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| Record Name(s) | Whytock - 1954, Whytock-Gray-Elkington Property - 1971 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Prospect |
| Date Created | 1985-Nov-26 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-May-26 |
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Primary Commodities: Uranium, Niobium
Secondary Commodities: Feldspar (Nonmetals), Rare Earth Elements
Township or Area: Miller
Latitude: 45° 0' 36.79" Longitude: -77° 2' 5.83"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 339643.003 Northing: 4986099.995 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31F03SE
Point Location Description: pit
Location Method: AMIS Site Visit
Access Description: From Millers store in Plevna drive east 0.5km to Mountain Road turning left and driving 2.8km to T junction keeping left. Go 1.1km on gravel road then a further 0.5km to a T junction, keep left 3km further turn left on to good trail, at 0.9km go left onto snowmobile trail for a further 0.4km keep right for 0.2km to Pringles hunting camp. Total distance 9.4km.
1954-55: in production. An unknown tonnage was sent to N.B. Davies of Buckingham, Quebec
Province: Grenville
Subprovince: Central Gneiss Belt
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Pegmatite | 1 | Zoned | Host |
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| Granodiorite | 2 | Gneissic | Contains |
Feb 27, 2012 (A Wilson) - A zoned, pink granite pegmatite Intruding biotite gneiss is exposed for 60 feet along strike. The wall zones are graphic granite pegmatite with erratic muscovite. Limited exposures of pegmatite on both sides of the open cut indicate that the pegmatite may be a dike about 50 feet wide. It can be traced to the southeast for an additional 120 feet where it passes under a swamp. The country rock is a dark green, fine-grained biotite gneiss, probably a granitized paragneiss. The gneissic structure in an exposure north of the dump strikes N.35° E., and dips 50° NW.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Feldspar | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Fergusonite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Limonite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 4 | Muscovite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 5 | Pyrochlore | Economic | Ore |
Feb 27, 2012 (A Wilson) - Pyrochlore and fergusonite or samarskite are present. The wall zones are estimated at 0.1% U3O8 over widths of 1.5 to 2.0 metres. In 1954, the property was mined for feldspar with an open cut 150 by 30 feet. The pyrochlore contains 50% Cb2O5. The quartz core of the dike seems to have a constant width of about 4.5 m. The wall zone makes up most of the dike.
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Pegmatite |
Publication - Annual report on the mineral production of Canada during the calendar year 1910; Canada Mines Branch, Publication 143
Publication Number: CMB Pub 143 Page: 218 Date: 1910
Author: McLeish, J
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/307431
Publication - Niobium (columbium) and tantalum in Canada; Geological Survey of Canada, Economic Geology Report 29
Publication Number: GSC EGR 29 Page: 87 Date: 1974
Author: Dawson, K.R.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/103996
Mono - Pegmatite mineral resources of Ontario
Publication Number: IMR021 Page: 61 Date: 1997
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - Columbium (niobium) deposits of Ontario
Publication Number: MDC014 Page: 45 Date: 1971
Author: Ferguson S.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs
Location:
Mono - Some radioactive mineral occurrences in the counties or districts of Frontenac, Haliburton, Hastings, Manitoulin, Nipissing, Parry Sound, Peterborough, and Renfrew
Publication Number: OFR5057 Page: 2-3 Date: 1997
Author: Satterly J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs
Location:
MonoMap - Industrial minerals of the Pembroke-Renfrew area, part 2
Publication Number: MDC022 Page: 122-123, 127-129 Date: 1981
Author: Storey C.C., Vos M.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
MonoMap - Radioactive mineral deposits of the Pembroke-Renfrew area
Publication Number: MDC023 Page: 98-101 Date: 1981
Author: Masson S.L., Gordon J.B.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Uranium and thorium deposits of southern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5311 Page: 36 Date: 1981
Author: Gordon J.B., Rybak U.C., Robertson J.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Part - Radioactive mineral occurrences in the Bancroft area
Publication Number: ARV65-06 Page: 20 Date: 1998
Author: Satterly J., Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - Precambrian Geology of the Cloyne-Plevna-Ompah Area, Northern Mazinaw Domain, Grenville Province
Publication Number: OFR5454 Date: 2006
Author: Easton R.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Precambrian Geology, Cloyne-Plevna-Ompah Area
Publication Number: P3443 Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 2006
Author: Easton R.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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