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Record: MDI41K09NE00009

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Williams Mine - 1902
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Developed Prospect Without Reported Reserves or Resources
Date Created 1991-Sep-01
Date Last Modified 2022-Jun-09
Created By
Revised By

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Iron



Location

Township or Area: Hodgins

Latitude: 46° 41' 58.73"    Longitude: -84° 6' 4.91"

UTM Zone: 16    Easting: 721596.78   Northing: 5175868.978    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Sault Ste. Marie

NTS Grid: 41K09NE

Point Location Description: Shaft

Location Method: Conversion from MDI

Access Description: At the west boundary of Hodgins Township, 100 metres north of the south township boundary.



Exploration History

1902-1905 Shaft (212 feet), several hundred feet of drifting on 2 levels, 1500 feet of d.d. in 5 holes, and approximately 500 tons of ore mined by the Williams Iron Mines Co. Ltd.


Assessment Work on File

Assessment Work on File
Office File Number Online Assessment File Identifier Online Assessment File Directory
ANDERSON 12-A1 41K09NE0250 41K09NE0250
Anderson 0011, 63A.505 41K09NE0052 41K09NE0052

Geology

Province: Southern

Subprovince: Cobalt Basin

Supergroup: Huronian Supergroup

Geological Age: Paleoproterozoic  



Geology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (G Bennett) - Specularite as veins in sheared Gowganda conglomerate and greywacke.


Nov 08, 2006 (P Beach) - Specularite veins in sheared Gowganda conglomerate and greywacke.




Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
1SpeculariteEconomicOre

Mineral Record Details

References

Book - AFRO 1903-04, #63A.504

Publication Number: AFRO Date: 1903

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Map - Geological series, Jarvis Lake-Garden River area, District of Algoma

Publication Number: P1064 Scale: 1:15,840    Date: 1997

Author: Bennett G., Hillier R.D., Dupuis C.P., Nentwich F., Pucovsky G.M.

Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines

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Map - Geological compilation series, Sault Ste. Marie sheet, District of Algoma

Publication Number: P0303 Scale: 1:126,720    Date: 1997

Author: Giblin P.E., Leahy E.J.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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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

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Part - Sault Ste. Marie area, District of Algoma

Publication Number: ARV35-02.001 Page: 47-48  Date: 1998

Author: McConnell R.G.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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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

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Mono - Iron deposits of Ontario

Publication Number: MDC011 Page: 24  Date: 1968

Author: Shklanka R.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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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: 69-70  Date: 1978

Author: Frarey, M.J.

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

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


Folio - Hodgins Township, District of Algoma

Publication Number: GDIF077 Date: 1997

Author: Sault Ste Marie RGO

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Part - Mines of western Ontario

Publication Number: ARV14-01.003 Page: 59  Date: 1998

Author: Carter W.E.H.

Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines

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Thesis - The Geology of the Sault Ste. Marie Map Area

Publication Number: PhD Thesis Page: 304-305  Date: 1963

Author: Hay, R.E.

Publisher Name: McGill University

Location: SSM RGP


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: 129  Date: 1985

Author: Rose, D.G.

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

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


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