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Record: MDI000000003211

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Allison Lake North - 2021, Latreille Lake South - 2022
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Record Status Discretionary Occurrence
Date Created 2022-Oct-19
Date Last Modified 2023-May-12
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Tantalum, Rubidium

Secondary Commodities: Lithium, Cesium



Location

Township or Area: Costello

Latitude: 51° 8' 10.02"    Longitude: -92° 24' 18.08"

UTM Zone: 15    Easting: 541627   Northing: 5665130    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 19, 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 Is

Mineralization Comments

Oct 19, 2022 (Therese Pettigrew) - Sampling by Portofino Resources in 2021 returned up to 398 ppm Li, 90.5 ppm Cs, 1040 ppm Rb and 135 ppm Ta (Portofino Resources news release Sept 7, 2021).



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For detailed information regarding this mineral record please contact the Red Lake Resident Geologist District Office