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Mines - Lakeshore
The
Crown-granted Lakeshore and located Monitor claims lie on
the south end of Monitor Lake
on the divide separating Cooper
Creek and Long Lake. The
claims were included at times in the
Bush Consolidated Gold Mines
Inc. and Extenuate Gold Mines,
Ltd., holdings.
Apart from a minor amount of surface trenching on quartz-breccia
veins, little exploration was
done.
In 1963, New Indian Mines Ltd. drilled the main
vein on the Lakeshore claim.
Five holes totalling about 1,300 feet were drilled and
surface sections resampled, but results did not warrant a continuation of
the programme.
Two intersecting
fissure veins are readily visible on the claims only a few hundred feet
south of Monitor Lake. One is localized along a northwest-trending,
west-dipping, irregular fissure zone in dark mylonite (pseudoporphyry)
and is typical of the quartz-breccia fissure veins of the area. The main
sulphide is coarse-grained pyrite, and scattered galena and sphalerite
are also visible, but no significant gold-silver values were found.
A more extensive vein trends northerly and is along one
of a number of subparallel
conjugate faults of the Long Lake fault zone which appears to postdate
the northwesterly trending vein. Mineralization is likewise spotty,
but was traced for about
1,000 feet south along the fault into overburden.
A number of smaller quartz veins were located west of Monitor Lake at
about 3,600 feet
elevation on Slate Mountain, localized as flat, irregular lenses in
phyllitic mylonite
subparallel to the Bowser siltstone contact. These small veins have
been explored by two short
adits and scattered pyrite is the only sulphide.
Other quartz veins
are present in the phyllitic siltstones on Slate Mountain, but no
significant sulphide mineralization was found.
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