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Article: Algoma district minerals unexplored: base metals and uranium in sights of junior miners.(MINING)
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- Northern Ontario Business
- Article date:
- December 1, 2008
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Anthony Pace spreads out a geological compilation map of the Algoma district revealing a vast sea of pink.
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In the rugged and uncharted interior, aside from the scattered triangular markers where traces of copper, zine and the odd patch of carbonatite have been found, there is not a good understanding of the geology.
Most of the coloured areas are in townships hugging the North Shore of Lake Huron and the eastern granite shores of Lake Superior where junior miners are digging for uranium and base metals.
"All it takes is one claim unit staked in the middle of nowhere to cause a lot of curiosity," says Pace, ...