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| Record Name(s) | Wabiskagami - Pivabiska - 1904, Price 11BE2 - 1978 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 2001-Aug-08 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Mar-04 |
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Primary Commodities: Clay
Township or Area: McBrien
Latitude: 50° 12' 57.27" Longitude: -83° 3' 13.07"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 353488.15 Northing: 5564655.01 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Timmins
NTS Grid: 42J03NE
Point Location Description: South bank of Pivabiska River, 8 miles above mouth
Location Method: Other Literature
Access Description: Site is now under a Land Tenure Withdrawal for both surface and mineral rights. Note: Pivabiska River was formerly called the Wabiskagami River.
1904: Ontario Bureau of Mines - Occurrence noted by J.M. Bell field party; sampling and analysis. 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-1303 / 2.27446 | 42J02NW2001 | 42J02NW2001 |
| T-1303 / donation |
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Subprovince: Moose River Basin
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 | Kaolin | Is |
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Mar 21, 2014 (D Draper) - Occurrence is exposed on the southern bank of river for a distance of 400 feet, and for a thickness of up to 10 feet in the bank. The clay is noted as being soft, plastic and unctuous, generally almost white in colour, but sometimes stained deep hematite red or yellow ochre by...oxide. Much of it is remarkably free from sand... [This clay] contains considerably more silica than pure kaolin but the quartz grains...could easily be removed; the clay is also reported as free of impurities save for iron oxide.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Kaolin | Economic | Ore |
Mar 21, 2014 (D Draper) - Analysis of the clay returned 53.78% SiO2, 29.58 Al2O3, 5.09 Fe2O3.
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Industrial |
Part - Economic resources of Moose River Basin
Publication Number: ARV13-01.009 Scale: Date: 1998
Author: Bell J.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines
Location:
Publication - Mesozoic Deposits of Hudson Bay and Coal Deposits of Onakawana Area; Geological Survey of Canada, Paper no. 75-13
Publication Number: Paper 75-13 Scale: Date: 1978
Author: Price, L.L.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/103384
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