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| Record Name(s) | River Valley PGM Project - 1999 |
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| Record Status | Developed Prospect With Reported Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 2012-Jun-29 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Sep-18 |
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Primary Commodities: Palladium, Platinum, Rhodium, Gold
Secondary Commodities: Copper, Nickel, Cobalt
Township or Area: Dana, Pardo
Latitude: 46° 42' 14" Longitude: -80° 16' 32.41"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 555371 Northing: 5172514 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Sudbury
NTS Grid: 41I09SW
Point Location Description: approximate centre of claim group
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: The Property is accessed from Sudbury by traveling east along Highway 17 for 100 km to the town of Warren, at this point turn north onto Highway 539. Travel north along Highway 539 for 22 km to the junction of Highway 805. Travel northwest along Highway 805 from the village of River Valley, a distance of about 19.5 km from the Temagami River. Turn right onto a logging road, for about 800 m, then right at a fork in the road, and continue an additional 200 m. At this point several skidder roads and access trails lead south toward the mineralized zones.
1963: Tomrose Mines Ltd. - prospecting, trenching, geochemical explroation, DD. 1965: Falconbridge Ltd. - ground geophysics. 1966: Azen Mines Ltd. - ground geophysics. 1968-69: Kenco Exploration Canada Ltd. - airborne geophysics, trenching, pitting. 1995-1997: WMC International Ltd. - mapping, geochemical surveys, airborne geophysics. 1997: Tenajon Resources Corp. - mapping, trenching, sampling. 1998: L.Luhta, R. Bailey and R. Orchard - prospecting, sampling. 1999: Aquiline Resources Inc. - mapping, ground geophysics. 1999-2003: Mustang Minerals Corp. - prospecting, sampling, ground geophysics, DD. 1999-2008: Ango American Platium Corporation Limited and Pacific North West Capital Corp. - trenching, sampling, mapping, DD-549-113,453 m, metallurgical testing, bulk sampling, airborne geophysics, . 2011: Pacific North West Capital Corp. - resource drilling (46-12,767m), ground geophysics
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| 0013 | 41I09SE0008 | 41I09SE0008 |
| 011 | 41I09SE0011 | 41I09SE0011 |
| Crerar 15 | 41I09SW9601 | 41I09SW9601 |
| 0014A1 | 41I09SE0016 | 41I09SE0016 |
| Crerar – 0012B1 | 41I09SE0015 | 41I09SE0015 |
| 2.16588 | 41I09NE0007 | 41I09NE0007 |
| 2.16415 | 41I09NE0006 | 41I09NE0006 |
| 2.18757 | 41I16SE2001 | 41I16SE2001 |
| 2.19680 | 41I09NE2006 | 41I09NE2006 |
| 2.19986 | 41I09NW2007 | 41I09NW2007 |
| 2.19671 | 41I09NE2004 | 41I09NE2004 |
| 2.20077 | 41I09NE2009 | 41I09NE2009 |
| 2.20076 | 41I09SE2002 | 41I09SE2002 |
| 2.21860 | 41I09NE2016 | 41I09NE2016 |
| 2.22585 | 41I09NE2018 | 41I09NE2018 |
| 2.22594 | 41I09NE2020 | 41I09NE2020 |
| 2.23599 | 41I09NE2025 | 41I09NE2025 |
| 2.23475 | 41I09NE2026 | 41I09NE2026 |
| 2.24282 | 41I09NE2030 | 41I09NE2030 |
| 2.24369 | 41I09NW2043 | 41I09NW2043 |
| 2.21858 | 41I09SW2004 | 41I09SW2004 |
| 2.21862 | 41I09SW2005 | 41I09SW2005 |
| 2.26195 | 41I09SW2010 | 41I09SW2010 |
| 2.24281 | 41I09NE2029 | 41I09NE2029 |
| 2.25758 | 41I09NE2033 | 41I09NE2033 |
| 2.24604 | 41I09NE2034 | 41I09NE2034 |
| 2.28532 | 41I09NE2039 | 41I09NE2039 |
| 2.28566 | 41I09NE2040 | 41I09NE2040 |
| 2.28768 | 41I09NE2041 | 41I09NE2041 |
| 2.20591 | 41I09NW2011 | 41I09NW2011 |
| 2.21046 | 41I09NW2028 | 41I09NW2028 |
Province: Grenville
Subprovince: Central Gneiss Belt
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic Geochronological Age: 2491 and 2475 Ma Geochron. Age Ref.: NI 43-101 report
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Quartz Arenite | 1 | Footwall |
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| Gneiss-Unsubdivided | 2 | Footwall | ||
| Gneiss-Unsubdivided | 3 | Hanging Wall | ||
| Gabbronorite | 4 | Gabbro Norite | Host | |
| Gabbronorite | 5 | Gabbro Norite | Brecciated | Host |
| Gabbro | 6 | Leuco Gabbro | Inclusion Rich | Host |
Jul 04, 2012 (A Wilson) - The River Valley intrusion is shallow-dipping, layered and approximately 900 m thick. There is an increase in metamorphic grade from the northwest part of the intrusion (middle- greenschist facies) to the southeast part (lower amphibolite). The dominant rock types are leucograbbronorite and leucogabbro with gabbros and anorthosites. Along the Grenville Front, the intrusion is either in thrust contact with quartzite of the Huronian Mississagi Formation, or is in contact with mafic and felsic metavolcanic rocks of the lower Huronian Supergroup where the nature of the contact is unknown.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Pyrrhotite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Pentlandite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 5 | Cubanite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 6 | Bornite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 7 | Sperrylite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 8 | Mackinawite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 4 | Pyrite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 9 | Arsenopyrite | Economic | Gangue |
Jul 04, 2012 (A Wilson) - The breccia units are characterized by inclusions of footwall and cognate mafic to ultramafic xenoliths and autoliths set within a gabbronorite to olivine-bearing gabbronorite matrix. Near the contact, marginal footwall breccias and zones of extensive footwall dikes may also be present. Blebby to disseminated chalcopyrite and pyrrhotite, typically in modal amounts from 0.5 to 2%, occur in the matrix of the marginal and brecciated rocks and occasionally within the breccia’s more mafic fragments. This sulphide mineralization commonly contains between 1 g/t and 5 g/t combined platinum-palladium-gold. The majority of sulphide mineralization occurs as magmatic sulphide grains that are primarily disseminated and bleb textured, with subordinate net textures. Principal sulphide minerals are chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite, and pentlandite with subordinate pyrite, cubanite and bornite. Contact-style PGM mineralization is the most common form of PGM mineralization within the East Bull Lake Intrusive Suite. Mineralized zones are commonly restricted to within 200 to 300 m of the true footwall contact, and mineralized zones are commonly 20 to 100 m wide. Mineralization occurs typically as fine- to mediumgrained disseminated to blebby chalocopyrite+pryrrhotite+pentlandite within a heterolithic gabbro to melagabbro breccia. Reef-style mineralization has also been identified in the deposit.
| Rank | Classification |
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| 2 | Mafic-Ultramafic Intrusion |
| 1 | Magmatic |
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 1 | Concordant |
| 2 | Stratiform |
| Zone | Year | Category | Tonnes | Reference | Comments | Commodities |
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| River Valley | 2021 | Inferred Mineral Resource | 94268000 | 2021 NI 43-101 | Cobalt 0.002 %, Copper 0 %, Gold 0.03 g/t, Nickel 0.02 %, Palladium 0.35 g/t, Platinum 0.16 g/t, Rhodium 0.01 g/t, Silver 0.25 g/t | |
| River Valley | 2021 | Measured + Indicated Resource | 89640000 | 2021 NI 43-101 | Cobalt 0.002 %, Copper 0.1 %, Gold 0.04 g/t, Nickel 0.01 %, Palladium 0.54 g/t, Platinum 0.21 g/t, Rhodium 0.02 g/t, Silver 0.26 g/t | |
| River Valley | 2012 | Measured Mineral Resource | 25584850 | NI 43-101 report | includes: Dana, Dana South and Lismer Zones | Cobalt 0.003 g/t, Copper 0.06 %, Gold 0.04 g/t, Nickel 0.02 %, Palladium 0.63 g/t, Platinum 0.23 g/t, Rhodium 0.022 g/t, Silver 0.55 g/t |
| River Valley | 2012 | Indicated Mineral Resource | 65754700 | NI 43-101 report, Table 1.1 | includes: Dana, Dana South, Lismer, Lismer Extension and Varley Zones | Cobalt 0.003 %, Copper 0.06 %, Gold 0.04 g/t, Nickel 0.02 %, Palladium 0.56 g/t, Platinum 0.21 g/t, Rhodium 0.02 g/t, Silver 0.26 g/t |
| River Valley | 2012 | Measured + Indicated Resource | 91339550 | NI 43-101 report, Table 1.1 | includes: Dana, Dana South, Lismer, Lismer Extension and Varley Zones | Cobalt 0.003 %, Copper 0.06 %, Gold 0.04 g/t, Nickel 0.02 %, Palladium 0.58 g/t, Platinum 0.22 g/t, Rhodium 0.021 g/t, Silver 0.34 g/t |
| River Valley | 2012 | Inferred Mineral Resource | 35911000 | NI 43-101 report, Table 1.1 | includes:Azen, Banshee, Lismer, Razor and Varley Zones | Cobalt 0.003 %, Copper 0.06 %, Gold 0.03 g/t, Nickel 0.03 %, Palladium 0.36 g/t, Platinum 0.14 g/t, Rhodium 0.014 g/t, Silver 0.11 g/t |
Publication - Technical Report and Resource Estimate on the River Valley PGM Project,Northern Ontario, 212p.
Publication Number: 2012 NI 43-101 Date: 2012
Author: T. McCracken
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Location:
Mono - Geology and Mineral Potential of the Paleoproterozoic River Valley Intrusion and Related Rocks, Grenville Province
Publication Number: OFR6123 Date: 2003
Author: Easton R.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Publication - Technical Report and updated Mineral Resource Estimate of the River Valley Palladium Project
Publication Number: 2021 NI 43-101 Date: 2021
Author: Sutcliffe, R.H., Puritch, E., Wu, Y., Barry, J., Feasby, D.G., Yassa, A.
Publisher Name: P&E Mining for New Age Metals
Location: SEDAR
Map - Precambrian Geology, Dana Township
Publication Number: P3433 Scale: 1:20,000 Date: 2001
Author: Easton R.M., Hrominchuk J.L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Precambrian Geology, Crerar-River Valley Area
Publication Number: P3578 Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 2007
Author: Easton R.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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