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Record: MDI31D09NW00108

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) R. W. Drude - 1977
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Occurrence
Date Created 1993-Mar-04
Date Last Modified 2023-Aug-23
Created By
Revised By

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Uranium



Location

Township or Area: Cavendish

Latitude: 44° 43' 10.32"    Longitude: -78° 24' 16.31"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 705559   Northing: 4955072    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario

NTS Grid: 31D09NW

Point Location Description: Point 2.8 km west-northwest of Mountain Lake.

Location Method: Data Compilation



Exploration History

1955: Silanco Mining and Refining Company – DD-9-3765 ft. 1969: Louvicourt Goldfield Corporation- magnetometer and scintillometer survey. 1976-77 : R.W. Drude – airborne radiometric and magnetometer surveys; trenching, sampling


Assessment Work on File

Assessment Work on File
Office File Number Online Assessment File Identifier Online Assessment File Directory
63.254 31D09NW8544 31D09NW8544
2.2258 31D16SW9000 31D16SW9000
2.2601 31D09NW8573 31D09NW8573

Geology

Province: Grenville

Subprovince: Central Metasedimentary Belt

Terrane: Elzevir

Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic  



Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Syenite 1 Biotite-Quartz Gneissic Host
Pegmatite 2 Granititc To Syenitic Host

Mineralization Comments

Jan 17, 2017 (A Wilson) - Assays from the trenches returned values ranging from 0.048 to 0.216% U3O8. Assays from R.M. Easton’s mapping returned values of 212 U and 236 Th.



Mineral Record Details

Classification
RankClassification            
1 Pegmatite
Characteristics
Rank Characteristic            
1 Intrusive

References

Mono - Uranium and thorium deposits of southern Ontario

Publication Number: OFR5311 Page: 517  Date: 1981

Author: Gordon J.B., Rybak U.C., Robertson J.A.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


Map - Precambrian Geology of Cavendish Township and Environs, Grenville Province

Publication Number: P3605 Scale: 1:20,000    Date: 2010

Author: Easton R.M.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


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