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Record: MDI52L16NW00002

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Hatchet Lake - 1969
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Discretionary Occurrence
Date Created 1983-Feb-28
Date Last Modified 2022-Mar-02
Created By
Revised By

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Molybdenum



Location

Township or Area: Mulcahy

Latitude: 50° 58' 57.09"    Longitude: -94° 18' 9.83"

UTM Zone: 15    Easting: 408555.22   Northing: 5648689.38    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Red Lake

NTS Grid: 52L16NW

Point Location Description: Mo symbol on OGS map P0567

Location Method: Data Compilation



Exploration History

1969: mapped and sampled by OGS staff. Not open for posting as is located in Woodland Caribou Provincial Park. No assessment reports found on file.


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
Pegmatite 1 Host
Granodiorite 2 Trondhjemite, Granodiorite, And Quartz Monzonite
Diorite 3 Med- To Coarse-Grained Diorite And Quartz Diorite

Mineralization

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

Mineralization Comments

Jul 14, 2020 (Therese Pettigrew) - Disseminated to patchy coarse flakes of molybdenite occur in aplitic to pegmatitic rocks south of Hatchet Lake. The average grade of 9 grab samples of aplitic rock containing visible molybdenite collected by OGS staff is approximately 0.039% Mo (Riley, 1969).



Mineral Record Details

References

Map - Mulcahy Township, District of Kenora (Patricia Portion)

Publication Number: P0567 Scale: 1:9,600    Date: 1997

Author: Riley R.A.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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