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Record: MDI41I05NE00033

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Pennbec - 1985
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Occurrence
Date Created 1985-May-31
Date Last Modified 2022-Sep-09
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Uranium

Secondary Commodities: Copper



Location

Township or Area: Porter

Latitude: 46° 26' 7.16"    Longitude: -81° 41' 58.51"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 446255.78   Northing: 5142654.399    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Sudbury

NTS Grid: 41I05NE

Point Location Description: General

Location Method: Conversion from MDI

Access Description: 17 MILES WEST OF SUDBURYLOCATED SONE 2700 FT DIRECTLY EAST OF THE EASTERN SHORE OF PORTER lAKE AND ABOUT 4 3/4 MILES DIRECTLY NORTH OF AGNEW LAKE.



Exploration History

1955: Agnew Lake Uranium Gold Mines and New Thurbois Mines, Geological and ground geophysical survey. 1966: Pennbec Mining Corp., scintillometer survey, 3 diamond drill hole program totalling 2,035 feet. 1974: Consolidated Morrison Explorations Ltd., ground geological and geophysical (radiometric) survey, airborne (electromagnetic, magnetic, radiometric) surveys.


Assessment Work on File

Assessment Work on File
Office File Number Online Assessment File Identifier Online Assessment File Directory
Hyman-0024-A1 41I05NE0085 41I05NE0085

Geology

Province: Southern

Subprovince: Cobalt Basin

Supergroup: Huronian Supergroup

Formation Group: Hough Lake Group

Geological Age: Paleoproterozoic  



Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Conglomerate 1 Contains

Mineral Record Details

References

File - Resident Geologist files Joubin-0034, Porter 0012-A1

Publication Number: Date:

Author:

Publisher Name:

Location: SSM RGP office


Map - Porter Township, District of Sudbury, Ontario

Publication Number: M2011 Scale: 1:12,000    Date: 1997

Author: Ginn R.M.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


Publication - Sudbury Timmins Algoma Mineral Program, Project 1: mineral inventory of the Sudbury-Timmins-Sault Ste. Marie region, Ontario

Publication Number: GSC OF 1087 Date: 1985

Author: Rose, D.G

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/129999


Mono - Uranium and thorium deposits of northern Ontario

Publication Number: MDC009 Page: 86  Date: 1968

Author: Robertson J.A.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


Mono - Uranium and thorium deposits of northern Ontario

Publication Number: MDC025 Page: 121  Date: 1984

Author: Robertson J.A., Gould K.L.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


Folio - Porter Township, District of Sudbury

Publication Number: GDIF419 Date: 1997

Author: Sudbury RGO

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


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