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Record: MDI000000003188

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Whitecap - 2021, Allison Lake North Property - 2021, Peg Lake - 2003
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Record Status Discretionary Occurrence
Date Created 2022-Oct-12
Date Last Modified 2023-Apr-18
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Lithium, Rubidium, Tantalum, Niobium

Secondary Commodities: Gallium



Location

Township or Area: Costello

Latitude: 51° 7' 27.37"    Longitude: -92° 23' 50.69"

UTM Zone: 15    Easting: 542170   Northing: 5663817    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Red Lake

NTS Grid: 52N01SW

Point Location Description: Location from map in Portofino Resources news release Sept 7, 2021

Location Method: Data Compilation



Exploration History

2021: Portofino Resources acquired the property and carried out prospecting and sampling. 2022: Portofino carried out a high-resolution magnetic heli-borne survey.


Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Uchi

Domain: Uchi

Geological Age: Archean  



Geology Comments

Oct 12, 2022 (Therese Pettigrew) - The property is positioned along the contact between the Allison Lake pegmatite granite batholith and the Jubilee Lake metasedimentary rocks of the Uchi Subprovince in northwestern Ontario. The Allison Lake batholith is a strongly evolved peraluminous granitic body that contains highly anomalous rare-element mineralization along its outer rim.




Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Pegmatite 1 Is
Granite 2

Mineralization Comments

Oct 12, 2022 (Therese Pettigrew) - Samples collected by the OGS along the power line cut returned 190 ppm Li from a biotite granite and 154 ppm Li from a muscovite-garnet leucogranite (MRD111). Sampling by Portofino Resources in 2021 returned up to 398 ppm Li, 857 ppm Rb, 57.1 ppm Ga, 76 ppm Ta, 118 ppm Nb (Portofino Resources Oct 3, 2022 news release).



Mineral Record Details

References

Data - Electron Microprobe and Bulk Analyses of Fertile Peraluminous Granites and Related Rare-element Pegmatites, Superior Province, Northwest and Northeast Ontario: Operation Treasure Hunt

Publication Number: MRD111 Date: 2002

Author: Tindle A.G., Selway J.B., Breaks F.W.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Mono - Fertile Peraluminous Granites and Related Rare-Element Mineralization in Pegmatites, Superior Province, Northwest and Northeast Ontario: Operation Treasure Hunt

Publication Number: OFR6099 Date: 2003

Author: Breaks F.W., Selway J.B., Tindle A.G.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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