Abstract: Locations of uraniferous boulder-fields and uraniferous swamps extracted from industry assessment reports are useful metallogenetic indicators for uranium exploration within and around the Athabasca Basin. They are used as pathfinders to uranium occurrences and prospects. These locations along the northern rim of the Athabasca Basin in Alberta have been compiled in GIS format and delivered as a point shapefile. In Alberta, the northern rim of the Athabasca Basin and the regolith underlying the Athabasca unconformity are locally exposed along the northern shore of Lake Athabasca. Extensive uranium exploration work in the 1970s, including scintillometer prospecting traverses, geological mapping, airborne and ground geophysics, and drilling, have documented several uraniferous outcrops with scintillometer readings of up to 10 000 counts per second, and uraniferous boulders and boulder trains with radioactivity up to two orders of magnitude higher than the background. Near the Alberta-Saskatchewan border, uraniferous boulders show geochemical characteristics consistent with a Saskatchewan source, whereas to the west boulders have a distinct geochemical signal suggesting a local source in Alberta.
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Citation:
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Title:
Locations of Uraniferous Boulders, Outcrops and Pits along the North Shore of Lake Athabasca, NTS 74L,M
(GIS data, point features)
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2009-10-26
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Alberta Geological Survey
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Pana, D.I.
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Alberta Geological Survey
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Abstract:
Locations of uraniferous boulder-fields and uraniferous swamps extracted from industry assessment reports are
useful metallogenetic indicators for uranium exploration within and around the Athabasca Basin. They are
used as pathfinders to uranium occurrences and prospects. These locations along the northern rim of the
Athabasca Basin in Alberta have been compiled in GIS format and delivered as a point shapefile. In Alberta,
the northern rim of the Athabasca Basin and the regolith underlying the Athabasca unconformity are locally
exposed along the northern shore of Lake Athabasca. Extensive uranium exploration work in the 1970s,
including scintillometer prospecting traverses, geological mapping, airborne and ground geophysics, and
drilling, have documented several uraniferous outcrops with scintillometer readings of up to 10 000 counts
per second, and uraniferous boulders and boulder trains with radioactivity up to two orders of magnitude
higher than the background. Near the Alberta-Saskatchewan border, uraniferous boulders show geochemical
characteristics consistent with a Saskatchewan source, whereas to the west boulders have a distinct
geochemical signal suggesting a local source in Alberta.
Purpose:
To compile the locations of uraniferous boulders fields and uraniferous swamps along the northern rim of the
Athabasca Basin in Alberta in GIS format and deliver as a point shapefile.
Credit:
N. Clarke
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(780) 638-4491
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(780) 422-1459
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Alberta Energy Regulator
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4th Floor, Twin Atria Building
Delivery point:
4999-98 Avenue NW
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Edmonton
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Alberta
Postal code:
T6B 2X3
Country:
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Government License - Alberta. Distribution Liability: The Alberta Energy Regulator/Alberta Geological
Survey (AER/AGS) licenses this information under the Open Government License - Alberta. Any references
to proprietary software in our documentation, and/or any use of proprietary data formats in our
releases, do not constitute endorsement by the AER/AGS of any manufacturer's product.
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Overview of Uranium Exploration Work along the Northern Rim of the Athabasca Basin, Northeastern Alberta
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Locations of Uraniferous Boulder Fields and Swamps along the North Shore of Lake Athabasca, NTS 74M
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Supplemental Information:
In English.
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Responsible party:
Organisation name:
Alberta Geological Survey
Position name:
AGS Information Manager
Contact info:
Contact:
Phone:
Telephone:
Voice:
(780) 638-4491
Facsimile:
(780) 422-1459
Address:
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Delivery point:
Alberta Energy Regulator
Delivery point:
4th Floor, Twin Atria Building
Delivery point:
4999-98 Avenue NW
City:
Edmonton
Administrative area:
Alberta
Postal code:
T6B 2X3
Country:
Canada
Electronic mail address:
AGS-Info@aer.ca
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Report:
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Measure description:
Evaluation method description:
While rubber-sheeting the sketches and diagrams, the average RMS error was approximately 50 metres.
Result:
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We obtained uranium boulders, mineralized outcrops and pits point features from rubber-sheeting various
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Report:
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This dataset is a compilation of data from many different sketches and diagrams from mineral assessment
reports. Duplicate records were either corrected or removed.
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Lineage:
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Statement:
We obtained uranium boulders, mineralized outcrops and pits point features from rubber-sheeting various
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Description:
1. Rubber-sheeting sketches and diagrams from mineral assessment reports to match with the IRS base.
2. Digitize point locations of boulders.
Date and time:
2008-01-01T00:00:00
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Metadatastandard version FGDC-STD-001-1998 using the January 2013 version of the FGDC CSDGM to ISO 19115-2
transform.
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Alberta Geological Survey
Position name:
AGS Information Manager
Contact info:
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Phone:
Telephone:
Voice:
(780) 638-4491
Facsimile:
(780) 422-1459
Address:
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Delivery point:
Alberta Energy Regulator
Delivery point:
4th Floor, Twin Atria Building
Delivery point:
4999-98 Avenue NW
City:
Edmonton
Administrative area:
Alberta
Postal code:
T6B 2X3
Country:
Canada
Electronic mail address:
AGS-Info@aer.ca
Hours of service:
8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Role:
Role code:
custodian
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