Ontario Geological Survey
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Record Name(s) | Wabigoon - 1957, Tree Nursery Road - 2009 |
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Related Record Type | Simple |
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Record Status | Occurrence |
Date Created | 1978-Dec-05 |
Date Last Modified | 2022-Mar-02 |
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Primary Commodities: Iron, Zinc, Silver
Secondary Commodities: Copper, Lead
Township or Area: Zealand
Latitude: 49° 46' 12.95" Longitude: -92° 36' .01"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 528803 Northing: 5513165.01 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kenora
NTS Grid: 52F15SE
Point Location Description: Trench on Tree Nursery Road
Location Method: Data Compilation
1957: Dip needle and magnetometer surveys, and drilled 2 DDH totalling 458.4 m. 1966: Algoma Steel Corp. Ltd. carried out geological and magnetometer surveys. 2008-09: Treasury Metals Inc. carried out trenching and sampling. 2014-15: Treasury Metals drilled 2 DDH totalling 650 m.
Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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2.56557 | 20000014645 | 20000014645 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Wabigoon
Geological Age: Archean
Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Ironstone-unsubdivided | 1 | Is |
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Terrigenous-Clastic-Unsubdivided | 2 | Adjacent |
Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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1 | Magnetite | Economic | Ore | ||||
2 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
3 | Pyrrhotite | Economic | Ore | ||||
4 | Sphalerite | Economic | Ore |
Jun 16, 2020 (Therese Pettigrew) - Drilling intersected up to 213.4 m of interbedded iron formation and greywacke. A grab sample assayed 28.8% Fe (Shklanka, 1968). A 2009 trench by Treasury Metals returned up to 13,517 ppm Zn, 9,586 ppm Pb, 496 ppm Cu, 352.66 ppm Ag, and 240 ppm Au from a bedrock exposure of iron formation that outcrops on either side of Tree Nursery Road (Assessment report 20000014645).
Mono - Iron deposits of Ontario
Publication Number: MDC011 Scale: Date: 1968
Author: Shklanka R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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Part - Geology of the Dryden-Wabigoon area
Publication Number: ARV50-02 Scale: Date: 1997
Author: Satterly J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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