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Ministry of Energy, Northern Development and Mines
Permanent Link to this Record: MDI000000001912| Deposit Name(s) | Chisel Copper - 1999 |
|---|---|
| Deposit Status | occurrence |
| Date Created | 2016-Apr-20 |
| Date Last Modified | 2016-Apr-20 |
| Created By | T Pettigrew |
| Revised By | T Pettigrew |
Primary Commodities: copper
Township or Area: Shabotik
Latitude: 48° 57' 52.11" Longitude: -85° 24' 30.7"
UTM Zone: 16 Easting: 616485 Northing: 5424727 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay South
NTS Grid: 42C14NW
Point Location Description: AFRI 42C14NW2005
Location Method: based on assessment
Access Description: Access to the southeastern and southern portions of the property is via a network of Domtar logging roads beginning approximately 70 km south near the town of White River. The road network begins with Domtar Road 100 at the Domtar Mill on Highway 17 and leads north to Domtar Roads 135, 400, 403, 403-130, and 403-134, respectively.
1984: Golden Rule Resources Ltd. flew airborne magnetometer, EM, resistivity, and VLF-EM surveys. 1989: Noranda Exploration Co. Ltd. flew helicopter-borne magnetometer and EM surveys. 1998: J. Ternowesky, W.L Cox, and L. Halverson staked 7 claims along the southeastern margin of the Bulldozer Mafic-Ultramafic Complex. 1999: The Chisel Copper Occurrence and several other sulphide occurrences were discovered during an exploration program that included linecutting, ground magnetometer and VLF-EM surveys, and limited prospecting. Gryphon Metals Corporation optioned the property a short time later and staked another 12 claims to the west of the existing claims. 2000: Gryphon completed a magnetometer survey. Gryphon subsequently optioned the property to Freewest Resources Canada Inc. who then completed prospecting and geological mapping. 2005: North American Palladium Ltd. flew a VTEM geophysical survey.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| 2.21081 | 42C14NW2005 | Open |
| 2.21463 | 42F03SW2001 | Open |
| 42C14NW0013A1 | 42C14NW8759 | Open |
| 2.20246 | 42C14NW2002 | Open |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Wawa
Intrusion: Bulldozer Mafic-ultramafic Complex
Geological Age: Archean
03/21/2016 (T Pettigrew) - The Chisel Copper Occurrence is located near the northern margins of the large Black-Pic Batholith of the eastern Wawa Subprovince, Superior Structural Province. The rocks within this portion of the Subprovince have not yet been mapped by the OGS or GSC. The composite Black-Pic Batholith is a foliated to massive, tonalitic to granodioritic structural dome intruded by late gabbro, diorite, granite, and granodioritic complexes and plutons. It is characterized by a low to moderate intensity, relatively uniform magnetic signature and is bound by the moderately to strongly magnetic Manitouwadge-Hornpayne greenstone belt to the north; the variably magnetic, eastern Schreiber-Hemlo greenstone belt and the roughly circular, very strongly magnetic Coldwell Alkaline Complex to the south, and the Dayohessarah-Kabinakagami greenstone belt to the east. The Bulldozer Mafic-Ultramafic Complex is readily visible on airborne magnetic maps as a large (10 x 7 km), strong, elliptical anomaly with a north-trending, western apophysis. All rock-types in the region are cross-cut by numerous, moderate to strong, linear, magnetic anomalies generally representing Paleo-Proterozoic, quartz and locally olivine diabase dykes of the NW-trending Matachewan (2454 Ma) and NE-trending Marathon (2170) swarms. Many of these dykes occupy pre-existing faults (AFRI 42C14NW2005).
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| gabbro | 1 | |||
| ultramafics | 2 | hornblendite |
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Habit Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chalcopyrite | economic | ore | ||||
| 2 | pyrrhotite | economic | ore | ||||
| 1 | hornblende | economic | gangue |
03/21/2016 (T Pettigrew) - The Chisel Occurrence (L28+12N, 4+15 W) is located 2225 m NNE of the Bulldozer Occurrence on the southeastern edge of a small lake. The occurrence consists of several small, diffuse, irregular pods of 1 to 4% disseminated pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite within a rusty hornblende gabbro containing numerous small, angular blocks of hornblendite. The mineralization is cross-cut by numerous leucotonalite and pegmatite veins. A 30 m thick, NNW-striking diabase dyke is located less than 10 m west of the occurrence. Samples ranged from 3367-4228 ppb Cu and 48-67 ppb Ni (AFRI 42C14NW2005).
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