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Record: MDI41O10NW00041

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Tooms DDH-Tns6 - 1999, Tooms Nickel Syndicate DDH T6 - 1967
Related Record Type Simple
Record Status Prospect
Date Created 1999-Dec-08
Date Last Modified 2022-Jan-05
Created By A Wilson
Revised By P Bousquet

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Nickel

Secondary Commodities: Copper



Location

Township or Area: Tooms

Latitude: 47° 43' 5.91"    Longitude: -82° 51' 49.84"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 360212.66   Northing: 5286674.59    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Timmins

NTS Grid: 41O10NW

Point Location Description: Possible clearing for ddh TNS-6

Location Method: Field Visit with GPS

Access Description: Easy access is possible via the logging/mining access road which extends north from the Kormack road and Highway 667. The eastern branch of this road, which goes to Hotstone Lake, passes close to the former drill set-up.



Exploration History

1967: Armac Securites - Tooms Nickel Syndicate - mapping, VLF and HLEM surveys, 9 ddh. 1972 - Canex Aerial Exploration - ground magnetic and EM surveys, mapping. 1977: Granges Exploration - ground geophysics, diamond drilling. 1981: Innes and Karvinen - prospecting, sampling. 1982-84: Quinterra Resources - till sampling, ground magnetometer survey, airborne geophysical survey. 1985: Canadian Nickel Company - reverse circulation drilling. 1992: Kennecott Canada - ground magnetic and HLEM surveys, mapping, prospecting, stripping, trenching, diamond drilling. 2002: Canabrava Diamond Corporation – AEM, AMag, DD – 1 – 120m, Pr, Samp. 2008: Benton Resources Inc. – AEM, AMag.


Assessment Work on File

Assessment Work on File
Office File Number Online Assessment File Identifier Online Assessment File Directory
T-1772 / 41O10NW0064 41O10NW0064
T-2198 / 2.1109 41O10NW0025 41O10NW0025
T-2493 / 41O10NW0052 41O10NW0052
T-2493 / 41O10NW0048 41O10NW0048
T-2493 / 2.6484 41O10NW0046 41O10NW0046
T-2493 / 41O10NW0057 41O10NW0057
T-2493 / 2.9037 41O10NW0004 41O10NW0004
T-2493 / 2.7808 41O15SW0086 41O15SW0086
T-2493 / 2.5461 41O10NW0021 41O10NW0021
T-2493 / 63.4305 41O10NW9106 41O10NW9106
T-2493 / 63.4501 42B01NE8577 42B01NE8577
T-2649 / 63.4501 42B01NE8577 42B01NE8577
T-3481 / 41O10NW9200 41O10NW9200
T-3481 / 2.14568 41O10NW0040 41O10NW0040
T-4754 / 2.23520 41O10NW2007 41O10NW2007
T-5767 / 2.39317 20000003380 20000003380
T-2196 / 41O10NW0068 41O10NW0068
T-2493 / 2.8006 41O10NW0045 41O10NW0045
T-3481 / 2.14813 41O10NW9099 41O10NW9099

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Abitibi

Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi

Belt: Swayze

Tectonic Assemblage: Garnet-Tooms

Geological Age: Neoarchean   Geochronological Age: 2730 +/-3 MA   Geochron. Age Ref.: OF 3384E

Metamorphism Type: Regional

Metamorphism Grade: Greenschist



Geology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - Alteration tends to be concentrated along open joints.




Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Peridotite 1 Peridotite Host

Lithology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - The host rock is a strongly altered, medium-grained peridotite. Sepentine, talc, carbonate and magnetite are the alteration minerals present.




Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
1PyriteEconomicGangue
2MagnetiteEconomicGangue
SerpentineAlterationSerpentinization1StrongReplacement
TalcAlterationSteatization2StrongReplacement

Mineralization Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - Pyrite mineralization varies from sparse up to 10% within the peridotite. Only one assay was taken. One drill hole completed by Armac Securities and Toom Nickel Syndicate returned a value of 0.24% Ni.


Jun 19, 2013 (P Bousquet) - Magnetite up to 10% in the zone where the sample was taken, concentrated along the joints (T-2196). Kennecott drilled three holes, TN-93-2 to TN-93-4, which returned small metre-thick intersection to up to 0.25 % Ni in ultramafic flows (T-3481). It also intersected intermediate to mafic tuffs which returned assays to up to 4360 ppm Cu over one metre (T-3841).



Mineral Record Details

Classification
RankClassification            
1 Magmatic
Characteristics
Rank Characteristic            
1 Disseminated

Mineral Zones - Size and Shape

Rank: 1       Structure Type: Joint

Zone Name: Detour Lake - Rank 1
Shape Length Thickness Depth Strike Dip Plunge Trend Age Reference
Unknown 2

References

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


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 Scale:     Date: 1995

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

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey


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