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| Record Name(s) | Kerr Addison DH CR-78-10 - 1978 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 2004-Aug-18 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Oct-07 |
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Primary Commodities: Thorium
Township or Area: Pitt
Latitude: 50° 12' 29.25" Longitude: -81° 39' 40.63"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 452812.72 Northing: 5561980.511 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Timmins
NTS Grid: 42I04NE
Point Location Description: Precise:Collar of hole CR-78-10 SW of ONR rail line,1 km west of foot of Sextant Rapids, Abitibi R.
Location Method: Based on Assessment
Access Description: Via highway 634 north from Smooth Rock Falls 75km to Fraserdale, then by Ontario Hydro all-weather gravel road north 55km to the Otter Rapids generating station on Abitibi River. (T-4708) ONR rail line roughly parallels west bank of river.
1978, Kerr Addison/Denison Mines (Lic. of Occ. #14879): Reverse circulation drilling, assays, downhole radiometric survey.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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| T-1904, 83.1-127 | 42I16NW0006 | 42I16NW0006 |
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Subprovince: Moose River Basin
Geological Age: Paleozoic Geochronological Age: LOWER DEVONIAN
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Siltstone | 1 | Host |
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Dec 07, 2005 (D Draper) - Vertical hole drilled to depth of 80.8m to test extent of radiometric anomalies encountered in holes CR-78-1 and CR-78-2 (750m NW and SE of 78-10 respectively, along rail-line). Sextant Formation sediments were interesected from 24.1m to 77.4m. Thorium anomaly encountered in reddish gritstone and siltstone at base of Fm. just above gneissic basement rock.
Dec 07, 2005 (D Draper) - Sample from 245 - 250ft (74.7 - 76.2m) assayed at 330ppm thorium. A sample from Pleistocene overburden at a depth of 33.5m returned 100ppm Th and 8ppm U.
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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