EXTECH IV ATHABASCA URANIUM DEPOSIT DATABASE
Geological Survey of Canada, Saskatchewan Industry and Resources, and Alberta Geological Survey


DEPNO COUNTRY LOCATION ALLNAMES COMMODITIES
40042 Canada (Nunavut) 64.21.46 N -- 097.50.13 W Sleek Grid U

Database name: Uranium Deposits, Athabasca Basin
Custodial agency: Geological Survey of Canada
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2007-03-02
   
Deposit name(s): Sleek Grid
Political location(s): Canada; Province or state: Nunavut; Nearest community: Baker Lake settlement (88 km 272.5°)
NTS map data: 066A05 (Judge Sissons Lake)
Deposit clan (type): Unconformity-associated
Deposit (sub) types: Unconformity-associated - Proterozoic - fracture-bound; low grade mineralization in sheared granite, with illite-sericite alteration; the occurrence is located on the Kiggavik Trend, but differs from other deposits of the trend in host lithology ; Reference: Wallenberg, P., 1994: Update on the Uranium Exploration in the Thelon Basin; In Exploration Overview 1994, Edited by Goff, S. P., Annual Exploration Overview, Department of Indian and Northern Affairs, Canada, Department of Indian and Northern Affairs, Yellowknife, Canada, p. 154 - 155
Deposit status: advanced prospect; Size category: unknown; Status comments: the prospect explored in 1992 by 5 drill holes totalling 1545 m; the best intersection was 0.3 % U over 2 m
Geologic province: Churchill - Rae Craton
Geologic subprovince: Amer Fold Belt
Geologic district: Eastern Thelon Basin
Deposit object located: drill hole
Commodities: U
Geological ages: Late Paleoproterozoic (host rocks)
Late Paleoproterozoic (mineralization)
Regional tectonic structure: linear feature (fault-controlled 20 km linear trend hosting 7 uranium deposits, striking NE and gently convex to the NW, between the Thelon and Sissons Lake faults) Tectonic structure name: Kiggavik Trend
fault (ENE-trending normal fault with downfaulted Thelon Formation on the north side against the basement on the south side; parallels the Sissons Lake fault) Tectonic structure name: Thelon fault
fault (ENE-trending normal fault with downfaulted sub-Thelon paleosol on the north side against the basement on the south side; parallels the Thelon fault) Tectonic structure name: Sissons Lake fault
Country rocks: (1) paragneiss-orthogneiss; Metamorphic grade: amphibolite
Links to other databases: NUMIN; Key value: 066ASW0020
References:
Goff, S. P. Editor(s)), 1994
Exploration Overview 1994
Annual Exploration Overview, Department of Indian and Northern Affairs, Canada, Department of Indian and Northern Affairs, Yellowknife, Canada

Wallenberg, P., 1994
Update on the Uranium Exploration in the Thelon Basin
In Exploration Overview 1994, Edited by Goff, S. P., Annual Exploration Overview, Department of Indian and Northern Affairs, Canada, Department of Indian and Northern Affairs, Yellowknife, Canada, p. 154 - 155


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