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| Record Name(s) | Adam Creek - 1975, OGS DH 78-01 - 1991 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1991-Feb-25 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Oct-07 |
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Primary Commodities: Lignite
Secondary Commodities: Silica Sand
Township or Area: Kipling
Latitude: 50° 10' 55.05" Longitude: -82° 5' 18.45"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 422289.1 Northing: 5559428.99 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Timmins
NTS Grid: 42J01NE
Point Location Description: Outcrop location on Adam Creek per Figure 2, OFR5255
Location Method: Other Literature
Access Description: Access is via Hwy 807 from Smooth Rock Falls 45 miles north to Fraserdale junction on the Ontario Northland Railway, then west 20 miles by private road (Ontario Hydro) to Smoky Falls, then north 6 miles by dirt road on west side of Mattagami River to Kipling generating station.
1975-78: Ontario Geological Survey - Discovery--1foot diameter fragments of lignite noted along Adam Creek; Helicopter-supported drilling, field studies and sampling, analyses. 1981: Lignasco Resources Ltd. - Feasability study and material analysis of samples from holes 78-01 and 78-08); High resolution aeromagnetic survey 1983: OGS Geoscience Research Grant 134: Geochemical and stratigraphic analyses of Adam Creek lignite samples
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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| T-2413 / 63.4114 / OM81-5C-132 | 42J01NE8099 | 42J01NE8099 |
| T-2413 / 63.4114 / OM81-5C-132 | 42I04NW8082 | 42I04NW8082 |
| T-2413 | 42I04NW8082 | 42I04NW8082 |
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Subprovince: Moose River Basin
Geological Age: Mesozoic Geochronological Age: Lower Cretaceous Geochron. Age Ref.: MP113, p. 65
Dec 07, 2005 (D Draper) - In conjunction with the installation of a dam at Smoky Falls in 1966, an overflow dam was built at the headwaters of Adam Creek. Subsequent water flow enlarged the stream to 30m depth and 50m wide, giving good exposure along the banks of Pleistocene glacial sediments and Mattagami Fm. clays and sands.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Lignite | 1 | Is |
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Mar 20, 2014 (D Draper) - Cretaceous sediments exposed along Adam Creek consist of white, kaolinitic silica sands, white and reddish clays, and grey to black clays containing abundant detrital lignite. Lignitized tree trunks up to 12in. in diameter are present in the grey clays. Several large fragments of a lignite seam were found as float material in the creek bed. A lignite seam later found on the east bank had a minimum thickness of 1.4m. Vertical hole OGS 78-01was drilled 750m to the SW of creek occurrence, to a depth of 164m. 78-01 entered Cretaceous sediments at 43.3m (kaolinitic quartz sand to 50.3m). Lignite fragments and seams up to 2.7m in width in 10 beds were encountered below 53m. These were in association with clays, silty clays and narrow sections of quartz-rich sands. A single lignite seam (1.1m wide) and fragments were also encountered in OGS 78-08, drilled 750m SE of creek occurrence and 2km east of 78-01.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Lignite | Economic | Ore |
Mar 20, 2014 (D Draper) - Two of the lignite seams from hole 78-01 tested at: 5,347 BTU/lb with 41.1% ash and 7,963 BTU/lb with 31.7% ash. Testing of the main seam from hole 78-8 returned 9,144 BTU/lb with 20.3% ash.
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Fossil Fuel |
File - Resident Geologist files T-3107
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Location: Timmins RGP office
Map - Little Long Rapids sheet, District of Cochrane, geological compilation series
Publication Number: P0396 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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Mono - Cretaceous stratigraphy and lignite occurrences in the Smoky Falls area, James Bay Lowland, preliminary lithological logs from the 1978 drilling program
Publication Number: OFR5255 Page: 2-3, 5, 9-15 Date: 1978
Author: Telford P.G., Verma H.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Compend - Mesozoic geology and mineral potential of the Moose River Basin
Publication Number: S021 Page: 15, 147 Date: 1982
Author: Telford P.G., Verma H.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Mono - Geology and mineral deposits of the Moose River Basin, James Bay Lowlands, preliminary report
Publication Number: OFR5158 Page: 4-5, 23 Date: 1975
Author: Telford P.G., Vos M.A., Norris G.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines
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Mono - Mesozoic geology and lignite potential of the Moose River Basin
Publication Number: OFR5777 Page: 24, 132 Date: 1991
Author: Telford P.G., Long D.G.F., Norris G., Zippi P., Griffis R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Book - Kaolin Clays & Lignite of the Moose River Basin, p. 114-115
Publication Number: CIM SV 29 Date: 1994
Author: G..R. Guillet
Publisher Name: CIM
Location: Timmins RGO
Article - Stratigraphy and geochemistry of northern Ontario carbonaceous deposits: Onakawana lignites
Publication Number: MP113.134 Date: 1997
Author: Fyfe W.S., Kronberg B.I., Long D.G.F., Murray F., Powell M., Try C., van der Flier E., Winder C.G., Brown J.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Mono - Fossil fuel program, Moose River Basin drilling project, District of Cochrane
Publication Number: OFR5276 Page: 35-41, 48-50 Date: 1979
Author: Guillet G.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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