Ontario Geological Survey
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Record Name(s) | Ricban - 1986, Ricban Occurrence - 2000 |
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Related Record Type | Simple |
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Record Status | Occurrence |
Date Created | 1986-Feb-28 |
Date Last Modified | 2022-Jun-17 |
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Primary Commodities: Uranium
Township or Area: Dungannon
Latitude: 45° 6' 52.51" Longitude: -77° 44' 22.75"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 284504.432 Northing: 4999331.364 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31F04SE
Point Location Description: Dot symbol ' A34 ' W of York River in Kings Marsh, NE part of township.
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: Accessible by boat, being 0.4 km W of the York River. It is 1.5 km SE from the E end of the township road between Dungannon and Monteagle townships.
1958-9 : trenching and drilling of 7 holes (2,267 ft / 691.4 m) by Ricban Mines Ltd. This gave a weighted average for these holes of 0.028 % U3O8. There is a small pit (1.3 x 4.8 x 1.5 m deep) on the pegmatite contact.
Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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14 | 31F04SE9466 | 31F04SE9466 |
Province: Grenville
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - Numerous pink-white granitic pegmatite sills and dykes intrude rusty, pyritic gneiss and impure marble. Radioactivity is associated with the pyrite and fractures.
Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Pegmatite | 1 | Contains |
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Map - Geological series, radioactive mineral deposits of the Pembroke-Renfrew area, southern Ontario
Publication Number: P2210 Scale: 1:126,720 Date: 1980
Author: Masson S.L., Gordon J.B., Storey C.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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MonoMap - Radioactive mineral deposits of the Pembroke-Renfrew area
Publication Number: MDC023 Page: 52-53 Date: 1981
Author: Masson S.L., Gordon J.B.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Mono - Uranium and thorium deposits of southern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5311 Date: 1981
Author: Gordon J.B., Rybak U.C., Robertson J.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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