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| Record Name(s) | Marl Lake - 1990 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Discretionary Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1999-Nov-05 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Sep-27 |
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Primary Commodities: Marl
Township or Area: Whigham
Latitude: 47° 58' 41.43" Longitude: -82° 28' 25.92"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 390010.94 Northing: 5314925.45 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Timmins
NTS Grid: 41O16NW
Point Location Description: Eastern part of Marl Lake.
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: Access to Marl Lake is easy via the Dore Main Haul Road and the Orofino Mine access road. About a klometre east of the Dore road, on the Orofino road, there is a small road heading north and was used to access a gravel quarry. The road continues on to a camp site at the west end of Marl Lake.
1936: Harding, in the course of mapping the area for the government recorded the name Marl Lake but did not give any description. 1990: P. W. Pitman evaluated the marl deposit as a possible neutralizing agent in mine west rock piles and acid lakes. This work confirmed the existence of marl in the bottom of the lake (T-3439 / 2.13938).
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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| T-3439 / 2.13938 | 41O16NW0050 | 41O16NW0050 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Abitibi
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Swayze
Geological Age: Cenozoic
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Clay | 1 | Marl | Host |
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Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - The lake sediment is a grey to buff-brown colour and very fine-grained. Overlying the sediment are some organic sediments.
Aug 16, 2012 (P Bousquet) - Three distinct horizons were drilled at the bottom of Marl Lake: a thin dark green to black organic layer, a dark green to brownish grey marl layer and a grey silt layer.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Calcite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Plagioclase | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 3 | Quartz | Economic | Gangue |
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Sedimentary |
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 1 | Stratiform |
| 2 | Unconsolidated |
| Shape | Length | Thickness | Depth | Strike | Dip | Plunge | Trend | Age | Reference |
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| Tabular |
Map - Geology, Swayze greenstone belt, Rush Lake, Ontario
Publication Number: OF3384c Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 1999
Author: Heather, K B; Shore, G T
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/210451
Part - Geology of the Horwood Lake area
Publication Number: ARV46-02 Date: 1997
Author: Harding W.D.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - Marl in Ontario
Publication Number: IMR028 Date: 1997
Author: Guillet G.R.
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: 618-619 Date: 1995
Author: Fumerton S.L., Houle K.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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