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| Record Name(s) | BH OGS-W83-02 - 1982 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 2002-Jun-24 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Oct-06 |
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Primary Commodities: Lignite
Township or Area: Brain
Latitude: 50° 48' 40.49" Longitude: -82° 0' 57.81"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 428415.489 Northing: 5629327.224 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Timmins
NTS Grid: 42J16SE
Point Location Description: Precise: Collar of borehole OGS-W83-02
Location Method: Other Literature
Access Description: Drilling site accessible only by helicopter. For description of general access to region, see OFR 5495, p.7.
1983, Ontario Geological Survey: Reconnaissance drilling (reverse-circulation/triple-tube coring) program; borehole geophysics (OFR 5495) 1986, Ontario Geological Survey: Palynological analyses (OFR 5597) Material from this hole is stored with the Timmins DCL collection.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Subprovince: Moose River Basin
Geological Age: Mesozoic Geochronological Age: CRETACEOUS Geochron. Age Ref.: OFR 5495
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 the Lower Cretaceous Mattagami Formation. This formation disconformably overlies 60-70 m.y. younger Middle Jurassic sediments.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Lignite | 1 | Is |
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Dec 07, 2005 (D Draper) - OGS vertical borehole W83-02, drilled to 106.7m, encountered 5.3m of lignite starting at 74.1m.
Dec 07, 2005 (D Draper) - Log description: Coarse lignite becoming fairly fine-grained: abundant pyrite in places occurring as coarse clasts and fine-grained material. A 0.2m section of quartz-sand grains in poorer quality lignite occurs at 76.2m; no obvious clay interbeds. The last 0.3m of the zone is an interval of pyritiferous, black, carbonaceous clay containing abundant lignite.
File - Resident Geologist files T-3106
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Location: Timmins RGP office
Mono - Lignite resource assessment project: 1983 winter drilling program, Moose River Basin, James Bay Lowland
Publication Number: OFR5495 Page: .1,6,52,72 Date: 1984
Author: Watts, Griffis and McOuat Ltd.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Mono - Palynological analyses of drillhole series OGS 83-01 to 83-08D and OGS 84-01 to 84-11, Moose River Basin, Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5597 Page: 10, 139 Date: 1986
Author: Norris G., Zippi P.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Mono - Mesozoic geology and lignite potential of the Moose River Basin
Publication Number: OFR5777 Page: 145 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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