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| Record Name(s) | Mustang Area 4 - 2004, Foy Lake Property - 1968 |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 2008-Feb-19 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Nov-09 |
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Primary Commodities: Nickel
Secondary Commodities: Copper, Cobalt
Township or Area: Semple
Latitude: 47° 56' 43.71" Longitude: -81° 13' 23.22"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 483339.001 Northing: 5310264.002 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Timmins
NTS Grid: 41P14NE
Point Location Description: UTM coords of occurrence sample 39603 (converted to NAD83)
Location Method: Based on Assessment
Access Description: The property is approximately 60 km south of the city of Timmins and 47 km west of the village of Matachewan. Access to the area is via the extension of Pine Street South along the Papakomeka lake road (all-weather gravel) and then by numerous logging and drill access roads in the area. Occurrence outcrop is next to old road, approximately 400m east of east end of Little Bear Lake.
1950-1952 - Dominion Gulf Company: Geology, ground geophysics (T-635) 1967 - R.J. Draper: 1 drillhole (T-502) 1968: Probe Mines Limited - property acquisition 1976 - Noranda Exploration: Ground geophysics (T-515) 1989 - Falconbridge Ltd.: Airborne geophysics (T-3362) 1991 - Falconbridge Ltd.: Drilling (1 hole; sph, py, po, cp noted but no assays submitted) (T-3380) 2004 - Mustang Minerals Corp.: Airborne geophysics (T-5093); ground follow-up reconnaissance geology and sampling (T-5234)
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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| T-0515 / 2.2106 | 41P14NE8403 | 41P14NE8403 |
| T-0635 / 63A.136 | 41P14SE0024 | 41P14SE0024 |
| T-0635 / 63.266 | 41P14SE0359 | 41P14SE0359 |
| T-3362 / 2.14034 | 41P14NE0055 | 41P14NE0055 |
| T-5093 / 2.28603 | 41P14NE2014 | 41P14NE2014 |
| T-5234 / 2.30797 | 20000000863 | 20000000863 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Abitibi
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Abitibi
Geological Age: Neoarchean
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Pyroxenite | 1 | Pyroxenite | Contains |
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| Intermediate pillowed flow | 2 | Pillowed | Near |
Aug 25, 2009 (A Wilson) - Prospecting by Mustang Minerals Ltd. indicates the presence of pillowed intermediate metavolcanics (altered mafic metavolcanic?) and pyroxenite.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 2 | Pyrrhotite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 1 | Pyrite | Economic | Gangue |
Aug 25, 2009 (D Draper) - Sample # 39603 from anomaly Area 4 was collected from a fine-grained massive dark green mafic rock containing less than 1% finely disseminated pyrite and pyrrhotite. It assayed 0.14% Ni. (T-5234)
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Mafic-Ultramafic Intrusion |
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 1 | Disseminated |
File - Resident Geologist files T-0502, T-0510, T-3380
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Location: Timmins RGP office
MonoMap - Geology of the Ferrier Lake-Canoeshed Lake area, District of Sudbury
Publication Number: R231 Page: 48 Date: 1984
Author: Bright E.G.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Semple and Hutt townships, Sudbury District
Publication Number: M2291 Scale: 1:31,680 Date: 1974
Author: Bright E.G.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines
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Map - Geological Compilation of the Matachewan Area, Abitibi Greenstone Belt
Publication Number: P3527 Scale: 1:100,000 Date: 2003
Author: Ayer J.A., Trowell N.F., Josey S.D., Nevills M., Valade L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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