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Record: MDI31E01SE00331

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Waterslide - 1978, Opawica - 1978
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Occurrence
Date Created 1993-Mar-02
Date Last Modified 2023-Jun-13
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Uranium

Secondary Commodities: Rare Earth Elements



Location

Township or Area: Cardiff

Latitude: 45° 1' 1.22"    Longitude: -78° 8' 5.14"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 725757.803   Northing: 4988833.851    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario

NTS Grid: 31E01SE

Point Location Description: Point on SE shore of Drury's Pond.

Location Method: Conversion from MDI



Exploration History

Includes Mindus property. 1978 : geology, radiometric and geophysics with trenching by Opawica Exploration Inc. Waterslide showing - AFRO # 204, 221 - REE.


Assessment Work on File

Assessment Work on File
Office File Number Online Assessment File Identifier Online Assessment File Directory
63.5072 31E01SE0024 31E01SE0024
2.2756 31D16NE0397 31D16NE0397
2.2836 31E01SE0034 31E01SE0034



Geology Comments

Jun 13, 2023 (Therese Pettigrew) - The property lies along the southwestern flank of the Cardiff Dome and straddles the contact of a thick sequence of feldspathic meta-arenite-metawacke with an overlying band of potassic syenite gneisses containing minor interlayers of para-amphibolite and potash metasomatized, siliceous clastic metasediments (Bight, 1987).




Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Pegmatite 1 granite dyke Host
Felsic Gneiss 2 syenite Adjacent
Syenite 3

Mineralization Comments

Jun 13, 2023 (Therese Pettigrew) - A radioactive granite pegmatite dike in the syenite gneiss near the east shore of the small lake on lot 11, concession XVI was trenched and sampled at several places along its strike length of 140 m. Assays reported from these trenches are 0.40 Ibs U308 per ton over 45 cm to 2.80 pounds U308 per ton over 15 cm (Assessment Files Research Office, Ontario Geological Survey, Toronto; Bight, 1987).



Mineral Record Details

References

Mono - Precambrian geology of the Centre Lake area, Haliburton and Hastings counties

Publication Number: OFR5658 Page: 28-9  Date: 1987

Author: Bright E.G.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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