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| Record Name(s) | R. Knappett - 1986, Fry Lake #11,B - 1986 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1986-Nov-19 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Sep-27 |
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Primary Commodities: Copper
Secondary Commodities: Silver
Township or Area: Fry Lake Area
Latitude: 51° 9' 36.05" Longitude: -91° 27' 5.45"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 608279.71 Northing: 5668759.258 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay North
NTS Grid: 52O03NW
Point Location Description: Outcrop just north of circled 4 on map 2482.
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: This occurrence is located 92 km west-southwest of Pickle Lake and 11 km east of the First Nation Community of Slate Falls. The occurrence is reported to be 0.8 km south of the eastern-most extremity of North Bamaji Lake. Access to the occurrence is by appropriately equipped aircraft to North Bamaji Lake, and then a traverse overland to the occurrence.
1971: The occurrence was located and sampled by R. Knappett. Kirkland Townsite Gold Mines Ltd., Urangesellschaft Canada Ltd. and Umex Inc. have all conducted various geophysical, geochemical and geological surveys over the area of the occurrence before and since 1971. NO DIRECT WORK HAS BEEN RECORDED ON THIS OCCURRENCE.
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Uchi
Terrane: North Caribou
Domain: Uchi
Belt: Meen-Dempster
Geological Age: Archean
Dec 07, 2005 (B Nelson) - Wallace (1985) reports that this occurrence 'consists of disseminated sulphides, mostly pyrite and chalcopyrite, in a shear zone in mafic metavolcanics.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 1 | Host |
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Dec 07, 2005 (B Nelson) - Mineralization occurs in a shear zone.
| 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 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore |
Dec 07, 2005 (B Nelson) - The only assays known for this occurrence were first reported in Sage and Breaks (1976) as 0.39% copper and 0.38 ounces silver per ton.
Dec 07, 2005 (B Nelson) - Alteration minerals and processes not known.
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Unknown |
| 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 Page: 72 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 Page: 67 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: 116 Date: 1993
Author: Seim G.Wm.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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