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| Record Name(s) | Lapaska - 1983, Sapaska - 1985 |
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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-Sep-12 |
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Primary Commodities: Uranium
Township or Area: Labonte
Latitude: 47° 20' 25.18" Longitude: -84° 33' 48.3"
UTM Zone: 16 Easting: 684058.686 Northing: 5245863.417 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Sault Ste. Marie
NTS Grid: 41N07SE
Point Location Description: General
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: 200 metres west of Frater Road, 2.8 kilometres north of the south boundary of Labonte Township within Lake Superior Provincial Park.
No prior work was performed on the property before the report done by Lapaska Mines Ltd., in 1949.
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Wawa
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Geological Age: Archean
Dec 07, 2005 (P Beach) - Radioactivity in fracture zone at or near the contact of a Keweenawan diabase dike and the Early Precambrian granite complex. The diabase dike, approximately 70 feet wide, strikes N40E and dips vertically. The 3 foot wide fracture zone strikes N50W and dips 38 SW. The fractures are narrow and are filled with calcite, hematite and probably pitchblende. Radioactivity readings were up to 5 times background. (OGS 1983 MDC 25 P 62).
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Pitchblende | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 1 | Calcite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 2 | Hematite | Economic | Gangue |
File - Resident Geologist files Labonte-0012-A1
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Location: SSM RGP office
Map - Geological series, Precambrian geology, Batchawana synoptic project, Agawa Bay sheet, District of Algoma
Publication Number: P3059 Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 1987
Author: Grunsky E.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Mono - Uranium and thorium deposits of northern Ontario
Publication Number: MDC009 Page: 53 Date: 1968
Author: Robertson J.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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Mono - Uranium and thorium deposits of northern Ontario
Publication Number: MDC025 Page: 62 Date: 1984
Author: Robertson J.A., Gould K.L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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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: 146 Date: 1985
Author: Rose, D.G.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/129999
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