Ontario Geological Survey
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| Record Name(s) | Escape Lake Road Aplite - 2003 |
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| Record Status | Discretionary Occurrence |
| Date Created | 2016-Jul-07 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-May-10 |
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Primary Commodities: Lithium
Secondary Commodities: Tantalum, Niobium
Township or Area: Tartan Lake Area
Latitude: 48° 42' .07" Longitude: -88° 54' 56.85"
UTM Zone: 16 Easting: 359038 Northing: 5395880 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay South
NTS Grid: 52A11NE
Point Location Description: Sample 01-JBS-88-01 in OFR6099 p. 98
Location Method: Other
Access Description: Travel 23 kilometres North on HWY527 from HWY 17. Turn east onto Escape Road for 5.2 kilometres.
1997: Minfocus International completed linecutting (flagging, blazing and chaining), reconnaissance geological mapping, reconnaissance soil and rock geochemical sampling, and detailed VLF-EM and magnetometer surveying. 2010: John Sheridan covered the occurrence with an AMAG/RAD survey.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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| 2.53711 | 20000007942 | 20000007942 |
| 52A10NW0021 | 52A10NW0021 | 52A10NW0021 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Quetico
Geological Age: Archean
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Pegmatite | 1 | Potassic Pegmatite | Host |
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| Granitoid-Unsubdivided | 2 | Garnet-Muscovite Aplite | Host |
Mar 11, 2020 (Therese Pettigrew) - Sample 01-JBS-88-01 returned 6 ppm Li, 24 ppm Be, 133 ppm Rb, 47.29 ppm Nb, 8 ppm Sn, and 61.65 ppm Ta from a garnet-muscovite aplite (MRD111 Table 20).
Map - Gorham Township and vicinity, District of Thunder Bay, Ontario
Publication Number: ARM48C Scale: 1:63,360 Date: 1997
Author: Macdonald R.D.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Fertile Peraluminous Granites and Related Rare-Element Mineralization in Pegmatites, Superior Province, Northwest and Northeast Ontario: Operation Treasure Hunt
Publication Number: OFR6099 Page: 98 Date: 2003
Author: Breaks F.W., Selway J.B., Tindle A.G.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Data - Electron Microprobe and Bulk Analyses of Fertile Peraluminous Granites and Related Rare-element Pegmatites, Superior Province, Northwest and Northeast Ontario: Operation Treasure Hunt
Publication Number: MRD111 Date: 2002
Author: Tindle A.G., Selway J.B., Breaks F.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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