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| Record Name(s) | Ansil Mines Ltd. - 1955, Pencil Creek Occurrence - 1955 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1982-Jan-08 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Mar-22 |
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Primary Commodities: Uranium, Thorium
Township or Area: Cavendish, Cavendish
Latitude: 44° 47' 20.58" Longitude: -78° 20' 59.19"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 709644 Northing: 4962934 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31D16SW
Point Location Description: Most northerly property symbol, ' 2 ', in lot 21, con 11.
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: From Buckhorn travel north on Hwy 507 for 25 km. The site is located 1.6 km to the east of this point.
1955: Silanco Mining and Refining Co. Ltd. -. stripping and trenching (became Ansil Mines Ltd in 1957). 1969 : Louvicourt Goldfields Corp.: magnetometer and scintillometer surveys, 3 DDH. 1978: C.R. Bowdidge - reconnaissance prospecting
Province: Grenville
Subprovince: Central Metasedimentary Belt
Terrane: Elzevir
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Granite | 1 | Leucogranite | Gneissic | Contains |
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| Pegmatite | 2 | Granitic | Host |
Jan 16, 2017 (A Wilson) - The pegmatites cut granitized biotite gneiss and hornblende gneiss that strike 350º to 20º, and dip 40º to 70º W. Radioactive leucogranite cut biotite gneiss or hornblende gneiss striking N10-20º W and dipping 40-70º W. The pegmatites have an exposed length of200 ft and awidth of 25 to 70 ft.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Allanite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Zircon | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Molybdenite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 4 | Uraninite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 5 | Uranothorite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 6 | Uranophane | Economic | Ore |
File - Resident Geologist file Cavendish 82 (MEAP 74)
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Location: Tweed RGP office
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:
Publication - Canadian deposits of uranium and thorium; Geological Survey of Canada, Economic Geology Series 16
Publication Number: GSC EconGeol 16 Page: 256 Date: 1952
Author: Lang, A.H.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/102450
Mono - Pegmatite mineral resources of Ontario
Publication Number: IMR021 Page: 55, 65 Date: 1997
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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Mono - Uranium and thorium deposits of southern Ontario
Publication Number: MDC004 Page: 58 Date: 1967
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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Mono - Uranium and thorium deposits of southern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5311 Page: 486 Date: 1981
Author: Gordon J.B., Rybak U.C., Robertson J.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - An inventory of the mineral resources in Peterborough County
Publication Number: OFR5635 Page: 221-222 Date: 1987
Author: Menard A.G.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
MonoMap - Precambrian Geology of Cavendish Township, Central Metasedimentary Belt, Grenville Province
Publication Number: OFR6229 Date: 2012
Author: Easton R.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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