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| Record Name(s) | F.D. Roche - 1955 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Discretionary Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1991-Sep-01 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Apr-26 |
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Primary Commodities: Uranium
Township or Area: Rix
Latitude: 47° 14' 17.25" Longitude: -84° 36' 48.46"
UTM Zone: 16 Easting: 680626.301 Northing: 5234389.352 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Sault Ste. Marie
NTS Grid: 41N02NE
Point Location Description: General
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: 200 metres south of Highway 17, 400 metres west of the east boundary of Rix township.
1949: Prospecting and stripping by F.D. Roche.
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Abitibi
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Geological Age: Archean
Dec 07, 2005 (G Bennett) - A Keweenan diabase dike (the Ranson dike) cuts Archean granite complex. Radioactive fractures occur in the dike.
Dec 07, 2005 (P Beach) - Radioactive anomaly occurs in fractures at the contact of a Keweenawan diabase dike and Early Precambrian granite. The fractures in the diabase are filled with a calcite-hematite gangue containing some pitchblende.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pitchblende | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 1 | Calcite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 2 | Hematite | Economic | Gangue |
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:
Part - Geology of the Montreal River area
Publication Number: ARV64-03 Page: 26 Date: 1997
Author: Nuffield E.W.
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:
Mono - Uranium and thorium deposits of northern Ontario
Publication Number: MDC009 Page: 25 Date: 1968
Author: Robertson J.A.
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 - 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:
Book - Canadian deposits of uranium and thorium, Economic Geology Series 16
Publication Number: GSC EconGeol 16 Page: 135 Date: 1952
Author: Lang, A.H.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/102450
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: 144 Date: 1985
Author: Rose, D.G.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/129999
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