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General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Calder Zones - 1953, Manitou Islands Complex - 1971
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Record Status Prospect
Date Created 2009-Jun-03
Date Last Modified 2022-Jul-19
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Niobium, Uranium



Location

Latitude: 46° 16' 18.78"    Longitude: -79° 33' 40.8"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 610851.998   Northing: 5125262.001    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Sudbury

NTS Grid: 31L04NE, 31L05SE

Point Location Description: centre of northern cluster of drill holes on sketch in 31L05SE9796

Location Method: Data Compilation



Exploration History

1953: Beaucage Mines Ltd. -19 surface drill holes (6,610 ft), mapping, ground geophysics


Assessment Work on File

Assessment Work on File
Office File Number Online Assessment File Identifier Online Assessment File Directory
L. NIPIS 18B1 31L04NE9767 31L04NE9767
L. NIPIS 18A1 31L05SE9768 31L05SE9768
L. NIPIS 19A1 31L05SE9769 31L05SE9769
L. NIPIS 20 31L05SE9770 31L05SE9770
L. NIPIS 21 31L05SE9771 31L05SE9771
L. NIPIS 14 31L05SE9772 31L05SE9772
L. NIPIS 15C1 31L05SE9796 31L05SE9796

Geology

Province: Grenville

Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic   Geochronological Age: 570 Ma  



Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Carbonatite-Unsubdivided 1 Contains
Fenite 2 Contains
Syenite 3 Host

Lithology Comments

Jun 03, 2009 (A Wilson) - The uranian pyrochlore is concentrated in two main rock tyes: potassic feldspar-sodic pyroxene rock characterized by reddish feldspar and sodic pyroxene rock composed of sodic pyroxene, biotite, calcite and apatite. Fragments of potassic feldspar-sodic pyroxene rock partly replaced by biotite and sodic pyroxene are common in the sodic pyroxene rock, and both rock types are partly replaced by carbonate and contain a few percent magnetite, pyrite and pyrrhotite. Zones rich in uranian pyrochlore cut across the two rock types and the contact between the two types dips steeply outwards from the centre of the complex.




Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
1PyrochloreEconomicOre
2ApatiteEconomicGangue

Mineralization Comments

Jun 03, 2009 (A Wilson) - Assay values up to 0.48% Nb2O5 over and 0.11% U3O8 over 5 feet were returned from diamond drill core. The pyrochlore is associated with concentrations of apatite in small carbonatite intusions containing about 40% combined apatite, magnetite, biotite and aegirine.



Mineral Record Details

References

MonoMap - Geology of the North Bay area, districts of Nipissing and Parry Sound

Publication Number: R094 Page: 51-52, 83  Date: 1971

Author: Lumbers S.B.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs

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MonoMap - Columbium (niobium) deposits of Ontario

Publication Number: MDC014 Page: 38-39  Date: 1971

Author: Ferguson S.A.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs

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