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| Record Name(s) | Canadian Nickel - 1977, Noranda Sample 2464 - 1992 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Discretionary Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1996-Jan-26 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Mar-02 |
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Primary Commodities: Zinc
Township or Area: Blamey
Latitude: 47° 39' 58.42" Longitude: -82° 39' 3.15"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 376061.58 Northing: 5280524.2 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Timmins
NTS Grid: 41O10NE
Point Location Description: File opened from the MDI, GR157, GSC OFR 1087 but not researched.
Location Method: Data Compilation
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.
1971: Dome Exploration (Canada) Ltd. – DD – 2 – 661ft, Assays, 1992: Noranda Exploration Company, Ltd – Assays, GC, Pr
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| T-2010 | 41O10NE0111 | 41O10NE0111 |
| T-3572 / 2.15175 | 41O10NE9204 | 41O10NE9204 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Abitibi
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Swayze
Tectonic Assemblage: Hong Kong
Geological Age: Neoarchean Geochronological Age: 2729 MA Geochron. Age Ref.: GOO VOL 1
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Felsic Tuff | 1 | Sericitic | Tuff | Near |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ironstone-unsubdivided | 2 | Quartz | Near | |
| Chert | 3 | Sulphidic | Bedded | Host |
| Gabbroid-Unsubdivided | 4 | Schistose | Near | |
| Granitoid-Unsubdivided | 5 | Siliceous | Porphyric | Adjacent |
Jun 19, 2013 (P Bousquet) - The sample was taken from a bedded silicified chert outcrop, with disseminated to massive sulphides. It contains 1-2mm wide magnetite bands and 3-5 mm cherty bands. There is a 10 cm wide massive sulphides bed with chlorite (T-3572).
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | Sphalerite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 1 | Pyrite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 2 | Pyrrhotite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 4 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| Chlorite | Alteration | Chloritic | 1 | Strong | Disseminated | ||
| Quartz | Alteration | Silicification | 2 | Medium | Disseminated |
Jun 19, 2013 (P Bousquet) - The sample returned an assay of 6100 ppm Zn (T-3572).
| Shape | Length | Thickness | Depth | Strike | Dip | Plunge | Trend | Age | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | N/A | N/A |
Map - Chapleau-Foleyet, geological compilation series, Algoma, Cochrane and Sudbury districts
Publication Number: M2221 Scale: 1:253,440 Date: 1976
Author: Thurston P.C., Sage R.P., Siragusa G.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division 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: 131 Date: 1995
Author: Fumerton S.L., Houle K.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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