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Record: MDI41N02NE00019

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Hennessy - 1983
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: Peever

Latitude: 47° 14' 8.74"    Longitude: -84° 33' 55.13"

UTM Zone: 16    Easting: 684278.341   Northing: 5234239.296    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Sault Ste. Marie

NTS Grid: 41N02NE

Point Location Description: Trenching, stripping

Location Method: Conversion from MDI

Access Description: 1.55 kilometres north of the south boundary of Peever Township, 3.3 kilometres east of the west township boundary.



Exploration History

1950: Trenching and stripping by Hennessy Uranium Expl. Inc.


Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Abitibi

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Geological Age: Archean  



Geology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (P Beach) - Radioactivity in pegmatite dikes within Early Precambrian granite. One sample assayed 0.36 % U3O8, a second assay was 0.02 % U3O8 and 2.4 % ThO2. (OGS 1983 MDC 25 P 38).




Mineral Record Details

References

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

Publication Number: GSC EconGeol 16 Page: 128  Date: 1952

Author: Lang, A.H.

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

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


Map - Geological series, Precambrian geology, Batchawana synoptic project, Mamainse Point-Pancake Bay sheet, District of Algoma

Publication Number: P3062 Scale: 1:50,000    Date: 1987

Author: Grunsky E.C.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


Mono - Uranium and thorium deposits of northern Ontario

Publication Number: MDC025 Page: 38  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: 140  Date: 1985

Author: Rose, D.G.

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

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


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