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| Record Name(s) | Atline-Ruffner Allanite Property - 1950, Allanite Bay - 1986 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1986-Jan-13 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Jun-12 |
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Primary Commodities: Rare Earth Elements, Cerium, Lanthanum, Neodymium, Thorium
Township or Area: Key Harbour Area
Latitude: 45° 59' 56" Longitude: -80° 39' 8.04"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 526929 Northing: 5093983 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Sudbury
NTS Grid: 41H15NE, 41I02SE
Point Location Description: Map in Assessment report 41H16NW0002
Location Method: Based on Assessment
1955: Atlin-Ruffner Mines Limited - prospecting, DD. 1986: Raretech Minerals Inc. - DD-24-2690 ft. This showing is now within the French River Provincial Park and is not open for staking.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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| 63A.248 | 41H16NW0002 | 41H16NW0002 |
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Gneiss-Unsubdivided | 1 | Amphibolitic | Host |
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| Pegmatite | 2 | Host |
Apr 21, 2009 (A Wilson) - Elevated rare earth element values are associated with amphbolitic gneisses and narrow pegmatites. Multiple allanite occurrences are found in the area. Allanite (euxenite?) was observed in a band within a garnetiferous diorite at the contact with syenite and gneiss; within a shear in biotite granite gneiss and in seams up to 15 inches wide in pegmatite within amphibolite. The allanite zones can be traced over 150 feet along strike. Some zones of allanite are up to 15 feet wide.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Allanite | Economic | Ore |
Apr 21, 2009 (A Wilson) - Assays from Raretech's diamond drilling returned 5140 ppm Ce, 3510 ppm La, 2285 ppm Nd and 535 Th over 1.7 ft in RT-86-1. A 1.6 ft section of drill core from RT-86-2A returned 7005 ppm Ce, 5410 ppm La, 4235 ppm Nd and 890 ppm Th. A 2.8 ft section of core from RT-86-5A returned 21,930 ppm Ce, 17,750 ppm La, 29,760 ppm Nd and 3345 ppm Th from a pegmatitic section of core. A 2.3 ft section of core from RT-86-20 returned 15,565 ppm Ce, 12,500 ppm La, 14,435 ppm Nd and 2010 ppm Th. Asays from the Atlin-Ruffner diamond drilling returned assays ranging from 2.13% to 4.16% CeO2 combined with 2.71% to 5.2% rare earths.
Part - Nepheline syenite deposits of southern Ontario
Publication Number: ARV69-08 Page: 186-188 Date: 1997
Author: Hewitt D.F., Armstrong H.S., Tilley C.E.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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Map - Bigwood area, districts of Sudbury and Parry Sound, Ontario
Publication Number: M1960F Scale: 1:31,680 Date: 1997
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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