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| Record Name(s) | Passage Island Quarry - 1900 |
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| Record Status | Prospect |
| Date Created | 2012-Apr-26 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Mar-04 |
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Primary Commodities: Silica
Township or Area: Cutler Area
Latitude: 46° 9' .47" Longitude: -82° 25' 29.45"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 389969.998 Northing: 5111714.999 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Sault Ste. Marie
NTS Grid: 41J07SE
Point Location Description: quarry
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: The site is accessible by boat.
circa-1900: the vein was reportedly worked for smelter flux
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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| I.R.NO.7-11-A | 41J01NW0022 | 41J01NW0022 |
Province: Southern
Subprovince: Cobalt Basin
Supergroup: Huronian Supergroup
Formation Group: Cobalt Group
Geological Age: Paleoproterozoic
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Vein | 1 | Quartz | Is |
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| Diabase | 2 | Diabase | Contains |
May 03, 2012 (A Wilson) - The quartz vein is up to 9 m wide and strikes slightly south of west, gradually swinging westwards across the centre of the island to the west shore, where it is only a few metres wide.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Quartz | Economic | Ore |
May 03, 2012 (A Wilson) - The quartz is white to pale pink and is generally sub-opaque to translucent. Locally the vein is vuggy with small quartz crystals, but is normally massive.
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Vein |
| Shape | Length | Thickness | Depth | Strike | Dip | Plunge | Trend | Age | Reference |
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| Regular | 1000 | 9 |
Publication - North Shore of Lake Huron; Geological Survey of Canada, Memoir 143
Publication Number: GSC Memoir 143 Scale: Date: 1925
Author: Collins, W.H.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/100853
MonoMap - Geology of the Cutler area, District of Algoma
Publication Number: R147 Scale: Date: 1977
Author: Robertson J.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines
Location:
Map - Lewis and Shedden townships and parts of Indian Reserves No. 5 and No. 7, Algoma District
Publication Number: M2315 Scale: 1:31,680 Date: 1977
Author: Robertson J.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines
Location:
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