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Record: MDI52A05NE00007

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Acorn - 1969, H. Fabis - 1971
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Discretionary Occurrence
Date Created 1979-Aug-23
Date Last Modified 2022-Mar-02
Created By
Revised By

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Asbestos



Location

Township or Area: Conmee

Latitude: 48° 29' 11.05"    Longitude: -89° 44' 46.13"

UTM Zone: 16    Easting: 297092.05   Northing: 5374006.72    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay South

NTS Grid: 52A05NE, 52A05NW

Point Location Description: Precise

Location Method: Conversion from MDI



Exploration History

1951: Quebec Asbestos Corp. Ltd. and McIntyre Porcupine Mines Ltd. carried out surface sampling. 1969: Acorn Mining Syndicate carried out mag and EM ground geophysical surveys and drilled 3 DDH totalling 367 m.


Assessment Work on File

Assessment Work on File
Office File Number Online Assessment File Identifier Online Assessment File Directory
11 52A05NE0014 52A05NE0014
63.2811 52A12SE0075 52A12SE0075

Geology

Province: Superior

Geological Age: Archean  



Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Peridotite 1 Peridotite Host

Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
1AsbestosEconomicOre

Mineralization Comments

Mar 23, 2018 (Therese Pettigrew) - Asbestos veinlets in periodotite (Vos, 1971).



Mineral Record Details

References

Mono - Asbestos in Ontario

Publication Number: IMR036 Scale:     Date: 1998

Author: Vos M.A.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs

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