Ontario Geological Survey
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Record Name(s) | MoS2 Caulfield - 1983 |
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Related Record Type | Simple |
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Record Status | Discretionary Occurrence |
Date Created | 1991-Apr-01 |
Date Last Modified | 2022-May-09 |
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Primary Commodities: Molybdenum
Secondary Commodities: Copper
Township or Area: Wabikoba Lake Area
Latitude: 48° 43' 18.59" Longitude: -85° 57' 20.11"
UTM Zone: 16 Easting: 576815 Northing: 5397060 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay South
NTS Grid: 42C12NW
Point Location Description: Point 36 on OGS map M2614
Location Method: Data Compilation
1983: Caulfield Resources carried out soil sampling, magnetometer and VLF-EM surveys, and drilled 3 DDH totalling 593.3 m. 2003: Williams Operation Corp. conducted magnetometric and VLF-EM surveys.
Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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22 | 42C12NW0128 | 42C12NW0128 |
2.5898 | 42C12NW0107 | 42C12NW0107 |
63.4392 | 42C12NW0032 | 42C12NW0032 |
2.5873 | 42C12NW0114 | 42C12NW0114 |
2.5136 | 42C12NW0140 | 42C12NW0140 |
2.5667 | 42C12NW0132 | 42C12NW0132 |
2.26328 | 42C12NW2007 | 42C12NW2007 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Wawa
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Schreiber-Hemlo
Geological Age: Archean
Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Intermediate Tuff | 1 | Tuff |
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Siltstone | 2 | Argillaceous | ||
Vein | 3 | Quartz | Host |
Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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1 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
2 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
3 | Molybdenite | Economic | Ore | ||||
4 | Pyrrhotite | Economic | Ore |
Mar 22, 2019 (Therese Pettigrew) - Muir (2000) describes the showing as clots and disseminated molybdenite and pyrite in quartz veinlets in intermediate tuff and argillaceous sediments. DDH 421-83-1 assayed up to 84 ppm Cu and 36 ppm Ni from interbedded argillaceous metasediments and ash tuff. DDH 427-83-2 assayed up to 46 ppm Ni (Assessment file 42C12NW0128).
File - Resident Geologist Mineral Deposit Files
Publication Number: Min Dep Date: 1996
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Location: Thunder Bay RGP
Map - Geological Compilation of the Eastern Half of the Schreiber-Hemlo Greenstone Belt
Publication Number: M2614 Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 2000
Author: Muir T.L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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