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| Record Name(s) | Fry Lake # 10 - 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° 10' 48.06" Longitude: -91° 24' 9.44"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 611649.965 Northing: 5671056.554 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay North
NTS Grid: 52O03NW
Point Location Description: Diamond drill hole
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: The occurrence is located about 90 km southwest of Pickle Lake and about 15 km east of the First Nation Community of Slate Falls. The diamond-drill hole collar is located about 800 m east of Don's Lake, north of Bamaji Lake. Access to this occurrence is by appropriately equipped aircraft to Bamaji Lake, and then traversing overland to the drill hole collar.
1980: Urangesellschaft Canada Ltd. commissioned airborne radiometric, mag and Em surveys over the occurrence area. 1985: Umex Inc. completed geological mapping and rock and soil geochemistry in the occurrence area. 1986: Umex Inc. did ground mag and EM surveys. 1987: Umex Inc. did further ground mag and EM surveys and 3 diamond-drill holes, totalling 688 m, in the occurrence area. 1989: Umex Inc. commissioned airborne mag and EM surveys.
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Uchi
Terrane: North Caribou
Domain: Uchi
Belt: Meen-Dempster
Geological Age: Archean
Dec 07, 2005 (B Nelson) - The occurrence was intersected in Umex Inc.'s drill hole #Bam-87-4. The intersection is a 1.08 m interval of core described as fine-grained, dark-brown, siliceous, strongly biotitic mafic to intermediate metavolcanic in a larger unit of silicified, pillowed, mafic metavolcanic. The intersection is reported to contain 30% disseminated py, po, cpy, and sp.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 1 | Host |
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| Tonalite | 2 | Trondhjemite | Near | |
| Quartz-Feldspar Porphyry | 3 | Feldspar-Qtz-Trondhjemite Porp | Near |
| 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 | Sphalerite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| Quartz | Alteration | Silicification | 1 | ||||
| Biotite | Alteration | Unknown | 2 |
Dec 07, 2005 (B Nelson) - The interval from 74.63 m to 75.71 m (1.08 m) in drill hole #Bam-87-4 returned an assay of 1080 ppb Au.
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Lode (Gold) |
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 1 | Sheared |
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:
Part - Geology of the Cat River-Kawinogans Lake area
Publication Number: ARV44-06.002 Date: 1997
Author: Harding W.D.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
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:
Mono - Mineral Deposits of the Central Portion of Uchi Subprovince, Volume 1, Meen Lake to Kesagiminnis Lake Portion
Publication Number: OFR5869 Page: 128 Date: 1993
Author: Seim G.Wm.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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