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MDI31F04SW00221
| Record Name(s) | Highway 500 Occurrence - 2000 |
|---|---|
| Related Record Type | Simple |
| Record Status | Discretionary Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1986-Mar-04 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Jan-05 |
| Created By | Q Unknown |
| Revised By | C Papertzian |
Primary Commodities: Uranium
Secondary Commodities: Thorium, Tantalum
Township or Area: Dungannon
Latitude: 45° 3' 55.79" Longitude: -77° 45' 39.54"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 282640.399 Northing: 4993935.31 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31F04SW
Point Location Description: Dot symbol ' a 31 ' on Hwy 500, 2.2 km E of Clark Creek.
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: About 7.7 km E of Bancroft. A roadcut on the S side of Hwy 500, 2.4 km W of the York River bridge.
Province: Grenville
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - Granite pegmatite (pink) with syenite intruding ampibolite and biotite gneiss. Anomalous radioactivity confined to an area 0.25 m wide by a few metres long. A reddish syenite sample near the dyke assayed 41 ppm U, 52 ppm Th. The dyke has a quartz core but the margins are feldspar and the radioactivity is concentrated in a hematized fracture.
Map - Geological series, radioactive mineral deposits of the Pembroke-Renfrew area, southern Ontario
Publication Number: P2210 Scale: 1:126,720 Date: 1980
Author: Masson S.L., Gordon J.B., Storey C.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
MonoMap - Radioactive mineral deposits of the Pembroke-Renfrew area
Publication Number: MDC023 Scale: Date: 1981
Author: Masson S.L., Gordon J.B.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Mono - Uranium and thorium deposits of southern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5311 Scale: Date: 1981
Author: Gordon J.B., Rybak U.C., Robertson J.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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