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| Record Name(s) | Fry Lake # 6 - 1990, Showing # 4 - 1990 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1990-Nov-28 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Sep-27 |
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Primary Commodities: Uranium
Township or Area: Fry Lake Area
Latitude: 51° 9' 42.66" Longitude: -91° 26' 55.55"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 608467.712 Northing: 5668967.167 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay North
NTS Grid: 52O03NW
Point Location Description: Outcrop just north of U,Th symbol 400 m north of circled 4 on map 2482.
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: The occurrence is located about 92 km west-southwest of Pickle Lake and 11 km east of the First Nation community of Slate Falls. Trenches exposing this occurrence are located about 400 m south of the eastern extremity of North Bamaji Lake. Access to this occurrence is by appropriately equipped aircraft to North Bamaji Lake, and then traversing overland to the occurrence. A winter road along the Ear Falls to Pickle Lake power corridor passes about 1.0 km north of the occurrence.
1968: Kirkland Townsite Gold Mines Ltd. did geological mapping around the occurrence and commissioned an airborne spectrometer survey of the area. 1971: R. Knappett restaked the area of the occurrence and prospected the ground until 1977. 1974: Dome Explorations (Canada) Ltd. did ground magnetometer and electomagnetic surveys near the occurrence. 1978: Urangesellschaft Canada Ltd. commissioned a combined airborne VLF-Em, magnetometer and spectrometer survey over the area and did ground work consisting of line-cutting, prospecting, trenching, ground scintillometer surveys, a limited geochemical orientation survey and detailed geological mapping. 1979: Urangesellschaft Canada Ltd. did a radon survey and 2 VLF-Em surveys. 1983: FTM Resources Ltd commissioned airborne magnetometer and electromagnetic surveys over the occurrence area. Between 1985 and 1989: Umex Inc. completed a multi-phased exploration program which included geological mapping, rock and soil geochemistry, ground magnetometer and electromagnetic surveys, and airborne magnetometer and electromagnetic surveys in the area of the occurrence.
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Uchi
Terrane: North Caribou
Domain: Uchi
Belt: Meen-Dempster
Geological Age: Archean
Dec 07, 2005 (B Nelson) - Little is known about the geology of this occurrence. Maps and reports by Urangesellschaft Canada Ltd. indicate that the showing is contained by calc-silicate horizons in intermediate volcanics. The horizons trend 080 degrees over a strike length of at least 200 m. The calc-silicate horizons are composed of actinolite, chlorite, vein quartz, calcite or dolomite and pyrite as bands and disseminations.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Calcitic Carbonate-Silicate | 1 | Calc-Silicate Horizon | Host |
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| Intermediate lava flow-unsubdivided | 2 | Near |
Dec 07, 2005 (B Nelson) - The calc-silicate horizons are composed of actinolite, chlorite, vein quartz, calcite or dolomite and pyrite as bands and disseminations.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Brannerite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Pitchblende | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 4 | Uraninite | Economic | Ore |
Dec 07, 2005 (B Nelson) - Assays of up to 0.06% U have been reported from this occurrence.
Dec 07, 2005 (B Nelson) - Alteration processes and minerals not known.
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Unknown |
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 1 | Sheared |
Map - Cat River-Kawinogans Lake area, District of Kenora (Patricia Portion), Ontario
Publication Number: ARM44F Scale: 1:126,720 Date: 1997
Author: Harding W.D.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Part - Geology of the Cat River-Kawinogans Lake area
Publication Number: ARV44-06.002 Date: 1997
Author: Harding W.D.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Cat Lake-Pickle Lake, geological compilation series, Kenora and Thunder Bay districts
Publication Number: M2218 Scale: 1:253,440 Date: 1976
Author: Sage R.P., Breaks F.W., Troup W.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - Geology of the Cat Lake-Pickle Lake area, districts of Kenora and Thunder Bay
Publication Number: R207 Date: 1982
Author: Sage R.P., Breaks F.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Moosetegon Lake, Kenora District
Publication Number: M2482 Scale: 1:31,680 Date: 1983
Author: Wallace H.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
MonoMap - Geology of the Slate Falls area, District of Kenora (Patricia Portion)
Publication Number: R232 Date: 1985
Author: Wallace H.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Mineral Deposits of the Central Portion of Uchi Subprovince, Volume 1, Meen Lake to Kesagiminnis Lake Portion
Publication Number: OFR5869 Page: 113 Date: 1993
Author: Seim G.Wm.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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