Uranium Exploration Using Till, District of Keewatin

Over the past two years, research on drift prospecting in the District of Keewatin has been directed towards developing reconnaissance and detailed sampling techniques that can indicate uranium mineralization a s well a s base metal mineralization. Shilts and Klassen (1976) have presented some preliminary results of the uranium phase for Boothia Peninsula and central Keewatin. The purposes of this report are: (1) to discuss briefly the techniques of sampling and processing samples; (2) to update the uranium dispersal map of the Kaminak Lake area; (3) to show the results of detailed sampling around a site of known uranium mineralization, which also was indicated by reconnaissande anomalies; and (4) to show the results of reconnaissance uranium drift sampling in the Baker Lake area. Figure 93.1 is an index map of the Kaminak and Baker Lake areas.