Ministry of Energy, Northern Development and Mines
Permanent Link to this Record: MDI000000002380Deposit Name(s) | Wiggins Lake West - 2006 |
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Deposit Status | occurrence |
Date Created | 2020-Feb-25 |
Date Last Modified | 2020-Feb-25 |
Created By | T Pettigrew |
Revised By | T Pettigrew |
Primary Commodities: uranium
Township or Area: Dorion
Latitude: 48° 48' 40.85" Longitude: -88° 44' 59.24"
UTM Zone: 16 Easting: 371536 Northing: 5407961 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay South
NTS Grid: 52A15SE
Point Location Description: DDH SS-10-003 from assessment report 20000005767
Location Method: based on assessment
2006-09: Benton Resources completed airborne magnetic and radiometric surveys, linecutting, ground magnetics, trenching, prospecting, and sampling. 2010: Benton Resources conducted sampling and drilled 5 DDH totaling 990 m.
Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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2.46654 | 20000005767 | Open |
2.38666 | 20000003120 | Open |
Province: Southern
Subprovince: Sibley Supergroup
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
Structure Name | Scale | Strike | Dip | Trend | Plunge |
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Goodmorning Lake Fault | local |
Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship |
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gneiss | 1 | |||
pegmatite | 2 | host | ||
mafic intrusive | 3 | diabase sill | ||
breccia | 4 | host |
Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Habit Description |
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1 | pyrite | economic | ore | ||||
2 | fluorite | economic | ore |
02/25/2020 (T Pettigrew) - Benton’s best surface uranium showing had 1.01% U3O8 and upwards of 50,000 cps on the spectrometer.
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