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MDI41P14NW00012
| Record Name(s) | Boomerang - 2022, Edleston Project - 2021, Bardwell - 1991, Canex Aerial DDH 119-12 - 1972, Sirola Option - 1970, Serpentine Property - 2004 |
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| Record Status | Developed Prospect With Reported Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1991-Mar-21 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Mar-13 |
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Primary Commodities: Nickel
Secondary Commodities: Cobalt, Copper, Zinc, Silver
Township or Area: Sothman
Latitude: 47° 53' 5.05" Longitude: -81° 17' 49.68"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 477786 Northing: 5303532 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Timmins
NTS Grid: 41P14NW
Point Location Description: DDH DDED21-059 from Aston Minerals ASX release Feb 21, 2023
Location Method: Based on Assessment
Access Description: The occurrence area can be reached by travelling south from Timmins along the forest road connecting to Shining Tree. This occurrence does not outcrop and the best mineralization was intersected at depth in a diamond drill hole collared on Bardwell Lake.
1970-72: Canex Aerial Exploration, Ltd. - mapping, ground geophysics, DD-4-3561 ft. 1966: P.C.E. Explorations Ltd. - ground geophysics. 1999: Jones and Filo - prospecting. 2004: Mustang Minerals Corp. - prospecting, sampling, airborne geophysics. 2007: Sedex Mining Corporation - ground geophysics. 2021-22: Aston Minerals drilled 62 DDH totalling 28,001 m on the Edleston Project.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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| T-2289 / 2.580 | 41P14NW0045 | 41P14NW0045 |
| T-5234 / 2.30797 | 20000000863 | 20000000863 |
| T-2232 / 63.1994 | 41P14NW0022 | 41P14NW0022 |
| T-5093 / 2.28603 | 41P14NE2014 | 41P14NE2014 |
| T-5635 / 2.37101 | 20000002662 | 20000002662 |
| T-2289 / 63.3003 | 41P14NW0019 | 41P14NW0019 |
| T-4386 / 2.20288 | 41P14NW2003 | 41P14NW2003 |
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Abitibi
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Belt: Abitibi
Geological Age: Neoarchean
Aug 30, 2010 (A Wilson) - The Bardwell occurrence is contained within a large mafic-ultramafic intrusive. The intrusive intruded mafic to felsic metavolcanic rocks, the felsic metavolcanic rocks commonly containing one to several percent disseminated pyrite and pyrrhotite. The mafic - ultramafic intrusive ranges in composition from gabbro to dunite and is chilled at the margins to having pegmatitic sections.
Mar 13, 2023 (Therese Pettigrew) - Edleston is located within the Abitibi Greenstone Belt of Archean metavolcanic and metasedimentary assemblages which have been steeply folded with the axes trending in a general east-west direction. These have been intruded mainly by large granitic bodies and by masses of mafic and ultramafic rocks and well as several ages of younger dolerite dykes. Regionally the Project is located within the western extension of the Cadillac-Larder Fault Zone (Aston Minerals ASX release Feb 21, 2023).
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 1 | Near |
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| Felsic lava flow-unsubdivided | 2 | Near | ||
| Gabbro | 3 | Gabbro to Dunite | Chilled to Pegmatitic | Host |
| Peridotite | 4 | Dunite to peridotite | Host |
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Pyrrhotite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 4 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Magnetite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 3 | Pyrite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| Asbestos | Alteration | Serpentinization | 1 | ||||
| Serpentine | Alteration | Serpentinization | 2 | ||||
| Carbonate | Alteration | Serpentinization | 3 | ||||
| Talc | Alteration | Serpentinization | 4 |
Aug 30, 2010 (A Wilson) - Elevated Ni values were recovered from a peridotite body. Assay values range from trace to 0.50% Ni over 1 ft. Elevated Cu, Zn values were also returned from mafic metavolcanic rocks lying above the peridotite. Assays up to 0.08 % Cu, 0.01% Zn and 0.02oz/t Ag over 5 feet were returned. The sulphides are described as being disseminated to net-textured
Mar 13, 2023 (Therese Pettigrew) - The Boomerang Resource is interpreted to be a dunite/peridotite unit which has undergone extensive serpentinization. This process of is responsible for the reaction of olivine to produce magnetite and brucite, resulting in a strongly reducing environment whereby nickel is released from decomposition of olivine. The nickel which has been released is typically partitioned into low sulphur nickel sulphide minerals. DDH DDED21-059 returned 0.38% Ni and 0.012% Co over 183.04 m including 0.46% Ni and 0.013% Co over 76.19 m. DDH DDED22-082 returned 0.36% Ni and 0.013% Co over 159.71 m including 0.44% Ni and 0.016% Co over 83 m (Aston Minerals ASX release Feb 21, 2023).
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Mafic-Ultramafic Intrusion |
| Zone | Year | Category | Tonnes | Reference | Comments | Commodities |
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| Boomerang | 2023 | Indicated Mineral Resource | 155000000 | Aston Minerals ASX release Feb 21, 2023 https://astonminerals.com/wp-content/uploads/1Point044BillionTonneMaidenNickelCobaltMineralResource21Feb23.pdf | Cobalt 109 ppm, Nickel 0.28 % | |
| Boomerang | 2023 | Inferred Mineral Resource | 889000000 | Aston Minerals ASX release Feb 21, 2023 https://astonminerals.com/wp-content/uploads/1Point044BillionTonneMaidenNickelCobaltMineralResource21Feb23.pdf | Cobalt 108 ppm, Nickel 0.27 % |
Part - Geology of Sothman Township
Publication Number: ARV62-06 Date: 1997
Author: Abraham E.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Township of Sothman, District of Sudbury, Ontario
Publication Number: M1953-03 Scale: 1:12,000 Date: 1997
Author: Abraham E.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Geological Compilation of the Matachewan Area, Abitibi Greenstone Belt
Publication Number: P3527 Scale: 1:100,000 Date: 2003
Author: Ayer J.A., Trowell N.F., Josey S.D., Nevills M., Valade L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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