Ontario Geological Survey
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Record Name(s) | Rio Tinto - 1983 |
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Record Status | Occurrence |
Date Created | 1991-Sep-01 |
Date Last Modified | 2022-Jul-21 |
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Primary Commodities: Uranium
Secondary Commodities: Thorium
Township or Area: Aberdeen
Latitude: 46° 29' 49.18" Longitude: -83° 43' 47.55"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 290523.931 Northing: 5152890.365 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Sault Ste. Marie
NTS Grid: 41J05NE
Point Location Description: Pits And Trenches
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
1955: 6 d.d. by Sagamore Exploration. 1956: 6 d.d. totallin 2025 feet by Rio Tinto Exploration Ltd. 1968: Airborne MAG, EM and radiometric surveys by Amax Exploration Inc. 1970: Geol. survey by Amax Exploration Inc.
Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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ABERDEEN 0014 | 41J12SE0023 | 41J12SE0023 |
Province: Southern
Subprovince: Cobalt Basin
Supergroup: Huronian Supergroup
Geological Age: Paleoproterozoic
Dec 07, 2005 (G Bennett) - The greater part of the property is underlain by Upper Mississagi quartzite which dips 10-20 North. It is intruded by Nipissing diabase and cut by late faults. The lowermost part of the lower Mississagi Formation comprises arkose and conglomeratic quartzite on a greenstone basement. The Archean-Huronian contact lies at a depth of 3 000 feet at the nothern part of the property.
Dec 07, 2005 (P Beach) - The prospect is underlain by mafic metavolcanics and pink medium to course grained feldspathic quartzite, brown to green arkosic quartzite, and quartz pebble conglomerate of the Matinenda Formation. Assays of samples from drill holes by Amax Expl. Inc. averaged 0.31 pounds U3O8 per ton over 3.0 feet (OGS 1983 MDC 25 P 8).
Map - Geology, Bruce Mines, Ontario; Geological Survey of Canada, Preliminary Map 32-1962
Publication Number: Map 32-1962 Scale: 1:63,360 Date: 1962
Author: Frarey, M J
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/108824
Map - Sault Ste. Marie-Elliot Lake sheet, geological compilation series, Algoma, Manitoulin and Sudbury districts
Publication Number: M2108 Date: 1967
Author: Giblin P.E., Leahy E.J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Uranium and thorium deposits of northern Ontario
Publication Number: MDC009 Page: 4 Date: 1968
Author: Robertson J.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Sault Ste. Marie-Elliot Lake, geological compilation series, Algoma, Manitoulin and Sudbury districts
Publication Number: M2419 Scale: 1:253,440 Date: 1979
Author: Giblin P.E., Leahy E.J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Uranium and thorium deposits of northern Ontario
Publication Number: MDC025 Page: 8 Date: 1984
Author: Robertson J.A., Gould K.L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Geological compilation series, Sault Ste. Marie sheet, District of Algoma
Publication Number: P0303 Scale: 1:126,720 Date: 1997
Author: Giblin P.E., Leahy E.J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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 Page: 79 Date: 1985
Author: Rose, D.G.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/129999
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