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| Record Name(s) | Mattless Lake Zn-Be-Bi-Mo Occurrence - 1979 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1979-May-14 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-May-24 |
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Primary Commodities: Zinc, Bismuth, Beryllium
Secondary Commodities: Molybdenum
Township or Area: Setting Net Creek Area
Latitude: 52° 44' 8.83" Longitude: -93° 38' 39.96"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 456488.48 Northing: 5843074.21 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Red Lake
NTS Grid: 53C12NE
Point Location Description: Tip of arrow from mineral symbols q,mo,Zn,Bi,Be map P.538 1400m E of Mattless Lk
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: Remote.
This occurrence is based on the results of a grab sample assay reported by Ayres (1970).
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Sachigo
Terrane: North Caribou
Belt: Favourable Lake
Geological Age: Mesoarchean
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 1 | Gneissic |
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Nov 02, 2007 (Mark Puumala) - Ayres (1970) reported the occurrence of a 5 cm wide concordant quartz vein hosted in gneissic mafic metavolcanics at this location. A gneissosity orientation of 300/85 is recorded in this area on ODM Map P.538 (Ayres 1970). This occurrence is also shown on OGS map P.3220 (Stone, Crawford and Halstead, 1993) to be located immediately south of the northwest-striking Bear Head fault zone. Ayres (1970) reported grab sample assay values of 0.72% Zn, 0.1% Bi, 0.04% Mo and 0.01% Be.
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Vein |
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| 2 | Concordant |
| 1 | Vein |
Map - Setting Net Lake area, District of Kenora (Patricia Portion)
Publication Number: P0538 Scale: 1:15,840 Date: 1997
Author: Ayres L.D.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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Article - Rare-metal mineralization associated with the Berens River-Sachigo subprovincial boundary, northwestern Ontario: discovery of a new zone of complex-type, petalite subtype pegmatite and implications for future exploration
Publication Number: MP169.024 Date: 1998
Author: Breaks F.W., Tindle A.G., Smith S.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Map - Precambrian Geology, Kember Lake Area
Publication Number: P3220 Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 1993
Author: Stone D., Crawford J., Halstead J.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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