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| Record Name(s) | Blue Rock - 1952, Amalgamated Rare Earth # 2 Prospect - 1954 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Developed Prospect With Reported Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1981-Sep-23 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Jun-16 |
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Primary Commodities: Uranium
Secondary Commodities: Rare Earth Elements
Township or Area: Monmouth
Latitude: 44° 55' 53.25" Longitude: -78° 14' 45.98"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 717307.999 Northing: 4979025.995 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31D16NE
Point Location Description: shaft
Location Method: AMIS Site Visit
Access Description: East on highway 28 from Tory Hill, turning south on Hadlington Road. South past the exit point of the old Hadlington Road at 2.8km then keeping right at Y junction (0.9km). Go 1km to cross Irondale River and turn right onto 4 x 4 road keeping left 1.9km to capped shaft. Adit is reached following road which ends at flat area of tailings in front of sealed adit portal.
1952-53: Blue Rock Cerium Mines -trenching, 7 DD, ground radiometric survey 1954: Stratmat Limited - Scintillometer survey, trenching and diamond drilling in 7 holes for 201 feet 1954-56: Blue Rock Cerium Mines - mapping, underground development (440 foot shaft on the Main Zone with levels at 100,250 and 400 feet; 3416 feet of drifting and 2456 feet of crosscutting; adit driven to the 100 foot level). 1969: Amalgamated Rare Earth Mines Limited. - radiometric survey. 1974: Imperial Oil - DD 1987-1989: Concentrated Rare Earth Minerals Ltd. - sampling. 2005-El Nino Ventures Inc. - stripping, trenching, sampling. 2007: Boulder Creek Exploration Inc. - DD-9-1989 m
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| 29 | 31D16NE0032 | 31D16NE0032 |
| 28 | 31D16NE0033 | 31D16NE0033 |
| 31 | 31D16NE0034 | 31D16NE0034 |
| 30 | 31D16NE0035 | 31D16NE0035 |
| 63.420 | 31D16NE0047 | 31D16NE0047 |
| 27 | 31D16NE0029 | 31D16NE0029 |
| 42 | 31D16NE0027 | 31D16NE0027 |
| OM87-9-C-165, 63.5229 | 31D16NE0003 | 31D16NE0003 |
| 2.31943 | 20000001270 | 20000001270 |
| 2.36701 | 20000002876 | 20000002876 |
| 63.5542 | 31D16NW8615 | 31D16NW8615 |
Province: Grenville
Subprovince: Central Metasedimentary Belt
Terrane: Elzevir
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Gabbro | 1 | Gabbro | Adjacent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Granite | 2 | Granite | Contains | |
| Pegmatite | 3 | Syenitic | Host |
Feb 23, 2012 (A Wilson) - The property is underlain by bands of amphibolite and marble that strike east to northeast and dip 50-80° S to SE. These rocks are intruded by bodies of metagabbro and granite or granite pegmatite. The radioactive showings are in fractures in the syenitic pegmatite.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Allanite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Fluorite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Fergusonite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 4 | Molybdenite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 5 | Titanite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 6 | Uraninite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 7 | Uranophane | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 8 | Uranothorite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 9 | Zircon | Economic | Ore |
Feb 23, 2012 (A Wilson) - In one exposure peristerite forms a border zone 7.6 cm thick, followed by a wall zone of pink feldspar and black smokey quartz 22.9 cm to 30.5 cm thick. El Nino Ventures collected 21 grab samples from the site and analyses averaged 0.054% U308.
| Rank | Classification |
|---|---|
| 1 | Pegmatite |
| Zone | Year | Category | Tonnes | Reference | Comments | Commodities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rare Earth # 2 | 1957 | Unclassified | 265301 | OFR5311 p. 133 | reserves were estimated at 292,444 tons at 0.095% U308 within 500 feet of the shaft and to a depth of 600 feet | Uranium 0.09 % |
| Rare Earth # 2 | 1957 | Possible | 51455 | OFR5311 p. 133 | 56,720 tons @ 0.120% U3O8 to a depth of 200 feet in the Lake Zone | Uranium 0.12 % |
File - Resident Geologist file OM87-9-C-127
Publication Number: Date:
Author:
Publisher Name:
Location: Tweed RGP office
Publication - Canadian deposits of uranium and thorium; Geological Survey of Canada, Economic Geology Series 16
Publication Number: GSC EconGeol 16 Page: 271 Date: 1952
Author: Lang, A.H.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/102450
Book - Rocks and minerals for the collector: Bancroft - Parry Sound area and southern Ontario; Geological Survey of Canada, Miscellaneous Report 39
Publication Number: Misc Rep 39 Page: 56 Date: 1986
Author: Sabina, A.P.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/121046
Part - Radioactive mineral occurrences in the Bancroft area
Publication Number: ARV65-06 Page: 96-99 Date: 1998
Author: Satterly J., Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Pegmatite mineral resources of Ontario
Publication Number: IMR021 Page: 54 Date: 1997
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Uranium and thorium deposits of southern Ontario
Publication Number: MDC004 Page: 25-26 Date: 1967
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - Columbium (niobium) deposits of Ontario
Publication Number: MDC014 Page: 46 Date: 1971
Author: Ferguson S.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs
Location:
MonoMap - Industrial minerals of the Algonquin region
Publication Number: OFR5425 Page: 249 Date: 1983
Author: Martin W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Uranium and thorium deposits of southern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5311 Page: 132-133 Date: 1981
Author: Gordon J.B., Rybak U.C., Robertson J.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Monmouth Township, Haliburton County
Publication Number: M2174 Scale: 1:31,680 Date: 1970
Author: Armstrong H.S., Gittins J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Precambrian Geology, Gooderham Area
Publication Number: P3405 Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 2000
Author: Lumbers S.B., Vertolli V.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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