Ontario Geological Survey
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| Record Name(s) | Suomi - 1958 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1979-Aug-21 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Mar-02 |
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Primary Commodities: Iron
Township or Area: Strange
Latitude: 48° 14' 18.74" Longitude: -89° 58' 31.4"
UTM Zone: 16 Easting: 279085.59 Northing: 5347094 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay South
NTS Grid: 52A04NW
Point Location Description: Precise
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
1958: Seaway Iron Mines Ltd. drilled 5 DDH totalling 398 m.
Province: Southern
Formation Group: Animikie Group
Geological Age: Paleoproterozoic
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Ironstone-unsubdivided | 1 | Is |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diabase | 2 | Diabase Sill |
Feb 07, 2018 (Therese Pettigrew) - Gently dipping, Gunflint iron formation composed of magnetite, jasper, silica and slate capped by 60 to 100 feet of Keweenawan diabase.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chert | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Hematite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Magnetite | Economic | Ore |
Feb 07, 2018 (Therese Pettigrew) - Drilling intersected 73 to 380 feet of iron formation, including a 75-foot section of magnetite-jasper. Previous sampling from Silver Bluff and the E face of Divide Ridge which assayed 26.4, 30.4 and 32.3% Fe gave concentrates of 43.4, 53.6 and 50.4% Fe at -200 M with weight recovery of 39.6, 47.2 and 27.1% (Shklanka, 1968).
Part - Gunflint iron formation of the Whitefish Lake area, District of Thunder Bay
Publication Number: ARV69-07.002 Scale: Date: 1998
Author: Goodwin A.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Iron deposits of Ontario
Publication Number: MDC011 Scale: Date: 1968
Author: Shklanka R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
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