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Record: MDI42I05NW00004

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Ranoke 74-5 - 1974
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Discretionary Occurrence
Date Created 1995-Mar-24
Date Last Modified 2022-Oct-07
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Kimberlite



Location

Township or Area: Hogg

Latitude: 50° 26' 13.32"    Longitude: -81° 45' 26.34"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 446219.26   Northing: 5587497.94    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Timmins

NTS Grid: 42I05NW

Point Location Description: Collar location as indicated in T-1581

Location Method: Based on Assessment

Access Description:



Exploration History

1972-75: Aquitaine Company of Canada Ltd --High sensitivity airborne Mag survey, Ground geophysical surveys (resistivity; magneto-telluric; refraction seismic and gravity), Diamond drilling; downhole geophysics (resistivity; IP; SP; velocity; gamma-ray), Geochemical analyses of core. 1995: Falconbridge Limited - Geochemical analyses.


Assessment Work on File

Assessment Work on File
Office File Number Online Assessment File Identifier Online Assessment File Directory
T-1581 / 83.1-118 42I11SE0003 42I11SE0003

Geology

Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins

Subprovince: Moose River Basin



Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Kimberlite-Unsubdivided 1 Is

Mineralization Comments

Mar 20, 2014 (D Draper) - DDH Ranoke 74-5 drilled vertically to 612 ft depth. Last 10 feet of hole logged as (Q): Highly altered, greenish, sericite and talcum schist (Schistosity seems nearly vertical). Probably altered serpentinite.* With footnote on log (Q): *The serpentinite and associated rocks could be a post-Middle Devonian sill, common in the area. It could be classified as a kimberlite.



Mineral Record Details

Classification
RankClassification            
1 Kimberlite

References

File - Resident Geologist files T-4452

Publication Number: Date:

Author:

Publisher Name:

Location: Timmins RGP office


Map - Known Kimberlites of Eastern Ontario

Publication Number: P3321 Scale: 1:50,000    Date: 1995

Author: Zalnieriunas R.V., Sage R.P.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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