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Record: MDI41O10NE00058

General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Copper

Secondary Commodities: Zinc

Location

Township or Area: Blamey

Latitude: 47° 38' 11.25"    Longitude: -82° 38' 27.73"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 376730   Northing: 5277200    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Timmins

NTS Grid: 41O10NE

Point Location Description: DDH BL-84-1 collar location.

Location Method: Based on Assessment

Access Description: Access is off the main gravel road between Sultan and Highway 144. A secondary logging, known as the Blamey Road, heads north at a point about 10 km east of Sultan. Follow this road north for about 8 km where an overgrown logging will take you to the showing. The showing is approximately 700 m along this overgrown road north of the main road.

Exploration History

1966: Inco drilled three diamond drill holes, on EM targets, in the area of the Noranda Blamey 1-82 property. Inco intersected primarily metasediments, argillite and quartzite, as well as mafic to intermediate volcanics. 1982-83: Noranda Exploration Co. Ltd. staked the area of the showing after the release of a regional OGS airborne magnetic and EM survey. Noranda performed a ground horizontal loop EM and magnetic survey over the area, followed by a geological mapping program. During the mapping program Noranda discovered several old trenches. Grab samples from one of these trenches returned anomalous Cu, Zn, and Au values. 1984: Noranda drilled one diamond drill hole to the south, for a total depth of 157 m, on strike with the mineralization previously discovered in a trench. The drill hole intersected mafic to intermediate flows, and tuff.

Assessment Work on File

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Abitibi

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Swayze

Tectonic Assemblage: Halcrow-Swayze

Geological Age: Neoarchean   Geochronological Age: 2700 MA   Geochron. Age Ref.: GOO VOL 1

Metamorphism Type: Regional

Metamorphism Grade: Greenschist

Lithology

Lithology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (K Houle) - Anomalous copper, zinc, and gold values were uncovered in an old trench by Noranda Exploration during a mapping program. The trench, as described in the Noranda report, contains an interflow sequence of sugary white quartz, rusty quartz-sericite schist, grey felsic tuff, and minor graphitic sediments (argillite). This sequence of rocks is reported to be exposed over a width of 7 feet.

Mineralization

Mineralization Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (K Houle) - The mineralized section of the trench is reported to be 3 feet wide and contains 1-3% disseminated pyrrhotite, and trace to 1% chalcopyrite. Mineralization is associated with interbedded felsic tuff and graphitic argillite. A grab sample taken from this trench, by Noranda, returned assays of; 0.28% Cu, 0.43% Zn, and 0.018 oz./t Au.

Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - A grab sample collected by the OGS in 1994 returned assays of: 0.2 g/t Ag, 0.0051% Ni, 0.0165% Cu, 0.0098% Zn; 0.01 g/t Au, 1.7 g/t Ag, 0.0102% Ni, 0.204% Cu, 0.233% Zn.

Jun 19, 2013 (P Bousquet) - DDH BL-84-1 intersected 0.3 metres of a sulphidized felsic tuff which returned an assay of 2900 ppm Cu and 2200 ppm Zn (TI-1588).

Assay Samples

Mineral Record Details

Mineral Zones - Size and Shape

Site Visit Information

Date: Jun 13, 1994

Geologist: K Houle

Notes: Exposure of sulphide facies iron formation previously stripped and blasted. Showing consists of a gossany interbedded sequence of argillite, tuff, and sugary quartz-sericite schist. Length of trench is about 5m in a north to northwest direction. Mineralization includes disseminates and blebs of pyrrhotite, pyrite, sphalerite (?) and trace to 1% chalcopyrite.

References

File - Resident Geologist file T-1588

Publication Number: Date:

Author:

Publisher Name:

Location: Timmins RGP office

Map - Geology, Swayze greenstone belt, Sultan, Ontario

Publication Number: OF 3384E Scale: 1:50,000    Date: 1999

Author: Heather, K B; Shore, G T

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/210453

Map - Cunningham-Garnet area, District of Sudbury, Ontario

Publication Number: ARM51F Scale: 1:63,360    Date: 1997

Author: Meen V.B.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:

Part - Geology of the Cunningham-Garnet area

Publication Number: ARV51-07 Date: 1997

Author: Meen V.B.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:

MonoMap - Geology of the Chapleau area, districts of Algoma, Sudbury, and Cochrane

Publication Number: R157 Date: 1977

Author: Thurston P.C., Siragusa G.M., Sage R.P.

Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines

Location:

MonoMap - Mineral Prospects of the Swayze Greenstone Belt (Volume 1, Parts of NTS 41 O and Volume 2, Parts of NTS 41 P, 42 A and 42 B)

Publication Number: OFR5912 Page: 98-99  Date: 1995

Author: Fumerton S.L., Houle K.A.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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