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Record: MDI000000001619

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Bobcaygen Graphite Property - 2013, Bass Lake Showing - 2012, Valterra Resources Property - 2013, Discovery Zone - 2012
Related Record Type
Related Record(s)
Record Status Prospect
Date Created 2013-Aug-29
Date Last Modified 2022-Jul-15
Created By
Revised By

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Graphite



Location

Township or Area: Galway, Galway

Latitude: 44° 39' 58.24"    Longitude: -78° 32' 32.72"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 694817   Northing: 4948806    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario

NTS Grid: 31D10NE

Point Location Description: GPS co-ordinate of trench on claim 924324

Location Method: Field Visit with GPS

Access Description: The site is accessible via highway and bush road from the community of Bobcaygeon.



Exploration History

2001: J.C. Archibald - stripping, trenching. 2012-13: Valterra Resource Corporation - prospecting, property optioned, trenching, mapping, sampling, ground geophysics, metallurgical testing, DD-5-145 m. 2014: Valterra Resource Corporation and Great Lakes Graphite - sampling, mapping


Assessment Work on File

Assessment Work on File
Office File Number Online Assessment File Identifier Online Assessment File Directory
Galway #46 / 2.24155 31D16SW2008 31D16SW2008
Galway #43 / 2.22229 31D16SW2006 31D16SW2006
Galway #72 / 2.54354 20000009220 20000009220

Geology

Province: Grenville

Subprovince: Central Metasedimentary Belt

Terrane: Bancroft

Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic  



Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Marble 1 Host
Gneiss-Unsubdivided 2 Host
Ironstone-unsubdivided 3 Adjacent
Skarn 4 Is

Lithology Comments

Jan 12, 2015 (A Wilson) - The main flake-graphite occurrence is several metres thick and dips to the southeast at 45-50° and plunges down to the northeast and southwest. It was trenched to approximately 5 m and is truncated by an amphibolite gneiss dyke to the northeast. The Discovery Zone has now been traced for over 600 m.




Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
1GraphiteEconomicOre

Mineralization Comments

Jan 12, 2015 (A Wilson) - Grab samples collected from the site ranged from 8.7% to 69.1% graphite. A trench sample returned 36.8% graphite over 1.5 m. Metallurgical testing returned a graphite head grade of 34%. Both jumbo and large flake graphite were produced during the metallurgical tests. Highlights of the diamond drilling on the Discovery Zone were 2.40 Cg(%) over 2.68 m, including 7.35 Cg(%) over 0.61 m from BOB13-001. Drill hole BOB13-004 returned 6.36 Cg(%) over 3.38 m, including 8.22 Cg(%) over 2.44 m and 31.90 Cg(%) over 0.53 m. The Discovery Zone has also retuned assays of 36.8 Cg(%) over 1.5 m in a channel sample, 20.2% Cg(%) over a 1.4 m channel sample, 14.6 Cg(%) over 0.7 m channel sample, 8.7 Cg(%) over 0.5 m Cg(%)and 7.8 Cg(%) from a 0.3 grab sample.



Mineral Record Details

Classification
RankClassification            
1 Hydrothermal
Characteristics
Rank Characteristic            
1 Massive

References

Publication - Valterra Resource Corporation – press releases

Publication Number: Press Releases Date: 2013

Author: Valterra Resource Corporation

Publisher Name:

Location: Tweed RGO


Map - Haliburton-Bancroft area, Province of Ontario

Publication Number: M1957B Scale: 1:126,720    Date: 1997

Author: Satterly J., Hewitt D.F.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


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