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MDI000000003170
| Record Name(s) | Far East Zone - 1995 |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 2022-Sep-30 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Sep-30 |
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Primary Commodities: Zinc
Secondary Commodities: Copper
Township or Area: Belanger
Latitude: 50° 58' 30.39" Longitude: -92° 51' 36.77"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 509814 Northing: 5647066 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Red Lake
NTS Grid: 52K15NW
Point Location Description: DDH CL95-6 from Assessment report 52K15NW0019
Location Method: Based on Assessment
1995: Noranda discovered the massive sulphide zone when they were drilling on the property. 16 DDH totalling 8214.2 m were drilled, including one on the zone totalling 306.7 m.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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| 2.17097 | 52K15NW0019 | 52K15NW0019 |
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Felsic Tuff | 1 |
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| Felsic Lapilli-Tuff | 2 | |||
| Gabbro | 3 | minor gabbroic sills and dykes |
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Pyrrhotite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Sphalerite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore |
Sep 30, 2022 (Therese Pettigrew) - The Far East Zone is a massive sulphide zone discovered at a vertical depth of -250 m during Noranda's 1994-95 drill program. The zone is located 2.0 km northeast of the Hornet Zone, on L900E at 600N. The hole collared in a mixed sequence of massive ash tuff to blue quartz eye tuffs and/or flows, to lapilli tuff horizons intruded by minor gabbroic to amphibolitic sills and dykes to 283.4m. From 283.4 to 287.1 m, a zone of massive to bedded sulphide mineralization composed of 30-80% Po pyrrhotite with minor sphalerite and chalcopyrite was observed. Assays returned 0.12% Cu, 0.88% Zn, and 3.7 ppm Ag over 3.7 m. The observed sulphide zone is in contact with a cherty argillaceous rhyolite carrying 1-5% pyrrhotite, with traces of chalcopyrite and sphalerite from 286.9 to 290.95 m (Assessment report 52K15NW0019).
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | VMS Base Metal |
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