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Record: MDI41P05NE00004

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s)	Blewett Township Iron - 1901
Related Record Type	Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status	Discretionary Occurrence
Date Created	1996-Jan-26
Date Last Modified	2022-Apr-26
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Iron

Location

Township or Area: Blewett

Latitude: 47° 15' 31.84" Longitude: -81° 29' 49.35"

UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 462395.001 Northing: 5234048.998 UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Timmins

NTS Grid: 41P05NE

Point Location Description: approximate

Location Method: Data Compilation

Geology

Province: Superior

Terrane: Ramsey-Algoma

Geological Age: Neoarchean Geochronological Age: 2673 +/-5 MA Geochron. Age Ref.: GSC OF 3384A

Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type	Rank	Composition	Texture	Relationship
Magnetite Ironstone	1	Magnetite Facies	Banded Iron Formation	Host
Gneiss-Unsubdivided	2			Adjacent

Lithology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (Q Unknown) - Magnetite - jasper iron formation in migmatitic rocks.

Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank	Mineral Name	Class	Economic Mineral Type	Alteration Mineral Type	Alteration Ranking	Alteration Intensity	Alteration Style
1	Magnetite	Economic	Ore

Mineral Record Details

Classification
Rank	Classification
2	Metamorphic
1	Sedimentary

Characteristics
Rank	Characteristic
1	Layered

Mineral Zones - Size and Shape

Zone Name: Detour Lake - Rank 1
Shape	Length	Thickness	Depth	Strike	Dip	Plunge	Trend	Age	Reference
Unknown								N/A	N/A

References

Book - 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

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:

Mono - Iron deposits of Ontario

Publication Number: MDC011 Date: 1968

Author: Shklanka 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: 373-374 Date: 1995

Author: Fumerton S.L., Houle K.A.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

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