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Occurrence Details


Occurrence Number
105L 079
Occurrence Name
Ace Barite
Occurrence Type
Hard-rock
Status
Showing


General Information

Primary Commodities: barite, barium
Aliases: Goldorak, Dromedary
Deposit Type(s): Sediment hosted Stratiform Barite
Location(s): 62.905154 N, -134.6694 W
NTS Mapsheet(s): 105L15
Location Comments: Location from map in AR096377
Hand Samples Available at YGS: No

Capsule

The Goldorak-Dromedary area is underlain volcanic and volcaniclastic rocks and sedimentary strata of the Vangorda Formation, siliciclastic and carbonate rocks and phyllites of the Rabbitkettle Formation and Mid to Upper Paleozoic siliciclastic rocks, carbonate and chert of the Road River Group/Steel Formation, Earn Group, Tay River Formation, and Mount Christie Formation unconformably underlain by Jones Lake Formation. These rocks are intruded by Late Devonian dioritic intrusions (364 Ma) and the Mid-Cretaceous MacArthur batholith to the west of the project area. The MacArthur batholith is considered to be a Mayo suite (98-93 Ma) intrusion.

The area is deformed by a northwest-trending fold and post-Triassic thrust belt. Thrust faults are offset by steeply dipping, north-south oriented faults that have both strike-slip and dip-slip displacement.

Three types of mineralization have been observed in the area: SEDEX (sedimentary exhalative) type; Skarn and replacement type; and vein-type.

The Ace Barite occurrence is a bedded barite horizon.

Location Map

Last Updated: Apr 11, 2022

Work History

Year Work Type Comment
2012 Geochemistry: Rock
2012 Geochemistry: Soil
2012 Other: Prospecting
1982 Geochemistry: Soil
1982 Geology: Regional Bedrock Mapping
1982 Ground Geophysics: EM
1982 Ground Geophysics: Gravity Survey
1982 Ground Geophysics: Magnetics
1982 Other: Line Cutting

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