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| Record Name(s) | Crazy Creek Zone - 2005, Mining Location WD233 - 1969 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1990-Dec-12 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Jul-19 |
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Primary Commodities: Nickel, Platinum, Palladium, Gold, Copper
Secondary Commodities: Silver
Township or Area: Foy, Bowell
Latitude: 46° 45' 3.99" Longitude: -81° 11' 9.35"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 485798.997 Northing: 5177522.999 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Sudbury
NTS Grid: 41I11NE, 41I14SE
Point Location Description: approximate
Location Method: Data Compilation
1937: Sudbury Offsets Limited - geophysics. 1987-88: United Reef Petroleum Limited and Canhorn Mining Corp. - ground geophysics, mapping, DD. 1989: Inco Limited - DD. 2003-04: Aurora Platinum Corporation - stripping, mapping, sampling, ground geophysics
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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| Bowell-0016 | 41I14SE0025 | 41I14SE0025 |
| 63.5407 | 41I14SE0028 | 41I14SE0028 |
Province: Southern
Subprovince: Sudbury Structure
Geological Age: Paleoproterozoic
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Quartz Diorite | 1 | Quartz Diorite | Host |
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| Granite | 2 | Adjacent |
May 14, 2010 (A Wilson) - Work on the Crazy Creek Zone about four kilometres west-northwest of the Nickel Lake Property within and adjacent to the Offset Dyke has identified an area of structurally controlled, footwall-type copper-PGM-precious metals stringer mineralization. The mineralization consists of north-trending stringers along strike for 180 m across a width of 160m.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Pentlandite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Pyrrhotite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 4 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore |
May 14, 2010 (A Wilson) - Channel samples collected by Aurora Platinum returned gold values up to 15.2 g/t, Pt values up to 3.6 g/t, Pd values up to 7.5 g/t, Ag values up to 217 g/t, Cu values ranging from 0.01% to 33.9% and Ni values ranging from 0.01% to 4.3%. United Reef's drill hole FB-87-01 intersected 30.2 feet assaying 0.112 oz/t Au, 2.2371% Cu, 0.325% Ni with minor platinum group values.
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Mafic-Ultramafic Intrusion |
Map - Tyrone and Foy townships, Sudbury District
Publication Number: M2133 Scale: 1:31,680 Date: 1969
Author: Card K.D., Meyn H.D.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Foy Township, District of Sudbury
Publication Number: P0315 Scale: 1:15,840 Date: 1997
Author: Card K.D., Meyn H.D.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - Geology of the Leinster-Bowell area, District of Sudbury
Publication Number: R065 Page: 34-38 Date: 1969
Author: Card K.D., Meyn H.D.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Sudbury data series, Foy Township, Sudbury District
Publication Number: P2472 Scale: 1:15,840 Date: 1982
Author: Adlington R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Folio - Foy Township, District of Sudbury
Publication Number: GDIF441 Date: 1997
Author: Sudbury RGO
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Publication - Falconbridge-Aurora Joint Venture, Footwall and Foy Properties 38p.
Publication Number: NI 43-101 rpt Date: 2005
Author: L. D. S. Winter
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Location:
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