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Record: MDI41P09SW00004

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Truss - 1991
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Occurrence
Date Created 1991-Jan-05
Date Last Modified 2024-Jun-27
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Uranium



Location

Township or Area: Auld

Latitude: 47° 30' 7.29"    Longitude: -80° 3' 8.47"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 571367.489   Northing: 5261390.05    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Kirkland Lake

NTS Grid: 41P09SW

Point Location Description: Property symbol 54 (Map 2257) in Lot 4, CON 1

Location Method: Conversion from MDI



Exploration History

1950s: Truss, T. C. trenching, pitting, sampling and assaying. 1953: RGP staff field visit, sampling and property geology description. 1972: ODM staff field visit.


Geology

Province: Southern

Subprovince: Cobalt Basin

Supergroup: Huronian Supergroup

Formation Group: Cobalt Group

Geological Age: Paleoproterozoic  



Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Diabase 1 Contains
Quartz Arenite 2 Quartzite Contains

Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
5ChalcopyriteEconomicOre
10PyriteEconomicOre
EpidoteEconomicGangue
ChloriteAlteration

Mineralization Comments

Jun 27, 2024 (Nazha Sabiri) - A highest assay of 0.07% U3O8 was reported; two other samples assayed 0.01 % and 0.03% U3O8 (radiometric). Radioactivity is confined to chloritic material along fractures in diabase, but insignificant until opened up by blasting (CO-0095).



Mineral Record Details

References

Book - AFCO. TRUSS, T.C.;

Publication Number: AFCO Date: 1996

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Map - Makobe Lake, Timiskaming District

Publication Number: M2257 Scale: 1:63,360    Date: 1973

Author: Card K.D., McIlwaine W.H.

Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines

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MonoMap - Geology of the Maple Mountain area, districts of Timiskaming, Nipissing and Sudbury

Publication Number: R106 Page: 82  Date: 1973

Author: Card K.D., McIlwaine W.H., Meyn H.D.

Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines

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