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| Record Name(s) | Sol d'Or - 1934, Bathurst Mines - 1932, Honeywell - 2010 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Developed Prospect Without Reported Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1987-Mar-23 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Jun-22 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Secondary Commodities: Silver
Township or Area: Honeywell
Latitude: 51° 16' 38.1" Longitude: -92° 31' 31.61"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 533100.28 Northing: 5680763.73 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Red Lake
NTS Grid: 52N07SE
Point Location Description: Precise
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: 80 km ENE of Red Lake. The property is best reached off Grace Lake, which is accessible by air. Logging roads extend to within 4 km SW of the property.
1927: T.W Bathurst Syndicate staked property and transferred to Rainbow Lake Gold Mines Ltd. 1932: Earl McDougall restaked property. 1932-1933: Bathurst Mines Ltd. leased property from McDougall and operated a 5 ton ball mill and extracted ore from an open cut on the No. 3 Vein. 1934: Sol d'Or Gold Mines Ltd acquired the property. 1935: Sol d’Or installed a 35 ton mill and conducted trenching, stripping, test pitting and drilled 10 DDH totalling approximately 3000 ft. 1936: Sol d’Or sunk a 3-compartment shaft to 164 feet and completed 1000 ft of drifting and crosscutting on the 150 ft level. 1937: operations were suspended in May. 1940-65: property owned by Midco Minerals Ltd. 1969: Long lac Mineral Exploration conducted airborne magnetic and radiometric surveys. 1974: Rhonda Copper Mines Ltd. acquired the property and conducted an IP survey and geological mapping. 1975: Ronda Copper conducted an IP survey. 1976: Ronda Copper conducted a ground magnetic survey, geological mapping, and drilled 5 DDH totalling 1060 ft. 1980: Springpole Lake Resources Ltd. completed 18 DDH totalling 916 m, two (totalling 605 ft) near the Sol d'Or mine. 1982: J. Green conducted trenching and sampling near the Sol d’Or shaft. 1985: Property was optioned to Sweany Gold Corp. 1986: Kidd Creek Mines Ltd. conducted ground magnetic and EM surveys over the property in the early part of the year. Parflo Mines and Energy optioned the property from Sweany and conducted humus geochemical survey, geological mapping, VLF-EM and magnetic surveys. 1987-89: Falconbridge conducted geological mapping, rock and soil geochemistry. 1996: Maple Minerals - Linecutting and an IP survey. 2002: Fronteer Development Completed Dighem AEM & SMag, soil and MMI geochem, sampling and diamond drilling. 2003: Fronteer drilled 2 DDH. 2004: Fronteer drilled 10 DDH totalling 1236.1 m and conducted a ground magnetic survey. 2010: Big Bear completed prospecting and sampling on the property. 2012: eShippers Management Ltd. conducted prospecting, geological mapping, and sampling. 2021: First Mining Gold optioned the property from Whitefish Exploration Inc. and carried out prospecting and sampling. 2022: First Mining conducted airborne magnetics and EM surveys, soil and rock sampling
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| RL 2.47855 | 20000006556 | 20000006556 |
| 63.2733 | 52N08SE0056 | 52N08SE0056 |
| 2.28265 | 52N07SE2004 | 52N07SE2004 |
| 14 | 52N07SE0090 | 52N07SE0090 |
| 16 | 52N07SE0083 | 52N07SE0083 |
| 16 | 52N07SE0067 | 52N07SE0067 |
| 2.24997 | 52N08SW2002 | 52N08SW2002 |
| 2.1554 | 52N07SE0074 | 52N07SE0074 |
| 2.9998 | 52N08SE0026 | 52N08SE0026 |
| 63.3311 | 52N07SE0048 | 52N07SE0048 |
| 2.2079 | 52N07SE0047 | 52N07SE0047 |
| 2.27475 | 52N07SE2003 | 52N07SE2003 |
| 2.54015 | 20000007983 | 20000007983 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Uchi
Terrane: North Caribou
Domain: Uchi
Belt: Birch-Uchi
Geological Age: Archean
May 10, 2016 (Therese Pettigrew) - The Sol D'Or Mine is situated within the east-northeast trending Swain Lake deformation zone. A conjugate set of northwest- and northeast-trending shear zones occur in the vicinity of Grace Lake and the Sol D'Or Mine (Parker and Atkinson, 1992).
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Intermediate Tuff | 1 | Pyroclastic Tuff | Contains |
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| Vein | 2 | Contains | ||
| Diorite | 3 | Diorite | Near |
May 10, 2016 (Therese Pettigrew) - The dominant host lithology of the mineralized quartz veins is an intermediate pyroclastic tuff breccia which is carbonatized, sericitized and silicified. The silicified metavolcanic rocks commonly contain erratically disseminated apple-green mica. Quartz veins are hosted by narrow, discrete, east-trending shear zones and by joint sets dipping 45 to 70 degrees to the north. Furse (1934) noted that several shear zones were situated at the contact between felsic metavolcanic rocks and gabbroic or dioritic sills. Wall rocks adjacent to the quartz veins are sericitized, carbonatized and tourmalinitized.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Pyrrhotite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 4 | Gold | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 5 | Arsenopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 6 | Galena | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 7 | Sphalerite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 8 | Telluride | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 1 | Quartz | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 2 | Tourmaline | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| Carbonate | Alteration | Carbonatization | 1 | Unknown | Disseminated | ||
| Sericite | Alteration | Sericitization | 2 | Unknown | Disseminated | ||
| Silica | Alteration | Silicification | 3 | Unknown | Disseminated |
Feb 03, 2012 (A McKee) - Grade 1987: chip+grab samples on 4 veins around shaft: 0.020-2.179 opt Au. 2004: 3 DDH in area returned assays of: SD04-09 .0877 g/t ~ 1.73 m, 6.2 g/t ~ .35m, SD04-10 3.7 g/t ~.38 m, 5.45 g/t ~ .43 m. SD04-11 .872 ~ 6.3 m Au 2010: Big Bear, assays ranging from 1-10 g/t Au
May 10, 2016 (Therese Pettigrew) - Seven separate quartz veins have been delineated on the Sol D'Or property. The veins are 2 inches to 3 feet wide with strike lengths ranging up to 1000 feet. The main veins consist of milky-white and gray quartz containing minor iron carbonate, disseminated pyrite, pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite and fine visible gold. Harding (1936) noted the presence of galena, sphalerite and tellurides in the quartz veins. Sections of the veins are comprised of quartz stringer zones and vein-breccia zones. The vein-breccia zones consist of brecciated quartz cemented with black tourmaline and/or abundant wall rock inclusions in a quartz-tourmaline matrix. B.T. Atkinson (Resident Geologist's files, Red Lake) noted that small quartz-tourmaline veins trending 120 to 130 intersect the main mineralized veins. Fyon and O’Donnell (1986) noted that many quartz-tourmaline veins occur in east-trending, south-dipping vein sets. The No. 7 Vein consists of a carbonatized, chloritized and silicified shear zone striking 155/80SE. Fine-grained pyrite, arsenopyrite and chalcopyrite are disseminated throughout the sheared wall rocks which host narrow iron carbonate veins Assays from the various companies over the years have ranged from 0.131 to 2.179 oz/t (4.49 to 726 g/t Au) (Parker and Atkinson, 2012). Assay results from the 2012 sampling program included 7.454 g/t Au from the tailings pile (AFRO 2.54015).
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Lode (Gold) |
| 1 | Vein |
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 1 | Sheared |
| 1 | Vein |
| Zone | Year | Category | Tonnes | Reference | Comments | Commodities |
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| Sol D'Or | 1989 | Unclassified | 7800 | OFR 5835, p. 236 (Energy, Mines and Resources, 1989) | Grade: 19.5 g/t Au (8565 tons of 0.57 opt Au) | Gold 19.5 g/t |
| Year | Tonnes | Commodities | Reference | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1936 | 415 |
Silver 33 Ounces Gold 258 Ounces |
OFR 5836, p.236 | Produced 8000 g Au and 1000 g Ag (258 oz Au and 33 oz Ag from 458 tons of ore) between 1933 and 1936 |
Part - Geology of the Shabumeni-Birch lakes area
Publication Number: ARV42-06.002 Page: 42-45 Date: 1998
Author: Furse G.D.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Part - Geology of the Birch-Springpole lakes area
Publication Number: ARV45-04 Page: 18-19 Date: 1997
Author: Harding W.D.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Gold deposits of Ontario, part 1, districts of Algoma, Cochrane, Kenora, Rainy River, and Thunder Bay
Publication Number: MDC013 Page: 227-228 Date: 1971
Author: Ferguson S.A., Groen H.A., Haynes R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs
Location:
MonoMap - Geology of Honeywell and McNaughton townships, District of Kenora (Patricia Portion)
Publication Number: R177 Page: 47-48 Date: 1979
Author: Johns G.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Gold occurrences, prospects and past-producing mines of the Birch-Confederation lakes area
Publication Number: OFR5835 Page: 234-237 Date: 1992
Author: Parker J.R., Atkinson B.T.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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