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Record: MDI41J05SE00020

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Webb Occurrence - 1956
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Occurrence
Date Created 1991-Sep-01
Date Last Modified 2022-Apr-26
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Uranium



Location

Township or Area: Lefroy

Latitude: 46° 20' 36.91"    Longitude: -83° 41' 31.75"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 292838   Northing: 5135746    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Sault Ste. Marie

NTS Grid: 41J05SE

Point Location Description: sample locations

Location Method: Based on Assessment

Access Description: Near the north shore of the Thessalon River in northwest Lefroy Township.



Exploration History

1956: Sylvanite Gold Mines Ltd. – sampling, mapping.


Assessment Work on File

Assessment Work on File
Office File Number Online Assessment File Identifier Online Assessment File Directory
Lefroy 0010-A1 41O05SE0017 41O05SE0017
Lefroy 0011-A1 41J05NE0050 41J05NE0050

Geology

Province: Southern

Subprovince: Cobalt Basin

Supergroup: Huronian Supergroup

Geological Age: Paleoproterozoic  



Geology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (P Beach) - Radioactivity in sheared quartzite adjacent to Murray Fault.




Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Quartz Arenite 1 Quartzite Sheared Is

Lithology Comments

Jul 07, 2015 (A Wilson) - Radioactivity in sheared quartzite adjacent to Murray Fault




Mineralization Comments

Jul 07, 2015 (A Wilson) - Two samples of the red colored quartzite were assayed by the Pronto Laboratory with values of 0.13% and 0.12% U308 respectively. The average assay of the outcrop material is 0.02% U308.



Mineral Record Details

Characteristics
Rank Characteristic            
1 Sheared

References

Mono - Uranium and thorium deposits of northern Ontario

Publication Number: MDC025 Page: 63  Date: 1984

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

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


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 Page: 80  Date: 1978

Author: Frarey, M.J.

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

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


Mono - Uranium and thorium deposits of northern Ontario

Publication Number: MDC009 Page: Date: 1968

Author: Robertson J.A.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


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

Publication Number: GSC OF 1087 Page: 80  Date: 1985

Author: Rose, D. G.

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

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


Map - Geology, Bruce Mines-Lake George area, District of Algoma, Ontario

Publication Number: Map 1414A Scale: 1:50,000    Date: 1977

Author: Frarey, M J

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/109095


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:


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