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| Record Name(s) | Teal - 1957, Agutua Arm Cu-Au-Ag - 1979, Bulldozer Zone - 1966 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1985-Aug-20 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Aug-03 |
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Primary Commodities: Copper, Silver
Secondary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Randall Lake Area
Latitude: 52° 50' 35.7" Longitude: -91° 10' 52.93"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 622485 Northing: 5856383 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay North
NTS Grid: 53B14SE
Point Location Description: Map in R193, p. 77
Location Method: Data Compilation
1957: Discovered by a prospecting party, who drilled 3 X-ray holes. 1959: M. Levine rediscovered the showing and extended the zone with stripping and trenching. Property was staked by Teal Exploration Ltd., who carried out an EM survey. 1960: Teal Exploration drilled 15 DDH totalling 1448.7 m. 1966: Pyrotex Mining and Exploration Company Ltd. carried out trenching and sampling. 1976: St. Joseph Exploration Ltd. acquired the property. 1977-78: St. Joseph Exploration carried out mapping, an airborne EM survey, ground HLEM and magnetometer surveys, and drilled 3 DDH totalling 365.14 m. 1985: Sulpetro Minerals Ltd. carried out prospecting and sampling.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| 53B14SE0011D1 | 53B14SE0009 | 53B14SE0009 |
| 53B14SE0010 | 53B14SE0017 | 53B14SE0017 |
| 53B14SE0017A | 53B14SE8217 | 53B14SE8217 |
| 53B14SE0013B1 | 53B14SE0008 | 53B14SE0008 |
| 53B14SE0016 | 53B14SE9441 | 53B14SE9441 |
| 53B14SE0015 | 53B14SE0015 | 53B14SE0015 |
| 53B14SE0017B1 | 53B14SE8218 | 53B14SE8218 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Sachigo
Terrane: North Caribou
Geological Age: Mesoarchean
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Diorite | 1 | Diorite | Near |
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| Mylonite/Fault Gouge/Pseudotachylite | 2 | Shear Zone | Contains | |
| Vein | 3 | Contains |
| 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 | Tetrahedrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 4 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 5 | Bornite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 6 | Pyrrhotite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 7 | Chalcocite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 8 | Gold | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 1 | Quartz | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 2 | Calcite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 3 | Chlorite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 4 | Ankerite | Economic | Gangue |
Mar 20, 2008 (Mark Puumala) - This occurrence is described on p.63-65 of OFR 5792 (Breaks and Bartlett 1991) and on p.63-70 of OFR 5698 (Piroshco, Breaks and Osmani 1989).
Aug 19, 2019 (Therese Pettigrew) - The Teal Occurrence consists of a series of discontinuous, quartz-ankerite-sulphide veins hosted by the quartz-iron carbonate zone. The main sulphides are arsenopyrite, tetrahedrite, chalcopyrite, pyrite and bornite. The veins are parallel to foliation, are boudinaged and locally occur as "sheeted veins" within schistose zones up to 1.5 m wide. Up to 1% euhedral to subhedral pyrite and arsenopyrite occur within the quartz-carbonate and chlorite-calcite zones (Piroshco and Shields, 1985). Mineralization is mainly confined to a 12 by 195 m zone distributed within a quartz-carbonate shear zone developed between massive, medium-grained metadiorite and fine-grained mafic metavolcanic rocks (Breaks and Bartlett, 1991). Samples collected by Pyrotex in 1966 returned values of 0.01 oz/t Au and 0.16 oz/t Ag. Teal Exploration’s DDH 7 returned values of $2.19 Au (0.06 oz/t Au at $36.50/oz Au), $12.93 Ag (14.05 oz/t Ag at $0.92/oz Ag), and 2.28% Cu over 1.5 m. DDH 4 returned $0.27 Au (0.007 oz/t Au at $36.50/oz Au), $7.63 Ag (8.29 oz/t Ag at $0.92/oz Ag), and 4.92% Cu over 1.4 m. DDH 2 returned $2.44 Au (0.067 oz/t Au at $36.50/oz Au), $10.16 Ag (11.04 oz/t Ag at $0.92/oz Ag), and 1.84% Cu over 0.85 m (Assessment report 53B14SE0017). A channel sample taken by Teal Exploration returned 0.99 oz/t Au, 16.33 oz/t Ag, and 2.41% Cu. A second representative grab from the quartz vein material assayed 4.56 oz/t Au, 77.8 oz/t Ag and 5.70% Cu. A ten pound bulk of the schist material, showing only fair mineralization returned 0.10 oz/t Au, 31 oz/t Ag and 3.16% Cu (Assessment report 53B14SE8217).
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Vein (Polymetallic) |
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 1 | Sheared |
Article - Sioux Lookout Resident Geologist's District - 1990
Publication Number: MP152.004 Page: 80-85 Date: 1997
Author: Janes D.A., Seim G.Wm., Storey C.C.
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:
Mono - Copper, nickel, lead and zinc deposits of Ontario
Publication Number: MDC012 Page: 181 Date: 1969
Author: Shklanka R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - Geology of Winisk Lake area, District of Kenora, Patricia Portion
Publication Number: R193 Page: 76-80 Date: 1980
Author: Thurston P.C., Sage R.P., Siragusa G.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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: 279-281 Date: 1997
Author: Piroshco D.W., Shields H.N.
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: 63-70 Date: 1989
Author: Piroshco D.W., Breaks F.W., Osmani I.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Geology of the Eyapamikama Lake area
Publication Number: OFR5792 Page: 63-65 Date: 1991
Author: Breaks F.W., Bartlett J.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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