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Mines - Scottie Gold
This group of four
claims was staked in 1944 by E. G. Langille, of Stewart,
and H. Melville, of Premier. The claims lie in a line along the
west shore of Summit Lake north of the Morris Summit holdings and
extend one claim-length west of the shore.
In 1945 the group was
optioned to Leta Explorations, Limited, and this company did 1,250 feet of
stripping
and open-cutting and 2,730 feet of diamond drilling before dropping the option
in the autumn of 1946.
Erratic mineralization on the
property is within schistose folded siltstones of the
Bowser assemblage. Surface weathering in this zone has produced weak
gossanlike areas extending from the lakeshore west toward the intrusive contact.
The property
is described by White (Ann. Rept., 1946) as follows--
The showings are very irregular
siliceous replacement bodies containing disconnected streaks and large masses of sulphides. The deposits appear unrelated to
any definite
structural features, but several unmineralized northwesterly and
westerly striking
shear zones, having a composite and branching structure into which some
of the
mineralized zones tend to merge and die out, may have some significance.
The sulphide
mineralization, similar to that on the Morris Summit property, is characterized by abundant fine-grained pyrrhotite, with smaller amounts
of pyrite, arsenopyrite, and chalcopyrite, and occasional grains of sphalerite and
galena.
The property shows distribution
and shapes of the mineralized
zones, the diverse nature of shear planes within the composite shear zones,
and the distribution of massive sulphide and siliceous bodies.
The results of 19
channel samples and five samples of selected mineralization taken from the
deposits
are given in tabular form in Figure 38. It will be noted that the gold content is very erratic and apparently is not proportional to the total
amount of sulphides.
Assays of specimens of fairly pure pyrite and of pyrrhotite do not
indicate a preference of gold for either mineral. More study will be necessary to
determine the mineral associations of the gold.
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