Ontario Geological Survey
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| Record Name(s) | Sprinkler Zone - 1997, 6059 Zone - 2023 |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 2019-Jul-29 |
| Date Last Modified | 2024-Mar-25 |
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Primary Commodities: Lithium, Tantalum, Rubidium
Secondary Commodities: Cesium
Township or Area: Paterson Lake Area
Latitude: 50° 16' 8.03" Longitude: -94° 34' 53.13"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 387300 Northing: 5569725 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kenora
NTS Grid: 52L07SE
Point Location Description: OGS Staff field visit
Location Method: Data Compilation
1997-8: Avalon Ventures Ltd. carried out mapping, sampling, a magnetometer survey, and drilled 1 DDH totaling 110 m. 2022: Pan American Energy Corp. optioned the property. 2023-24: Pan American Energy carried out sampling and drilled 59 DDH totalling 8319.24 m.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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| 2.19116 | 52L07SE2003 | 52L07SE2003 |
| 2.18285 | 52L07SE2001 | 52L07SE2001 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: English River
Belt: Separation Lake
Geological Age: Archean
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Pegmatite | 1 | Is |
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| Amphibolite | 2 | Adjacent |
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Petalite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 1 | Albite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 2 | Garnet | Economic | Gangue |
Jul 29, 2019 (Therese Pettigrew) - Assays from DDH 98-49 returned values of 1.025% Li2O and 0.377% Rb2O from a predominantly white, aplitic to saccharoidal albite, with white ribbony petalite elongated along the foliation. An amphibolite in the same hole returned values of 0.164% Ta2O5 and 0.035% Cs2O (Assessment report 52L07SE2003). Sample 633201 returned 3.21% Li2O and 5577 ppm Rb from the 6059 Zone (located at NAD83 Zone 15 387221 mE, 5569668 mN) (Pan American Energy news release August 9, 2023). DDH BM24-039 returned 1.29% Li2O over 16.6 m including 3.61% Li2O over 0.57 below the western flank of the 6059 Pegmatite. DDH BM24-045 was located approximately 110 m east of the main 6059/Sprinkler zone and returned 2.28% Li2O over 3.0 m. DDH BM24-046 returned 1.03% Li2O over 0.98 m (Pan American Energy news release March 21, 2024).
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