Basis for focus area |
Known pegmatite occurrence (Falster and others, 1996; Sirbescu and others, 2008). |
Identified resources |
None known. |
Production |
No known production. |
Status |
Part of Pine River Wild Rivers Area; collecting no permitted. |
Estimated resources |
No data. |
Geologic maps |
Sims and Schulz (1993), scale 1;100,000. |
Geophysical data |
Inadequate aeromagnetic and aeroradiometric coverage. |
Favorable rocks and structures |
Unmapped granitic pegmatite, late-Penokean or post-Penokean in age. Maybe be related to the 1.7 Ma Bush Lake Granite. |
Deposits |
No data. |
Evidence from mineral occurrences |
Falster and others (1996). |
Geochemical evidence |
The Animikie Red Ace pegmatite is zoned tourmaline–lepidolite–spodumene-bearing LCT pegmatite (Falster and others, 1996). |
Geophysical evidence |
No data. |
Evidence from other sources |
No data. |
Cover thickness and description |
Thin glacial cover. |
Authors |
Benjamin J. Drenth, Klaus Schulz. |
New data needs |
New geologic mapping, high resolution geophysics. |
Geologic mapping and modeling needs |
Need new geologic mapping. |
Geophysical survey and modeling needs |
High resolution aeromagnetic and aeroradiometric coverage needed. |
Digital elevation data needs |
Lidar needed. |