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Permanent Link to this Record: MDI52N04NW00010

Deposit: MDI52N04NW00010

General

Mineral Deposit Identification
Deposit Name(s) Winter Road Lake East - 1987
Related Deposit Type None
Deposit Status occurrence
Date Created 1991-Mar-21
Date Last Modified 2020-Aug-14
Created By Q Unknown
Revised By T Pettigrew

Commodities

Primary Commodities: gold

Location

Township or Area: McDonough

Latitude: 51° 9' 34.1"    Longitude: -93° 51' 42.78"

UTM Zone: 15    Easting: 439730   Northing: 5667912    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Red Lake

NTS Grid: 52N04NW

Point Location Description: DDH NMD-87-11 from assessment report 52N04NW0002

Location Method: based on assessment

Source Map: OGS 1977 P.1240 MCDONOUGH TWP

Sources Map Scale: 1:12 000

Access Description: Vehicle travel along the Pine Ridge road north of Red Lake

Exploration and Mining History

1986-87: Pure Gold Resources completed 22 diamond drill holes, electromagnetic and magnetic geophysical surveys, and limited geological mapping and soil sampling.

Assessment Work on File

Assessment Work on File
Office File Number   Online Assessment File Identifier   Online Assessment File Directory  
30     52N04NW0002     Open
2.10376     52N04NW0009     Open
2.10537     52N04NW0007     Open

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Uchi

Belt: Red Lake

Geological Age: Archean   

Tectonic Assemblage: Houston And Graves

Geology Comments

08/14/2020 (S Lewis) - This occurrence is located at the boundary point between the Houston and Graves assemblage. The Houston assemblage is characterised by metasedimentary rocks consisting of wacke, siltstone, argillites, and conglomerates. The Graves assemblage is characterised by intermediate volcanic rocks consisting of pyroclastics rocks that are intermediate to felsic calc-alkaline and biotite plagioclase-phyric lapilli tuffs. However, mafic volcanics and quartz feldspar porphyries were intersected in diamond drill holes by Noramco Exploration Inc. Diamond drill holes by Noramco Exploration and Pure Gold Resources indicate sericite and carbonate alteration.

Mineral Deposit Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
metasedimentary 1 contains
vein 2 quartz host
gabbro 3 dyke near

Mineralization

Deposit Mineralization and Alteration
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 galena economic ore
4 chalcopyrite economic ore
5 arsenopyrite economic ore
1 garnet economic gangue

Mineralization Comments

08/14/2020 (S Lewis) - Pure Gold Resources identified four areas that may be of economic interest; 1) quartz-diorite intrusion, 2) a conductive stratabound horizon in the mafic flow unit, 3) a fuchsite-chert-wacke-mafic flow sequence, and 4) a sulphide-bearing conglomerate horizon. An anomalous intercept of 1145 ppb Au over 1.43 m was obtained by Pure Gold Resources in diamond drill hole NMD-87-11 at 25.4 m in quartz vein with 5% disseminated pyrite in an interbedded metasediment.

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For detailed information regarding this mineral deposit please contact the Red Lake Resident Geologist District Office