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| Record Name(s) | Cadeau Township - 1991 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Discretionary Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1991-Mar-19 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Jul-18 |
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Primary Commodities: Copper, Silica Sand
Secondary Commodities: Gold, Sulphur/Pyrite
Township or Area: Cadeau
Latitude: 46° 19' 49.42" Longitude: -82° 13' 3.01"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 406289 Northing: 5131478 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Sudbury
NTS Grid: 41J08SE
Point Location Description: Point
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: Starting At Massey on Hwy 17, take Rte 553 north approximately 21km; Turn west on Old Access Road; drive 2.5km; Trench located approximately 62m south through the bush.
1969: S.D. Withers completed percussion drilling on an E-W trending quartz vein with pyrite and chalcopyrite at a GB/GR contact. 1994: Quartec Mineral Development Inc. completed overburden stripping, pit digging, prospecting, diamond drilling, assaying and analyses.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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| Cadeau-SP004 / 2.15669 | 41J08NE0012 | 41J08NE0012 |
| OM94-082 | 41J08NE2023 | 41J08NE2023 |
| Cadeau-0010 | 41I08SW0002 | 41I08SW0002 |
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Quartz Diorite | 1 |
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Jan 28, 2022 (Sheree Hinz) - The area lies north of the Murray fault and is underlain by Archean granite, Keewatin greenstone and Huronian sediments. The area hosts several mafic intrusions which were emplaced into Archean plutonic rocks and mafic to felsic metavolcanics.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Quartz | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 1 | Pyrite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| Marcasite | Alteration |
Jan 28, 2022 (Sheree Hinz) - Quartec Mineral Development Inc. investigated the area in 1994 searching for high-purity quartz. The final results indicated that although satisfactory in low titanium content, high iron and aluminum metals made the occurrence unfavourable.
Book - Bob Komarechka, personal communication
Publication Number: Date: 1996
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Book - DEPT OF EM&R 1975 NTS 41J08
Publication Number: DEMR Date: 1975
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