General Information
Secondary Commodities: barium, copper, lead, vanadium, zinc
Deposit Type(s): Sediment hosted Sedimentary Exhalative Zn-Pb-Ag (Sedex)
Location(s): 64.690830 N, -137.881670 W
NTS Mapsheet(s): 116A12
Location Comments: 1 Kilometres
Hand Samples Available at YGS: No
Capsule
Work History
Staked in Jul-Nov/76 as a 24 km long claim block consisting of 314 Rein, Shyne & Shay cl (YA5731) by the Blackstone Project (Union Miniere and Shell Can L) and 171 TBO & HPZ cl (YA5853) by a joint venture between St Joe & Getty Mg Pacific L. Both properties were explored with soil sampling and mapping in 1976, 1977 and 1978. Milchem Mls Inc optioned the Rein group in 1979, built a road and explored with bulldozer trenching and airtrack drilling in 1979-80. The Mondo 1-60 cl (YB29817) were staked in Jun/93 by Pearl Petroleum Corporation.
Restaked within MC cl 1-682 (YB99163) by Blackstone Resources Inc in Oct/97.
Capsule Geology
Strong zinc anomalies and hydrozincite concentrations were found at several localities but no sphalerite was seen. The source seems to be Devono-Mississippian Earn Group silty argillite and shale that contains discontinuous lenses of barite up to 30 m thick. Limy shale and phyllitic carbonate of the Ordovician-Lower Devonian Road River Formation are thrust over the Earn Group rocks by the Dawson Fault.
Quartz-carbonate veins containing traces of chalcopyrite and sylvanite cut both units. Minor lead-copper-zinc vein mineralization was found peripheral to dioritic sills on the Shay and Shyne claims, and minor galena, sphalerite, and barite vein mineralization was reported on the Rein cl. The Milchem work was directed toward the barite potential.
References
MINERAL INDUSTRY REPORT, 1977, p. 49-51; 1978, p.24
UNION MINIERE EXPLORATIONS MINING CORPORATION LTD, 1976. Assessment Report *#090196 by C.V. Dyson.
UNION MINIERE EXPLORATIONS MINING CORPORATION LTD, 1977. Assessment Report #090246 by C.V. Dyson.
Staked in Jul-Nov/76 as a 24 km long claim block consisting of 314 Rein, Shyne & Shay cl (YA5731) by the Blackstone Project (Union Miniere and Shell Can L) and 171 TBO & HPZ cl (YA5853) by a joint venture between St Joe & Getty Mg Pacific L. Both properties were explored with soil sampling and mapping in 1976, 1977 and 1978. Milchem Mls Inc optioned the Rein group in 1979, built a road and explored with bulldozer trenching and airtrack drilling in 1979-80. The Mondo 1-60 cl (YB29817) were staked in Jun/93 by Pearl Petroleum Corporation.
Restaked within MC cl 1-682 (YB99163) by Blackstone Resources Inc in Oct/97.
Capsule Geology
Strong zinc anomalies and hydrozincite concentrations were found at several localities but no sphalerite was seen. The source seems to be Devono-Mississippian Earn Group silty argillite and shale that contains discontinuous lenses of barite up to 30 m thick. Limy shale and phyllitic carbonate of the Ordovician-Lower Devonian Road River Formation are thrust over the Earn Group rocks by the Dawson Fault.
Quartz-carbonate veins containing traces of chalcopyrite and sylvanite cut both units. Minor lead-copper-zinc vein mineralization was found peripheral to dioritic sills on the Shay and Shyne claims, and minor galena, sphalerite, and barite vein mineralization was reported on the Rein cl. The Milchem work was directed toward the barite potential.
References
MINERAL INDUSTRY REPORT, 1977, p. 49-51; 1978, p.24
UNION MINIERE EXPLORATIONS MINING CORPORATION LTD, 1976. Assessment Report *#090196 by C.V. Dyson.
UNION MINIERE EXPLORATIONS MINING CORPORATION LTD, 1977. Assessment Report #090246 by C.V. Dyson.
Location Map
Last Updated: Sep 15, 2011
Work History
| Year | Work Type | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| 1980 | Drilling: Percussion | |
| 1980 | Trenching: Mechanical | |
| 1979 | Drilling: Percussion | |
| 1979 | Trenching: Mechanical | |
| 1978 | Geochemistry: Soil | |
| 1978 | Geology: Bedrock Mapping | |
| 1977 | Geochemistry: Soil | |
| 1977 | Geology: Bedrock Mapping | |
| 1976 | Geochemistry: Soil | |
| 1976 | Geology: Bedrock Mapping |
Regional Geology - Terrane
Group: Ancestral North America
Affinity: W Laurentia
Name: North America - basinal strata
Realm: Laurentia
Regional Geology - Bedrock
Supergroup:
Group/Suite: Earn
Formation: Portrait Lake/Prevost
Member:
Terrane: Laurentia
Period Max: Devonian
Age Max: 385 MA
Period Min: Carboniferous
Age Min: 345 MA
Rock Major: siltstone/sandstone/conglo
Rock Minor: barite/limestone
Reference: Abbott (1997) - YGS GM 1997-3
Geological Unit (1M): DME
Geological Unit (250K): DME1
Assessment Reports that overlap occurrence
| Report Number | Year | Title | Worktypes | Holes Drilled | Meters Drilled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 090207 | 1977 | Geological and Geochemical Report on the HPZ-TBO Claim Group | Rock - Geochemistry, Soil - Geochemistry, Bedrock Mapping - Geology, Scintillometer - Ground Geophysics |
