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Record: MDI42I04NE00003

General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Limestone (Chemical/Flux)

Location

Township or Area: Valentine

Latitude: 50° 14' 7.72"    Longitude: -81° 39' 21.19"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 453224.84   Northing: 5565018.42    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Timmins

NTS Grid: 42I04NE

Point Location Description: Head of Coral Rapids on east bank of Abitibi River

Location Method: Conversion from MDI

Access Description: Township is 130 km north of Smooth Rock Falls. Access is via Highway 655 and Highway 11 from Timmins to Smooth Rock Falls, then north along Hwy 634 to Fraserdale and then via helicopter from Fraserdale.

Exploration History

Pre-1924: Geological Survey of Canada: sampling and assays. Pre-1929:Ontario Department of Mines- sampling and assays.1951: The Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario:- approximately 13 vertical boreholes as engineering tests. 1994: Ontario Geological Survey: Sampling and analyses. 2008-2009: Canadian Orebodies Inc. - DD-9-519, industrial mineral testing

Assessment Work on File

Geology

Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins

Subprovince: Moose River Basin

Geological Age: Paleozoic  

Geology Comments

Mar 20, 2014 (D Draper) - At Coral Rapids, cliffs showing the Moose River and Abitibi River [later Kwataboahegan Fm] limestones can be followed for several hundred feet. The two formations appear to be rather sharply divided, although no angular discordance exists nor any distinct erosional unconformity.

Lithology

Lithology Comments

Mar 20, 2014 (D Draper) - At Coral Rapids the limestone forms cliffs about 40 feet high, extending for 300 yards or more on both sides of the river. The formation varies from pure to somewhat magnesian limestone.

Oct 21, 2009 (A Wilson) - In 2008, Canadian Orebodies Ltd. drilled a fence of 9 diamond drill holes along the western side of the Abitibi River in Valentine Township. Their exploration program intersected approximately 15 m of limestone overlying the Sextant Formation

Mineralization

Mineralization Comments

Mar 20, 2014 (D Draper) - GSC analysis of a hand sample taken from a 25 foot section of massive limestone (east bank of Rapids) returned 95.46% calcium carbonate. Dyer notes that (quote): wherever the Abitibi River formation outcrops the limestone appears to be highly calcareous. Analyses of a hand sample from the west bank returned 97.57%. Two further samples taken more recently, returned 95.71 and 96.60% CaCO3.

Mar 20, 2014 (A Wilson) - Industrial mineral testing completed in 2009 indicated that the stone was suitable for use in a rotary kiln for lime production.

Mineral Record Details

References

File - Resident Geologist files T-1427

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Location: Timmins RGP office

Map - Moose River Basin, District of Cochrane, Ontario

Publication Number: ARM37P Scale: 1:506,880    Date: 1997

Author: Dyer W.S.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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Map - Otter Rapids sheet, District of Cochrane, geological compilation series

Publication Number: P0370 Scale: 1:126,720    Date: 1997

Author: Bennett G., Brown D.D., George P.T.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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Part - Geology and economic deposits of the Moose River basin

Publication Number: ARV37-06.001 Date: 1998

Author: Dyer W.S.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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Part - Limestones of the Moose River and Albany River basins

Publication Number: ARV38-04.006 Date: 1997

Author: Dyer W.S.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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Mono - High-Purity Calcite and Dolomite Resources of Ontario

Publication Number: OFR5954 Date: 1997

Author: Kelly R.I.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Compend - Mesozoic geology and mineral potential of the Moose River Basin

Publication Number: S021 Page: 152  Date: 1982

Author: Telford P.G., Verma H.M.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Publication - Limestone On Abitibi and Mattagami Rivers, Ontario; Summary Report 1924 Part C; Geological Survey of Canada

Publication Number: SumRep 1924 PtC Page: 96  Date: 1925

Author: Malcolm, W.

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/103165

Mono - Industrial minerals of northern Ontario

Publication Number: MDC026 Page: 119  Date: 1985

Author: Vos M.A., Abolins T., McKnight R.L.W., Smith V.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Compend - Summary of Field Work and Other Activities, 1994

Publication Number: MP163 Page: 169  Date: 1994

Author: Baker C.L., Dressler B.O., de Souza H.A.F., Fyon J.A., Kaszycki C.A., Laderoute D.G., Merlino G., Newsome J.W., Owsiacki L., Richardson J.M., Thurston P.C., Wood J.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Publication - Devonian stratigraphy of the Hudson Platform - part I: stratigraphy and economic geology; Geological Survey of Canada, Memoir 379

Publication Number: GSC Memoir 379 Page: 90, 113, Figure 3  Date: 1975

Author: Sanford, B V; Norris, A W

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/103959

Publication - Geology and bibliography of the Hudson Bay Lowlands, Operation Winisk; Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 67-60

Publication Number: Paper 67-60 Date: 1968

Author: Sanford, B V; Norris, A W; Bostock, H H; Bell, R T

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/100932

Map - Precambrian Geology of the Hudson Bay and James Bay Lowlands Region Interpreted from Aeromagnetic Data-South Sheet

Publication Number: P3599-REV Scale: 1:500,000    Date: 2009

Author: Stott G.M.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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