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| Record Name(s) | Silver Crater - 1984, Baumhour-Campbell - 1984 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Prospect |
| Date Created | 1984-Apr-18 |
| Date Last Modified | 2024-May-13 |
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Primary Commodities: Uranium, Thorium
Township or Area: Faraday
Latitude: 45° 2' 29.22" Longitude: -78° 0' 23.12"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 735769.438 Northing: 4991915.433 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31E01SE
Point Location Description: Trench NE of westernmost property symbol 36
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: From the Bancroft post office turn right, go up the hill and at the top of the hill keep to the left. At the intersection of Hwy 28 E and 28 S turn right onto 28 S. Drive 2.56 km and turn right onto the Monck road. Drive 11.2 km on the Monck road to a white house on the right. A map is obtained at the house and a bush road, just west of the house, is followed for 2.5 km to the mine site.
1954-56 : Silver Crater Mines Limited performed trenching, a magnetometer survey, packsack drilling and 7075 feet of diamond drilling. 1967-69: Fidelity Mining Investments Limited carried out geological, magnetic and radiometric surveys as well as 20 diamond drill holes totalling 8377 feet. 1968: Trenching and radiometric surveys by F.H. Jowsey. 1975: R. Laird performed geological, geochemical, radiometric and magnetic surveys. Brascan Resources performed geological, geophysical and radiometric surveys. 1975-76: Radiometric and radon gas surveys by Kerr Addison Mines Limited. 1977: Airborne electromagnetic and magnetic surveys by Brascan Resources, Projex and R. Laird. 2005: El Nino Ventures Inc.optioned the property covering the Silver Crater - Baumhour - Campbell occurrences and established a grid and performed a grid scintillometer survey. They tied in former trenches and mapped anomalous radioactivity and assayed bedrock samples for U and Th. 2006: El Nino Ventures Inc. continued work with infilling scintillometer surveying. Alphameter surveying was carried out over anomalously radioactive areas and then these areas were trenched.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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| Tweed File Faraday No. 88 | 20000001270 | 20000001270 |
| Tweed File Faraday No. 89 | 20000002622 | 20000002622 |
| 2.2027 | 31E01SE0012 | 31E01SE0012 |
Province: Grenville
Subprovince: Central Metasedimentary Belt
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Granite | 1 | Granite | Contains |
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| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 5 | Allanite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 10 | Titanite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 15 | Uranophane | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 20 | Uranothorite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 25 | Zircon | Economic | Ore |
Mar 20, 2008 (D Laidlaw) - Drill core samples averaged 0.06% U3O8 and the best assay was 0.31% U3O8 over 6 feet.
Part - Radioactive mineral occurrences in the Bancroft area
Publication Number: ARV65-06 Page: 132-134 Date: 1998
Author: Satterly J., Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Uranium and thorium deposits of southern Ontario
Publication Number: MDC004 Page: 35 Date: 1967
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Uranium and thorium deposits of southern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5311 Page: 229-230 Date: 1981
Author: Gordon J.B., Rybak U.C., Robertson J.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Granitic pegmatites of the Bancroft area, southeastern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5717 Page: 118 Date: 1990
Author: Goad B.E.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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