Mineral Deposit Inventory for Ontario

Ministry of Energy, Northern Development and Mines

Permanent Link to this Record: MDI000000002380

Deposit: MDI000000002380

General

Mineral Deposit Identification
Deposit Name(s) Wiggins Lake West - 2006
Deposit Status occurrence
Date Created 2020-Feb-25
Date Last Modified 2020-Feb-25
Created By T Pettigrew
Revised By T Pettigrew

Commodities

Primary Commodities: uranium

Location

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

Exploration and Mining History

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.

Assessment Work on File

Assessment Work on File
Office File Number   Online Assessment File Identifier   Online Assessment File Directory  
2.46654     20000005767     Open
2.38666     20000003120     Open

Geology

Province: Southern

Subprovince: Sibley Supergroup

Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic   

Structure
Structure Name Scale Strike Dip Trend Plunge
Goodmorning Lake Fault local

Mineral Deposit Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
gneiss 1
pegmatite 2 host
mafic intrusive 3 diabase sill
breccia 4 host

Mineralization

Deposit Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Habit Description
1 pyrite economic ore
2 fluorite economic ore

Mineralization Comments

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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For detailed information regarding this mineral deposit please contact the Thunder Bay South Resident Geologist District Office