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| Record Name(s) | Grand Rapids - East - 1920 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Prospect |
| Date Created | 2002-Sep-13 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Oct-07 |
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Primary Commodities: Iron
Township or Area: Hogg
Latitude: 50° 24' 11.94" Longitude: -81° 47' 51.63"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 443313 Northing: 5583779 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Timmins
NTS Grid: 42I05NW
Point Location Description: Centre of Mattagami River at foot of Grand Rapids (east end of rapids)
Location Method: Other Literature
Access Description: By river, approximately 110 miles north of Mattagami railway station. Via Coral Rapids: from mileage 96 on the Moosonee branch of the Ontario Northland Railway, a 14-mile long winter road runs diagonally across Kilmer Twp. to Mattagami R. Or, from ONR mileage 112, an old road ran westward to an old lumber camp on the Onakawana R. This road was apparently extended by Dewson Mines in 1949 to access their drill site on the Mattagami on the south bank of the river, just west of the iron ore zone at the head of Grand Rapids. (1949, AF T-405).
Pre-1910: Unidentified company: Report of minor drilling at foot of rapids. 1910- Ont. Bureau of Mines: Field examination, sampling. 1919: J.G. Cross, Ont. Dept. of Mines - Reconnaissance survey, sampling. 1931: Dominion Observatory - Mag survey. 1933: Dominion Observatory - Mag and gravity surveys. 1955: Goodwin property report. 1980: B.P. Selco - Airborne EM survey. 1981: B.P. Selco - Airborne Mag survey.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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| T-2408 | 42I06NW8208 | 42I06NW8208 |
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Subprovince: Moose River Basin
Geological Age: Mesozoic Geochronological Age: Early Cretaceous Geochron. Age Ref.: GSC Memoir 379, Pt.1, p.92
Dec 07, 2005 (D Draper) - At Grand Rapids beds of Abitibi River limestone outcrop on both sides of the Mattagami for a distance of two miles. The rock is gray-buff in coulour, semi-crystalline and porous. On the north side at the head of the rapids the beds have an apparent dip of 1 degree upstream. Structurally there is a well developed east-west jointing which suggests regional folding. (AF T-405).
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Limestone | 1 | Near |
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Mar 19, 2014 (D Draper) - The mineralization (limonite) appears to occupy irregular openings, cracks and cavities in the limestone. The mineralized zone at the foot of the rapids outcrops on both banks of river and runs beneath it in a zone 1000 to 1500 feet in width approximately; this zone is separated from the main one at the head of the rapids (to the west) by roughly 8000ft of barren limestone. Extent of mineralization away from the river could not be determined due to heavy drift. Goodwin (1956) identified 4 mineralized zones exposed along the shoreline ranging from 20 to 50 feet in width and up to 20 feet in thickness.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Limonite | Economic | Ore |
Mar 19, 2014 (D Draper) - The iron showing at the foot of the rapids consists of limonite only, ranging from massive to botryoidal and vuggy. Early chip sampling this of secondary zone (north shore) returned from 35.37% (over 300ft) to 52.45% Fe (average of best ore). Goodwin reported a chip sample taken over 120ft along the south shore returned 43.05% Fe. The occurrence at the foot of the rapids was considered to be more promising than that at the head of the rapids due to the potential for siderite to exist beneath the exposed limonite.
File - Resident Geologist files T-0405, T-4409
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Location: Timmins RGP office
Map - Route map of parts of the Moose River tributaries, districts of Algoma, Sudbury and Nipissing
Publication Number: ARM20D Scale: 1:253,440 Date: 1997
Author: Baker M.B., Rogers W.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines
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Part - Iron and lignite in the Mattagami Basin
Publication Number: ARV20-01.008 Page: 224-26, 238-246 Date: 1998
Author: Baker M.B.
Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines
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Map - Explorations along the Abitibi, Mattagami and Missinaibi rivers, districts of Timiskaming and Algoma
Publication Number: ARM29F Scale: 1:500,000 Date: 1997
Author: Bell J.M., Baker M.B., Cross J.G., Williams M.Y., Keele J., Jackson P.A., Rogers W.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines
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Part - Pre-Cambrian rocks and iron ore deposits in the Abitibi-Mattagami area
Publication Number: ARV29-02.001 Page: 8-17 Date: 1998
Author: Cross J.G.
Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines
Location:
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
Location:
Mono - Report Of The Ontario Iron Ore Committee With Appendix 1923
Publication Number: NSP013 Page: 209-210 Date: 1998
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Part - Geology and economic deposits of the Moose River basin
Publication Number: ARV37-06.001 Page: 68-69 Date: 1998
Author: Dyer W.S.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Operation Kapuskasing
Publication Number: MP010 Page: 59-65 Date: 1967
Author: Bennett G., Brown D.D., George P.T., Leahy E.J., Guillet G.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Iron deposits of Ontario
Publication Number: MDC011 Page: 117 Date: 1968
Author: Shklanka R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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Publication - Geology and bibliography of the Hudson Bay Lowlands, Operation Winisk; Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 67-60
Publication Number: Paper 67-60 Page: 43 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
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