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Record: MDI41N02SE00102

General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Copper

Location

Township or Area: Ryan

Latitude: 47° 4' 27.85"    Longitude: -84° 42' 10.71"

UTM Zone: 16    Easting: 674386.65   Northing: 5215992.55    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Sault Ste. Marie

NTS Grid: 41N02SE

Point Location Description: Diamond drill hole

Location Method: Conversion from MDI

Access Description: At the north boundary of the McDonnell Mining Location, 350 metres soth east of Trout Lake.

Exploration History

1962-63: C.C. Houston & Associates-prospecting, mapping, ground geophysics, geochemical survey, stripping, DD-8-1887 ft. Due to the large extend of this mineralized shear zone and the fact it could not be adequeately sampled on surface a diamond drill hole was drilled to test the zone. The drill hole was named drill hole #8. 2012: Superior Copper Corporation- prospecting, sampling program.

Assessment Work on File

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Abitibi

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Geological Age: Archean  

Mineralization

Mineralization Comments

Jul 15, 2014 (A Pace) - Detaied prospecting culminated in the disclosure of an east-west trending major fauult zone cutting granite with associated large quartz veins and sheared/altered zones containing disseminated chalcopyrite and pyrite. Heavy overburden prevented detailed sampling. Representative grab samples gave analysis of 0.36%, 0.90% and 0.36% copper. Over an extensive zone, from 28 feet to 268 feet, the typical coarse-grained granite was shown to be altered to a fine-grained greenish chloritic granite or diorite with the development of numerous silicified and sheard sections. In places, disseminated pyrite up to 5% and minor threads of chalcopyrite were observed in the silicified diorite. Zone strikes 055 and dips from 30 to 90 degrees south, and traced intermittently for 180 metres. Core samples assays ranged from 0.19% Cu over 1.2 metres to 0.28% Cu over 1.6 metres.

Mineral Record Details

References

File - Resident Geologist files SSMP Kincaid-20

Publication Number: Date:

Author:

Publisher Name:

Location: SSM RGP office

Map - Kincaid Township, District of Algoma

Publication Number: P0553 Scale: 1:15,840    Date: 1997

Author: Giblin P.E.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:

Map - Batchawana, Algoma District

Publication Number: M2251 Scale: 1:63,360    Date: 1974

Author: Giblin P.E., Armburst G.A.

Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines

Location:

Mono - Copper, nickel, lead and zinc deposits of Ontario

Publication Number: MDC012 Page: 37-38  Date: 1969

Author: Shklanka R.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:

Map - Geological series, Precambrian geology, Batchawana synoptic project, Mamainse Point-Pancake Bay sheet, District of Algoma

Publication Number: P3062 Scale: 1:50,000    Date: 1987

Author: Grunsky E.C.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Publication - Sudbury Timmins Algoma Mineral Program, Project 1: mineral inventory of the Sudbury-Timmins-Sault Ste. Marie region, Ontario

Publication Number: GSC OF 1087 Page: 141  Date: 1985

Author: Rose, D.G.

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/129999

Map - Sault Ste. Marie-Elliot Lake sheet, geological compilation series, Algoma, Manitoulin and Sudbury districts

Publication Number: M2108 Date: 1967

Author: Giblin P.E., Leahy E.J.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:

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