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| Record Name(s) | Tack Lake West - 2010, Camwe Snow Lake Mines - 1991 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1991-Mar-10 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Sep-29 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Baird
Latitude: 50° 56' 29.77" Longitude: -94° 0' 56.7"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 428636.597 Northing: 5643822.038 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Red Lake
NTS Grid: 52L16NE
Point Location Description: Point 320 m SW of Creek entering SE corner of Tack Lake (#4 post KRL20706)
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: located from the town of Red Lake to the town of Madsen and 2 km south of Madsen to Flat Lake road, down this road there are many secondary roads, atv trails and drill roads that access this area
1947: Camwe Snow Lake Mines drilled 3 holes for a total of 552.97 m. 2010: 3 samples were taken from this point by Champlain Resources.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| 2.47669 | 20000006210 | 20000006210 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Uchi
Terrane: North Caribou
Domain: Uchi
Belt: Red Lake
Geological Age: Archean
Metamorphism Type: Regional
Metamorphism Grade: Amphibolite
Dec 07, 2005 (K R Kettles) - The property is situated in the contact zone between the Killala-Baird Batholith, and volcanic rocks. The volcanic rocks are comprised mainly of mafic flows with subordinate amounts of felsic volcanics. The gold occurs in thin pyrite 'seams' in silicified rhyolite breccia.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Felsic lava flow-unsubdivided | 1 | Rhyolite, Silicified | Brecciated | Host |
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| Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 2 | Mafic | Flows | Adjacent |
Dec 07, 2005 (K R Kettles) - The felsic metavolcanics are rhyolitic, have been silicified, and are brecciated.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Gold | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 1 | Quartz | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 2 | Pyrite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| Silica | Alteration | Silicification | 1 |
Dec 07, 2005 (K R Kettles) - Anomalous gold values were returned from silicified rhyolite which contains thin pyrite 'seams'. The rhyolite has been described as brecciated. Two samples obtained from drilling returned assays of 0.06 opt Au and 0.01 opt Au over widths of 15 cm.
Dec 05, 2011 (A McKee) - 2010 - Grab samples assays <.02 ppm Au
Aug 31, 2022 (Q Unknown) - 1947: 3 DDHs, best assay at 404.25 ft, 0.06 opt Au/0.5 ft.
Dec 07, 2005 (K R Kettles) - The rhyolite breccia which contains the pyrite and gold has been silicified.
File - Resident Geologist files Baird #7
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Location: Red Lake RGP office
Map - Red Lake area [west sheet], District of Kenora (Patricia Portion), Ontario
Publication Number: ARM49A Scale: 1:31,680 Date: 1997
Author: Horwood H.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Gold occurrences, prospects, and deposits of the Red Lake area, volumes 1 and 2
Publication Number: OFR5558 Page: 45 Date: 1987
Author: Durocher M.E., Burchell P.S., Andrews A.J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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