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Record: MDI31F04SE00086

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Urban Quebec - 1986, Urban Quebec Occurrence - 2000
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Occurrence
Date Created 1986-Feb-28
Date Last Modified 2022-Sep-12
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Uranium



Location

Township or Area: Dungannon

Latitude: 45° 4' 5.76"    Longitude: -77° 44' 24.75"

UTM Zone: 18    Easting: 284286.409   Northing: 4994187.277    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario

NTS Grid: 31F04SE

Point Location Description: Dot symbol ' A36 ' nearest Hwy 500 and Egan Chute.

Location Method: Conversion from MDI

Access Description: Located on top of a hill 300 m N of Hwy 500. A road turning into the gravel pit 700 m W of the York River bridge provides access.



Exploration History

1968-9 : Trenching, radiometric and magnetic surveys, bulk sampling and drilling by Urban Quebec Mines Ltd. Several pits and trenches were put down on granitic and pegmatitic dykes and sills in gneissic metasediments. The largest trench is 26 m long x 2-4 m wide. Bulk samples assayed 0.037-0.20 % U3O8.


Geology

Province: Grenville

Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic  



Geology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - An area 370 m x 200 m contains several radioactive pegmatite dykes in metasediments. See MDC 23, 1981 for a good description.




Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Pegmatite 1 Contains

Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
5PyriteEconomicOre
10UraniniteEconomicOre

Mineral Record Details

References

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: 54-56  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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Mono - Granitic pegmatites of the Bancroft area, southeastern Ontario

Publication Number: OFR5717 Page: 111  Date: 1990

Author: Goad B.E.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Journal - Northern Miner 1968-9

Publication Number: Date: 1968

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