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| Record Name(s) | Burning Lake Property - 1997 |
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| Date Created | 2010-Feb-02 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Aug-16 |
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Primary Commodities: Nickel, Copper
Township or Area: Satterly
Latitude: 49° 36' 11.96" Longitude: -92° 27' 20.53"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 539328 Northing: 5494670.001 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kenora
NTS Grid: 52F09SW
Point Location Description: Point
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: The property is centered on Lat. 49º 36' N and Long. 92º 27' W, located approx. 32 km southeast of Dryden, ON, Township of Satterly. It is readily accessible from the Snake Bay logging road that extends south off the TransCanada Hwy at the eastern end of Jackfish Lake. A series of secondary logging roads cut across the claims providing excellent access. (Kenora AF 52F/09SW RR-1, Falconbridge Limited, p.1)
1997: prospector Earl Hanssen discovered the showing; he blasted a pit (1.5m x 1.5m x 0.5m), which exposed an intensely carbonatized, sulphide bearing rock. 1998:- property optioned to Falconbridge Ltd.; they added 6 claims and completed 45.55km of line-cutting, 45.55km of magnetics, 38.87km of HLEM surveys, and geological mapping by consultants Clark-Eveleigh. 2001: Mr. Hanssen approached the Kenora District Geologist Office for advise what could be done with the property. A mini-geophysical compilation (1:5000) based upon the data provided by Falconbridge resulted. 2003: Dan Calvert and Mr. Hanssen did re-sampling of the pit area, as well as prospecting. 2005: In September, Allan Raoul re-examined the geophysical data.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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| 2.19493 / 52F09SW RR-1 | 52F09SW2001 | 52F09SW2001 |
Province: Superior
Geological Age: Precambrian
Feb 02, 2010 (J Bongfelt) - 'This author (A. Raoul) believes that this magnetic high and the north-trending EM conductors, from the mini-geophysical compilation, are representative of a highly magnetic gabbroic unit. This unit is either poorly exposed at this location or may be representative of the gabbro being covered by a thin veneer of the mafic volcanic rocks; these mafic volcanics are not strongly magnetic. The mineralized showing occurs at the western flank of this intrusion, probably related to a N-S fracture, produced by the intrusion of the gabbro unit. This fracture system was probably then flooded by calcite +/-ankerite alteration that is common in the entire Dinorwic Lake area (Parker 1992). This carbonate alteration would mask the pre-existing Cu-Ni mineralization and actually break down these Cu-Ni-Fe sulphides to produce more ankerite (Ca-FeCarbonate) -siderite (Fe Carbonate) +/-malachite-azurite (hydrous Cu Carbonate) and Ni sulphide or Ni carbonates. These reactions would greatly reduce the EM and magnetic responses of these units.' (Kenora Property Visit File F09SW00014 - New Showing, Burning Lake)
Feb 02, 2010 (J Bongfelt) - 1998 Work Program: 'The highest values returned for Cu and Ni were 1.87% (WR24724) and 1.74% (WR24721), respectively. During a field visit in April, two (2) additional samples were collected of the more concentrated sulphides. These samples returned values of 1.16% Ni, 1.23% Cu, and 1.07% Ni, 1.45% Cu (WA24736 & WA24737 respectively).' In 1997, Earl Hansson sent two grab samples for assay; the samples returned values of 12,528 ppm Cu, 10,536 ppm Ni and 3,648 ppm Cu, 2,105 ppm Ni. (Assessment File 52F/09SW RR-1, Falconbridge Limited, p.1 & 4)
Jul 18, 2022 (Q Unknown) - 1997: Grab samples yielded values of: a) 1.25% Cu and 1.05% Ni; b) 0.36% Cu and 0.21% Ni. Elevated values of Pt (29 ppb), Pd (39 ppb), Au (85 ppb) and Co (989 ppm) were located in sample 1. 2003: three significant samples yielded the following results: 0.13-0.16% Cu, 0.15-0.21% Ni, 0.013-0.018% Co and 0.16-0.18 gpt Pt.
File - Kenora Property Visit File, 52F09SW00014, New Showing (Burning Lake)
Publication Number: Date: 2010
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Location: Kenora RGP office
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