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Record: MDI41N01SW00034

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Adelaide North - 1985, Township 26 Range 13 - 1968
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Occurrence
Date Created 1991-Sep-01
Date Last Modified 2022-May-13
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Iron



Location

Township or Area: Olsen

Latitude: 47° 5' 13.03"    Longitude: -84° 18' 6.1"

UTM Zone: 16    Easting: 704801.724   Northing: 5218360.283    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Sault Ste. Marie

NTS Grid: 41N01SW

Point Location Description: Iron formation

Location Method: Conversion from MDI

Access Description: 3.9 kilometres north of the south boundary of Olsen Township, 3.95 kilometres east of the west township boundary.



Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Abitibi

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Batchawana

Geological Age: Early Precambrian  



Geology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (P Beach) - Several narrow discontinuous bands of quartz magnetite and quartz pyrite iron formation less than 50 feet wide in archean metavolcanics. One band, with a maximum width of 100 feet is composed of pyrite and quartz. (ODM 1968 MRC 11 P 46).




Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
1MagnetiteEconomicOre
2PyriteEconomicOre
1QuartzEconomicGangue

Mineral Record Details

References

Map - Township 26, Range 13 [Olsen Township], District of Algoma

Publication Number: P0363 Scale: 1:15,840    Date: 1997

Author: Armburst G.A.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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Mono - Iron deposits of Ontario

Publication Number: MDC011 Page: 46  Date: 1968

Author: Shklanka R.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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Folio - Olsen Township, District of Algoma

Publication Number: GDIF131 Date: 1997

Author: Sault Ste Marie RGO

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 - Batchawana area, District of Algoma

Publication Number: ARV35-02.002 Page: 77  Date: 1998

Author: Moore E.S.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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Mono - Report Of The Ontario Iron Ore Committee With Appendix 1923

Publication Number: NSP013 Page: 195, 197  Date: 1998

Author:

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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: 134  Date: 1985

Author: Rose, D.G.

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

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


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