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| Record Name(s) | Fry Lake # 9 - 1990 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1990-Nov-28 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Sep-27 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Fry Lake Area
Latitude: 51° 14' 2.07" Longitude: -91° 21' 33.34"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 614546.885 Northing: 5677115.978 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay North
NTS Grid: 52O03NW
Point Location Description: Collar of diamond-drill hole FRY-87-8 in AF 52O/03NW-0031.
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: This occurrence is located on the southeastern shore of the northwest bay of Fry Lake. It is about 84 km west-southwest of Pickle Lake and about 19 km northeast of the First Nation community of Slate Falls. Access to this occurrence is by appropriately equipped aircraft to Fry Lake. A winter road along the Ear Falls to Pickle Lake power corridor passes about 6 km southeast of the occurrence.
1945 or 1946: Flicka Red Lake Gold Mines Ltd. drilled 4 short winkie holes near this occurrence. The most westerly hole apparently gave interesting assay results according to a report by R. Thompson, Red Lake Resident Geologist at the time. 1984: Rockmere Lake Explorations Ltd. drilled a 60.6 m hole on their 'C' Carbonate Zone near this occurrence. 1984: Sherritt Gordon Mines Ltd. conducted a lithogeochemical sampling and geological mapping program in the Fry Lake area. One sample returned an assay value of 12087 ppb Au. 1986: Sherritt Gordon Mines Ltd. drilled 2 diamond-drill holes on this occurrence as part of an 11 hole drill program in the area that totalled 1757.78 m.
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Uchi
Terrane: North Caribou
Domain: Uchi
Belt: Meen-Dempster
Geological Age: Archean
Dec 07, 2005 (B Nelson) - This occurrence is hosted by an intermediate to mafic metavolcanic. The mineralization occurs within a 7 m zone of quartz-carbonate stringers where the metavolcanic is possibly weakly sheared. Between 2 and 3% pyrite is associated with the quartz-carbonate stringers.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Intermediate lava flow-unsubdivided | 1 | Shear Zone | Host |
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| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Arsenopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| Quartz | Alteration | Unknown | 1 | ||||
| Carbonate | Alteration | Unknown | 2 |
Dec 07, 2005 (B Nelson) - 1984: Sherritt Gordon Mines Ltd. conducted a lithogeochemical sampling and geological mapping program in the Fry Lake area. One sample returned an assay value of 12087 ppb Au. Sherritt Gordon Mines Ltd. diamond-drill hole FRY-87-8 returned 0.08 oz/ton Au over 1.22 m.
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Lode (Gold) |
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 1 | Sheared |
Map - Cat Lake-Pickle Lake, geological compilation series, Kenora and Thunder Bay districts
Publication Number: M2218 Scale: 1:253,440 Date: 1976
Author: Sage R.P., Breaks F.W., Troup W.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - Geology of the Cat Lake-Pickle Lake area, districts of Kenora and Thunder Bay
Publication Number: R207 Date: 1982
Author: Sage R.P., Breaks F.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Moosetegon Lake, Kenora District
Publication Number: M2482 Scale: 1:31,680 Date: 1983
Author: Wallace H.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
MonoMap - Geology of the Slate Falls area, District of Kenora (Patricia Portion)
Publication Number: R232 Date: 1985
Author: Wallace H.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Cat River-Kawinogans Lake area, District of Kenora (Patricia Portion), Ontario
Publication Number: ARM44F Scale: 1:126,720 Date: 1997
Author: Harding W.D.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Mineral Deposits of the Central Portion of Uchi Subprovince, Volume 1, Meen Lake to Kesagiminnis Lake Portion
Publication Number: OFR5869 Page: 126 Date: 1993
Author: Seim G.Wm.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Part - Geology of the Cat River-Kawinogans Lake area
Publication Number: ARV44-06.002 Page: 68 Date: 1997
Author: Harding W.D.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
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