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Record: MDI000000000675

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Vencan Sample 85860 - 2007
Related Record Type Simple
Record Status Discretionary Occurrence
Date Created 2009-Jun-04
Date Last Modified 2022-Jan-05
Created By D Draper
Revised By Sheree Hinz

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Platinum, Palladium



Location

Township or Area: Dore

Latitude: 47° 46' 6.22"    Longitude: -82° 34' 11.15"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 382381   Northing: 5291752    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Timmins

NTS Grid: 41O15SE

Point Location Description: Precise: UTM coord of sample site 85860

Location Method: Based on Assessment



Exploration History

1976: Union Minere Exploration carried out an airborne magnetic survey (T-1732). 1983-84: Dore Exploration Inc. carried out a ground geophysical survey and mapping (T-2765). 1988: Dore Norbaska Resources Inc. carried out a ground geophysical survey (T-2765). 2007: VenCan Gold Corporation completed prospecting, assays, overburden stripping, soil sampling (T-5653; T-5791). 2009: Red Pine Exploration Inc. carried out prospecting, soil sampling, overburden stripping, manual labour, assaying and analyses (T-6081). 2010: Red Pine Exploration Inc. carried out an airborne geophysical survey (VLFEM, Magnetometer), and a ground geophysical survey (induced polarization).


Assessment Work on File

Assessment Work on File
Office File Number Online Assessment File Identifier Online Assessment File Directory
T-1732 / 2.2145 41O15NE0012 41O15NE0012
T-2765 / 2.5865 41O15SE0084 41O15SE0084
T-2765 / 2.7103 41O15SE0081 41O15SE0081
T-2765 / 2.11140 41O15SE0046 41O15SE0046
T-5653 / 2.37258 20000002702 20000002702
T-5791 / 2.39598 20000003587 20000003587
T-6081 / 2.43905 20000004510 20000004510
T-6230 / 2.46831 20000006503 20000006503

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Abitibi

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Swayze

Geological Age: Archean  



Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Ultramafic lava flow-unsubdivided 1 Contains

Mineralization Comments

Jun 04, 2009 (D Draper) - VenCan sample 85860, described only as an ultramafic volcanic, assayed 0.224ppm platinum and 0.179ppm palladium.



Mineral Record Details

References

Map - Geology, Swayze greenstone belt, Rollo Lake, Ontario

Publication Number: OF 3384b Scale: 1:50,000    Date: 1999

Author: Heather, K B; Shore, G T

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada


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