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| Record Name(s) | Charon Lake Occurrence - 1958, Sandy-Stone - 1958, Ed Gervais - 1955 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1985-Jun-04 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Mar-04 |
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Primary Commodities: Uranium
Township or Area: Kassagimini Lake Area
Latitude: 49° 38' 39.49" Longitude: -86° 0' 32.09"
UTM Zone: 16 Easting: 571550.29 Northing: 5499555.55 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay North
NTS Grid: 42E09NE, 42F12NW
Point Location Description: Drill Holes primarily and some limited surface sampling.
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: The occurrence is located approx. 40 km southeast of Longlac, situated on Hwy. 11. Specifically located 9 km south of the east end of Pagwachuan Lake and 9.5 km east northeast of the settlement of Caramat on the C.N.R. line. Access is via Hwy.11, 15.2 km east of Longlac to secondary Hwy.625 and then southeast to Caramat for approx. 32 km.
1955: Claim group originally staked by Ed Gervais under the direction of P.M.Bortz. 1957: Claim group re-staked (9 claims total - TB 82239 to 242, 82582, 82612 to 614 and 89711) and a limited amount of prospecting was done. 1958: Sandy-Stone Exploration and Development Co. completed 5 DDH's totalling 1081.5 feet on claims TB 82240 and TB 82242 in the southern portion of the claim group. A Ground Radiometric Survey was also conducted over a cut grid.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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| 63.966 | 42E09NE0017 | 42E09NE0017 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Wabigoon
Terrane: Eastern Wabigoon
Belt: Beardmore-Geraldton
Geological Age: Archean
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Pegmatite | 1 | Host |
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| Schist-Unsubdivided | 2 | Adjacent |
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Uraninite | Economic | Ore |
Jun 21, 2017 (G White) - In an assessment report by R.N.Sexsmith for Sandy-Stone Exploration and Development Co. (1958), uranium mineralization (urananite and/or pyrochlore) occurs in pegmatite dykes (forming zones 5 to 50 feet wide and up to 300 feet long) within mica schist of the Quetico Gneissic Belt. On surface, the highest scintilometer readings were obtained where uranium oxide stain was observed in association with coarse biotite in the pegmatite dykes. Sexsmith (1958) also reports that “assay results from selected (surface) samples (collected in 1957 prospecting) ranged from 0.02 to 0.87% U3O8”. The highest assay obtained in drill core was a 3.5 foot section (135.0 - 138.5) from diamond drill hole No. 1 which returned a value of 0.08% U3O8 in biotite-rich pegmatite
Map - Caramat sheet, districts of Cochrane, Thunder Bay and Algoma, geological compilation series
Publication Number: P0551 Scale: 1:126,720 Date: 1997
Author: Innes D.G.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Pegmatite mineral resources of Ontario
Publication Number: IMR021 Scale: Date: 1997
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Publication - Canadian deposits of uranium and thorium; Geological Survey of Canada, Economic Geology Series 16
Publication Number: GSC EconGeol 16 Scale: Date: 1952
Author: Lang, A.H.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/102450
Map - Long Lake-Pagwachuan Lake area, District of Thunder Bay, Ontario
Publication Number: ARM46B Scale: 1:63,360 Date: 1997
Author: Fairbairn H.W., Macdonald R.D.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Uranium and thorium deposits of northern Ontario
Publication Number: MDC009 Scale: Date: 1968
Author: Robertson J.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Caramat-Pagwa River sheet, geological compilation series, Algoma, Cochrane and Thunder Bay districts
Publication Number: M2202 Scale: 1:253,440 Date: 1971
Author: Innes D.G., Ayres L.D.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs
Location:
Mono - Uranium and thorium deposits of northern Ontario
Publication Number: MDC025 Scale: Date: 1984
Author: Robertson J.A., Gould K.L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Uranium occurrences of the Thunder Bay-Nipigon-Marathon area
Publication Number: OFR5634 Scale: Date: 1987
Author: Scott J.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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