomplex. 1 sample from the Killala vein complex assayed 17ppb gold. All other samples assayed less than 2ppb gold.*
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Vein | 1 | Quartz | Is |
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| Granite | 2 | Granite Batholith | Massive | Host |
Dec 07, 2005 (R Tuomi) - The quartz core is milky white to greyish white to orangey-brown in colour, translucent, fine to medium grained and sugary textured. Mottled orangey brown patches may represent partially silicified granitic fragments. Granitic fragments tend to vary in size from 1-10mm and are 1-3% to 10-15% in abundance within the quartz core. Detailed examination of some granitic fragments indicates that they too are internally brecciated with very fine infillings of stockwork quartz (multiple periods of brecciation and quartz in-filling). This appears to be the same as noted at Dixie Lake where volcanic xenolithic fragments in quartz-matrix breccia are microbrecciated and in-filled with very fine grained quartz.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Quartz | Economic | Ore |
Feb 09, 2010 (A Lichtblau) - Five samples averaged 98.63% SiO2, ranging from 96.84% to 99.76% SiO2.
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Vein |
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 1 | Vein |
Date: Jan 01, 1989
Geologist: B Atkinson
Notes: General strike of 130 to 140 and dip 90. Exposed length is 200 m, width 1-3m
Article - Uchi subprovince
Publication Number: SV04-01.006 Date: 1997
Author: Stott G.M., Corfu F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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
Location:
Map - Geology, Red Lake greenstone belt, western Superior Province, Ontario
Publication Number: OF 4594 Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 2004
Author: Sanborn-Barrie, Skulski, T; Parker, J
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/215568
MonoMap - Geology of the Dixie Lake Area, District of Kenora (Patricia Portion)
Publication Number: OFR5904 Date: 1994
Author: Muir T.L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - An Evaluation of Potential High-Purity Silica Sources: Preliminary Site Investigation, Volumes 1 and 2
Publication Number: OFR5948 Date: 1996
Author: McAuley J.B.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Article - Red Lake Resident Geologist's District - 1988
Publication Number: MP142.003 Date: 1997
Author: Atkinson B.T., Storey C.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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