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| Record Name(s) | Gimby-Hubert Group - 1948 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 2001-Apr-23 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Sep-13 |
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Primary Commodities: Iron
Township or Area: Naveau
Latitude: 47° 52' 6.08" Longitude: -84° 37' 54.53"
UTM Zone: 16 Easting: 677099.95 Northing: 5304383.56 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Sault Ste. Marie
NTS Grid: 41N15SE
Point Location Description: Pits in iron formation
Location Method: Based on Assessment
Access Description: The site is accessible by driving east from Highway 17 along the Scott Falls access road. Cross the power dam and follow a sequence of disused bush roads south of the power line on the south side of the Michpicoten River. Access to the anomaly is by a series of overgrown logging roads around the south end of Mishewawa Lake and from the south side of High Falls dam.
1939: staking. 1940: Towagmac Exploration Company - property optioned, no work conducted. 1948: Jalore Mining Corp. Ltd. - mapping, sampling. 1950 Noranda Mines Ltd. - 9 ddh, trenching.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| Naveau-0013-E1 | 41N15SE0011 | 41N15SE0011 |
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Mafic Schist | 1 | Mafic Metavolcanics | Near |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oxide Ironstone | 2 | Oxide-Facies | Host |
Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - The iron formation consists of three segments. The segments are abruptly terminated by a parallel sequence of faults. The iron formation shows a progression from siliceous magnetite-bearing iron formation upward into massive sulphides consisting of pyrite, pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite with bands of pyritizedschists and patches of magnetite.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Siderite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 1 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 2 | Pyrite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 3 | Pyrrhotite | Economic | Gangue |
Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - An iron analysis from 1948 returned values of 41.25% Fe and 31.48% Fe (total).
| Rank | Classification |
|---|---|
| 1 | Sedimentary |
| Shape | Length | Thickness | Depth | Strike | Dip | Plunge | Trend | Age | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 240 | 25 | 110 | 90 |
File - Resident Geologist files Naveau-0016
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Location: SSM RGP office
Folio - Naveau Township, District of Algoma
Publication Number: GDIF134 Date: 1997
Author: Sault Ste Marie RGO
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Geological series, Precambrian geology, Naveau Township, Algoma District
Publication Number: P2683 Scale: 1:15,840 Date: 1983
Author: Massey N.W.D., Navratil S., Jennings E.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Book - Sudbury Timmins Algoma Mineral Program, Project 1: mineral inventory of the Sudbury-Timmins-Sault Ste. Marie region, Ontario
Publication Number: GSC OF 1087 Page: 177 Date: 1985
Author: Rose, D. G.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/129999
Map - Geological compilation series, Wawa sheet, districts of Algoma and Sudbury
Publication Number: P0640 Scale: 1:126,720 Date: 1997
Author: Leahy E.J., Rupert R.J., Giblin P.E., Giguere J.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs
Location:
Mono - Iron deposits of Ontario
Publication Number: MDC011 Page: 63 Date: 1968
Author: Shklanka R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Pyrite deposits of Ontario
Publication Number: MDC005 Page: 17-18 Date: 1967
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Report Of The Ontario Iron Ore Committee With Appendix 1923
Publication Number: NSP013 Page: 195 Date: 1998
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Location: Timmins RGP
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