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Record: MDI52C12NW00010

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Young-Corrigan - 1953
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Occurrence
Date Created 1984-Feb-17
Date Last Modified 2022-Mar-02
Created By
Revised By

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Iron



Location

Township or Area: Dobie

Latitude: 48° 43' 36.73"    Longitude: -93° 54' 59.13"

UTM Zone: 15    Easting: 432605   Northing: 5397499    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Kenora

NTS Grid: 52C12NW

Point Location Description: DDH on map M1965-02

Location Method: Data Compilation



Exploration History

1953: Prospectors Airways Co. Ltd. carried out a magnetometer survey and drilled 4 DDH totalling 714.5 m.


Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Wabigoon

Geological Age: Archean  



Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Ironstone-unsubdivided 1 Is
Terrigenous-Clastic-Unsubdivided 2 Adjacent

Lithology Comments

Dec 19, 2019 (Therese Pettigrew) - Two easterly-trending bands of magnetite iron formation interbedded with Archean greywacke. Bands about 40 feet wide and 4 miles long (Shklanka, 1968).




Mineralization

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

Mineralization Comments

Dec 19, 2019 (Therese Pettigrew) - Best 100-foot section of drill core assayed 24.44% Fe, 55.75% SiO2. Magnetic tests at -200 M gave an "excellent" concentrate with "high" recovery (Shklanka, 1968).



Mineral Record Details

References

Mono - Iron deposits of Ontario

Publication Number: MDC011 Scale:     Date: 1968

Author: Shklanka R.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


Part - Geology of the Emo area

Publication Number: ARV63-05 Scale:     Date: 1997

Author: Fletcher G.L., Irvine T.N.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


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