Annual report . Big Dan and Little Dan. On these two deposits considerable work hasbeen done and buildings erected. Big Dan Auriferous Mispickel Deposit The Big Dan mispickel deposit occurs on claim 271, near mihpost 74on the Timiskaming railway about two miles north of Timagami station. Asiding some 250 yards in length was built into the property, but the rails havesince been taken up. The siding was at one time known as Greys siding; trains,however, do not stop at this point now. A mill and other mining l)uildings wereerected some years ago, but a fire has made a clean sweep of tlie i)]
Annual report . Big Dan and Little Dan. On these two deposits considerable work hasbeen done and buildings erected. Big Dan Auriferous Mispickel Deposit The Big Dan mispickel deposit occurs on claim 271, near mihpost 74on the Timiskaming railway about two miles north of Timagami station. Asiding some 250 yards in length was built into the property, but the rails havesince been taken up. The siding was at one time known as Greys siding; trains,however, do not stop at this point now. A mill and other mining l)uildings wereerected some years ago, but a fire has made a clean sweep of tlie i)]ant and notn building now remains. The ore body occurs in a sheared and brecciated zone in basalt of Keewatinage. The basalt in the neighbourhood is massive except along the shear ore occurs in small veinlets and in grains disseminated through the rock. It is difficult to locate these claims from the descriptions Ont. Bur. Mines, Vol. IX, 1899, p. 173. 1920 Windy Lake and Other Nickel Areas 215. 15. M. PART I. 216 Department of Mines No. 4 There is also some pure ore containing many angular fragments of rock, showingthat the country rock has been brecciated and that the ore has subsequently filledin the interstices between the fragments. The ore consists of mispickel, iron pyrites, copper pyrites and quartz and calcite also occur. The shear zone in which the ore is found strikes about north and south, witha steep dip to the west. This zone is gossan-stained on the surface, and has a width,at the tunnel, of about 50 feet and a length of about 1,000 feet. There is a shaftat the north end of the deposit and one near the south end, and there is also atunnel and open cut about midway between the two shafts. The open cut isabout 18 feet wide. The tunnel referred to leads into a slope from which orehas been removed. There are at least three dikes on the property, namely, a quartz-porphyry dike,a diabase dike, and a very basic dike. The quartz-porphyry
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