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Record: MDI000000000691

General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Nickel, Vanadium, Titanium

Secondary Commodities: Copper, Iron

Location

Township or Area: BMA 524 861

Latitude: 52° 24' 11.22"    Longitude: -86° 12' 12.08"

UTM Zone: 16    Easting: 554197   Northing: 5806174    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay North

NTS Grid: 43D08NE

Point Location Description: GPS co-ordinate of DDH 06HB-04 from Assessment file 20000002679

Location Method: Based on Assessment

Exploration History

2003-06: Northern Shield Resources Ltd. - ground geophysics, GC, airborne geophysics, - DD-14-3371 m. 2007: Northern Shield Resources drilled 7 DDH totalling 3395 m.

Assessment Work on File

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Sachigo

Terrane: North Caribou

Domain: Oxford-Stull

Geological Age: Archean  

Lithology

Lithology Comments

Aug 28, 2009 (A Wilson) - The Highbank Lake property is underlain by a layered mafic intrusion. Layers of hornblendite (metapyroxenite), gabbro and leucogabbro have been reported in diamond drill core. Texturally, the units range from glomeroporphyritic to medium-grained. The mineralization is interpreted as being part of a magnetite-rich reef which has been traced geophysically for up to 26 km

Jan 22, 2019 (Therese Pettigrew) - Diamond drilling has confirmed that the Fishtrap Intrusive Complex is composed generally of layered sequences of gabbro, anorthosite, and pyroxenite. Although there is no direct evidence to date of folding such as clear repetition of reversed stratigraphic sequences, a number of features support a model that involves large-scale folding for the interpretation of the geometry of the intrusion. One of the most obvious feature is the repetition of a vanadium-rich magnetite-gabbro layer intersected in two different locations, which is interpreted to represent the uppermost (most evolved) section of the intrusion. This sequence was intersected in the central part of the intrusion and also on the northern rim. This repetition is interpreted to be the result of a large-scale anticline (Assessment file 20000004234).

Mineralization

Mineralization Comments

Aug 11, 2014 (N Bennett) - A 2.2 m interval from 06HB-04 returned >50% Fe, 0.97% V2O5 and 9.45% TiO2. A 0.53 m section of core returned 861 ppm Ni and a 0.3 m section of core returned 1995 ppm Cu. From 174.75m to 175.24m = >50% Fe, 0.93% V2O5, 9% TiO2 From 175.24m to 175.65m = 39.9% Fe, 0.73% V2O5, 7.9% TiO2 From 175.65m to 176.13m = 43.3% Fe, 0.79% V2O5, 8.47% TiO2 From 176.13m to 177.18m = 13% Fe, 0.22% V2O5, 2.4% TiO2 From 177.18m to 177.48m = 39.3% Fe, 0.68% V2O5, 7.4% TiO2 From 177.48m to 178.28m = >50% Fe, 0.95% V2O5, 9.4% TiO2 From 178.28m to 179.15m = >50% Fe, 0.98% V2O5, 9.3% TiO2 From 179.15m to 179.68m = >50% Fe, 0.98% V2O5, 9.3% TiO2 Total Interval = 4.90m = >40.2% Fe, 0.75% V2O5, 7.56% TiO2

Mineral Record Details

References

Map - Precambrian Geology of the Hudson Bay and James Bay Lowlands Region Interpreted from Aeromagnetic Data-South Sheet

Publication Number: P3599-REV Scale: 1:500,000    Date: 2009

Author: Stott G.M.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Publication - Press releases Northern Shield Resources Inc.

Publication Number: Scale:     Date: 2006

Author: Northern Shield Resources Inc.

Publisher Name:

Publication - Report on Diamond Drilling, Highbank Lake Property, Northern Ontario.

Publication Number: NI 43-101 Scale:     Date: 2007

Author: C. Vaillancourt and I. Bliss

Publisher Name: Northern Shield Resources

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