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| Record Name(s) | Hahn Lake - 1933, Patricia Lime Company - 1940 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Developed Prospect Without Reported Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1987-Apr-09 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Mar-29 |
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Primary Commodities: Marble (Structural Material)
Township or Area: Todd
Latitude: 51° 2' 6.97" Longitude: -94° 8' 46.17"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 419636.74 Northing: 5654372.1 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Red Lake
NTS Grid: 52M01SE
Point Location Description: Old Limestone Kiln on map in MDC027 p. 71
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: The area can be reached by boat from Red Lake.
The deposit was originally staked by W.S. Hall during gold exploration in 1933, the claims were purchased by the National Extension Syndicate in 1934. Two of the claims were optioned by W.S. Hall in 1934. In 1935 and 1936, the carbonate was stripped, trenched and diamond drilled. In 1936, a steel draw kiln was built on Hall Bay. In 1938, the kiln was operated for test purposes and in 1939, it operated to produce lime for the Howey, McKenzie Red Lake, and Cochenour Willians Mines. In February 1940, the Patricia Lime Company was formed to operate the deposit, but no further production was recorded. No relevant assessment reports were found on file.
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Uchi
Terrane: North Caribou
Domain: Uchi
Belt: Red Lake
Geological Age: Archean
Dec 07, 2005 (R Tuomi) - The deposit is in a north-northeast trending group of carbonate units (marble belt), extending from the west end of Hall Bay (Red Lake) across Hahn Lake and pinching out 500m northeast of Hahn Lake. The marble belt is 550m wide and 2.5km long, it is intercalated with felsic metavolcanics (Riley 1978). The rock is poorly exposed except along shorelines. In outcrop convoluted layering roughly follows the alignment of the marble belt. In the available outcrops on Hall Bay, siliceous material is predominant, carbonate layers making up approximately 25% of the rock; however there is a bias toward siliceous units because of thier greater resistance to weathering. Fresh carbonate rock is white to light grey in colour with dark grey siliceous layers.
Oct 30, 2020 (Therese Pettigrew) - Carbonate rocks and associated chemical metasedimentary rocks form parts of the Huston, Slate Bay and Ball assemblages. They are most abundant in the upper part of the Ball assemblage exposed in Ball and Todd townships. Here, they form 3 distinct units along the northern side of Trout Bay, the western side of Golden Arm and at Hall Bay. The Ball assemblage (2.94 to 2.92 Ga) comprises calc-alkaline basalt, andesite, dacite and rhyolite with intercalated minor komatiite, conglomerate, quartzite and stromatolitic marble. Stromatolitic carbonate rocks were deposited in a shallow marine environment during periods of quiescence (Storey, 2012).
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Marble | 1 |
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| Felsic lava flow-unsubdivided | 2 |
Oct 30, 2020 (Therese Pettigrew) - The Hahn Lake marble belt is an arcuate group of units 2.4 km long by a maximum of 0.5 km wide, extending northeast from Hall Bay of Red Lake. The best exposures are along the shores of Hall Bay and Hahn Lake; inland, the carbonate rocks are poorly exposed. On the west, the carbonate is bounded by felsic fragmental rocks and, on the east, by an ultramafic intrusive body (Riley, 1978). Riley subdivided the Todd Township chemical metasedimentary rocks into 5 lithologies: chert, chert-magnetite, chert-marble, chert-sulphide and calc-silicate rocks. The bulk of the Hahn Lake belt is chert-marble with a chert-magnetite unit occurring along the eastern contact of the belt and another unit underlying the main part of Hahn Lake. The chert-sulphide rocks are poorly exposed east of the quarry and at the southern side of the island in Hall Bay.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Carbonate | Economic | Ore |
Oct 30, 2020 (Therese Pettigrew) - W.S. Hall optioned claims KRL 10585 and KRL 10664 from the syndicate circa 1934 to develop a lime deposit. In 1936, he built a lime kiln on the northern shore of Hall Bay (Goudge, 1938). The plant consisted of a 12 to 14 tons per day steel and concrete draw kiln with associated structures. The limestone was quarried on the southern shore of Hahn Lake and transported to the kiln. The kiln was first operated in 1938 and, during 1939, some lime was shipped to the Howey, McKenzie Red Lake and Cochenour-Willans mines for testing in the mills; the actual amount was not recorded. In 1940, the Patricia Lime Company Ltd. was formed to operate the property, but no lime is reported to have been shipped by 1943. Due to poor outcrop exposures, the thickness of individual units is not evident, but the quarry was opened on a carbonate unit 10 m or more in thickness. Fresh marble is white to light grey, with dark grey, siliceous layers. Convoluted, centimetre-scale layering is evident in shoreline outcrops along Hall Bay. Where present in the carbonate rocks, fine-grained pyrite forms thin, discontinuous layers parallel to the large(r)-scale layering or isolated clusters of crystals. Silica is present as discrete, thin chert layers (stromatolitic) and discrete, rounded masses of sugary quartz. The chert-sulphide units are exposed to the east of the quarry and on the southern side of the island in Hall Bay. Near the quarry, a chert-sulphide unit of unknown thickness consists of thin (1 to 5 mm) layers of pyrite and pyrrhotite separated by slightly thicker layers of chert. The chert-sulphide unit exposed on the island in Hall Bay is similar (Storey, 2012).
Part - Geology and mineral deposits of the Red Lake area
Publication Number: ARV49-02 Page: 24-27, 66 Date: 1998
Author: Horwood H.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Publication - Limestones of Canada, their occurrence and characteristics, part IV, Ontario
Publication Number: CMB Pub 781 Page: 331 Date: 1938
Author: Goudge, M F
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/75823
Mono - Building and ornamental stone inventory in the districts of Kenora and Rainy River
Publication Number: MDC027 Page: 70-72 Date: 1986
Author: Storey C.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Part - Gold deposits in the vicinity of Red Lake
Publication Number: ARV44-06.001 Page: 5 Date: 1997
Author: Hurst M.E.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Report of Activities 1994, Resident Geologists
Publication Number: OFR5921 Page: 58-63 Date: 1995
Author: Baker C.L., Dressler B.O., Laderoute D.G., Newsome J.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Report of Activities 2011, Resident Geologist Program, Red Lake Regonal Resident Geologist Report: Red Lake and Kenora Districts
Publication Number: OFR6271 Page: 28-31 Date: 2012
Author: Lichtblau A.F., Ravnaas C., Storey C.C., Bongfeldt J., Lockwood H.C., Wilson A.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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