Ontario Geological Survey
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| Record Name(s) | McInnes Lake Nickel 3 - 1988 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 2004-Jun-29 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Dec-05 |
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Primary Commodities: Nickel
Secondary Commodities: Chromium
Township or Area: Cleveland Lake Area
Latitude: 52° 18' 42.63" Longitude: -93° 47' 53.36"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 445588.14 Northing: 5796023.11 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Red Lake
NTS Grid: 53C05SW
Point Location Description: Coordinates from Stone (1998) Misc Data Release 32. Location may not be accurate
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: Remote.
1977-78: Cominco Ltd. carried out a ground magnetics survey and airborne magnetometer survey.. 1988-93: OGS staff conducted mapping of the Berens River area at a scale of 1:50,000. Sample 88DCS013 assayed 1920 ppm Ni in gabbro reported by Stone (1998b).
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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| 2.2929 | 53C04NE0001 | 53C04NE0001 |
| 2.2477 | 53C05SW0001 | 53C05SW0001 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Berens River
Terrane: North Caribou
Domain: North Caribou Core
Belt: McInnes Lake
Geological Age: Mesoarchean
Feb 10, 2010 (C Storey) - In McInnes Lake Belt.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Ultramafic-Unsubdivided | 1 | Contains |
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Oct 10, 2018 (Mark Puumala) - This occurrence is based on an anomalous nickel assay of 1920 ppm reported by Stone (1998b) from a grab sample (Sample 88DCS013) of ultramafic rock collected near the north end of McInnes Lake. An anomalous chromium assay of 3370 ppm was also reported from this sample. No mineralogical information is provided regarding the likely source of the nickel and chromium anomalies.
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Mafic-Ultramafic Intrusion |
Data - Chemical Analyses of Minerals and Rocks of the Berens River Area
Publication Number: MRD032 Date: 1998
Author: Stone D.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Precambrian Geology, Critchell Lake Area
Publication Number: P3219 Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 1993
Author: Stone D., Atkinson B.T., Crawford J., Halstead J.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
MonoMap - Precambrian Geology of the Berens River Area, Northwestern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5963 Date: 1998
Author: Stone D.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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