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Record: MDI41J05NE00058

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Leeburn - 1968
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Occurrence
Date Created 1991-Sep-01
Date Last Modified 2023-Mar-27
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Iron



Location

Township or Area: Aberdeen

Latitude: 46° 29' 12.13"    Longitude: -83° 49' 40.04"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 282969.949   Northing: 5152011.445    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Sault Ste. Marie

NTS Grid: 41J05NE

Point Location Description: Shaft

Location Method: Field Visit with GPS

Access Description: South half of Lot 12 Concession IV of Aberdeen Township.



Exploration History

1903: 4 d.d. holes. Pre 1917: 32 foot shaft.


Geology

Province: Southern

Subprovince: Cobalt Basin

Supergroup: Huronian Supergroup

Geological Age: Paleoproterozoic  



Geology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (P Beach) - NW trending zone approzimately 3 miles long containing lenses of massive and disseminated hematite associated with slate in Lorrain Quartzite. Thicknesses up to 10 feet have been recorded.




Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
1HematiteEconomicOre
2SpeculariteEconomicOre

Mineral Record Details

References

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:


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:


Part - Mines of western Ontario

Publication Number: ARV13-01.005 Page: 76  Date: 1998

Author: Carter W.E.H.

Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines

Location:


Mono - Iron deposits of Ontario

Publication Number: MDC011 Page: 18  Date: 1968

Author: Shklanka R.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


Publication - Iron ore occurrences in Canada; Canada Mines Branch, Publication 217

Publication Number: CMB Pub 217 Page: 88  Date: 1917

Author: Lindeman, M E; Bolton, L L; Robinson, A H A

Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/305364


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: 78  Date: 1985

Author: Rose, D.G.

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

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


Publication - Geology of the Huronian belt between Sault Ste Marie and Blind River Ontario; Geological Survey of Canada, Memoir 383

Publication Number: GSC Memoir 383 Date: 1978

Author: Frarey, M.J.

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/104548


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