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| Record Name(s) | Ramsey Lake - 1991, Cat Bay - 1962, Ramsay Lake - 1984, Elizabeth - 1991 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Discretionary Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1991-Feb-16 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Sep-23 |
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Primary Commodities: Molybdenum
Township or Area: Elizabeth
Latitude: 47° 15' 55.39" Longitude: -82° 16' 18.05"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 403800.16 Northing: 5235440.48 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Timmins
NTS Grid: 41O08SW
Point Location Description: File opened from the MDI, GR157, GSC OFR 1087 but not researched.
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: The site is accessible only by boat. The showing is located on the east side of an island in Ramsey Lake.
1959: Canadian Pacific Railway - geological mapping.
Province: Superior
Terrane: Ramsey-Algoma
Geological Age: Neoarchean Geochronological Age: 2715 +/-3 MA Geochron. Age Ref.: OF 3384A
Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - This area is the Biscotasing arm of the Swayze greenstone belt and contains rocks that are highly strained and metamorphosed to amphibolite facies. Primary stratigraphic relationships are obscured. Rocks of this Biscotasing area appear to be a southwestward extension of the units exposed in Cunningham ad Blamey township areas.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Pegmatite | 1 | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gneiss-Unsubdivided | 2 | Near |
Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - The showing is hosted within a coarse-grained pegmatitic granite consisting of molybdenite, magnetite, bioitite, quartz and feldspar.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Molybdenite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 1 | Magnetite | Economic | Gangue |
Jun 18, 2013 (A Wilson) - Only a small bleb of molybdenite was observed within a pegmatite mass (R007).
Dec 07, 2005 (Q Unknown) - Small bleb (<10mm) in a pegmatite.
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Magmatic |
| Shape | Length | Thickness | Depth | Strike | Dip | Plunge | Trend | Age | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | N/A | N/A |
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: 41O-30 Date: 1985
Author: Rose, D. G.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/129999
File - Resident Geologist files T-4298
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Location: Timmins RGP office
Map - Biscotasing area, District of Sudbury, Ontario
Publication Number: M2013 Scale: 1:63,360 Date: 1997
Author: Rogers D.P.
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:
MonoMap - Geology of the Biscotasing area, District of Sudbury
Publication Number: R007 Page: 32 Date: 1997
Author: Rogers D.P.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Geology, Swayze greenstone belt, Biscotasing, Ontario
Publication Number: OF 3384H Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 1999
Author: Heather, K B; Shore, G T
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/210458
Mono - Molybdenum deposits of Ontario
Publication Number: MDC007 Page: 68 Date: 1968
Author: Johnston F.J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - Mineral Prospects of the Swayze Greenstone Belt (Volume 1, Parts of NTS 41 O and Volume 2, Parts of NTS 41 P, 42 A and 42 B)
Publication Number: OFR5912 Page: 10 Date: 1995
Author: Fumerton S.L., Houle K.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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