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Record: MDI41N02NE00021

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Camray - 1983, Camray Zone 2 - 1985
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Discretionary Occurrence
Date Created 1991-Sep-01
Date Last Modified 2022-Sep-15
Created By
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Uranium



Location

Township or Area: Slater

Latitude: 47° 10' 52.14"    Longitude: -84° 41' 12.84"

UTM Zone: 16    Easting: 675255.951   Northing: 5227890.528    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Sault Ste. Marie

NTS Grid: 41N02NE

Point Location Description: Shaft, adit

Location Method: Field Visit with GPS

Access Description: 650 metres west of Highway 17, 1.65 kilometres north of the northern boundary of the Rankin Mining Location in Slater Township.



Exploration History

1949: Radioactivity and geol. surveys, stripping. An adit 230 feet long was driven under the surface showing. Work was by Camray Mines Ltd.


Assessment Work on File

Assessment Work on File
Office File Number Online Assessment File Identifier Online Assessment File Directory
Slater-0018-A1 41N02NE0073 41N02NE0073
Slater-0022-B1 41N02NE0060 41N02NE0060
Slater-0017-B1 41N02NE0061 41N02NE0061
Slater-0016-A1 41N02NE0072 41N02NE0072

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Abitibi

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Geological Age: Archean  



Geology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (P Beach) - Pitchblende veins occur in tension cracks within Early Precambrian granite near its sheared contact with the footwall of a Keweenawan diabase dike. This dike strikes NW and dips steeply N.




Mineralization

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

Mineral Record Details

References

Map - Montreal River area, District of Algoma, Ontario

Publication Number: M1955-01 Scale: 1:31,680    Date: 1997

Author: Nuffield E.W.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


Part - Geology of the Montreal River area

Publication Number: ARV64-03 Page: 15-19  Date: 1997

Author: Nuffield E.W.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


Mono - Uranium and thorium deposits of northern Ontario

Publication Number: MDC009 Page: 21-22  Date: 1968

Author: Robertson J.A.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


Mono - Uranium and thorium deposits of northern Ontario

Publication Number: MDC025 Page: 45-46  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: 251  Date: 1962

Author: Lang, A.H., Griffith, J.W., Steacy, H.R.

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

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


Book - CAN. INST. MIN. MET. VOL XLII 1949, P 42-46

Publication Number: CIMM XLII Date: 1949

Author: Lang, A.H.

Publisher Name:

Location:


Mono - Report on a pitchblende occurrence at Theano Point, Lake Superior, Ontario

Publication Number: PR1948-09 Date: 1998

Author: Satterly J., Hewitt D.F.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


Mono - Preliminary report on the geology of part of Township 29, Range 14 [Slater Tp.], District of Algoma

Publication Number: PR1950-05 Page: 3-4  Date: 1998

Author: Nuffield E.W.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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Part - Mines of Ontario in 1949

Publication Number: ARV59-02 Page: 98  Date: 1997

Author: Williams I.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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: 138  Date: 1985

Author: Rose, D.G.

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

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


Book - CAN. INST. MINING AND METALLURGY 1949 VOL LII NO 444 P 42-46

Publication Number: CIMM V 52 Date: 1949

Author: Lang, A.H.

Publisher Name:

Location:


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