Ontario Geological Survey
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| Record Name(s) | Island - Sandy Lake - 1937 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1979-May-25 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Feb-24 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold, Copper
Township or Area: Granite Bay Area
Latitude: 53° 2' 1.37" Longitude: -93° 20' 47.64"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 476760 Northing: 5876077 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Red Lake
NTS Grid: 53F03SW
Point Location Description: General
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: 225 km North of Red Lake and 70 km SE of the Manitoba-Ontario boundry. Sandy Lake settlement is 7 km north, served by regular airline flights.
During the late 1930s and early 1940s, was prospected for gold. 1981-82: Canadian Occidental carried out a shoreline mapping program. 1990: L.D.S. Winter reviewed the Sandy Lake properties for Goldeye Explorations. 2013: Goldeye Explorations Ltd. carried out IP and magnetic surveys. 2015: Cover by a 1274 km magnetic/VTEM survey for GPM Metals Inc.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| 2.56795 | 20000014175 | 20000014175 |
| 2.55263 | 20000008331 | 20000008331 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Sachigo
Terrane: North Caribou
Belt: Sandy Lake
Geological Age: Archean
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Conglomerate | 1 | Adjacent |
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| Sandstone | 2 | Contains |
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore |
Aug 16, 2019 (Therese Pettigrew) - Bennett and Riley (1969) describe the showing as follows: “An island about two miles south of the settlement of Sandy Lake consists in part of conglomerate and sandstone. A 6-inch wide gossan zone in the sandstone was sampled and gave upon assay 0.03 ounces of gold per ton. The zone trends N40E.” A map in Assessment report 20000008331 indicates that sample 3818 returned an assay of 12 ppb Au and 5464 ppm Cu.
Mono - Operation Lingman Lake
Publication Number: MP027 Scale: Date: 1969
Author: Bennett G., Riley R.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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