- SMDI #
- 2668
- Current Showing Name
- Drill hole FFS-6
- Historical Showing Names
- Drill hole FFS-6
- Company Name
- Project Name
- UTM Easting (NAD83 Z13)
- 701152.8100
- UTM Northing (NAD83 Z13)
- 6070463.4600
- NTS Sheet
- 063K12
- TRM (Township-Range-Meridian)
- 66-30-1
- Primary Commodities
- Gold
- Associated Commodities
- Copper, Iron
- Discovery Type
- Drillhole
- Status
- Occurrence: Primary Exploration
- Geological Details
- The occurrence or drill hole FFS-6 is located on the FFS 2 grid approximately 1.5 km (0.9 mile) south of the Flin Flon Mine and approximately 0.60 km (0.37 mile) north northeast of the northeast tip of Phantom Lake. The showing occurs at FFS 2 coordinates 0+00E and 9+00S.
DRILLHOLE INTERSECTION WIDTH OUNCES/TON PCT PCT INTERSECTION
NUMBER (M) (M) AU AG CU ZN GEOLOGY
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FFS-6 0.00 - 26.00 massive mafic flow or F.G. gabbro
26.94 - 43.46 mafic wacke: sand to silt, bedded
39.17-39.73 0.56 0.006 --- --- --- 1-3% py: in qtz-carb veining
43.60 - 71.00 intercalated mafic flows, wackes
71.00 - 72.20 medium grained gabbro to diorite
71.95-72.20 0.25 0.003 --- --- --- 1-3% py in qtz-carb veining
72.20 - 76.80 mafic wacke: silty, laminated
76.80 - 78.30 F.G.-M.G. gabbro to diorite
78.30 - 80.37 mafic wacke
80.37 - 96.44 mafic flow rock
80.37-81.00 0.63 0.004 --- --- --- 1-2% po+py in qtz-carb fract.
90.38-90.74 0.36 0.018 --- --- --- 4-7% py in qtz-carb fractures
96.44 -109.99 veined, brecciated mafic wacke
98.34-98.63 0.29 0.005 --- --- --- 2-3% py in sheared carb. vns
109.99 -110.66 medium grained diorite
110.66 -129.00 intercalated mafic flows and
mafic wackes
The drill hole encountered an intercalated sequence of Amisk Group Bomber Lake Member and Creighton Member massive mafic flows and wacked which have been intruded by a series of fine- to medium-grained gabbros to diorites (Boundary Intrusives). The mafic flows are fine-grained, dark green, and locally amygdualoidal. The mafic wackes, which contain small gritty to granular clasts, are dark green, sandy to silty, and locally. Tops determined using graded bedding in the wackes are up to the east. This sequence of silicified rocks is cross-cut by several sets of mud, chlorite, epidote, and quartz-carbonate infilled fractures.
The gold mineralization encountered is associated with disseminated crystalline pyrite (2 to 7%) plus minor pyrrhotite and specks of chalcopyrite within quartz±feldspar-carbonate veining in fractures which cut the mafic flow rocks and intercalated mafic wackes. The "healed" fractures are, locally, surrounded by a 4 to 14 mm (0.2 to 3.6 inch) thick, smoky grey, silicified halo which also contains auriferous pyrite.
- Geological Domain
- Flin Flon
- Host Rocks
- Host Minerals
- Pyrite, Pyrrhotite
- Indicators
- Exploration History
- 12/1/1997 Initial work in the showing area led to the discovery of the Unity showing in 1936 by North of 54 Mines Ltd. on the VIOLA claim. Flin Flon Gold Mines Ltd. optioned the property and completed trenching and delineation drilling on the Unity Showing
In March of 1950, the showing area was covered by Hudson Bay Exploration and Development's Flin Flon Mining Lease. This lease later converted to ML 5041.
In 1987, Hudson Bay completed further drilling on the Unity North and Unity South showings and on the FFS 2 grid (AF 63K12-0173). Only minor gold values over narrow widths were returned. Between 1987 and 1988, ground magnetic and VLF-EM surveys were completed over the FFS 1 to FFS 3 grids (AF 63K12-0174). In 1988, Hudson Bay completed geochemical sampling on ML 5041.
In 1992, Hudson Bay completed ground VLF-EM and magnetic surveys over the FFS 2 grid (AF 63K13-0071). In 1994, Hudson Bay completed drill holes FFS-6 to FFS-11 on the FFS-2 grid (AF 63K13-SW-0074). Anomaly drill hole FFS-6 encountered the gold intersections which constitute this showing. In the same year, they completed prospecting and rock sampling on the FFS 2 grid (AF 63K13-0075). In the following year, a ground TDEM-PEM survey was completed on the FFS-2 grid (AF 63K13-0079).
In 1998, Hudson Bay completed a ground magnetic survey on the FFS-2 grid (AF 63K12-0205). On 9 September 1998, Hudson Bay consolidated ML 5041 and ML 5361 and the showing was covered by ML 5518.
- Production History
- Reserves and/or Resources