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| Record Name(s) | Fry Lake # 1 - 1990, Bamaji-Loon Option - 1990 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1990-Nov-28 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Mar-24 |
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Primary Commodities: Molybdenum
Secondary Commodities: Copper
Township or Area: Fry Lake Area
Latitude: 51° 8' 54.45" Longitude: -91° 29' 39.06"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 605322.527 Northing: 5667412.214 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay North
NTS Grid: 52O03NW
Point Location Description: Western-most drill hole on south shore of North Bamaji Lake on map 2482.
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: This occurrence is located 95 km west-southwest of Pickle Lake and 8 km east of the First Nation community of Slate Falls. Diamond-drill holes intersecting Mo, Cu mineralization were collared on the south shore of North Bamaji Lake, and on an island close to the south shore of the lake. Access to this occurrence is by appropriately equipped aircraft to North Bamaji Lake.
Cochenour Explorations Ltd. intersected molybdenite mineralization in 3 diamond-drill holes on the south shore of North Bamaji Lake, and on an island close to the south shore of the lake, in 1966.
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Uchi
Terrane: North Caribou
Domain: Uchi
Belt: Meen-Dempster
Geological Age: Archean
Dec 07, 2005 (B Nelson) - Molybdenite mineralization is associated with quartz veins and stringers in sericitized and sheared 'granite' (trondhjemite, North Bamaji Lake Intrusion).
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Tonalite | 1 | Trondhjemite | Host |
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| Schist-Unsubdivided | 2 | Quartz-Sericite | Near |
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Molybdenite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Sphalerite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 4 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 1 | Quartz | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| Sericite | Alteration | Sericitization | 1 |
Dec 07, 2005 (B Nelson) - The best assay reported is 0.53% Mo and 0.23% Cu over 0.52 m in diamond-drill hole BL-66-11.
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Porphyry |
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 1 | Vein |
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: 76 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: 61 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: 101 Date: 1993
Author: Seim G.Wm.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Article - Slate Falls area, District of Kenora
Publication Number: MP082.001 Date: 1997
Author: Wallace H., Sutherland I.G.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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