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| Record Name(s) | Dreany Iron Range - 1926, Iron Mountain - 1914 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1991-Jan-08 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Sep-16 |
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Primary Commodities: Iron
Township or Area: Finan
Latitude: 48° 20' 43.26" Longitude: -84° 29' 49.43"
UTM Zone: 16 Easting: 685451.42 Northing: 5357713.11 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Sault Ste. Marie
NTS Grid: 42C08SW
Point Location Description: Patented claims in northwest part of township
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: The site is accessible via highway 519 (Dubreuilville Highway) from highway 17 and then via the all weather new Goudreau Road. The Dreany Iron Range crosses the new Goudreau Road approximately 3 km from the cemetary. Access to the outcrops is most easily made by overland traverse from the railway crossing. Alternatively, the outcrops can be accessed by traverse from the main haul road heading north east out of the Dubreuil Forest Products site.
Pre - 1914: discovery, drifting, trenching (shaft on side of hill near creek?). 1918-20: Dreany Iron Mines - trenching, stripping 1941: Goffat - property submission. (WP Finan.34). 1950's - M. A. Hanna Mining Company - sample analysis (WP Finan.22) (WP Finan.34).
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Wawa
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Michipicoten
Tectonic Assemblage: Catfish
Geological Age: Neoarchean Geochronological Age: 2700 MA Geochron. Age Ref.: GOO VOL 1
Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - The Rutledge Iron Range, North Evans Creek Iron Range and the Brant Iron Range are all part of the same formation. It occurs at the bread between intermediate to mafic and intermediate to felsic volcanism of the 2700 Ma cycle. This iron formation occurs at the base of the Dore metasedimentary rocks which are the stratigraphic equivalent to the intermediate to felsic volcanic rocks of the 2700 Ma volcanic cycle.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Intermediate Tuff | 1 | Intermediate To Mafic | Tuff | Footwall |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claystone | 2 | Argillite | Footwall | |
| Magnetite Ironstone | 3 | Magnetite-Facies | Host |
Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - The iron formation is compositionally distinct from the Michipicoten type iron formation. The Dreany consits of thin bedded chert, magnetite, wacke and mior sulphide. The sulphide content may be higher in the western than the eastern portion of this iron range. The iron formation can be followed geophysically through both Finan and Dunphy townships.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Magnetite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 1 | Pyrrhotite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 2 | Grunerite | Economic | Gangue |
Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - The only available analysis indicates a total iron content of 34.19%. Analyses for samples collected in 1940's returned values ranging from 28.88% to 55.32% Fe.
| Rank | Classification |
|---|---|
| 1 | Sedimentary |
| Rank | Characteristic |
|---|---|
| 1 | Concordant |
| 2 | Layered |
| Shape | Length | Thickness | Depth | Strike | Dip | Plunge | Trend | Age | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 1600 | 30 |
File - Resident Geologist files WP Finan-22, WP Finan-34
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Author:
Publisher Name:
Location: SSM RGP office
Folio - Finan Township, District of Algoma
Publication Number: GDIF139 Date: 1997
Author: Sault Ste Marie RGO
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Missinaibi area, Algoma District, Ontario
Publication Number: Map 2050 Scale: 1:63,360 Date: 1926
Author: Collins, W H; Thomson, E
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/108179
Map - Goudreau-Lochalsh area, District of Algoma, Ontario
Publication Number: ARM36B Scale: 1:63,360 Date: 1998
Author: Gledhill T.L., Collins W.H., Thomson E.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Publication - Michipicoten Iron Ranges; Geological Survey of Canada, Memoir 147
Publication Number: GSC Memoir 147 Page: 100, 155-156 Date: 1926
Author: Collins, W H; Quirke, T T; Thomson, E
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/100849
Map - Goudreau gold area, District of Algoma, Ontario
Publication Number: ARM40E Scale: 1:31,680 Date: 1997
Author: Moore E.S.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Iron deposits of Ontario
Publication Number: MDC011 Page: 93 Date: 1968
Author: Shklanka R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Goudreau-Lochalsh area, District of Algoma, Ontario
Publication Number: ARM49G Scale: 1:31,680 Date: 1997
Author: Bruce E.L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Wawa mineral deposits data base
Publication Number: OFR5775 Date: 1991
Author: Frey E.D., Stewart R.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Precambrian geology, Finan Township
Publication Number: P3168 Scale: 1:15,840 Date: 1990
Author: Sage R.P.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
MonoMap - Geology of Aguonie, Bird, Finan and Jacobson Townships, District of Algoma
Publication Number: OFR5588 Page: 102-103 Date: 1993
Author: Sage R.P.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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: 154 Date: 1985
Author: Rose, D. G.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/129999
MonoMap - Geology of Michipicoten Greenstone Belt
Publication Number: OFR5888 Page: 52-54 Date: 1994
Author: Sage R.P.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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