- SMDI #
- 2095
- Current Showing Name
- Uranium Showing FW-33
- Historical Showing Names
- Uranium Showing FW-33
- Company Name
- Project Name
- UTM Easting (NAD83 Z13)
- 281012.4400
- UTM Northing (NAD83 Z13)
- 6593856.5700
- NTS Sheet
- 074N07
- TRM (Township-Range-Meridian)
- 120-17-3
- Primary Commodities
- Uranium
- Associated Commodities
- Copper
- Discovery Type
- Outcrop Grab
- Status
- Occurrence: Primary Exploration
- Geological Details
- Showing FW-33 is consists of a grouping of 12 radioactive occurrences which are located in the Thompson Creek valley.
The area underlying the showing has been mapped as composed of quartzite interlayered with chlorite schist, argillite, greywacke, arkose and or quartzofeldspathic gneisses of the Murmac Bay Group, and banded quartzofeldspathic gneisses of the Tazin Group. K. Ashton et al mapped the showing area as being underlain by unit Qf or a series of undifferentiated quartzofeldspathic rocks which include Murmac Bay Group psammites and a series of granitic rocks.
Nine of the occurrences, which make up the FW-33 Showing, are in-situ localized in fractures in outcrop. The remaining 3 occurrences are locally derived radioactive boulders. The outcrops are composed of quartzite and chloritic graphitic metapelite and are cut by tight 065° to 080° trending and 65° to 75°SE dipping fractures. A sample returned an assay of 0.32% U3O8 and 0.30% Cu.
- Geological Domain
- Beaverlodge
- Host Rocks
- Host Minerals
- Indicators
- Exploration History
- 7/27/1989 The earliest records available to the author indicate that the showing area was staked as part of CBS 360 as early as 1968. Assessment work submitted for that year over the area consisted of a general report as well as diamond drilling results (AF 74N07-0219). Gunnex did this work but it is not certain whether they held the claim block. Two years later Matrix Exploration Ltd. did geological and scintillometer traverses over the area and trenched the most interesting occurrences. Samples were assayed but were not significant (AF 74N07-0218). The area came open in April of 1972.
The showing area staked as CBS 2670 on 20 March 1973 by Metalur Ltd. Exploration did not begin on the area until 1974 when Kintla Explorations Ltd. did random scintillometer traverses over the claim block (AF 74N07-0255). This work was extended into 1975. In 1976, an airborne spectrometer survey, lake sediment and water sampling, soil sampling, radon soil gas survey, ground radiometric prospecting and subsequent trenching was completed (AF 74N07-0261).
In 1977, a SMDC-Urangesellschaft joint venture completed marine seismic surveys, ground EM and magnetic surveys and further prospecting and mapping (AF 74N07-0264). SMDC completed percussion drilling (AF 74N07-0275), an airborne INPUT and magnetic survey (AF 74N07-0279) and ground geophysics, mapping, geochemistry and biogeochemistry and prospecting (74N07-0286). This continued into 1979 when SMDC also did overburden drilling (AF 74N07-0299). The last submission of exploration on the claim block was in 1980, when SMDC did prospecting, reconnaissance geological mapping and a track etch survey (AF 74N07-0304). As a result of this prospecting and mapping this showing as well as several other showings were located. No further work was reported and the claim block lapsed 1 August 1985.
The showing was restaked as claim S-99427 in November of 1987 but no work has been recorded.
- Production History
- Reserves and/or Resources