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MDI52B01NW00007
| Record Name(s) | North Lake - 1950 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1984-Feb-01 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Mar-02 |
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Primary Commodities: Iron
Township or Area: Prelate Lake Area
Latitude: 48° 8' 37.37" Longitude: -90° 27' 16.59"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 689340.16 Northing: 5335407.01 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay South
NTS Grid: 52B01NW
Point Location Description: Precise
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
1950s: Sheritt-Gordon Mines Ltd. drilled 4 DDH.
Province: Southern
Formation Group: Animikie Group
Geological Age: Paleoproterozoic
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Ironstone-unsubdivided | 1 | Taconite | Is |
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| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Magnetite | Economic | Ore |
Mar 29, 2018 (Therese Pettigrew) - Samples from S and SW shores of Addie Lake assayed 32.2 and 26.9% Fe, and gave a magnetic concentrate of 55.5 and 51.9% Fe at -200M with 36.5 and 29.0% weight recovery (Shklanka, 1968).
Map - Atikokan-Lakehead sheet, geological compilation series, Kenora, Rainy River and Thunder Bay districts
Publication Number: M2065 Scale: 1:253,440 Date: 1997
Author: Pye E.G., Fenwick K.G.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Iron deposits of Ontario
Publication Number: MDC011 Scale: Date: 1968
Author: Shklanka R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Part - Gunflint iron formation of the Whitefish Lake area, District of Thunder Bay
Publication Number: ARV69-07.002 Scale: Date: 1998
Author: Goodwin A.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
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