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| Record Name(s) | Selby-Kutchie-Powell - 1935, Crichton and Rivers - 1968, Alur - 1985, Artisan - 1972, Marboy - 1993 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1991-Sep-01 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Apr-26 |
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Primary Commodities: Molybdenum
Secondary Commodities: Copper, Uranium
Township or Area: Gaudette
Latitude: 46° 49' 1.87" Longitude: -83° 58' 55.65"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 272516.38 Northing: 5189167.769 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Sault Ste. Marie
NTS Grid: 41J13SW
Point Location Description: Pit, trenching
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: 800 metres west of the east boundary of Gaudette Township, 3 kilometres north of the south township boundary.
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Abitibi
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Geological Age: Early Precambrian
Dec 07, 2005 (P Beach) - In flat lying pegmatite within biotite gneiss.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Molybdenite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Pitchblende | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 1 | Pyrite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 2 | Quartz | Economic | Gangue |
Date: Mar 04, 2000
Geologist: P Beach
Notes: During 1972, a molybdenum-copper-uranium prospect near the east boundary of Gaudette Township on the Whitman Dam Road was re-activated by Artisan Mining and Milling Co. Ltd. It is an old prospect on land leased from the Algoma Central Railway. During the Second World War, minor amounts of hand-cobbed molybdenum ore were extracted from an open-cut as an emergency war measure, and minor diamond drilling was done at that time to determine whether further devel-opment was warranted. In 1948, Alur Mines Limited re-examined the pro-pect for uranium by trenching and diamond drilling. The recent work by Artistan Mining and Milling Company Limited involved installation of a very small portable crushing plant and tables which were used to treat additional material. The plant failed to produce suitable concentrates and has been removed. The prospect is in paragneiss extending eastward from the Archean Goulais River metavolcanic and metasedimentary belt. At the prospect, the paragneiss has a gentle dip to the northeast of less than 20 degrees and is slightly folded into an open anticline plunging in the same direction. A diabase dike with a NW strike is present on the east side of the prospect. Three distinct, but apparently related, types of mineralization are present. A qtz lens up to 20 feet thick and several hundred feet long is conformable with the gneiss. The coarse white qrtz contains some feldspar crystals and patches of molybdenite, pyrite, and chalcopyrite. An unknown quantity of this vein has been mined by open-cut methods, so that it is now exposed only in a cut facing southwest, and capped by gneiss. Surrounding the vein, the gneiss on both sides is mineralized by up to 20 % pyrite for a thickness of at least 15 feet. Traces of sooty pitchblende were located by the writer in vugs in this material, but most of it contains only barren pyrite. The writer considers this zone to be greisen. (ODM 1974 MP 57 p 89-90). (See also MP 161 P 225-227)
Map - Geological compilation series, Batchawana sheet, districts of Algoma and Sudbury, Sault Ste. Marie Mining Division
Publication Number: P0302 Scale: 1:126,720 Date: 1997
Author: Giblin P.E., Leahy E.J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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:
Part - Mines of Ontario in 1943
Publication Number: ARV53-01.003 Page: 182 Date: 1997
Author: Tower W.O., Smith R.L., Bawden W.E., Cooper D.F., Taylor J.B., Little E.S., Weir E.B., Douglass D.P.
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 - Molybdenum deposits of Ontario
Publication Number: MDC007 Page: 9, 10-11 Date: 1968
Author: Johnston F.J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Folio - Gaudette Township, District of Algoma
Publication Number: GDIF076 Date: 1997
Author: Sault Ste Marie RGO
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: 121 Date: 1985
Author: Rose, D.G.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/129999
Compend - Report of Activities 1992, Resident Geologists
Publication Number: MP161 Page: 225-227 Date: 1993
Author: Fenwick K.G., Pitts A.E., Newsome J.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Compend - Annual report of Resident Geologists Section, Geological Branch, 1967, part 2
Publication Number: MP017 Page: 4 Date: 1968
Author:
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Article - Sault Ste. Marie District
Publication Number: MP057.004 Date: 1997
Author: Rupert R.J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines
Location:
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