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| Record Name(s) | Claymac - 1954 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1994-Aug-11 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-May-24 |
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Primary Commodities: Niobium
Township or Area: Lackner
Latitude: 47° 48' 42.4" Longitude: -83° 4' 47.42"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 344293.19 Northing: 5297474.75 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Timmins
NTS Grid: 41O14SE
Point Location Description: Collar of DDH #6 (Claymac assessment work)
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: Presently access to the area is either via the Lackner Lake logging road being constructed from highway 101 or an ATV trail that approaches from Nemegos and passes west of Lackner Lake. The logging road comes within 2km of the prospect and the trail used to pass within 300m of the prospect. Presently the trail is in good shape to the north end of Lackner Lake but has not been travelled any further by the writer.
1951 The MacDonnell Labrasseur and Derraugh consortium carried out a ground magnetic survey which covered the prospect in the search for magnetite and apatite. Apparently some trenching and pitting had exposed stringers of magnetite together with some chalcopyrite. 1954 Claymac Mines carried out a ground magnetic survey over the northern part of the Lackner Lake Alkalic Complex and nine diamond drill holes were put down to test various anomalies. These holes intersected some disseminated magnetite and assays returned up to 0.15% Nb in hole 6. 2009 : Rare Earth Metals Inc.: Amag, ARAD. 2010: 607205 Canada Inc.: Assays, Pr, ARAD (T-6110). 2016: Labelle, M.F.: Pr, Samp (T-6996).
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| T-2142 / | 41O14SE0015 | 41O14SE0015 |
| T-2145 / | 41O14SE0001 | 41O14SE0001 |
| T-2170 / | 41O14SE0011 | 41O14SE0011 |
| T-2170 / | 41O14SE0012 | 41O14SE0012 |
| T-2170 / | 41O14SE0013 | 41O14SE0013 |
| T-6021 / 2.43542 | 20000005410 | 20000005410 |
| T-6110 / 2.45059 | 20000004627 | 20000004627 |
| T-6996 / 2.57609 | 20000015518 | 20000015518 |
| T-2145 / 63.315 | 41O14SE0038 | 41O14SE0038 |
| T-2170 / 63.553 | 41O14SE9154 | 41O14SE9154 |
Province: Kapuskasing Structural Zone
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic Geochronological Age: 1078 +/- 7 MA Geochron. Age Ref.: OGS STUDY 32, P. 32
Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - The Lackner Lake complex is a circular intrusion consisting of peripheral and core nepheline syenites, separated by a partial ring of alkalic mafic rocks (ijolite and malingite). Magnetite-apatite dikes cut both the mafic and syenitic phases of the complex. Lamprophyre dikes also reportedly cut the complex. The intrusion is enclosed within the gneisses of the Kapuskasing Structural Zone.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Ijolite | 1 | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Syenite | 2 | Nepheline Syenite | Host |
Dec 07, 2005 (S Fumerton) - The mineralization is hosted in a band or ring of ijolite within the more common nepheline syenite of the Lackner Lake complex. Detailed petrographic descriptions of the alkalic complex are given by Hodder (1958), Parsons (1961), and Sage (1983).
Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - Mineralization is hosted by a fine-grained, foliated ijolite in contact with a nephelilne syenite.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pyrochlore | Economic | Ore |
Dec 07, 2005 (S Fumerton) - No description of the mineralization is given though there is a comment about a reddish unidentified mineral in the drill log.
Sep 12, 2018 (A Wilson) - There is no available description of the mineralization. The highest Nb2O3 content was in hole #6, which averaged 0.13% Nb from 203 to 274 feet (T-2170).
| Rank | Classification |
|---|---|
| 1 | Magmatic |
| Shape | Length | Thickness | Depth | Strike | Dip | Plunge | Trend | Age | Reference |
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| Unknown | 3 |
Map - Lackner Lake area, District of Sudbury
Publication Number: M2008 Scale: 1:15,840 Date: 1997
Author: Parsons G.E.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Publication - Alkaline rocks and Niobium deposits near Nemegos, Ontario; Geological Survey of Canada, Paper no. 57-8
Publication Number: Paper 57-8 Page: 2 Date: 1958
Author: Hodder, R.W.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/101225
Map - Chapleau-Foleyet, geological compilation series, Algoma, Cochrane and Sudbury districts
Publication Number: M2221 Scale: 1:253,440 Date: 1976
Author: Thurston P.C., Sage R.P., Siragusa G.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines
Location:
Publication - The alkaline rocks of Canada; Geological Survey of Canada, Bulletin 239
Publication Number: GSC Bull 239 Page: 86 Date: 1976
Author: Currie, K L
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/103981
MonoMap - Niobium-bearing complexes east of Lake Superior
Publication Number: R003 Page: 60 Date: 1997
Author: Parsons G.E.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Compend - Summary of field work, 1976
Publication Number: MP067 Page: 73 Date: 1976
Author: Milne V.G., Cowan W.R., Card K.D., Robertson J.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division 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 Date: 1985
Author: Rose, D.G.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/129999
MonoMap - Columbium (niobium) deposits of Ontario
Publication Number: MDC014 Page: 52 Date: 1971
Author: Ferguson S.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs
Location:
Mono - Geology of the Lackner Lake alkalic rock complex
Publication Number: OFR5408 Date: 1984
Author: Sage R.P.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Geology of carbonatite-alkalic rock complexes in Ontario: Lackner Lake alkalic rock complex, District of Sudbury
Publication Number: S032 Page: 45 Date: 1988
Author: Sage R.P.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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: 168-169 Date: 1995
Author: Fumerton S.L., Houle K.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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