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| Record Name(s) | Anl Mra-2 - 1960, Crozier Location F - 1933, Montgomery & Watson Location 5 - 1928, Joubin Area 3 - 1962 |
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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: Clay
Secondary Commodities: Silica Sand
Township or Area: Burstall
Latitude: 50° 8' 28.25" Longitude: -83° 10' 8.58"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 345012.85 Northing: 5556580.38 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Timmins
NTS Grid: 42J03NE
Point Location Description: Collar of American Nepheline auger hole MRA 2
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: Access was limited to canoe by river or by air. Note: Site is now located within Missinaibi Provincial Park and under a Land Tenure Withdrawal for both surface and mineral rights.
1933: Ontario Department of Mines - Auger drilling and sampling. 1960: American Nepheline Limited - Ventures Limited -Auger drilling. 1962: F.R. Joubin and Associates: Field mapping and evaluation, sampling. 1972: Algocen Mines Limited: Geological data compilation and aerial photographic analysis of full Cretaceous Basin
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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| T-0723 / 83.1-35 | 42J02NW0001 | 42J02NW0001 |
| T-0694/ donation | 42J08NW8078 | 42J08NW8078 |
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Subprovince: Moose River Basin
Geological Age: Mesozoic Geochronological Age: Lower Cretaceous Geochron. Age Ref.: ARV42-3, p. 89
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. Erosion along rivers within the basin cuts through the mantle of recent glacial till and unconsolidated sediments to expose clays and sands of Cretaceous age.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Clay | 1 | Refractory Clay | Is |
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| Sand | 2 | Silica Sand | Host |
Mar 23, 2014 (D Draper) - Clay occurrence on the south bank of the Missinaibi River, approximately 8 kilometers west of mouth of Coal River. The mottled red and grey plastic clay is exposed in two locations about 300ft apart. Exposure No.1: 20ft wide. Exposure No. 2 is smaller and to the west of No. 1 and is located at the foot of a large pegmatite dyke. American Nepheline drilling cut 40 feet of red fireclay. The fireclay was found to be brick red, smooth, dense, very plastic, mottled with occasional thin cream coloured bands...A few segregations of kaolinitic silica sand were observed below 32 feet. Examination by Joubin and Assoc. in 1962 noted the clay was exposed for 800ft along shore but not more than 25ft onto the shore although the clay extends under the river. An exposure of very dense, highly plastic blue-grey clay was sampled. Seams of lignite associated with the clay were reported. Sample results determined this occurrence to be brick grade clay.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Clay | Economic | Ore |
Mar 23, 2014 (D Draper) - Exposure No.1: Auger testing cut 14 feet of clay which fired to fusion cone 12. Exposure No. 2: Auger hole cut 11 feet of clay, firing up to Cone 17. Testing by Joubin and Assoc. confirmed the clay to be low grade, suitable only for building brick.
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Industrial |
File - Resident Geologist files T-0723, T-1303
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Location: Timmins RGP office
Map - Pivabiska River sheet, District of Cochrane, geological compilation series
Publication Number: P0395 Scale: 1:126,720 Date: 1997
Author: Bennett G., Brown D.D., George P.T., Leahy E.J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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Map - Moose River Basin, District of Cochrane, Ontario
Publication Number: ARM37P Scale: 1:506,880 Date: 1997
Author: Dyer W.S.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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Part - Fire clay, kaolin, and silica sand deposits of the Mattagami and Missinaibi rivers
Publication Number: ARV37-06.003 Page: 82, 95 Date: 1998
Author: Montgomery R.J., Watson R.J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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Part - Refractory clay deposits on the Missinaibi River
Publication Number: ARV42-03.004 Page: 88, 99-100 Date: 1997
Author: Crozier A.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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Compend - Mesozoic geology and mineral potential of the Moose River Basin
Publication Number: S021 Page: 182 Date: 1982
Author: Telford P.G., Verma H.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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