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Record: MDI41J11SW00011

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Border Pit - 1984
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Discretionary Occurrence
Date Created 1984-Jan-02
Date Last Modified 2022-Apr-26
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Copper



Location

Township or Area: Casson

Latitude: 46° 33' 12.91"    Longitude: -83° 26' 48.52"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 312439.096   Northing: 5158466.281    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Sault Ste. Marie

NTS Grid: 41J11SW

Point Location Description: Trenching

Location Method: Conversion from MDI

Access Description: Pit 150 metres east of the west boundary of Casson Township, 3.1 kilometres north of the south township boundary.



Geology

Province: Southern

Subprovince: Cobalt Basin

Supergroup: Huronian Supergroup

Geological Age: Paleoproterozoic  



Geology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (P Beach) - Quartz sulphide vein cuts a granite - Gowganda Formation contact.




Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
1ChalcopyriteEconomicOre
1HematiteEconomicGangue
2QuartzEconomicGangue

Mineral Record Details

References

Map - Saunders Lake, Algoma District

Publication Number: M2331 Scale: 1:31,680    Date: 1976

Author: Chandler F.W.

Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines

Location:


MonoMap - Geology of the Saunders Lake area, District of Algoma

Publication Number: R155 Date: 1976

Author: Chandler F.W.

Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines

Location:


Map - Geological series, Wakomata Lake area (west half), District of Algoma

Publication Number: P0737 Scale: 1:15,840    Date: 1997

Author: Chandler F.W., Masson S.L., Faust D., Raudsepp M.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs

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: 112  Date: 1985

Author: Rose, D.G.

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

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


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