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Record: MDI53C04NE00004

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) McInnes Lithium - 1998
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Discretionary Occurrence
Date Created 2004-Jun-28
Date Last Modified 2022-Feb-22
Created By
Revised By

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Lithium



Location

Township or Area: McInnes Lake Area

Latitude: 52° 11' 11.94"    Longitude: -93° 41' 26.15"

UTM Zone: 15    Easting: 452787.89   Northing: 5782022.98    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Red Lake

NTS Grid: 53C04NE

Point Location Description: UTM coordinates from Stone (1998) Misc Data Release Data 32. Location may not be accurate

Location Method: Data Compilation

Access Description: Remote.



Exploration History

This is based on an anomalous lithium assay reported in MRD 32.


Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Berens River

Terrane: North Caribou

Domain: North Caribou Core

Belt: McInnes Lake

Geological Age: Mesoarchean  



Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Gabbro 1 Contains

Mineralization Comments

Nov 05, 2007 (Mark Puumala) - This occurrence is based on an anomalous lithium assay of 180 ppm reported by Stone (1998b) from a grab sample of metagabbro collected on the eastern shore of McInnes Lake. This occurrence is near a sulphide occurrence shown on OGS Map P.3217 (Stone and Crawford 1993).



Mineral Record Details

Classification
RankClassification            
1 Unknown
Characteristics
Rank Characteristic            
1 Unknown

References

Map - Precambrian Geology, McInnes Lake Area

Publication Number: P3217 Scale: 1:50,000    Date: 1993

Author: Stone D., Crawford J.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


MonoMap - Precambrian Geology of the Berens River Area, Northwestern Ontario

Publication Number: OFR5963 Scale:     Date: 1998

Author: Stone D.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


Data - Chemical Analyses of Minerals and Rocks of the Berens River Area

Publication Number: MRD032 Scale:     Date: 1998

Author: Stone D.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


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