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Record: MDI41J14NW00013

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) E.B. James - 1968
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Discretionary Occurrence
Date Created 1991-Sep-01
Date Last Modified 2022-Apr-26
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Uranium



Location

Township or Area: Rollins

Latitude: 46° 53' 58.93"    Longitude: -83° 17' 59.62"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 324825.373   Northing: 5196586.465    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Sault Ste. Marie

NTS Grid: 41J14NW

Point Location Description: General

Location Method: Conversion from MDI

Access Description: The location for this occurrence is unknown but it is somewhere in Rollins Township.



Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Abitibi

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Geological Age: Archean  



Geology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (P Beach) - In the NW portion of Rollins Township there is an exposure of alkalic syenite carbonatite and related rocks of the Middle and Late Precambrian Age. A few diabase dikes of Keweenawan age are also present. Two samples contained microscopic grains of sulphide minerals and showed 0.103 % U3O8. (OGS 1983 MDC 25 P 66).




Mineral Record Details

References

Book - Canadian deposits of uranium and thorium, Economic Geology Series 16

Publication Number: GSC EconGeol 16 Page: 283  Date: 1962

Author: Lang, A.H., Griffith, J.W., Steacy, H.R.

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/102450


Mono - Uranium and thorium deposits of northern Ontario

Publication Number: MDC009 Page: 52  Date: 1968

Author: Robertson J.A.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


Mono - Uranium and thorium deposits of northern Ontario

Publication Number: MDC025 Page: 66  Date: 1984

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

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: 122  Date: 1985

Author: Rose, D.G.

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

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


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