Ontario’s Ministry of Northern Development and Mines says it will release the results of a recently- completed airborne geophysical survey of a 4,000-km area south of Dryden, on May 26.
The ministry says the electromagnetic and magnetic survey, which has been primarily funded under the Canada Ontario Mineral Development Agreement, is the second largest ever managed by the ministry’s Ontario Geological Survey.
It is just slightly smaller than the Pickle Lake, Ont. geophysical survey released last October.
According to Roger Barlow, chief of the ogs geophysics and geochemistry section, more than 19,000 line kilometres of data were collected by Geoterrex Ltd. last fall, using a flight line separation of 200m and resulting in the detection of more than 16,000 anomaly intercepts.
It’s believed clues the maps provide can cut prospecting and exploration costs because they help narrow down the best sites in an exploration area and point to potential in new areas.
The complete set of 49 maps will also be displayed and sold for $100 at the mining recorder’s offices in Kenora, Sioux Lookout and Thunder Bay, and at the Ministry of Natural Resources’ district office in Dryden.
In Toronto, they can be bought at the public information office of the ministry, 99 Wellesley St. W.
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