Extract from MINFILE No.: 092INW083
Development status: Past Producer
Name: PAVILION, PAVILION MINE, PAVILLION
The Pavilion mine consists of a 53-metre shaft and about 99 metres of lateral work. The mine saw limited production during the 1930s; no production statistics are available. During shaft sinking operations, an intersection assaying 68.5 grams per tonne gold over 0.9 metre was reported. In 1946, Rudson Mines Ltd. performed 579 metres of diamond drilling in four holes; vein intersections were obtained but no assay data is available. Numerous undocumented surface workings are evident. Prospecting and rock sampling was performed by Ashworth Explorations Limited between 1986-88.
The Big Slide mine (092INW036) is about 1500 metres north of the Pavilion shaft and quartz veins at the Big Slide appear to continue along strike onto the Pavilion property.
The Pavilion mine vein strikes 150 degrees and dips southwest; exposed strike length is over 60 metres. Most of the quartz veins located on the property strike from 290 to 350 degrees, vary from 0.5 to 3.5 metres in width and pinch and swell. Mineralization consists of disseminations and pods of pyrite, arsenopyrite, chalcopyrite, galena and sphalerite. Limonite and malachite staining are also evident. Rock sampling by Ashworth Explorations Limited from 1986 to 1988 yielded up to 2.02 grams per tonne gold, 1.1 per cent copper, 15 grams per tonne silver, 0.5 per cent lead and 12.6 per cent zinc (Assessment Report 18366).
A total of five adits were located that are related to the Pavilion occurrence.
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