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| Record Name(s) | R.C. Wager Lithium - 1955, Maligne River - 1955 |
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| Record Status | Discretionary Occurrence |
| Date Created | 2016-Jan-28 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Apr-18 |
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Primary Commodities: Lithium
Township or Area: Snow Lake Area
Latitude: 48° 23' 46.52" Longitude: -91° 46' 47.35"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 590320 Northing: 5361063 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay South
NTS Grid: 52B05NW
Point Location Description: P0188 and description in OFR5388 p. 60
Location Method: Data Compilation
1955: R.C. Wager staked claims. 1956: Property was transferred to International Lithium Mining Company. No assessment reports were found on file. This showing is located inside Quetico Provincial Park and is not open for staking.
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Quetico
Geological Age: Archean
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Gneiss-Unsubdivided | 1 | Biotite And Garnet | Adjacent |
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| Pegmatite | 2 | Host | ||
| Terrigenous-Clastic-Unsubdivided | 3 | Adjacent |
Jan 28, 2016 (Therese Pettigrew) - The property is underlain by steeply dipping Archean biotite gneisses and garnetiferous biotite gneisses trending east-west at a point on the north shore of the previously mentioned pond, the sediments are cut by a pegmatite sill, which is exposed for a length of 40 feet and a width of 25 to 30 feet (OFR5388).
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Spodumene | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Molybdenite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 1 | Feldspar | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 2 | Quartz | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 3 | Muscovite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 4 | Garnet | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 5 | Apatite | Economic | Gangue |
Jan 28, 2016 (Therese Pettigrew) - The pegmatite is coarse-grained and consists of white feldspar, quartz, and spodumene with subordinate pale yellowish-green muscovite and accessory amounts of garnet, apatite and molybdenite. The deposit contains 20 to 25 percent spodumene (visual estimation) (OFR5388).
Mono - Industrial minerals of northern Ontario-supplement 1
Publication Number: OFR5388 Page: 60 Date: 1982
Author: Vos M.A., Abolins T., Smith V.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Geological compilation series, Quetico sheet, districts of Thunder Bay and Rainy River
Publication Number: P0188 Scale: 1:126,720 Date: 1997
Author: Pye E.G., Fenwick K.G.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
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 - Industrial minerals of northern Ontario
Publication Number: MDC026 Page: 148 Date: 1985
Author: Vos M.A., Abolins T., McKnight R.L.W., Smith V.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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