Ontario Geological Survey
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| Record Name(s) | Harvie Creek Molybdenum - 1959, Riocanex - 1981 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Discretionary Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1991-Apr-02 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-May-09 |
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Primary Commodities: Molybdenum
Township or Area: Upper Aguasabon Lake Area
Latitude: 49° 1' 14.12" Longitude: -87° 10' 58.34"
UTM Zone: 16 Easting: 486629.78 Northing: 5429760.81 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay South
NTS Grid: 42E03SE
Point Location Description: Mo point on OGS map P2556
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: About KM 32 (mile 20) on the Kimberly-Clark Aguasabon Road, on the east side of a small lake alongside the road.
1959: Burrex ’59 Syndicate carried out ground self-potential and dip-needle magnetite surveys and prospecting. 1981: Rio Tinto Canadian Exploration (Riocanex) carried out prospecting. 1985: Golden Range Resources carried out mapping, prospecting, soil sampling, and magnetic and EM surveys. 2004: D. Johnson conducted prospecting, stripping and sampling.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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| 2.28912 | 20000000235 | 20000000235 |
| 2.10064 | 42E03SE0002 | 42E03SE0002 |
| 2.8766 | 42E03SE0003 | 42E03SE0003 |
| 63.4765 | 42E03SE0008 | 42E03SE0008 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Wawa
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Schreiber-Hemlo
Geological Age: Archean
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Vein | 1 |
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Sep 27, 2019 (Therese Pettigrew) - Samples collected in the general area of the showing were described as fine grey rock with chalky white veins up to 0.5 mm wide, rust stained, with 5-10% very fine-grained sulphides (Assessment report 200000002350).
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Molybdenite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Pyrrhotite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 4 | Graphite | Economic | Ore |
Sep 27, 2019 (Therese Pettigrew) - A number of east-trending anomalies were found with associated pyrite, pyrrhotite, graphite, and molybdenite mineralization (Carter, 1982; Thunder Bay RGP Mineral Deposit files).
File - Resident Geologist Mineral Deposit Files
Publication Number: Min Dep Date: 1996
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Location: Thunder Bay RGP
Map - Geological series, Precambrian geology of the Terrace Bay area, northwest sheet, Thunder Bay District
Publication Number: P2556 Scale: 1:15,840 Date: 1982
Author: Carter M.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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