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| Record Name(s) | York River (A,C,D,E Zones) - 2000, York River Uranium Mines - 2000 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1984-Apr-25 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Jun-17 |
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Primary Commodities: Uranium
Township or Area: Faraday
Latitude: 45° 3' 5.32" Longitude: -77° 52' 51.61"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 273136.388 Northing: 4992707.296 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31F04SW
Point Location Description: Dot symbol ' A,B48 ' between Radio Tower and Waterhouse Lake, lot 6, con 15.
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: All zones accessible by short walks (<0.5 km) from local roads.
1957 : York River Uranium Mines stripped and trenched and drilled on the D Zone. 1977 : Inco metals Ltd (Canadian Nickel Mines Ltd) carried out geological and geophysical surveys and minor drilling on the D, E and G Zones. Drilling in the D Zone has intersected 0.825 % U3O8 over 0.9 ft and 0.163 % over 4.4 ft.
Province: Grenville
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - Widespread but erratic mineralization in pegmatites up to 2 m wide and generally < 0.5 m wide, in the area of the contact between the granite and granite gneiss phases of the Faraday Granite. See OGS, 1981 for a detailed description. Uranothorite and betafite.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Pegmatite | 1 | Contains |
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| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 5 | Biotite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 10 | Betafite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 15 | Calcite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 20 | Uranothorite | Economic | Ore |
Mono - Uranium and thorium deposits of southern Ontario
Publication Number: MDC004 Page: 39-40 Date: 1967
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - Radioactive mineral deposits of the Pembroke-Renfrew area
Publication Number: MDC023 Page: 64-71 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: 231 Date: 1981
Author: Gordon J.B., Rybak U.C., Robertson J.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Pegmatite mineral resources of Ontario
Publication Number: IMR021 Page: 54 Date: 1997
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
File - Resident Geologist files 1957, AFRO # 27
Publication Number: Date: 2000
Author:
Publisher Name:
Location: Tweed RGP
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: 21-3 Date: 1997
Author: Satterly J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs
Location:
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