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Record: MDI31F04NE00091

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Mangrove Bay L8W showing - 1988
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Discretionary Occurrence
Date Created 1991-Jun-07
Date Last Modified 2023-Apr-18
Created By
Revised By

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Chromium

Secondary Commodities: Nickel, Platinum Metals, Copper



Location

Township or Area: Raglan

Latitude: 45° 12' 44.52"    Longitude: -77° 29' 24.85"

UTM Zone: 18    Easting: 304457.997   Northing: 5009558.996    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario

NTS Grid: 31F03NW, 31F04NE

Point Location Description: approximate

Location Method: Based on Assessment



Exploration History

1988: Mangrove Bay Resources - ground geophysics, geochemical (humus) sampling, mapping, sampling 2008-2010: First Nickel Inc. and Pacific North West Capital Corp. - airborne geophysics, mapping, prospecting


Assessment Work on File

Assessment Work on File
Office File Number Online Assessment File Identifier Online Assessment File Directory
Tweed file Raglan #19 31F03NW9406 31F03NW9406 31F03NW9406
Tweed file Raglan #21 31F03NW9405 31F03NW9405 31F03NW9405

Geology

Province: Grenville

Subprovince: Central Metasedimentary Belt

Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic  



Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Gabbro 1 Gabbro Massive Host

Lithology Comments

Jul 05, 2011 (A Wilson) - Elevated chromium values were recovered from a 20 m thick southward dipping, massive to layered weakly chloritic, rusty metapyroxenite. It is enclosed by separate gabbro and melanogabbro units, each with equiquanular to ophitic textures. The pyroxenite is well layered in places with local discontinuous 10 cm thick gabbroic layers.




Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
1MagnetiteEconomicOre

Mineralization Comments

Jul 05, 2011 (A Wilson) - Samples collected from old trenches returned value sup to 0.33% Cr.



Mineral Record Details

Classification
RankClassification            
1 Mafic-Ultramafic Intrusion

References

Map - Brudenell-Raglan area, County of Renfrew, Ontario

Publication Number: M1953-02 Scale: 1:63,360    Date: 1997

Author: Hewitt D.F.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


Map - Precambrian Geology, Denbigh Area

Publication Number: P3437 Scale: 1:50,000    Date: 2001

Author: Lumbers S.B., Vertolli V.M.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


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