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MDI000000003067
| Record Name(s) | Norman West - 1996 |
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| Record Status | Developed Prospect With Reported Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 2022-Jun-24 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Jun-24 |
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Primary Commodities: Copper, Nickel, Platinum, Palladium
Secondary Commodities: Cobalt, Gold, Silver
Township or Area: Norman
Latitude: 46° 45' 20.68" Longitude: -80° 54' 50.73"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 506561 Northing: 5178025 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Sudbury
NTS Grid: 41I15SW
Point Location Description: 2018 RGP site visit
Location Method: Data Compilation
1996: Inco Ltd. drilled 1 DDH totalling 1574.9 m. 2014-2019: Glencore drilled 17 DDH.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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| 2.17135 | 41I15SW0218 | 41I15SW0218 |
Province: Southern
Subprovince: Sudbury Structure
Supergroup: Sudbury Igneous Complex, Main Mass
Formation Group: Sudbury Footwall Breccia
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Gabbro | 1 | Contains |
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| Vein | 2 | sulphides | Host | |
| Breccia-unsubdivided | 3 | Adjacent |
| 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 | Millerite | Economic | Ore |
Jun 24, 2022 (Therese Pettigrew) - Glencore’s Norman West deposit, discovered in 1996, has been actively explored since 2014. The deposit is located in Norman Township, 35–40 km northeast of Sudbury. The Norman West Cu-Ni-PGE deposit is hosted over a 2 km strike length within a series of contact and footwall lenses that begin at 1600 m below surface and plunge down to 2800 m. Contact mineralization occurs at the base of the Late Granite Breccia (LGBX) and footwall mineralization occurs vertically below in Sudbury Breccia (SDBX) or metabreccia (Chadwick et al., 2021). The discovery hole, DDH 93659-0, drilled by Inco in 1996, returned 0.52% Cu and 0.06% NI over 3.8 feet at 5137.5 foot depth (1565.9 m) from veinlets of chalcopyrite and millerite contained in a metabgabbro (Assessment report 41I15SW0218).
| Zone | Year | Category | Tonnes | Reference | Comments | Commodities |
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| Norman West | 2020 | Inferred Mineral Resource | 31000000 | OFR6375, p. 47 | Cobalt 0.02 %, Copper 2.4 %, Gold 0.4 g/t, Nickel 0.7 %, Palladium 1.1 g/t, Platinum 0.9 g/t, Silver 18.3 g/t | |
| Norman West Total | 2019 | Inferred Mineral Resource | 23600000 | Lamontagne, 2019 | Cobalt 0 %, Copper 2.8 %, Gold 0.6 g/t, Nickel 0.7 %, Palladium 1.3 g/t, Platinum 1.0 g/t, Silver 21.7 g/t | |
| Contact | 2019 | Inferred Mineral Resource | 6300000 | Lamontagne, 2019 | Cobalt 0 %, Copper 1.0 %, Gold 0.1 g/t, Nickel 1.5 %, Palladium 0.5 g/t, Platinum 0.4 g/t, Silver 2.9 g/t | |
| Footwall | 2019 | Inferred Mineral Resource | 17400000 | Lamontagne, 2019 | Cobalt 0.0 %, Copper 2.4 %, Gold 0.7 g/t, Nickel 0.4 %, Palladium 1.6 g/t, Platinum 1.3 g/t, Silver 28.4 g/t |
Mono - Report of Activities 2020, Resident Geologist Program, Kirkland Lake Regional Resident Geologist Report: Kirkland Lake and Sudbury Districts
Publication Number: OFR6375 Page: 47 Date: 2021
Author: Chadwick P.J., Péloquin A.S., Suma-Momoh J., Daniels C.M., Hinz S.L.K., Dorland G., Patterson C., Todd R.M.
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Publication - 3D Modelling of a deep massive sulphide body at Norman West, Sudbury ON Canada: does the ore zone model explain all of the geophysical response?
Publication Number: Date: 2020
Author: Lamontagne Geophysics Ltd.
Publisher Name: Lamontagne Geophysics Ltd.
Location: https://www.lamontagnegeophysics.com/downloads/cases/MGEM_BHUTEM_NormanWest.pdf
Publication - 3D Modelling of a deep massive sulphide body at Norman West
Publication Number: Date: 2020
Author: McMonnies, B., Hughes, W., Lamontagne, Y.
Publisher Name: Lamontagne Geophysics
Location: https://www.lamontagnegeophysics.com/downloads/BHUTEM_MGEM_Norman%20West_KEGS2020.pdf
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