Ontario Geological Survey
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| Record Name(s) | Big Mink Lake - 1961, K.G. Ellard - 1983, Ellard Option - 1983 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1983-Nov-24 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Jun-23 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold, Silver
Township or Area: Stull Lake Area
Latitude: 54° 26' 44.39" Longitude: -92° 35' 3.61"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 526954.74 Northing: 6033187.71 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Red Lake
NTS Grid: 53K07NE
Point Location Description: Precise
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: 383 km north of Red Lake Ontario. Access is by float aircraft to Stull lake from Red Lake or from God's Lake Narrows, 125 km West
Satterly (1937) reported prospectors active in Stull Lake area as early as 1935. Ten diamond drill holes were completed in 1936. 1961: Rio Tinto Canadian Exploration Ltd. - DD-9-2700 ft. Phelps Dodge carried out geophysical surveys and follow-up diamond drilling. 1970s: Inco conducted work in the Stull Lake area including airborne mag and numerous ground EM surveys. 1971-1974: SEREM Ltee conducted surface magnetic and EM surveys, followed by 20 drill holes. 1979: Noranda drilled two holes in the area. 1980s: Noranda conducted various geochemical surveys in the area. Samples taken. 1989: Westmin Resources completed six diamond drill holes in the property. 1992: E. Buhlmann conducted reconnaissance lithogeochemical survey, geochemical mapping and prospecting. 2001 and 2002: staking rush with 48 new claims registered in the Stull Lake Area. 2010: Northern Superior Resources Inc. geological mapping and prospecting, 17 samples taken in the Stull Lake Property.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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| AF RL 1989 53K/SE/7 #14 | 53K07NE0007 | 53K07NE0007 |
| AF RL 1988 53K/SE/7 #18 | 20000004807 | 20000004807 |
| AF RL 1993 53K/7 #19 RL 3228 | 53K08NW0005 | 53K08NW0005 |
| RL 2.48165 | 20000006388 | 20000006388 |
| 11 | 53K07NE0003 | 53K07NE0003 |
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 1 | Basalt | Adjacent |
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| Granitoid-Unsubdivided | 2 | Quartz-Rich | Near | |
| Vein | 3 | Contains |
Nov 03, 2014 (A Wilson) - Quartz veins range from 7.5 to 8 feet in width within mafic metavolcanics.
| 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 | Galena | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Gold | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 4 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 5 | Pyrrhotite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 6 | Sphalerite | Economic | Ore |
Nov 03, 2014 (A McKee) - Surface grab samples collected in 1961 assayed up to 4 oz/t Au. A Rio Tinto drill hole intersected gold values up to 0.03 oz./t Au. A grab sample collected by the OGS during Operation Lingman Lake returned an assay of 1.86 oz/t Au and 2.36 oz/t Ag. GRADE 1988: SURFACE SAMPLES ASSAY UP TO 11.8 GPT AU. 1993: Grab Samples returned assay of 170 Au ppb,
Map - Stull Lake-Sandy Lake sheet, geological compilation series, Kenora District
Publication Number: M2178 Scale: 1:253,440 Date: 1969
Author: Bennett G., Riley R.A., Davies J.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Operation Lingman Lake
Publication Number: MP027 Page: 23 Date: 1969
Author: Bennett G., Riley R.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Gold deposits of Ontario, part 1, districts of Algoma, Cochrane, Kenora, Rainy River, and Thunder Bay
Publication Number: MDC013 Page: 247 Date: 1971
Author: Ferguson S.A., Groen H.A., Haynes R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs
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