Ontario Geological Survey
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| Record Name(s) | Pyrotex - 1967, Agutua Arm - 1967, Recoskie No. 1 - 1995 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1995-May-23 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Aug-03 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold, Silver, Copper
Township or Area: Keeyask Lake Area
Latitude: 52° 53' 19.22" Longitude: -91° 10' 14.35"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 623077.95 Northing: 5861453.53 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay North
NTS Grid: 53B14NE
Point Location Description: Map in Assessment report 53B14NE0028
Location Method: Data Compilation
Pre-1966: an unknown party discovered and performed limited work on sulphide-bearing quartz veins in sheared metavolcanics located along the southeast shore of the northern part of Agutua arm of Wagamow Lake. 1967: Pyrotex Mining and Exploration Company carried out trenching stripping, and drilled 4 DDH totalling 256 m. 1985: Moss Resources Ltd. conducted prospecting, trenching, mapping, and soil and rock sampling. 1986-87: Moss Resources drilled 14 DDH totalling 1146.4 m.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| 13 / 53B14NE0013 | 53B14NE0039 | 53B14NE0039 |
| 53B14NE0010D1 | 53B14NE0035 | 53B14NE0035 |
| 53B14SE0020 | 53B14NE0028 | 53B14NE0028 |
| 2.8098 | 53B14NE9438 | 53B14NE9438 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Berens River
Terrane: North Caribou
Geological Age: Mesoarchean
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Intermediate lava flow-unsubdivided | 1 | Host |
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| Tonalite | 2 | Trondhjemite Dykes |
| 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 | ||||
| 3 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 4 | Bornite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 5 | Tetrahedrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 1 | Quartz | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 2 | Ankerite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 3 | Calcite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 4 | Chlorite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 5 | Fuchsite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 6 | Sericite | Economic | Gangue |
Aug 16, 2019 (Therese Pettigrew) - On the northeastern shore of Agutua Arm, gold mineralization occurs in a set of en echelon, quartz-arsenopyrite-pyrite-chalcopyrite veins up to 25 cm wide within a 1-3 m wide, east-trending, quartz-Fe carbonate-chlorite bearing zone. The carbonate-bearing rock grades into massive, actinolite-rich, mafic volcanics over a distance of less than 25 cm. The vein set can be traced for 25 m along strike. Veins, which typically overlap in a right-handed sense, dip vertically and consist of massive quartz with minor disseminated pyrite, arsenopyrite and chalcopyrite, and localized pods of massive arsenopyrite and chalcopyrite. Minor (less than 5%) chalcopyrite and pyrite occur intergrown with arsenopyrite in the massive pods. Gold values are highest within the arsenopyrite pods (up to 43 ppm, 1.3 oz/ton). Quartz veins that are relatively barren of sulphides and the silicified wall rock both returned insignificant gold values (25 to 80 ppb) (Piroshco et al., 1989). The highest values reported by Pyrotex were 2.54 ounces/ton over 0.3 m for Au, 18.8 ounces/ton over 1.2 m for Ag, and 2.50% Cu over 1.2 m (Breaks and Bartlett, 1991). Samples collected by Moss Resources in 1985 returned results of 0.67 oz/t Au (23.0 g/t Au), 0.71 oz/t Ag (24.3 g/t Ag), and 2360 ppm Cu (Assessment report 53B14NE0028).
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Vein (Polymetallic) |
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 1 | Vein |
Article - Geology and gold mineralization of the Eyapamikama Lake area of the North Caribou Lake greenstone belt, District of Kenora (Patricia Portion)
Publication Number: MP126.055S Page: 283 Date: 1997
Author: Piroshco D.W., Shields H.N.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Geological series, Precambrian geology, Eyapamikama Lake area, (Opapimiskan Lake project), Kenora District (Patricia Portion)
Publication Number: P2834 Scale: 1:31,680 Date: 1985
Author: Bartlett J.R., Breaks F.W., de Kemp E.A., Shields H.N.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Article - Sioux Lookout Resident Geologist's District - 1990
Publication Number: MP152.004 Page: 78-80 Date: 1997
Author: Janes D.A., Seim G.Wm., Storey C.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Geology of the Eyapamikama Lake area
Publication Number: OFR5792 Page: 65-68 Date: 1991
Author: Breaks F.W., Bartlett J.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - The geology of gold prospects in the North Caribou Lake greenstone belt, District of Kenora, northwestern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5698 Page: 23-25 Date: 1989
Author: Piroshco D.W., Breaks F.W., Osmani I.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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