Extract from MINFILE Occurrences: 093H 131
Development status: Quarry Pit
Name: WISHAW, WISHAW LAKE, MCGREGOR PASS
A test quarry north of Wishaw Lake exposed massive, fine to medium-grained, cross-bedded, beige-coloured orthoquartzite which forms part of the Lower Cambrian Gog Group Mahto Formation. The quartzite splits along bedding planes that are 1.0 metre to 2.0 metres apart. Bedding has a uniform strike of 070 degrees and dips 28 degrees south.
The rock is brittle but very strong and competent. The exposed quartzite is between 300 and 350 metres wide of which one third would constitute commercially interesting rock. Several kilometres to the north near Babette Lake a similar occurrence has been investigated (093I 005).
Ava Resources Ltd. initiated road building to the property in 1995. In 1998, a small amount of pink quartzite was submitted for structural quality testing and polishing characteristics.
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