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| Record Name(s) | Kirkland Townsite Showing #2 - 9999, Fry Lake # 3 - 1990, Showing # 2 - 1990 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Prospect |
| Date Created | 1990-Nov-28 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Sep-27 |
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Primary Commodities: Uranium, Gold
Secondary Commodities: Zinc, Silver
Township or Area: Fry Lake Area
Latitude: 51° 10' 16.53" Longitude: -91° 26' 15.62"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 609220.999 Northing: 5670029.995 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay North
NTS Grid: 52O03NW
Point Location Description: GPS reading by OGS, 2006.
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: This occurrence is located about 91 km west-southwest of Pickle Lake and about 12 km east of the First Nation community of Slate Falls. There is a valley running between Don's Lake and North Bamaji Lake. This occurrence is found atop the north side of the valley about midway between the two lakes. Access to this occurrence is by appropriately equipped aircraft to North Bamaji Lake, and then traversing overland to the occurrence area. A winter road along the Ear Falls to Pickle Lake power corridor passes about 1 km north of this occurrence.
1954: McCombe Mining and Exploration Ltd. trenched the Kirkland Townsite Showing #1 occurence to the east of Showing #2 and drilled 11 short DDH's, totalling 172 m. 1968: Kirkland Townsite Gold Mines Ltd. did trenching and geogicial mapping around the occurrence and commissioned an airborn spectrometer survey of the area. 1971: R. Knappett restaked the area of the occurrence and prospected the ground until 1977. 1978: Urangesellschaft Canada Ltd. commisioned a combined airborne VLF-EM magnetometer and spectrometer survey over the area and did ground work consisting of linecutting, prospecting, trenching, ground scintillometer surveys, a limited geochemicial orientation survey and detailed geologicial mapping. 1979: Urangesellschaft Canada Ltd.did a radon survey, 2 VLF-EM surveys and a resampling of the Kirkland Townsite and McCombe trenches. 1983: FTM Resources Ltd. commisioned airborne magnetometer and electromagnetometic surveys over the occurrence. 1985 to 1989: Umex Inc. completed geologicial mapping and rock and soil geochemistry, ground magnetometer and electromagnetic surveys, 7 DDH's totalling 1203 m and airborne Mag and EM surveys in the area of the occurrence.
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Uchi
Terrane: North Caribou
Domain: Uchi
Belt: Meen-Dempster
Geological Age: Archean
Dec 07, 2005 (B Nelson) - The Number 2 Showing is situated along the contact of amphibolitized mafic metavolcanics and trondhjemitic rocks of the Bamaji Lake complex. The immediate host rock consists of leucocratic medium-grained creamy weathering, massive to foliated, equigranular to locally porphyritic trondhjemite. Quartz phenocrysts up to 5 mm in diameter are especially prominent near the mineralized zone. Foliation within the host trondhjemite becomes perceptibly more intense close to the shear zone. Similar to the Number 1 showing, the mineralization is confined to a 0.6 m wide shear zone trending about N80E and dipping 40 degrees north. Thin actinolite-biotite laminae appear to be controlled by shears en echelon within this zone. Individually, these laminae, which rarely exceed 4 cm width and average about 1 cm, are typified by a crude mineralogical zonation. Actinolite tends to dominate through a thin carapace of fine-grained biotite and disseminated pyrite is invariably present. Usually a dark brown halo occurs immediately adjacent to these veinlets. Disseminated fine-grained pyrite appears to gradually increase to 5-10% near these veinlets. NOTE: the showing may be contiguous to the Kirkland Townsite Showing #1 mineralization and to the Showing #5 mineralization. Diamond-drilling along the trend of the three occurrences supports this hypothesis.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 1 | Near |
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| Schist-Unsubdivided | 2 | Quartz-Sericite | Near | |
| Tonalite | 3 | Trondhjemite | Host |
| 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 | Pyrrhotite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 4 | Galena | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 5 | Pitchblende | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 6 | Uraninite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 7 | Brannerite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 8 | Limonite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 9 | Uranophane | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 10 | Gold | Economic | Ore | ||||
| Unspecified | Alteration | Carbonatization | 1 | Unknown | Disseminated | ||
| Quartz | Alteration | Silicification | 2 | Unknown | Disseminated | ||
| Unspecified | Alteration | Sericitization | 3 | Unknown | Disseminated |
Dec 07, 2005 (B Nelson) - Assays up to 0.54 oz/ton Au and 0.97% U3O8 have come from trench samples. The Sioux Lookout Staff Geologist examined this occurrence in 1990. He took 16 samples from the many trenches on this occurrence and submitted them for Au, Ag and U assay. The majority of the samples returned anomalous assay values for Au and U. Two samples returned Au values over 1000 ppb Au. (1680 ppb Au and 1141 ppb Au) The highest U values returned was 172 ppm.
Dec 07, 2005 (B Nelson) - Also included under the heading 'alteration minerals and processes' in OFR 5869 is 'calc-silicates.
| 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 Page: 74 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: 78 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: 103 Date: 1993
Author: Seim G.Wm.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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