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| Record Name(s) | Habel Patents - 1992, Ruby-Sheppard Claims - 1931, Crozier Location B - 1933, Montgomery-Watson Location #10 - 1928, Price Location 17 - 1978 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 2001-Jun-25 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Oct-07 |
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Primary Commodities: Clay, Silica Sand
Secondary Commodities: Lignite
Township or Area: Habel
Latitude: 50° 24' 27.46" Longitude: -82° 33' 58.02"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 388715.44 Northing: 5585126.48 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Timmins
NTS Grid: 42J07NE
Point Location Description: North bank of Missinaibi R., 4.5km downstream from mouth of Soweska R.
Location Method: Other Literature
Access Description: Location is 30 miles NW of Smoky Falls Note1 : Site is under a Land Tenure Withdrawal for surface and mineral rights patent (block of 18 claims straddling the Missinaibi River in the centre of Habel Twp.) Note2: Patented area as depicted on Algocen project maps (AF T-1303) is in disagreement (shifted to the southwest) with location per MDNM Mining Lands information.
1926, GSC/ODM joint field party: Fireclay sampled and analyzed (GSC Sum. Rept 1926C; ODM AR Vol 37-6, p.118) 1933, Ontario Dept. of Mines: Auger drilling, test pitting and analyses of clay; property held by the Ruby Oil and Coal Syndicate (ODM AR Vol 42-3) 1959, American Nepheline: River reconnaissance survey, sampling (T-694) Algocen Mines Limited ELO No. 13788 (T-1303): 1966-67: Geological survey, auger drilling, trenching, sampling, analyses (AFO# 83.1-44) 1972: Geological data compilation and aerial photographic analysis (conducted by Cartographic Services) of full Cretaceous Basin.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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| T-0694/ donation | 42J08NW8078 | 42J08NW8078 |
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Subprovince: Moose River Basin
Geological Age: Mesozoic Geochronological Age: Cretaceous
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 | Fireclay | Is |
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| Lignite | 2 | Is | ||
| Sand | 3 | Silica Sand | Is |
Dec 07, 2005 (D Draper) - A unit of fireclay at least 8ft in thickness extends 650ft along shoreline of river at water level. (ODM AR Vol. 37-6, p. 83) Crozier (1933) noted 10 exposures of clay traceable for 4000ft along both banks of the Missinaibi and commented (Q): Possibly the most promising deposit of refractory clay in the area examined is exposed at this location. (ODM AR Vol. 42-3, p.91) Layers of varying thickness of silica sand are associated with the clay, but the sand is frequently badly iron-stained (ibid, p.92-93). Auger drilling cut clay layers up to a thickness of 24 1/2 feet (ibid, p.93). Algocen field work in 1967 traced silica sand exposures along the south bank of the Missinaibi within the patent area that varied from 5 to 30 feet in thickness. (T-1303).
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Clay | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Silica | Economic | Ore |
Dec 07, 2005 (D Draper) - Two samples tested in 1926 were described as (Q) quite refractory and would pass as No. 1 fire clay, with most of the clay [being] iron-stained although some of it is almost white. The samples fired to cone 32 and above. (ODM AR Vol. 37-6, p.118-119) Crozier described the clay as mottled red and grey refractory clay, possibly containing seams of white clay. Fusion test results on clay samples taken from auger holes ranged from Cone 31 to Cone 35, with only one sample coming in as low as Cone 30. (ODM AR Vol. 42-3, p.91) Samples of silica sand taken by Algocen from both banks of river returned from 85 to 95% quartz, and minor kaolin. (T-1303).
File - Resident Geologist files T-1303
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Location: Timmins RGP office
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
Location:
Part - Fire clay, kaolin, and silica sand deposits of the Mattagami and Missinaibi rivers
Publication Number: ARV37-06.003 Page: 82-83, 103+ Date: 1998
Author: Montgomery R.J., Watson R.J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Part - Refractory clay deposits on the Missinaibi River
Publication Number: ARV42-03.004 Page: 88, 91-9 Date: 1997
Author: Crozier A.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. 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 Page: 24 Date: 1978
Author: Price, L.L.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/103384
Book - Refractory Clays of Northern Ontario, p. 250-251
Publication Number: CIMM TRANS Date: 1933
Author: Dyer, W.S and Crozier, A.R.
Publisher Name: CIMM
Location: Timmins RGP Tech Paper File
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