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Record: MDI41K09SE00028

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Boss Lake No 1 - 1985
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Occurrence
Date Created 1991-Sep-01
Date Last Modified 2022-May-17
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Lead

Secondary Commodities: Zinc



Location

Township or Area: Garden River Reserve Area

Latitude: 46° 32' 22.37"    Longitude: -84° 6' 28.48"

UTM Zone: 16    Easting: 721749.592   Northing: 5158061.81    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Sault Ste. Marie

NTS Grid: 41K09SE

Point Location Description: Precise

Location Method: Conversion from MDI

Access Description: 500 metres west of Boss Lake in the Garden River Indian Reserve.



Geology

Province: Southern

Subprovince: Cobalt Basin

Supergroup: Huronian Supergroup

Geological Age: Paleoproterozoic  



Geology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (P Beach) - Sulphides in brecciated limestone in and near a fault.




Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
1GalenaEconomicOre
2SphaleriteEconomicOre
1SpeculariteEconomicGangue
2PyriteEconomicGangue

Mineral Record Details

References

Map - Geology, Sault Ste Marie-Ile Parisienne, Ontario

Publication Number: Map 1181A Scale: 1:63,360    Date: 1964

Author: Hay, R.E.

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/107614


Map - Geology, Sault Ste Marie-Ile Parisienne area, District of Algoma, Ontario; Geological Survey of Canada, "A" Series Map 1412A

Publication Number: Map 1412A Scale: 1:50,000    Date: 1977

Author: Hay, R E; Frarey, M J

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/109093


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 Date: 1978

Author: Frarey, M.J.

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

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


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

Location:


Part - Sault Ste. Marie area, District of Algoma

Publication Number: ARV35-02.001 Page: 46  Date: 1998

Author: McConnell R.G.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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:


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 - Copper, nickel, lead and zinc deposits of Ontario

Publication Number: MDC012 Page: 30-31  Date: 1969

Author: Shklanka R.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


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

Publication Number: PhD Thesis Page: 297  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: 124  Date: 1985

Author: Rose, D.G.

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

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


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