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Record: MDI31E01SE00303

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Hylight - 1991
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Discretionary Occurrence
Date Created 1991-Jan-31
Date Last Modified 2022-May-10
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Uranium



Location

Township or Area: Harcourt

Latitude: 45° 5' .54"    Longitude: -78° 10' 45.17"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 721997.79   Northing: 4996095.576    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario

NTS Grid: 31E01SE

Point Location Description: Point 1.75 km W of Harcourt.

Location Method: Conversion from MDI



Exploration History

1955 : Hylight Uranium Mines Ltd held 37 claims between Farquhar and Elephant Lakes. Stratmat Ltd explored these with 7 DDH (1,946 ft). Only DDH # 1 intersected a few narrow bands of granite pegmatite (S half of lot 12, con 2).


Geology

Province: Grenville

Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic  



Geology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - The property is underlain by marble, amphibolite, paragneiss and granite gneiss cut by granite pegmatite dykes.




Mineral Record Details

References

Part - Radioactive mineral occurrences in the Bancroft area

Publication Number: ARV65-06 Page: 82  Date: 1998

Author: Satterly J., 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: 185  Date: 1981

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

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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File - Resident Geologist Files

Publication Number: Date: 2001

Author:

Publisher Name: Tweed RGP

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