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| Record Name(s) | Ogs Bh 78-03 - 1978, DMBW Area B - 1983 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 2002-Jun-26 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Oct-07 |
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Primary Commodities: Clay, Silica Sand
Township or Area: Garden
Latitude: 50° 12' 3.73" Longitude: -82° 44' 19.47"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 375913.24 Northing: 5562430.07 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Timmins
NTS Grid: 42J02NE
Point Location Description: Collar of borehole 78-03, northeast quarter of twp.
Location Method: Other Literature
Access Description: 25 miles west of Smoky Falls. Drilling site accessible only by helicopter. For description of general access to region.
1978-82: Ontario Geological Survey - Drilling, sample analysis. 1983: OGS/Derry, Michener, Booth and Wahl/IMD Laboratories: Mining and pipeline transport feasibility study.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Subprovince: Moose River Basin
Geological Age: Mesozoic Geochronological Age: Cretaceous Geochron. Age Ref.: OFR5427
Dec 07, 2005 (D Draper) - The Moose River basin is underlain almost entirely by Paleozoic sediments consisting of Silurian to Devonian sandstones, limestone, dolomite and shales. This basin is bordered on the south by a low Precambrian escarpment and on the north by Hudson Bay. Beneath a mantle of recent glacial till and unconsolidated sediments are the clays and sands of the Lower Cretaceous Mattagami Formation. This formation disconformably overlies 60-70 m.y. younger Middle Jurassic sediments.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Clay | 1 | Fireclay | Is |
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| Clay | 2 | Kaolin | Is | |
| Sand | 3 | Silica Sand | Is |
Mar 21, 2014 (D Draper) - OGS vertical borehole 78-03 drilled to 600ft, cut Cretaceous sediments from 106.5ft to end of hole. Of this unit, Mattagami Type B Formation comprised 415 feet, the maximum thickness recorded for this formation. Derry, Michener, Booth and Wahl considered the Cretaceous deposits in the vicinity of borehole 78-03 as one of 3 sites in the Moose River Basin with potential for viable economic extraction. This was designated Area B, which was centered on 78-03, and extended from borehole 78-04 (6 miles west) to 78-03 (7 miles east in Wright Twp.), having an average overburden depth of 250ft and average thickness of the presumed orebody (ie Mattagami Type B Formation, kaolinitic clays and quartz sands) of 243ft.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Kaolin | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Clay | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Silica | Economic | Ore |
Oct 23, 2014 (D Draper) - Analytical results of various samples taken from hole 78-03 were reported by Vos in CIMM Bulletin, Oct. 1982: --sands showed good results for quartz, and were low in iron and titanium, with SiO2 ranging from 97 to 99.1% --light grey to varicoloured clays, interbedded with kaolinitic quartz sand, found to contain from 66 to 85% kaolin --of the OGS 1978 series of boreholes, 78-03 was found to have the most refractory clays. Two, light grey, highly aluminous samples (from 224ft and 405ft) both rated at PCE 35-36.
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Industrial |
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 1 | Unconsolidated |
File - Resident Geologist files T-3107
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Location: Timmins RGP office
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 Date: 1978
Author: Telford P.G., Verma H.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Mono - Bore hole mining of silica sand and kaolinite clay in the James Bay Lowlands, Ontario; feasibility and cost analysis
Publication Number: OFR5427 Page: 13 Date: 1983
Author: Derry, Michener, Booth and Wahl, IMD Laboratories Ltd
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Book - Quartz Sand & Kaolinite Clay of James Bay Lowlands p.90
Publication Number: CIM 75-846 Date: 1982
Author: M.A. Vos
Publisher Name: CIM
Location: Timmins RGP Tech Paper File
Article - Surface and subsurface geology of the Smoky Falls area, James Bay Lowland
Publication Number: MP082.025 Page: 135 Date: 1997
Author: Verma H.M., Telford P.G.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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