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| Record Name(s) | Luxor DDH 62-4 - 1962 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1982-Aug-27 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Mar-02 |
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Primary Commodities: Silver
Secondary Commodities: Copper
Township or Area: McDonough
Latitude: 51° 7' 18.69" Longitude: -93° 51' 36.92"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 439795 Northing: 5663728.01 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Red Lake
NTS Grid: 52N04SW
Point Location Description: Location of DDH 62-4 on map in Assessment report 52N04SW0025
Location Method: Data Compilation
1926: property was staked by W. McNeely. 1936: Luxor Red Lake Mines was incorporated to acquire the property formerly held by McNeely Red Lake Holdings Ltd. 1937: Surface work. 1962: Luxor Red Lake Mines conducted EM and magnetometer surveys and drilled 3 DDH totalling 389 m. 1965: Luxor Red Lake Mines drilled three diamond drill holes. 1981-84: Bluestack Resources Ltd. optioned the property and carried out geophysical, geochemical, and geological surveys, trenching, stripping, and drilled 6 DDH totalling 785.8 m. 1990: Noranda carried out trenching.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| 63.4118 | 52N04NW0012 | 52N04NW0012 |
| OM92-111 | 52N04SW0025 | 52N04SW0025 |
| 63.4471 | 52N04NW0021 | 52N04NW0021 |
| 14 | 52N04NW0041 | 52N04NW0041 |
| 52N04NW-0049 | 20000005533 | 20000005533 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Uchi
Terrane: North Caribou
Domain: Uchi
Belt: Red Lake
Geological Age: Archean
Metamorphism Type: Regional
Metamorphism Grade: Greenschist
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Ironstone-unsubdivided | 1 | Iron Formation | Sulphide Facies | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 2 | Flows | Variolitic | Near |
| Chert | 3 | Siliceous Sedimentary Rock | Thin,Intercallated Units | Near |
| Ultramafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 4 | Volcanics | Flows | Near |
Dec 07, 2005 (K R Kettles) - The occurrence is underlain by a sequence comprised mainly of varolitic mafic flows with a few intercalated ultramafic rock units, and thin units of siliceous metasedimentary rocks. Several feldspar porphyry dikes have been observed in the vicinity of the occurrence. The highest silver assays occur in well bedded siliceous sediments which are strongly mineralized with pyrite, pyrrhotite and thin stringers of massive magnetite.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Pyrrhotite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 4 | Magnetite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 1 | Quartz | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| Quartz | Alteration | Silicification | 1 | Medium | Disseminated | ||
| Epidote | Alteration | Epidotization | 2 | Medium | Disseminated | ||
| Talc | Alteration | Hydrothermal | 3 | Strong | Disseminated | ||
| Chlorite | Alteration | Hydrothermal | 4 | Strong | Disseminated | ||
| Carbonate | Alteration | Carbonatization | 5 | Medium | Disseminated |
Jul 30, 2020 (K R Kettles) - The highest silver assays occur in well bedded siliceous sediments which are strongly mineralized with pyrite, pyrrhotite and thin stringers of massive magnetite. Only trace values of gold have been reported, but values of up to 0.20% Cu and 4.44 oz/ton (152.225 g/tonne) Ag have been obtained from DDH 62-4. A 4 m section of core returned an average assay of 2.67 oz/ton (91.541 g/tonne) Ag.
Jul 30, 2020 (Therese Pettigrew) - Luxor’s DDH 4 drilled in 1962 returned up to 1.58 oz/t Ag over 7 feet (54.16 g/t Au over 2.1 m) from siliceous well-bedded sediments well mineralized with pyrite, fine pyrrhotite, and scattered chalcopyrite. The same hole returned 0.2% Cu over 5 feet from siliceous sediments well mineralized with pyrite, pyrrhotite, and lesser chalcopyrite and magnetite (Assessment report 52N04NW0041)
Dec 07, 2005 (K R Kettles) - The mafic metavolcanics in the area have been weakly to strongly carbonatized, silicified and/or epidotized. Ultramafic rocks have been altered to talc chlorite assemblages.
Mono - Gold occurrences, prospects, and deposits of the Red Lake area, volumes 1 and 2
Publication Number: OFR5558 Scale: Date: 1987
Author: Durocher M.E., Burchell P.S., Andrews A.J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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